September, 2010
NEW MUSIC CIRCULAR
Volume 19, No.1
52nd Season
NewMusicCircular
Season 52
Unless otherwise noted, tickets to all shows are $15 regular admission, $7 for students/artists with a valid ID.
New Music Circle
From the President
P. O . B o x 9 3 3 7
S t . L o u i s , M o . 6 3 11 7
There are so many really exciting
things happening at The New
Music Circle, it is hard to know
where to start. Our entire Board
is thrilled about the content of our
new season; two words really
sum it up--Fat--with so many top
quality events, and Wide-because we're really expanding
our scope of new and bold
music. I think you will find a lot
to like in this season. I hope you
check it out.
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Funded in part by the Arts and Education Council
CAMA Event! - Combination Tones
Peter Zummo, trombone
Rich ODonnell, percussion
Tom Hamilton, electronics
Bill Schulenburg, sound design
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 7:30 pm
Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N. Grand, St. Louis, MO 63103
2010
Combination Tones is the new work by
composer/performer Tom Hamilton. In combining his
electronic sound with 2 longtime collaborators, New York
trombonist Peter Zummo and St. Louis percussionist Rich
ODonnell, Hamilton continues exploration of the
improvisational territory defined in his previous CAMA
events. The musicians form a confluence of changing
sonic ideas and moods in the midst of Hamiltons sonic
environment, embellished by sound designer Bill Schulenburg.
Hamilton often explores the interaction of many
simultaneous layers of activity, prompting the use of "present-time listening" on the part of both performer and
listener. Hamilton was a 2005 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria.
Trio Kinsella
Jonathan Borja, flute
Ben Gitter, cello
Brendan Kinsella, piano
Saturday, May 14, 2011, 7:30 pm
Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N. Grand, St. Louis, MO 63103
Trio Kinsella is devoted to performing the music of our time. The group was featured in the Heidelberg New
Music Festival in 2009, where they performed Vox balaenae under the direction of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer George Crumb. Vox balaenae (Voice of the Whale) is scored for electronically amplified flute, cello and
piano and demands nearly constant extended techniques. The work is highly dramatic the performers appear
in masks amid a wash of deep blue stage lighting.
The group continues to perform Crumb's work, along with new works by young composers, throughout the
midwest. Trio Kinsella is featured in the upcoming recording of Thailand's Narong Prangcharoen's chamber
music CD on Albany Records.
The wide-ranging originality and
creativity on offer is, as usual, of
the highest order. We have
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden
Quartet (including Vijay Iyer on
piano/Rhodes), the scintillating
LaDonna Smith and Davey
Williams, and a really
compelling and dedicated group
of local musicians. The style
goes from free improv through
very contemporary notated
scores, video, movement, and
electronics. And we are
presenting the premiere of our
own NMC laptop orchestra.
Online that's another
important new thing this year.
You can now order your tickets
online with a credit card or
PayPal account. Subscriptions
are available now, with single
tickets coming online
throughout the season.
So, read through the events and
see for yourself how Fat and
Wide we are. And then order a
subscription: flexible, and a
terrific bargain! We look forward
to seeing you at the concerts.
John Newman
President
Chamber Project St. Louis
Adrianne Honnold, saxophone
Jennifer Gartley, flute
Dana Hotle, clarinet
Laura Reycraft, viola
Amanda Kirkpatrick, piano
Valentina Takova, cello
Saturday, October 16, 2010,
7:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral
1210 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103
Chamber Project St. Louis celebrates contemporary American
female composers by presenting an exhilarating program featuring works
by Pulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Higdon and Grammy Award Winner
Libby Larsen.
Firmly committed to working with living composers and performing
contemporary music, CPSTL introduces audiences to the freshest sounds
of this millennium. CPSTL gave the world premiere of Modern, Movie, Pop
by Stephen Prina at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis,
commissioned and premiered Aaron Johnson's Flash at the North
American Saxophone Alliance's Biennial Conference, and presented an
entire program of new works by the New Tertian Composers Collective.
Wadada Leo Smith's
Golden Quartet with Vijay Iyer
Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet, flugelhorn
Vijay Iyer, piano
Pheeroan akLaff, drums
John Lindberg, bass
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 7:30 pm
560 Trinity Building at Washington University
560 Trinity Ave., University City, MO 63130
Golden Quartet is an ensemble of master composers / performers,
whose experimental practice utilizes the quartet form, which is the purest
foundation of musical expression in jazz / creative music and western
music culture. As multi-instrumentalists they are concerned with a practice
and research that involves an array of complex systemic forms, where the
musical languages of compositional / improvisational / ankhrasmation are
merged seamlessly in their interactive development in the quartet and are
manifested in the performance dimension as a single music language.
Golden Quartets music is fiery, explosive, and surges with a positive
improvised energy force thats constructed with polycentric melodic / sonic
/ rhythm units. The ensembles textural and structural materials reveal a
musical terrain that is creatively rich and architecturally clear in form.
