Summits is a song cycle by Daniel Corral for voice, string quartet, and guitar/accordion, based on found texts from summit registers, which are notebooks that can be found at the tops of many mountain trails. Summits features jazz vocalist Joanna Wallfisch, The Koan String Quartet, and Corral on guitar and accordion.

Over the past 14 years of living in Southern California, Corral has copied hikers’ notes in summit registers he has found on peaks throughout the Angeles National Forest. These chronicles from regional pinnacles portray the wisdom, humility, and humor that can only be found atop a mountain. With the stability of the National Park Service under fire from a hostile executive branch, it is a key time to artfully share these hidden insights and build interest in the innate value of our continent’s wild spaces.   The writings of hikers and climbers at mountain apexes can range from exhausted to elegiac to explicit. The music for Summits is duly inspired by diverse musical influences, such as Harry Partch’s Barstow, Carl Stalling’s music for Warner Brothers cartoons, Wadada Leo Smith’s America’s National Parks, Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti western soundtracks, Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, and Brian Wilson’s Smile. To bring this music to life, Corral is collaborating with Joanna Wallfisch and the The Koan Quartet. Wallfisch has been praised by practically every major jazz publication, The Koan Quartet is part of the Southland Ensemble, and Corral’s music is known for being stylistically omnivorous.

Admission: $15 General, $10 Members 

More information via the Center for New Music Here

Southland Ensemble presents a concert of the music of pioneering American composer Johanna Magdalena Beyer.

Johanna Beyer (1888-1944) was a German-American composer and pianist. She died of Lou Gehrig's disease and the majority of her work would have been forgotten were it not for the endeavors of composers and performers, notably Frog Peak, who brought her music back to life, as it were, through research and volunteer score copying.

Many of Beyer's works were never performed in her lifetime. Several of these works, including String Quartet IV and Movement for String Quartet are possible premieres, as there is little documentation of the performance of her work.

PROGRAM:

String Quartet IV

String Quartet #2

Have Faith

Movement for Double Bass and Piano

Music of the Spheres

Movement for String Quartet

Ballad of the Star-Eater

Percussion Op. 14

The Federal Music Project

with special guests:

Stephanie Aston, Argenta Walther & Brian Walsh

Tickets: $15 / $12 student, senior

MicroFest presents Aeneas in the Underworld, a chamber oratorio by San Diego composer Christopher Adler.

Begun as a collaboration between former San Diego New Music Executive Director Colin McAllister and composer Christopher Adler in 2006, Aeneas in the Underworld is an ambitious and unique project combining oratory and music for a solo performer who recites the sixth book of Virgil's epic story, Aeneid, in the original Latin, while playing a guitar (which is subject to drastic retuning, preparations and playing implements). The soloist, embodying the extraordinary mastery of Aeneas, the hero, is accompanied by a second guitarist, string quartet and electronics. The story recounts the hero's descent into the underworld and fateful meeting with the shade of his father, which reveals to the hero the future glories of Rome. Projected subtitles will feature a brand new English translation by classicist Khang Le, commissioned specifically for this production.

Act I of the oratorio was performed at the soundON Festival of Modern Music in 2011, and Act II was performed with San Diego New Music in 2015. Now, we are pleased to present the complete oratorio as part of the premiere tour along with performances at the Through a Glass Darkly: UCCS Symposium on Apocalyptic in Colorado Springs, and at MicroFest in Los Angeles. These performances are sponsored in part by a grant from the University of San Diego

featuring Colin McAllister, guitar and Latin orator

with 

Pablo Gómez Cano, guitar 

Batya MacAdam-Somer and Emily Call, violins

Annabelle Terbetski, viola 

Jennifer Bewerse, cello 

San Diego New Music presents Aeneas in the Underworld, a chamber oratorio by San Diego composer Christopher Adler Begun as a collaboration between former San Diego New Music Executive Director Colin McAllister and composer Christopher Adler in 2006, Aeneas in the Underworld is an ambitious and unique project combining oratory and music for a solo performer who recites the sixth book of Virgil's epic story, Aeneid, in the original Latin, while playing a guitar (which is subject to drastic retuning, preparations and playing implements). The soloist, embodying the extraordinary mastery of Aeneas, the hero, is accompanied by a second guitarist, string quartet and electronics. The story recounts the hero's descent into the underworld and fateful meeting with the shade of his father, which reveals to the hero the future glories of Rome. Projected subtitles will feature a brand new English translation by classicist Khang Le, commissioned specifically for this production.   

