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Sound-Futures Ryan Carter Floating Points, 2020, (premiere of a commissioned piece), for Society players, with audience participation via an app on Ryan's website The performance will be live-streamed. All ticket holders will be emailed a link prior to the concert. Note: Online ticket sales end 24 hours before the performance.Tickets purchased will be held for you at the door. past concertsSound Arts: Unsilent Night Upstate NY premiere of this 1992 work by Ohio native Phil Kline. A luminous soundscape written to be heard outdoors during December. A 45-minute public artwork in the form of a holiday caroling party with the audience as performers. Each participant gets one of four tracks of music to play on their favorite electronic device. Email snm@societyfornewmusic.org to sign up for this free event. You will then receive one of four tracks of the soundscape and a map of the route from Clinton Square to the Canal Museum to St. Paul's and back to Clinton Square. Sound Legends III: Libba Cotten The preview of a music theater work commissioned by SNM about musician Libba Cotten, famous for her alternating bass style, dubbed "Cotten-pickin." Libba spent the last 20 years of her life in Syracuse and won a Grammy at age 91. Scenes from the opera about the left-handed singer/songwriter who played the guitar and banjo upside-down and backwards will be performed, along with a conversation between librettist Kyle Bass and composer Mark Olivieri. Given the increased risk of public gatherings during the pandemic, the performance will be virtual. All ticket holders will be emailed a link to experience the 'making of an opera' about this iconic African American legend. Sound Legends II: Blackmail A female take on Blackmail, the iconic 1929 silent film by Alfred Hitchcock, with original music by CNY singer/songwriter/composer Erin O'Hara. This video features SNM's second performance of the work, plus annotation provided by the composer and film scholar Julie Grossman, Dean at LeMoyne College. If you already have an SNM season ticket, you will be emailed the link to the special channel. Film Festival ticket holders will also receive the link. Register here. Musicians include Erin O’Hara, composer/vocals; Sonya Williams and Ann McIntyre, violins; Heidi Hoffman, cello; Darryl Pugh, doublebass; Ken Meyer, guitar; Rob Bridge, drum set; Travis Newton, conductor Sound Legends I Featuring Eliot Fisk, guitar Music by Persis Vehar, Augusta Read Thomas, Christopher Cresswell, and Israel Prize-winner Cheng Jin Koh. Plus, guest artist Eliot Fisk will perform music by Robert Beaser and George Rochberg. American Music Program includes the world premiere of Persis Vehar's String Quartet No. 3, "Nature Walk", along with music by Vincent Persichetti, Mark Summer, Augusta Read Thomas, and John Corigliano. Attendance at the park will be limited to 150. Masks and social distancing required. Events will be videotaped and available on SNM's YouTube channel. Rising Stars Lunch Hour Program Premieres of music by young composers by prize-winning young musicians. Zachary Slade, piano; Vita Marie Dean, flute; and Dominic Fiacco, organ, perform works by Alexandria Kemp, Kevin Swenson, and Emmanuel Sikora, plus the classics and American music. To ensure that capacity stays within guidelines, there will be limited seating for this event with reservations needed. Email snm@societyfornewmusic.org to reserve. Masks and social distancing will be required. Events will be videotaped and available on SNM's YouTube channel. |
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other area concertsShanghai Quartet Tan Dun Feng Ya Song, plus works by Haydn and Schubert. Concert will be available online through Monday, March 28. |
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