Ten Freedom Summers by Wadada Leo Smith and performed by
"Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet" has been made possible with
support from Chamber Music America's 2010 New Jazz Works:
Commissioning and Ensemble Development program funded through the
generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
NMC Showcase - Five Innovative Artists
Eric Hall - electronics and processed instruments
Zlatko Cosic - video artist
Laurie des Marais - sound designer and choreographer
BaBa Mike Nelson - sound artist and vocalist
Ron Coulter - percussion, electronics, voice, and self-built instruments
Saturday, December 4, 2010, 7:30 pm
Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University
6465 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63105
Video poems from Paris, movement, self-built instruments, sound art, electronics, and experimental vocals - all on
one concert? Yes, it's true. This concert is an opportunity to experience the creativity of five innovative regional
artists as they present individual sets of recent work.
Eric Hall is a composer, improviser, producer, and performer of electronic-based music, as well as an installation
artist and DJ. He has created performances for the Saint Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum Saint
Louis, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Washington University.
Zlatko Cosic is an experimental filmmaker and video artist whose works have been presented at film festivals in
the US, Australia, Denmark, and Poland. His film, Horizons was a prize winner at the 2010 Macon Film Festival
and at the 2010 Sunscreen Film Festival.
Lauri des Marais is self-taught and now has a large body of works that includes solo piano, electronic ambience,
musique concrte sound design, and avant-garde arrangements and works she calls Philosophy of Perception.
Baba Mike Neslon is a multi-instrumentalist who has pioneered the fusion of African, Asian and indigenous
instruments with American music. He performs on trumpet, flugelhorn, world drums, indigenous instruments, steel
pan, conch shells and vocals.
Ron Coulter is a percussionist, composer and sound artist. His works reflect influences such as noise, radio art,
acoustic ecology, intermedia, interdisciplinary collaboration, and non-idiomatic improvisation. He constructs his own
instruments, uses effects pedals to process unusual sound sources, and composes for instruments and voice.
Bloom Project - Thollem McDonas & Rent Romus
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 7:30 pm
Kranzberg Arts Center
501 N. Grand, St. Louis, MO 63103
Bloom Project is a spirited collaboration between pianist
Thollem McDonas and saxophonist producer Rent
Romus. McDonas has logged thousands of miles touring
throughout the world performing his unique brand of
compositional improvisation comprovisation. He has
released eighteen recordings spanning eight recording
labels. Romus has released over twenty three recordings
and built a community infrastructure in the San Francisco
Bay Area as the owner of Edgetone Records and the
Executive Director of Outsound.
Bloom Project features free improvisations as well as
interpretations of textual and graphical scores. The music
is an organic construction and expression that combines
disparate and divergent stylistic histories with a sense of
refreshing immediacy,intensity, and spontaneous inventiveness.
LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 7:30 pm
The Focal Point
2720 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood, MO 63143
Violinist and violist, LaDonna Smith has been on the international new
music scene for well over 20 years. She is an active performer, as well
as an educator and native of Birmingham, Alabama. LaDonna has
created a style of improvisation on violin and viola that is uniquely her
own. Alternating classical and extended techniques, she explores her
instrument, painting scenarios and sound pictures as she plays. She
has performed at practically every major improvisation festival and many of
the New Music Festivals. Davey Williams is a highly regarded improvising guitarist who performs solo and in
collaborations with LaDonna Smith. Throughout the '80's and '90's he was a member of the experimental group
Curlew as well as other bands including Ok, Nurse, and Fuzzy Suns.
In addition to frequent collaborative performances, the duo maintains their own recording label, TransMuseq, and
also co-edit the improvisor, the international journal of free improvisation.
CAMA artist and cellist Craig Hultgren will present a concert of some of the 20th
Century's most severe musical compositions that are associated with music courses in
contemporary music given in Darmstadt, Germany. The program features music by
Maricio Kagel and others related to the Darmstadt school. The program will also
present videos from this era of great musical experimentation. Joining Hultgren will be
percussionists Stuart Gerber from Atlanta and Rich O'Donnell from St. Louis.
CAMA Event!
Craig Hultgren, cello
Stuart Gerber, percussion
Rich O'Donnell, percussion
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 7:30 pm
The Focal Point
2720 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood, MO 63143
Peter Henderson, piano
Saturday, April 2, 2011, 7:30 pm
Christ Church Cathedral
1210 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103
Noted St. Louis pianist, Peter Henderson, will perform The People
United Will Never Be Defeated! by Frederic Rzewski and 24 Studies in
African Rhythms by Fred Onovwerosuoke. The People United is a theme
and variations on "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido," a song from the
Unidad Popular coalition in Chile. Extended techniques and technically
demanding passages build to frequent, forceful climaxes.
Mr. Henderson is a strong advocate of new music, having given several premieres of solo
piano works in recent years. In addition to solo recitals, he has performed with with noted
German violist Roland Glassl, the Ilex Piano Trio, the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, and the St.
Louis Symphony Orchestra.
