“What I am trying to achieve is to be what I am to the fullest...black to the fullest, a musician to the fullest, a homosexual to the fullest.” ~ Julius Eastman

​The classically-trained pianist, singer, dancer and composer Julius Eastman was one of the great musical polymaths of the 20th century.  A black, gay musician in a field then overwhelmingly dominated by white men, Eastman's career was one of remarkable breadth and integrity.  Throughout the 60s and 70s, he was a rising star of the avant-garde, active as a composer, teacher, and performer, earning a Grammy nomination for his recording of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Eight Songs for a Mad King." Plagued by demons of addiction, however, his career derailed in the 80s.  During this period, he was evicted from his East Village apartment in New York for non-payment of rent and all his belongings, including his music, were thrown unceremoniously into the street, allowing his already-cryptic scores to be blown away into oblivion. This concert, which features one original score which remained intact (Crazy Nigger), and one reconstruction of an original score of Eastman's (The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc​), pays homage to this provocative and neglected genius. 

Featuring:

The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc (Prelude) 

The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc*

Crazy Nigger

*Transcription by Clarice Jensen

Tickets $27 / $12 student

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wasteLAnd Music presents a spotlight concert featuring Jennifer Bewerse. Jennifer will perform Simon Steen-Anderson's Study for String Instrument #3, Laurence Crane's Raimondas Rumsas, and will be joined by Rachel Beetz to perform On Structure's On Silence. A highlight of the concert will be John Cage's One8 for cello with curved bow. 

Admission: $10

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Southland Ensemble presents selections from Repertoire (1967-70), a collection of event scores by German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel. One of his most radical, anti-institutional works, Repertoire is a farcical deconstruction of object, sound, theatre and music all at once.

Tickets: $20 general / $10 student

For more information, visit southlandensemble.com

Southland Ensemble is excited to begin our fourth season with a program that explores three compositions by John Cage from the mid to late 1970’s - Child of Tree, Cheap Imitation, and Renga. These three works range from iconic (Child of Tree) to rarely performed (Telephones and Birds), and feature two of Cage’s primary notational styles - text and traditionally notated - yet are all equally pioneering and adventurous in nature. 

Child of Tree (1975)

Cheap Imitation for violin solo (1977)

Branches (1976)

Telephones and Birds (1977)

General Admission - $20 general / $10 student

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San Diegans know drought—the persistent low rainfall of life near the desert and the recent drought to strike the western United States. And they also know to look to the skies for the deluge that will—that must—come. San Diego New Music's theme this year is "drought and deluge." Curators of each of the concerts this season will craft a musical vision of drought and deluge. 

For this concert, flutist Rachel Beetz (joined by Kyle Blair, Jennifer Bewerse, and Dustin Donahue) presents an exploration the sounds of the dryness in San Diego while also remembering water. Along with sands, grains, and fire of drought in works by Natacha Diels, Kaija Saariaho, and a world premiere by Michael Pisaro, water, shells, and drops in works by John Cage and Peter Ablinger transform our instruments into the Californian landscape, ending in their absence in a presentation of Peter Ablinger's California Score, for 24 sheets of paper and objects.

Featuring:

ether - Natacha Diels

Cendres - Kaija Saariaho

Inlets - John Cage

Instruments & - Peter Ablinger

A California Score - Peter Ablinger

Grain Canons - Michael Pisaro

$25 General Admission / $20 Athnaeum Members, seniors / $10 Students

For more information, visit sandiegonewmusic.com

Rachel Beetz and Jennifer Bewerse are Autoduplicity, an exploration of music for bodies and speech, our shared instruments. Their concerts investigate how these ordinary sounds can be transformed into powerful musical ideas reflective of the human experience. They began the Autoduplicity project to explore what would happen when the performer was separated from traditional instruments. From this separation, fundamental relationships between the performer, audience, body, and voice are revealed.

At the Women's International Study Center (WISC) residency this September, New Zealand composer Celeste Oram joins Autoduplicity. Over the course of their residency, they have collaborated on a new musical work for the duo exploring themes of multiplicity, identity of bodies with regard to musical instruments, sounds of centuries past, and alter egos. This new work will serve as the center of a full length concert reflecting on identity alongside pieces by Beetz, Bewerse, Bengt af Klintberg, and Taka Iimura. 

Rachel, Jennifer, and Celeste will present their work at the Acequia Madre House Tuesday September 27, 2016 at 5:30pm. 

Register at the link HERE or via email to info@wisc-amh.org

For more information, visit wisc-amh.org

Diagenesis Duo brings rarely heard music to a concert at the grounds of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. The Duo and audience members will travel throughout the Bray's historic landscape, experiencing the unique acoustics of the Bray's Beehive Kiln #7, Potter's Shrine, and North Gallery with the beautiful graphic scores of Earle Brown, the music of Morton Feldman, and the musical poetry of Jackson Mac Low. This concert is produced with support from the Earle Brown Music Foundation, www.earle-brown.org.

PLEASE NOTE: Parts of this concert will take place outdoors, please bring clothing appropriate for a cool evening outside. We also request guests bring a chair or stool for comfortable outdoor seating. 

$15 general admission | $10 students

Maximum attendance is 35

Reservations can be made at: www.diagenesisduo.com

Contact us at (406) 443-3502 or diagenesisduo@gmail.com

The Helena InterArts Summer Workshop presents their final concert. After a week of experimenting in music, dance, and visual arts, workshoppers bring rarely heard experimental works to the Helena Community. Featured, is a performance of Sympathetic Magic for cello, soprano, and improvising children's ensemble. 

Admission: TBA

For more information, visit newsonics.blogspot.com

The Helena InterArts Summer Workshop is an integrative music, dance, and visual art workshop for ages 6-18.

HISW will host up to 40 children and teens ages 6-18 for a week-long summer workshop August 8-12, 2016. We'll meet daily from 9am-4pm at the Holter Museum, where all participants will take part in workshops in music (instrument making, musical improvisation, composition, graphic score creation, and performance), dance (technique, improvisation, choreographed pieces), and visual art (costume and set design).

Guided by the HISW arts faculty – Mary Margaret Moore (dance), Tanya Call from Cohesion Dance Project, Jennifer Bewerse (cello) and Heather Barnes (soprano) from Diagenesis Duo, and Sondra Hines from the Holter Museum – participants will work towards a final public performance in the evening on August 12, 2016 at the Holter Museum.

Tuition: $150 (Scholarships are available)

Register at www.holtermuseum.org

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Atlantic Music Festival's Contemporary Ensemble Fellows perform music by the resident composers. Pieces TBA

Rachel Beetz, flute

Ford Fourqurean, clarinet

Christopher Herman, percussion

Sung-Soo Cho, piano

Hannah Ji, violin

Jennifer Bewerse, cello

Admission: Free