Act I of the oratorio was performed at the soundON Festival of Modern Music in 2011, and Act II was performed with San Diego New Music in 2015. Now, we are pleased to present the complete oratorio as part of the premiere tour along with performances at the Through a Glass Darkly: UCCS Symposium on Apocalyptic in Colorado Springs, and at MicroFest in Los Angeles. These performances are sponsored in part by a grant from the University of San Diego featuring:

Colin McAllister, guitar and Latin orator with

Pablo Gómez Cano, guitar  

Batya MacAdam-Somer and Emily Call, violins Annabelle Terbetski, viola  

Jennifer Bewerse, cello

$25 General Admission / $20 Athnaeum Members, seniors / $5 Students 

Click here to purchase tickets from the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

The Soundwaves new music series at the Santa Monica Public Library marks its 50th event with the world premiere of "Unknown Summits," a major work by acclaimed L.A. composer Daniel Corral, on Wednesday March 20, 2019, at 7:30pm in the Main Library Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium, at 601 Santa Monica Blvd.   

"Unknown Summits" is a song cycle based on texts from summit logs found in the Sierra Club archives. Summit logs are guest books kept at mountaintops for climbers to record their accomplishments and reflections. Corral was especially drawn to books whose original locations are no longer known, thus "Unknown Summits."   

His settings of these texts will be brought to life by vocalist Joanna Wallfisch, who has toured with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and now teaches on L.A's Skid Row with the Urban Voices Project, joined by the Koan Quartet (Eric KM Clark and Orin Hildestad, violins, Cassia Streb, viola, and Jennifer Bewerse, cello) and Corral on accordion.   

Admission: Free 

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Description:Southland Ensemble performs works from our very first call for scores. Hear recently composed graphic and text scores by:   

Christine Burke: AT A STEADY CONSISTENT RATE 

Nicole DeMaio: Book of Hours 

Jorge Delgado Leyva: Diálogos, 1. Consecuente 

Ben Zucker: Neither/N/Nor/N 

Nomi Epstein: all are above us 

Erika Bell: Saint-Girons 

John Eagle: Something about my Punctuation   

Tickets: $15 General, $20 Student/Senior 

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Synchromy and Tuesdays @ Monkspace present “say I am not far enough”, a two-concert night of readings, art, and music inspired by the life and work of late American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin. Born in Berkeley, California in 1929, Le Guin’s unique voice broke barriers in the realms of science fiction and fantasy in the 1960s and 70s, lending a feminist slant and refreshing approach to genres dominated by macho male protagonists and space battles.

First Set // 6 pm

Free Show (reservation recommended)

Reservations can be made at https://bit.ly/2GZqj89 

Food and drink will be available (details to follow)

Elinor Armer’s "Lockerbones/Airbones" and excerpts from Joseph Schwantner’s "Wild Angels of the Open Hills," improvisation by Miller Wrenn, and works by Laura Brackney and Stephen Taylor. Featuring mezzo-sopranos Amy Fogerson and Megan Ihnen, and actors Amielynn Abellera, June Carryl, and Arye Gross. Conductor Stephen Tucker makes his first Synchromy appearance on both programs.