NMC Laptop Orchestra Project Premiere Performance
Saturday, April 16, 2011, 7:30 pm
William A. Kerr Foundation
21 O'Fallon St., St. Louis, MO 63102
An orchestra of laptop performers join together to present a multidimensional
texture of sound layers. Individual performers distributed throughout the
performance space explore spatial and antiphonal possibilities in originally
created site-specific sound works. Lighting and projected video will enhance the
multifaceted environment. The concert features community members as laptop
performers and soloists and is organized by the NMC and Jim Hegarty.
Join New Music Circle today. Save $70 - $115 off the single ticket price!
Tickets to all shows are $15 regular admission, $7 for students/artists with valid ID.
10 Exciting Saturdays
October 16, Chamber Project St. Louis
November 13, Golden Quartet -
Wadada Leo Smith, Vijay Iyer, Pheeroan akLaff, John Lindberg
December 4, NMC Showcase - Hall, Cosic, des Marais, Nelson, & Coulter
January 22, Bloom Project - Thollem Mcdonas & Rent Romus
February 12, LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams
March 5, Craig Hultgren
April 2, Peter Henderson
April 16, NMC Laptop Orchestra Project - Premiere Performance
April 30, Tom Hamilton
May 14, Trio Kinsella
(All concerts begin at 7:30 pm)
Don't miss these exciting - one time only - events! Order your tickets now!
Join New Music Circle today. Save $70 - $115 off the single ticket price!
Your subscription includes a packet of 10 or 15 tickets valid in any combination for any of our events. Bring a friend or
two and use your subscription tickets. And there's no penalty for missing an event, just use your tickets next time. It's
a flexible way to save nearly 50% off the single ticket price.
Subscribers also receive discounts on CDs and NMC merchandise.
We now accept Credit Cards and PayPal ONLINE!
Subscriptions also available at the first or second concert. Student discount with valid ID.
Give us a try - our concerts are exciting, always new and refreshing, and feature some of the most creative artists on
the scene today. Hear artists such as Wadada Leo Smith and LaDonna Smith in small intimate venues performing
their most creative music - it's a personal experience that is unmatched anywhere. For 52 years, the New Music
Circle has been bringing uniquely original, cutting-edge, creative music to our audiences - don't miss this season,
subscribe today. Check us out, you'll be surprised and thrilled with what you will experience.
Please advise us if your gift is eligible for a matching gift program.
Your contribution really helps - please contribute if you can.
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Join New Music Circle today. Save $70 - $115 off the single ticket price!
Tickets to all shows are $15 regular admission, $7 for students/artists with valid ID.
10 Exciting Saturdays
October 16, Chamber Project St. Louis
November 13, Golden Quartet -
Wadada Leo Smith, Vijay Iyer, Pheeroan akLaff, John Lindberg
December 4, NMC Showcase - Hall, Cosic, des Marais, Nelson, & Coulter
January 22, Bloom Project - Thollem Mcdonas & Rent Romus
February 12, LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams
March 5, Craig Hultgren
April 2, Peter Henderson
April 16, NMC Laptop Orchestra Project - Premiere Performance
April 30, Tom Hamilton
May 14, Trio Kinsella
(All concerts begin at 7:30 pm)
Don't miss these exciting - one time only - events! Order your tickets now!
Join New Music Circle today. Save $70 - $115 off the single ticket price!
Your subscription includes a packet of 10 or 15 tickets valid in any combination for any of our events. Bring a friend or
two and use your subscription tickets. And there's no penalty for missing an event, just use your tickets next time. It's
a flexible way to save nearly 50% off the single ticket price.
Subscribers also receive discounts on CDs and NMC merchandise.
We now accept Credit Cards and PayPal ONLINE!
Subscriptions also available at the first or second concert. Student discount with valid ID.
Give us a try - our concerts are exciting, always new and refreshing, and feature some of the most creative artists on
the scene today. Hear artists such as Wadada Leo Smith and LaDonna Smith in small intimate venues performing
their most creative music - it's a personal experience that is unmatched anywhere. For 52 years, the New Music
Circle has been bringing uniquely original, cutting-edge, creative music to our audiences - don't miss this season,
subscribe today. Check us out, you'll be surprised and thrilled with what you will experience.
Please advise us if your gift is eligible for a matching gift program.
Your contribution really helps - please contribute if you can.
Name:__________________________________________
_____ Benefactor Membership(s) (15 tickets, $110)
_____ Regular Membership(s) (10 tickets, $80)
_____ Student Membership(s) (10 tickets, $40)
_____ Tax Deductible Contribution
(The NMC is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization)
Address:_______________________________________
City, State, Zip:________________________________
Phone:_________________________________________
Email address:________________________________
Order Online Visit our Store at [Link]/Store
To order by mail, enclose a check payment to New Music Circle and mail to:
New Music Circle
P. O. Box 9337
St. Louis, MO 63117
Stay Connected - Join our Email List
New Music Circle is going green. We're saving trees and saving postage by using email. Join our list send a request to [Link]@[Link] or visit our website at [Link] to enter
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