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Prize Winners
Sunday, May 5, 2024, 4:00 PM
St. Paul's Syracuse, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 student/senior, children 18 and under free

Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei Residues: I. Ostinato (SNM's 2023 Israel/Pellman Prize winner)
Benjamin Rieke Bloom (SNM's NYS Federation of Music Clubs Prize winner)
Christopher Auerbach-Brown
Armando Bayolo (unplanned) obsolescence (SNM's 2023 commissioned composer)


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past concerts

Vision of Sound: New Music with Dance
Sunday, February 18, 2024, 2:00 PM
Linehan Chapel, Nazareth College, Rochester

Program features music of Jaclyn Breeze, Daniel Thomas Davis, Sam Evans, Paul Leary, Ivan Malcolm, Mark Olivieri, Nicolas Scherzinger, and Octavio Vazquez, with choreography by Rosita Adamo, Maya June Dwyer, Aldo Kattón, Brian Lawson, Angela Lopez, Aaron Loux, Kaley Pruitt, and Heather Roffe.

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Vision of Sound: New Music with Dance
Saturday, February 17, 2024, 7:30 PM
Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, Hobart and William Smith campus, Geneva

Program features music of Jaclyn Breeze, Daniel Thomas Davis, Sam Evans, Paul Leary, Ivan Malcolm, Mark Olivieri, Nicolas Scherzinger, and Octavio Vazquez, with choreography by Rosita Adamo, Maya June Dwyer, Aldo Kattón, Brian Lawson, Angela Lopez, Aaron Loux, Kaley Pruitt, and Heather Roffe.

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Vision of Sound: New Music with Dance
Friday, February 16, 2024, 7:30 PM
Palace Theater, Eastwood, 2384 James St., Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 student/senior, children 18 and under free

Program features music of Jaclyn Breeze, Daniel Thomas Davis, Sam Evans, Paul Leary, Ivan Malcolm, Mark Olivieri, Nicolas Scherzinger, and Octavio Vazquez, with choreography by Rosita Adamo, Maya June Dwyer, Aldo Kattón, Brian Lawson, Angela Lopez, Aaron Loux, Kaley Pruitt, and Heather Roffe.

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The Future of Music . . . Here, There and Everywhere
Sunday, January 21, 2024, 4:00 PM
St. Paul's Syracuse, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 student/senior, children 18 and under free

George Walker Cello Sonata, 1957
Marc Mellits David, 2023
Florence Price Song to the Dark Virgin, 1941
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson A Child’s Grace, 1977
Charles Lloyd, Jr. Compensation, 1977 and Prayer, 1961
William Grant Still I Dream A World, from Troubled Island, 1938
Emmanuel Sikora Fantasy on "The Death of Faust", 2023
César Franck Final, Op. 21, FWV 33, 1860
Andy Akiho Pillar I from Seven Pillars, 2023

Performed by the Society Players: Rob Bridge, percussion; Dominic Fiacco, organ; Noah Fields, violin; Andrea Scheibel, percussion; Jason Schirripa, percussion; Gregory Sheppard, bass-baritone; Sar Strong, piano; Zachary Sweet, cello; Jennifer Vacanti, percussion


lake effects
Sunday, November 5, 2023, 4:00 PM
Park Central Presbyterian Church, 504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 student/senior, children 18 and under free

Ryan Chase lake effects 2023 (world premiere)
Natalie Draper Evolutions, 2022 (second performance)
Marc Mellits DAVID, 2023 (honoring David Stam)
Jin Ping Southern Air, 2022 (American premiere)

Performed by the Society Players, conducted by Heather Buchman.


Resounding Earth: A Sonic Landscape
Saturday, October 14, 2023, 2:00 PM
Thornden Park Amphitheater, Thornden Park Drive, Syracuse
Tickets: Free

SU Humanities Center's Syracuse Symposium, Society for New Music, and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts welcome composer Augusta Read Thomas for a participatory work of bells and ambient sounds to celebrate community across cultures.

Organized by the Society for New Music and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Resounding Earth inspires a participatory sonic landscape in the park amphitheater, featuring a performance of Pulitzer finalist Augusta Read Thomas's music for percussion quartet and ambient sounds celebrating community across cultures.

Ambient sounds, in this case, refer not only to sounds within the natural, outdoor setting but the fact that the musical score calls for 500 bells or sculpted metals of different sizes and shapes, from different cultures and historical periods.

To make this distinctive to CNY and the park, four regional composers will create mini-soundscapes in mapped locations nearby for visitors to explore before, during, or after Resounding Earth. Attendees are encouraged to bring a bell to "ring in" the performance, helping to change the sonic landscape for themselves and others.

The four movements of Resounding Earth:
1. INVOCATION – Pulse Radiance
2. PRAYER – Star Dust Orbits
3. CEREMONIAL TIME SHAPES
4. CRYSTAL LATTICE

"Everything that we are made of, everything that we know and love, is made from the stars." —Composer Augusta Read Thomas


A Fool There Was: Silent Film with New Music
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 7:00 PM
Coyne Performing Arts Center, LeMoyne College, Syracuse
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 student/senior, children 18 and under free

A Fool There Was is the 1915 silent film that made Theda Bara a star as the archetypal vamp! Accompanying the screening will be a live score composed by Loren Loiacono.

The music was commissioned by Society for New Music via a grant from County of Onondaga administered by CNY Arts with assistance from the Le Moyne College Film Program.

This event is sponsored by the Le Moyne College Film Program, Society for New Music, and the Syracuse International Film Festival, and co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Music Program and Departments of Visual and Performing Arts and Communication and Film Studies.

Note: This event is one of the five concerts included in the SNM season
subscription. The subscription MUST be processed two days in advance for admittance to this event.


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