Life in motion.
A handful of strong live-music picks for the next seven days, plus some pointers to further resources.
Major change is afoot this week, as a result of which there’s just not enough time to prepare a proper newsletter today. Granted, it’s a bit of a slow moment ahead of Time:Spans opening in August, anyway… but there still are places to go and music to hear.
I’ve made a few suggestions below, but as ever recommend Dada Strain, Lament for a Straight Line, and New Music Calendar for more. (One more go-to resource, extended techniques, is on vacation hiatus this month.)
The Night After Night Watch.
Concerts listed in Eastern Standard Time.
NOTAFLOF = no one turned away for lack of funds.
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String Noise
Glass Box Theatre, The New School
55 W. 13th St., Greenwich Village
Wednesday, July 24–Saturday, July 27 at 8:30pm; $20 cash only
thestonenyc.com
String Noise, the dynamic duo of married violinists Pauline Kim Harris and Conrad Harris, come to The New School for a four-concert Stone series residency. The run starts Wednesday with a collaboration with Lost Bayou Ramblers troubadour Louis Michot, and continues Thursday with an evening of two-violin pieces by Philip Glass and Phill Niblock. Friday brings a collaboration with trailblazing composer/performer David Behrman, and the series ends Saturday with a solo outing by Pauline, presenting new works from her ongoing Chaconne Project.
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Judy Dunaway: Aeronaut
Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a
Nolan Park, Governors Island
Friday, July 26–Sunday, July 28, 11am–5pm, through August 18; free admission
harvestworks.org
Judy Dunaway, the extraordinary and unpredictable doyenne of balloon music, has an immersive site-specific installation work up now on Governors Island: Aeronaut, mounted under the auspices of the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, honors aviator Charles K. (“Charlie”) Hamilton, who made the first round-trip flight between New York City and Philadelphia on June 13, 1910—departing from and returning to Governors Island. Dunaway, citing the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, says Hamilton was “known for his dangerous dives, spectacular crashes, and extensive reconstructive surgeries.” Her elaborate, evolving installation includes adjustments she makes in person daily at 1pm.
Madison Greenstone & Zosha Warpeha
Prospect Series
1923 8th Ave., Brooklyn
Friday, July 26 at 8pm; pay what you want, BYOB
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The 37th installment of Jonathan Moritz’s Brooklyn house-concert series presents the tantalizing prospect of a duo improvisation by clarinetist Madison Greenstone and Hardanger d’amore player Zosha Warpeha. Each has released a spellbinding solo disc recently on the Relative Pitch label; the mind reels at the prospect (no pun intended) of hearing them together. Sharing the bill are two further duos, Forest Music (Flin van Hemmen and Sean Ali) and Jonah Rosenberg/Nathaniel Morgan.
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Domenic Salerni, Carrie Frey & Raffi Boden
Private residence, Washington Heights
Saturday, July 27 at 7pm; $25
groupmuse.com
Chamber music as it used to be presented, in a generous benefactor’s home—but with all ears turned resolutely toward the future. Violinist Dominic Salerni, violist Carrie Frey, and cellist Raffi Boden will perform a choice program including Kaija Saariaho’s Cloud Trio, Andrew Norman’s The Companion Guide to Rome, and Che Buford’s the eye above the mask. This Groupmuse event is open to the public, but presumably at limited capacity, so best act fast.
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Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side
Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31 at 7:30pm; choose-what-you-pay
lincolncenter.org
Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts the late Peter Lieberson’s ravishing Neruda Songs, composed for his wife, the unforgettable mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and sung here by the wonderful J’Nai Bridges. The program also includes Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 49 in F minor (“La Passione”) and Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes.
Find even more events in Night After Night Watch: The Master List, here.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.
I’d get to Warhepa and Greenstone if I could!