Second Set // 8 pm

Ticketed as usual by T@MS / Tickets on sale now at https://bit.ly/2Qpj35b

Cost: $20 student / $25 adult

More excerpts from Joseph Schwantner’s "Wild Angels of the Open Hills" with mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen, flutist Sara Andon, and harpist Ellie Choate. The world premieres of Jason Barabba’s "say I am not far enough" with Choate and baritone Scott Graff and Australian composer Naima Fine’s "A non-euclidean view of California as a cold place to be." Pianist/composer Vicki Ray will improvise with readings of Ursula K. Le Guin’s version of the Tao Te Ching, along with more readings from Abellera, Carryl, and Gross.

Fecebook Event HERE

Conducted by festival curator Christopher Rountree and directed by R. B. Schlather, this evening-long exploration of the Fluxus movement, staged throughout Walt Disney Concert Hall by the LA Phil, is one of the most ambitious undertakings of the orchestra’s 100-year career, and one of the largest Fluxus events ever to be put on by a major symphony orchestra. Designed to dissolve the perceived boundaries between audience, musician, and work, the entire campus will be activated, with sound, light, and action emanating from throughout the building. It will be an evening of chance encounters, unexpected delights, and historic performances.   

4:00pm - 8:00pm Walt Disney Concert Hall Interior and Exterior Spaces 

Christopher ROUNTREE : Commitment Booth (LA Phil commission) 

Ken FRIEDMAN : Sonata for Melons and Gravity 

Chris KALLMYER : Sonatas and Interludes (LA Phil commission)   

5:00pm - 7:00pm Walt Disney Concert Hall Auditorium 

La Monte YOUNG and Marian ZAZEELA : The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962) in Dream Light  

7:00pm - 8:00pm Walt Disney Concert Hall Interior and Exterior Spaces 

Pieces by ONO, MACIUNAS, KNOWLES, FORTI, PATTERSON, FRIEDMAN, WOLFF, OLIVEROS, and R.B. SCHLATHER   

8:00pm Walt Disney Concert Hall Auditorium 

PATTERSON : Overture III 

La Monte YOUNG : Composition 1960 #13 to Richard Huelsenbeck 

PAIK : One, for solo violin 

Yoko ONO : Wall Piece for Orchestra to Yoko Ono 

Steven TAKASUGI : Howl (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund) 

HIGGINS : The Thousand Symphonies 

CAGE : Apartment House 1776 

BERIO : Sinfonia  

Tickets: from $20 

Purchase Tickets via https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/216/2018-11-17/fluxus-fluxconcert/

Diagenesis Duo (Heather Barnes-soprano and Jennifer Bewerse-cello) makes their first appearance in Los Angeles performing contemporary classical music from their recently released debut CD, Hands and Lips of Wind. The concert features commissions Diagenesis has made throughout their 7-year collaboration and Harrison Birtwistle's elegant miniatures, Twelve Settings of Lorine Niedecker. Also on the program is Diagenesis's most recent commission, Marti Epstien's Different Kinds of Light featuring the poetry of Jackson Mac Low.    

Harrison Birtwistle: Twelve Settings of Lorine Niedecker 

Mischa Salkind-Pearl: Hands and Lips of Wind 

Marti Epstein: Different Kinds of Light 

Adam Scott Neal: Travels 

Scott Ordway: Black is the Color   

Tickets: $18 / $15 Student 

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For more information, visit diagenesisduo.com

Melodicas, harmonicas, Chinese paper accordions, triangles, antique cymbals, amplified blackboards, counter bells, credit cards, and roaming clarinetists. Flotsam & Jetsam is a concert curated by Aron Kallay of pieces he's heard in person or online that have grabbed his attention and roused his imagination. Here, completely unrelated works snap together like pieces of a puzzle! Members of Brightwork join forces with pianist Genevieve Lee, Lyris Quartet violinist Shalini Vijayan, the Now Hear Ensemble, and T@MS team-members to bring this unique one-of-a-kind program to life.   

FEATURING: 

Mayke Nas - I Delayed People's Flights By Walking Slowly In Narrow Hallways  

Thomas Ades - Catch 

Danny clay - playbook 

Kurt Rohde - Altromundo

Tickets: $25 / $20 students 

Purchase HERE 

For more information, visit tuesdaysatmonkspace.org