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

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 

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