The Music of Now

(Past) Mon, Feb 22 at 10 am Leonard Nimoy Thalia $15 All Day Pass $35: includes Speaking of the Arts: Composers Today at 7:30 pm. Visit the box office or call 212.864.5400.

Music pervades our world, yet who are the men and women creating the sounds we hear? Composers Now is a weeklong festival presented collaboratively by organizations citywide offering concerts, performances, lectures, conversations and other activities highlighting the contribution that composers make to the cultural fabric of our lives. This event puts a public face on the vitality, diversity, and innovations that composers bring to the world.

10:00-10:30:

• Mayoral Proclamation of Composers Now Day

10:30-12:00:

•  A provocative panel discussion moderated by festival organizers Laura Kaminsky and Tania León with the following guest composers: John Duffy (composer and founder of Meet The Composer; his We Want Mark Twain will be performed in part at 3:15pm and in full at the Cassatt String Quartet's performance on the 25th), Linda Walton (director of Jazzmobile, presenting jazz in many venues around NYC), and Jovino Santos Neto (composer, performer, and educator; his commissioned work, Agrecendo, will be premiered at 5:30pm.)

12:00-12:15:

• Adam O’Farrill, New Work for trumpet and piano (Adam O'Farrill, trumpet & Arturo O'Farrill, piano)
• Suzanne Farrin, Corpo Di Terra (NY Premiere; Julia Lichten, cello)

12:15-12:30:

• George Walker, String Quartet No. 2 (Son Sonora Ensemble)

12:30-12:45:

• Fernando Otero; Milonga 10, La Abundancia, Pagina de Buenos Aires (Fernando Otero, piano and Nick Danielson, violin)

12:45-1:00:

• Tamar Diesendruck, On That Day (Damocles Trio)

1:00-1:15:

• Eric Nathan, Gathering (NY Premiere, Damocles Trio)

1:15-1:30:

• Avner Dorman, Piccolo Concerto (NY Premiere of Piano Reduction Version, Tara Helen O’Connor, piccolo & Margaret Kampmeier, piano)

1:30-2:15:

• MUSICAL NETWORKING BREAK

2:15-2:30:

• Nkeiru Okoye, Songs of Harriet Tubman (Diana Solomon Glover, soprano & Christopher Johnson, piano)

2:30-2:45:

• Joan Tower, Night Fields (Cassatt Quartet)

2:45-3:00:

• Timothy Dunne, Sonatines (NY Premiere, Timothy Dunne, piano)

3:15-3:30:

• John Duffy, We Want Mark Twain (World Premiere, Cassatt Quartet & Isaiah Sheffer, narrator)

3:30-3:45:

• Waddy Thompson, Monongahela Rising (World Premiere, Diana Solomon Glover, soprano & Christopher Johnson, piano)

3:30-4:15:

• MUSICAL NETWORKING BREAK

4:15-4:30: 

• Du Yun, A Cockroach’s Tarantella (World Premiere, iO String Quartet & Du Yun, narrator)

4:30-4:45:

• Gabriel Alegria; Pucusana, El Norte (Afro-Peruvian Sextet: Gabriel Alegria, trumpet/flugel; Laura Andrea Leguia, tenor sax; Camila Meza, guitar; John Benitez, double bass; Peta Robles, cajón; Shirazette Tinnin, drums)

5:00-5:15:

• Mario Diaz de Leon, Trembling Time II (US Premiere, Talea Ensemble)

5:15-5:30:

• Victor Adan, Schisma (World Premiere, Talea Ensemble)

5:30-5:45:

• Jovino Santos Neto. Agradecendo (World Premiere, Tara Helen O'Connor, flute & Alice Jones, flute, Jovino Santos Neto, piano)

This event is a part of Composers Now, a festival celebrating the music of our time at venues throughout the city Feb 22–28. ComposersNow.org