MONO comes to Los Angeles as part of their 'Beyond The Past' 20th anniversary tour. The Tokyo, Japan based 4 piece Instrumental Rock band MONO was originally formed in 1999. Their unique approach of blending orchestral arrangements and shoegaze guitar noise in their music has been held in extremely high regard. They will be joined in performance by Wordless Music Orchestra.

Tickets available HERE

Jonsi & Alex Somers perform the Riceboy Sleeps album for the first time with the Wordless Music Orchestra and Choir on a 10th anniversary tour in intimate theaters across North America. Conducted by Robert Ames + Orchestral Arrangements by David Handler.

For more information, visit www.wordlessmusic.org

Synchromy, Autoduplicity, and Boston Court Pasadena present Game Night, an evening of musical games and games that make music. The concert features music that reimagines games, including world premiere performances of works by Los Angeles-based composers Carolyn Chen and Isaac Schankler. With everything from pattycake to trivia, and team huddles to video games, the audience will find themselves both observing and interacting with Game Night, connecting us to the community play creates.

Tickets: $30 general / $25 seniors / $20 students

Purchase Tickets by phone at (626) 683-6801 or online at www.BostonCourtPasadena.org. 

For more information, visit bostoncourtpasadena.org

Description:2+2 = 2? Or 4? Or possibly 5? In Aperplicity, Aperture Duo (violinist Adrianne Pope and violist Linnea Powell) and Autoduplicity (cellist Jennifer Bewerse and flutist Rachel Beetz) join forces for an evening of musical chairs and dueling duos presented by PIE. Autoture, Rachnea, Jennrianne, Linachriafer…what happens in the mixup? Viola jokes, word games, youtube videos, and amplified chalkboards. Join the confusion and find out for yourself!

PROGRAM 

Viola Joke by Alex Temple

Time With People, Op. 1 by Tim Parkinson

Speech Suite by Todd Moellenberg (world premiere)

Wash Me Whiter Than Snow by Jennifer Walshe

I Delayed People’s Flights By Walking Slowly In Narrow Hallways by Mayke Nas and Wouter Snoei

Tickets: General $20 / Seniors and Students $15

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ENCORE is proud to present this beloved musical for just 4 performances, July 26-28, 2019 at the beautiful Warner Grand Theatre!

The spirited and beloved  story of Maria and the von Trapp Family thrills audiences with its Tony®, Grammy® and Academy Award® winning Best Score, including “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Edelweiss” and the title song.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC enjoyed extraordinary success as the first live television production of a musical in over 50 years when “The Sound of Music Live!” aired on NBC in December, 2013 and was seen by over 44 million people. 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the film version, which continues to be the most successful movie musical in history.

Performances will be held on:

July 26 @ 7:30pm

July 27 @ 2pm & 7:30pm

July 28 @ 2pm

Tickets: $46-$60

Last Chrysanthemums features the premiere of Trois quatuors Mikio Naruse by Canadian experimental music composer, André Cormier, performed by Koan Quartet with video design by Joshua Westerman. The three string quartets of Trois quatuors Mikio Naruse were written in 2014 as an extension of notation ideas that appear in some of Cormier's earlier pieces. Each quartet focuses entirely on just one of these ideas, however, they are united by a reliance on performer intervention and choice-making, varying boundaries of autonomy within the score’s structure, and issues of interdependency between quartet members. The titles of the pieces take inspiration from 3 films by the late Japanese filmmaker, Mikio Naruse.

Derniers Chrysanthemes (Last Chrysanthemums ) 

Le Grondement de la montagne (Sound of the Mountain) 

Nuages flottants (Floating Clouds)   

André Cormier’s work has been presented in Canada, the US, Europe, and New Zealand. In 2008, he launched Éditions musique Sisyphe (www.emsis.ca), a publishing house primarily for experimental music scores; he also directs its performing branch, Ensemble Sisyphe. Today, André maintains a busy schedule as a composer by fulfilling commissions and presenting work, all in an effort to greater understand what makes sound and silence so irresistible.

