As part of their 2019/20 season, Southland Ensemble presents a portrait concert of Bill Roper.

Description:Synchromy and the Audubon Center at Debs Park present Urban Birds, an online experience showcasing many of the incredible birds and composers of Southern California. Synchromy commissioned pieces from Southern California-based composers inspired by common local birds. Site visitors can find premiere performance videos through an interactive map of LA's Debs Park, including my premiere of Call and Echo by Brandon Rolle.

Cassia Streb and I developed the Concert Design for Urban Birds. I'm particularly excited about the QR scavenger hunt we created! Print out the scavenger hunt and field guide, then use your smart phone or tablet to have your own musical bird hunt at home. All of the materials are available at synchromy.org/urban-birds - just click over and head to the Outpost.

Access: free, but donations are welcome (donate here) 

Explore the online experience at synchromy.org/urban-birds

HEAR NOW Festival answers a two-fold need; for LA composers to be featured in a professional setting with superb performances; and for the audience to begin to know what LA composers are writing. Since 2011 HEAR NOW has introduced nearly 150 new and recent works by 113 individual Los Angeles-based composers. Numerous composers — emerging and mid-career — have been brought to both critical and public attention, and HEAR NOW has served as an incubator for the discovery of new talent.

Featuring... 

CHACONNE PART 1 by John Kennedy 

EL ORO DE LOS TIGRES by Jack Van Zandt (US Premiere) 

CONVERSATIONS by John Williams 

HEAR NOW COMMISSION by Nina Shekhar (World Premiere) 

ACOUSTIC LETTER GENERATOR by Abigail Johnson 

while twigs make minor adjustments by Kevin Zhang (LA Premiere) 

e il naufragar m e dolce in questo mare by Sean Heim

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit www.hearnowmusicfestival.com 

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HEAR NOW Festival answers a two-fold need; for LA composers to be featured in a professional setting with superb performances; and for the audience to begin to know what LA composers are writing. Since 2011 HEAR NOW has introduced nearly 150 new and recent works by 113 individual Los Angeles-based composers. Numerous composers — emerging and mid-career — have been brought to both critical and public attention, and HEAR NOW has served as an incubator for the discovery of new talent.

Featuring... 

UN RIO by Peter Knell 

HOLY ORDER SHAKER DANCES by Leanna Primiani 

FIFTEENTH by Hitomi Oba (LA Premiere) 

ORBIT E by Russell Steinberg (WC premiere) 

SARAB by Niloufar Shiri 

SONG OF HAFEZ by David Lefkowitz 

SOGNARE VIGNETTE by Nicole Brady 

METAMORPHOSE by Arash Majd

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit www.hearnowmusicfestival.com 

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A program of experimental music from the United States and Eastern Europe will draw a connection between the near-miss nuclear apocalypse of the Cold War era and the present threat of environmental apocalypse.

FEATURING

Tomasz Sikorski - Diario (1987) 

Morton Feldman - Jackson Pollock (1951) 

Samuel Beckett -The Lost Ones (1971) 

Tatjana Kozlova -Johannes - Nildiostad/Crews (2015) 

Laura Steenberge - Transition (2019) 

Michael Pisaro - Nature, Obscured (2019)   

About Dog Star Orchestra Dog Star Orchestra is an ensemble and a once-a-year festival of experimental music, started in 2005 by composer Michael Pisaro as a way of playing recent experimental music by young composers and classic pieces from the experimental tradition. Described as “messily exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times, Dog Star events happen throughout the Los Angeles area and often feature offbeat performances in out-of-the-way places, alongside more traditional concert settings. Dog Star Orchestra is one of the main presenters fostering and documenting the strong local experimental music scene, as well as presenting work that would otherwise not be heard in the U.S.

About Music at the Wende Now in its second season, Music at the Wende is a new music series in which esteemed musical organizations present free concerts at the Wende Museum, with musical programs inspired by the Wende collection and mission. 

For the full schedule, click here.

RSVPs open Tuesday, March 10, 2020, at 10 a.m.

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Description:Villa Aurora fellow Helmut Oehring was born to deaf-mute parents in East-Berlin in 1961. Self-taught, he started out as a guitarist and composer, however, as a conscientious objector in the GDR, he was barred from attending university. In 1990 he became master student with Georg Katzer at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, where he is a member today. This program will include pieces based on the poetry of American poet Anne Sexton, works referring to Albrecht Dürer and Heinrich Heine, and  a portrait of the infamous Fred A. Leuchter, Holocaust denier and US expert in execution equipment.    

The evening will feature: Helmut Oehring (narrator), Stacey Fraser (soprano), Nic Gerpe (piano), Adrianne Pope (violin), Jennifer Bewerse (cello), Brian Walsh (bass clarinet), Dan Flores (trumpet). Special thanks to Aron Kallay for his support.

