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Ecstatic Music Festival At NYC's Merkin' Concert Hall Continues

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Thu, 01/27/2011 - 1:19am

The 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City's Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres.

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February 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival Schedule:

Thu, 2/10/11 at 7:30 pm

Bang on a Can All-Stars 2011 People’s Commissioning Fund Concert

New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

Famed electric chamber ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform three world premiere commissions by composers Bryce Dessner of The National and Clogs, Nick Brooke, whose gamelan-inspired theatrical soundscapes are a genre all their own, and Karsh Kale, known for his genre-bending fusions of electronic, Indian classical music, rock, jazz and hip-hop. Also on the program: the pulsating, virtuosic Horses of Instruction by British composer Steve Martland, the hauntingly subtle Convex/Concave/Concord by Danish composer Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen, and the intensely grooving Believing by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe.

Sat, 2/19/11 at 7:30 pm

Roomful of Teeth & tUnE-yArDs: The Music of William Brittelle, Caleb Burhans & Merrill Garbus

The eight-voice polystylistic vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth are joined by three rising star composer/performers in a concert of new works and expanded arrangements: William Brittelle, whose latest album was called "expansive, anthemic, all-encompassing, [and] shot through with raw emotion" (eMusic); the multi-talented "new music virtuoso" (New York Times) Caleb Burhans; and Merrill Garbus, lead singer of tUnE-yArDs, hailed for her "extraordinary voice" (The Guardian) and described as "somewhere between Aretha Franklin and Yoko Ono " (New York Times).


Thu, 2/24/11 at 7:30 pm

Newspeak & Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: Works by Darcy James Argue, Vijay Iyer, Nicole Lizée

& David T. Little

New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

The eight-piece, high-powered electric chamber ensemble Newspeak premieres The Sleep Room, Part 1, the first-ever commissioned work for an ensemble other than his own by 2011 Grammy nominee Darcy James Argue, director of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society. Argue is winner of the 2010 Downbeat Critics Poll in the categories of Big Band Rising Star, Composer Rising Star and Arranger Rising Star. Argue’s 18-piece big band Secret Society, called "a wholly original take on big band's past, present and future" (Newsweek), will perform new works by highly-acclaimed pianist/composer Vijay Iyer, winner of the 2010 Jazz Journalists Association Artist of the Year Award, the Montreal-based composer Nicole Lizée and Newspeak founder David T. Little.

The Sleep Room is underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

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The Ecstatic Music Festival continues in March:

All concerts below are at 7:30 pm

Thu, 3/3/11: Judd Greenstein (The Yehudim) & Olga Bell (Bell)

Sat, 3/5/11: Timo Andres & Gabriel Kahane: An Evening with Charles Ives

Wed, 3/9/11: Nadia Sirota & Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) with Owen Pallett

Sat, 3/12/11: Clogs & Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Wed, 3/16/11: Sarah Kirkland Snider & yMusic & Special Vocal Guest TBA

New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

Mon, 3/28/11: So Percussion & Bobby Previte with Zeena Parkins, John Medeski, DJ Olive & Jen Shyu New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

Single tickets: $25; Students with ID (in person sales only): $15

Subscriptions: Tickets are $20 each for 4 or more concerts.

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

Tickets and information at 212 501 3330 or http://www.kaufman-center.org

Announcing The Ecstatic Music Fest in NYC

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Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:11am

New York City's Merkin Concert Hall, in association with New Amsterdam Records, presents the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres. The festival opens with a free seven-hour marathon on January 17th, 2011, featuring headliners Buke & Gass, and continues with 13 additional concerts until March 28, 2011.

The series includes imaginative collaborations such as Owen Pallett with Nadia Sirota and Thomas Bartlett (Doveman); Clogs with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus; Dan Deacon with So Percussion; Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurdsson with the Chiara String Quartet; tUnE-yArDs, William Brittelle, and Caleb Burhans with Roomful of Teeth; a Ben Frost arrangement for Alarm Will Sound; Vijay Iyer writing for Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and much, much more. All concerts will be performed at the award-winning Merkin Concert Hall--famed for its unparalleled acoustics and intimate scale. A full schedule is below.

The Ecstatic Music Festival is curated by composer Judd Greenstein, Co-Director of New Amsterdam Records and Managing Director of NOW Ensemble, collaborating with Jenny Undercofler, Ecstatic Music Festival Coordinator at Kaufman Center. The series includes four WNYC New Sounds® Live concerts hosted by acclaimed radio host John Schaefer, which will be webcast live on Q2, WQXR’s new music station, and taped for future broadcast on WNYC.

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Ecstatic Music Festival Series schedule (Additional artists TBA)

All events (except for panel discussion) will take place at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center: 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam).

Sunday, January 16, 2011 7 pm @ Apple Store on Broadway at 67th Street, FREE

Panel discussion with Ecstatic Music Festival artists -- moderated by Nadia Sirota, featuring panelists Dan Deacon, Nico Muhly, Valgier Sigurdsson, Missy Mazzoli and Tristan Perich.

Monday, January 17th, 2011 2-9 pm, FREE

Ecstatic Music Festival Marathon

Featuring headliners Buke & Gass, and sets by some of the artists appearing later in the festival along with performers TBA.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Creator/Curator, vol. 3: The Chiara String Quartet and the Music of Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurdsson

Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 7:30 pm

So Percussion & Dan Deacon

Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Craig Wedren, Jefferson Friedman & ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble)

Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 2 pm

Alarm Will Sound & Face the Music

Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Bang on a Can All-Stars 2011 People’s Commissioning Fund Concert **

Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Roomful of Teeth & tUnE-yArDs: The Music of William Brittelle, Caleb Burhans & Merrill Garbus

Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Newspeak & Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: Works by Darcy James Argue, Vijay Iyer, Nicole Lizée & David T. Little **

Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Judd Greenstein (The Yehudim) & Olga Bell (Bell)

Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Timo Andres & Gabriel Kahane

An Evening with Charles Ives

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Nadia Sirota & Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) with Owen Pallett

Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Clogs & Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Sarah Kirkland Snider & yMusic & Special Guest TBA **

So Percussion & Bobby Previte with Zeena Parkins, John Medeski, DJ Olive & Jen Shyu **

** A special Presentation of New Sounds® Live with WNYC’s John Schaefer