This performance is expansive and contemplative. Doors open at 7:30pm to facilitate a punctual start at 8pm.   

Admission: $15 general / $12 student 

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Experimentation is around every bend and corner of Walt Disney Concert Hall in a daylong festival. Beginning at noon and ending at midnight, look for pop-up performances from top new-music ensembles from around the country. Food is available from Food Trucks curated by SMORGASBURG LA. Check out craft beers from throughout Southern California, including the LA Phil 100 IPA, brewed in collaboration with LA Ale Works.   

Southland Ensemble will perform Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music at 10:15 in BP Hall.

Admission: $10 

To view the complete schedule or purchase tickets, go to laphil.com

In May of 2011, in Helena, MT, Diagenesis Duo gave their first ever concert, the start of a tour that took the duo across the northern part of the US with stops in St. Paul, Chicago, and Boston. Now, almost exactly eight years later, the duo will give their farewell concert to Helena, MT with a performance at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts.   

For almost 12 years, Helena has been home to Heather Barnes, soprano for Diagenesis. This summer she and her family will begin a new adventure in Kunshan, China. A musical goodbye, this concert will bring Heather and the duo full circle, as they perform pieces from their debut concert and their recent CD release, Hands and Lips of Wind.   

Described as “a radiant combination of text, music and performance, brilliantly realized and masterfully recorded" (Sequenza 21), Hands and Lips of Wind features works commissioned from Diagenesis’s close collaborators. Two of these pieces will be featured in the concert: the album’s title track, Hands and Lips of Wind, by Mischa Salkind-Pearl, and Harrison Birtwistle's exquisite miniatures, Twelve Settings of Lorine Niedecker. The concert will also include works by Pauline Oliveros, James Kallembach, John White, Sean Griffin, and Helena’s own Lynn Petersen, whose Four Songs set the poetry of Ed Noonan.    

Admission: $15 general, $10 students 

Capacity is limited to 35 attendees, so reservations are recommended 

Guests may RSVP at HERE 

Parts of this concert will take place outdoors, so please bring clothing appropriate for a cool evening. Guests should also bring a chair or stool for comfortable outdoor seating.

Formed in 2013, Southland Ensemble is a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the interpretation and performance of experimental music. The Los Angeles-based ensemble consists of seven core members and often collaborates with guests as the music requires. Each member of the ensemble is proficient on a least one or more traditional Western instruments, as well as spoken word and found objects - stones, radios, sheet metal, and household items to name a few. 

It is the mission of Southland Ensemble to present experimental music to a wide variety of audiences through the mediums of interactive concerts, lectures, and workshops. The ensemble believes strongly in the power of creative programming to educate and enhance the audience’s understanding of a historical or artistic period. Each concert is carefully programmed to reflect a specific creative period in a location or composer's career. Since its formation, the ensemble has presented works by Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley, James Tenney, Alison Knowles, and Laurence Crane, among others. 

They will be preforming text scores alongside students of the University of Redlands by Jackson Mac Low and Barney Childs.

Admission is free

WasteLAnd, an innovative 12-piece chamber orchestra from Los Angeles, performs new music by UCSC graduate student composers Heeyoung Choi, Zach Hejny, Ike Minton, Bryndan Moondy, Jonathan Myers, Andrew C. Smith, and Assaf Shatil. The works on the program are the culmination of a multi-day residency in which the ensemble will work directly with the composers.    

This concert is part of the April in Santa Cruz Contemporary Music Festival. Sponsors: Trevor Coates, the Vincent J. Coates Foundation, Porter College (UCSC), Music Department (UCSC), Arts Division (UCSC).

FREE and open to the public

Parking $5. Doors open at 7:00 pm

Concert starts at 7:30 pm

For more information, visit music.ucsc.edu/events/wasteland