Admission: $15 | reply to this newsletter if you would like a free comp

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Due to safer-at-home ordinances in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, future performances of the Sweet Land opera have been cancelled (see dates below). Please contact The Industry to inquire about ticket refunds or to donate your ticket to help The Industry recover from devastating financial losses due to the pandemic. 

CANCELLED:

March 13 @7pm & 9pm

March 14 @7pm & 9pm

March 15 @7pm & 9pm

March 20 @7pm & 9pm

March 21 @7pm & 9pm

March 22 @6pm & 8:30pm

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The company that created Invisible Cities and Hopscotch, now brings you a grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrative of American identity.

The Arrivals wash up on the shore. They make contact with another civilization they call “the Hosts.” And from there, the story splinters, following diverging perspectives. Starting as a procession through the LA State Historic Park, Sweet Land becomes an opera that erases itself.

Like all of The Industry’s previous works, Sweet Land is the result of a highly collaborative and multi-perspectival approach. Composer Du Yun is a Chinese immigrant whose recent work originates from what she states “is a lack of understanding and empathy around immigration”. Her last major opera, Angel’s Bone won a Pulitzer Prize for music and explores the psychology behind human trafficking. Composer Raven Chacon, United States Artists fellow and winner of the Creative Capital Award, is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. Librettist Douglas Kearney is a poet whose “polyphonic diction pulls history apart, recombining it to reveal an alternative less whitewashed by enfranchised power” (BOMB Magazine). Librettist Aja Couchois Duncan is a mixed-race Ojibwe writer who works to advance equity and social justice. Cannupa Hanksa Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st-century Indigeneity. He co-directs Sweet Land with Yuval Sharon, the Founder and Artistic Director of The Industry and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.

Admission: $110 General

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“Ghost Ensemble embodies the spirit of rugged independence.” —The New York Classical Review

Ghost Ensemble is dedicated to new musical perspectives that explore the act of listening. The ensemble’s music creates sonic spaces that shift our attention, perception, and experience of time.

Ghost Ensemble’s Arctic Air presents Pauline Oliveros’s whisper-soft large-ensemble work Arctic Air alongside Wilfrido Terrazas’s Ifigenia en, Ben Richter’s Wind People, the West Coast premiere of James Ilgenfritz’s Apophenia V: Outmoded Large Crumbling Oval Lime-Green Midwestern Plastic-Frame Reading Glasses, and the world premiere of a new work by Marguerite Brown. 

Ghost Ensemble: Arctic Air features Margaret Lancaster, flute; Breana Gilcher, oboe; Ben Richter, accordion; Chris Nappi, percussion; Lucia Stavros, harp; Cassia Streb, viola; Jennifer Bewerse, cello; James Ilgenfritz, Scott Worthington, contrabasses; and Carl Bettendorf, conductor.   

Facebook Event Here Admission: $22 | $18 members and students | $11 CalArts students/faculty/staff 

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The company that created Invisible Cities and Hopscotch, now brings you a grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrative of American identity.  The Arrivals wash up on the shore. They make contact with another civilization they call “the Hosts.” And from there, the story splinters, following diverging perspectives. Starting as a procession through the LA State Historic Park, Sweet Land becomes an opera that erases itself.

Like all of The Industry’s previous works, Sweet Land is the result of a highly collaborative and multi-perspectival approach. Composer Du Yun is a Chinese immigrant whose recent work originates from what she states “is a lack of understanding and empathy around immigration”. Her last major opera, Angel’s Bone won a Pulitzer Prize for music and explores the psychology behind human trafficking. Composer Raven Chacon, United States Artists fellow and winner of the Creative Capital Award, is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. Librettist Douglas Kearney is a poet whose “polyphonic diction pulls history apart, recombining it to reveal an alternative less whitewashed by enfranchised power” (BOMB Magazine). Librettist Aja Couchois Duncan is a mixed-race Ojibwe writer who works to advance equity and social justice. Cannupa Hanksa Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st-century Indigeneity. He co-directs Sweet Land with Yuval Sharon, the Founder and Artistic Director of The Industry and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.  

Performances will be held on:

March 1 @ 5:30pm & 8pm

March 7 @ 6:30pm & 8:30pm

March 8 @ 7pm & 9pm

March 13 @7pm & 9pm

March 14 @7pm & 9pm

March 15 @7pm & 9pm

March 20 @7pm & 9pm

March 21 @7pm & 9pm

March 22 @6pm & 8:30pm

Admission: $110 General 

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Southland Ensemble continues its sixth season the chamber works of Atlanta-based composer Alvin Singleton. Rarely performed on the west coast, Singleton's work skillfully joins the European tradition of Lutoslawski and Ligeti with the African American traditions of James Brown, Mahalia Jackson, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and the AACM.  

FEATURING:  

Et Nunc (bass clarinet, alto flute, bass) 

Be Natural (viola, cello, bass) 

Helga (violin, viola, cello) 

Somehow We Can (string quartet) 

Intezar (viola, cello, bass)  

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Admission: $15 / $12 students and seniors