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Emily Hope Price of The Pearl & The Beard is a long-time Puppet Playlist performer! Here, she covers Nancy Sinatra for the DIVAS show back in August.
On 1/29 & 1/30, Puppet Playlist goes to the movies! Our featured musicians will be Franz Nicolay, The Maestrocities, The Debutante Hour, Peter Musante & Sean Brennan; and Matt Singer.
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Thousands have lived without love, none without water,” is the powerful Auden quote cellist Madeleine Shapiro used to introduce her program of environmentally-oriented works at the Tank. Opening with Richard Johnson’s serene, meditative Water Meditation on Etenraku, Shapiro combined a mournful folk song with the faint “ploinks” of dripping water. A number of composers featured used other natural phenomena as sonic inspiration, including Matthew Burtner, whose Fragments from Cold actually feels frigid, thanks to the sound of swooshing wind combined with the cello. And Canadian composer Gayle Young recorded waves and rock sounds in Newfoundland for Avalon Shorelines, which made an appealingly hypnotic effect when fused with Shapiro’s light touch.
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WATCH: Trailer forGasland,a documentary about fracking
As part of our Ear Heart Music series, cellist Madeleine Shapiro celebrates Earth Day and continues her Nature Project with “Fracked,” a special concert of works for cello and electronics highlighting the serious issues of water conservation we face today. New York and world premieres of works written specially for this project include “Dart” by British composer Tom Williams who grew up on the Dart River in Dartmoor, UK; “Fracked” , Fred DeSena’s new work exploring the controversial practice of hydrofracturing by weaving verbal commentary into the electronic track; and Canadian composer Gayle Young’s meditative exploration of the rock bound Avalon shoreline of New Foundland.
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“The tempest
and the splashes
after mist settled
under the leaves
the wet games began
that autumn
startling warm pebbles.”
LISTEN: “The Wetland” composed by Juraj Kojs and performed by Madeleine Shapiro.
As part of the Ear Heart Music contemporary chamber series, Madeleine Shapiro will perform the NYC debut of The Wetland as well as other new works.
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LISTEN: Miguel Chuaqui - “La Persistencia de la Memoria (The Persistence of Memory)” (2008) Midi generating piano and interactive electronics
As part of the Ear Heart Music contemporary chamber series this Thursday, Madeleine Shapiro presents a night of cello and electronics. Among those works will be “Trance” for cello and live computer electronics by Utah composer Miguel Chuaqui. “Trance” is an electro-acoustic take on an In dian raga in which the cello plays dual roles as both the rhythmic tabla and the improvisatory raga.
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LISTEN: An except of Anna Rubin’s “Caliorisma”
Baltimore composer, Anna Rubin joins The Tank this Thursday for the premiere of “The Beekeeper.” The Beekeeper for cello and fixed media, the latest edition to the Nature Project, was inspired by Anna’s interest in beekeeping and her concern over colony collapse disorder affecting millions of honey bees throughout the US. The piece is laced with interviews by Baltimore area beekeepers.
As part of the Ear Heart Music contemporary chamber series, Madeleine Shapiro will perform The Beekeeper as well as other new works.
Purchase tickets online from Brown Paper Tickets.
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Critically acclaimed by Time Out New York and The New York Times, curator Amelia Lukas’ contemporary chamber music series “Ear Heart Music” returns to The Tank in New York City.
Highly acclaimed, award-winning cellist Madeleine Shapiro plays an evening of music for cello and electronics. A major figure in the field of contemporary music, Madeleine performs extensively as a solo recitalist throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America, and directs ModernWorks, an ensemble that performs and commissions new music. She has worked closely with hundreds of composers and was the founding director of the internationally known ensemble The New Music Consort which commissioned over 50 pieces. Her first solo CD, “Electricity: Works for Cello and Electronics” on Albany Records was greeted as “Focused and cohesive…a polystylistic collection of pieces that individually push the instrument and technology in unique ways” (Time Out New York). ModernWorks most recent CD of string quartets by Ge Gan-ru was chosen by The New York Times as one of the best CDs of 2009.
This program includes a number of pieces commissioned by Madeleine for her Nature Project, and several world premieres: Trance for cello and live computer electronics,by Utah composer Miguel Chuaqui; and The Beekeeper for cello and fixed media by Baltimore composer Anna Rubin. Trance is an electro-acoustic take on an Indian raga in which the cello plays dual roles as both the rhythmic tabla and the improvisatory raga. The Beekeeper, the latest edition to the Nature Project, was inspired by Anna’s interest in beekeeping and her concern over colony collapse disorder affecting millions of honey bees throughout the US. The piece is laced with interviews by Baltimore area beekeepers. The Wetland for cello and live electronics by Juraj Kojs, a set of seven short and evocative movements, receives its New York premiere. Also on the program is Pervioloncellosolo, written for Madeleine in 1996 by Italian composer Ada Gentile; Orlando Jacinto Garcia’s haunting environmental statement After Humans for cello, fixed media and video; and the lyrical Song of Songs by Karen Tanaka. Both Anna Rubin and Miguel Chuaqui will be in attendance.
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Critically acclaimed by Time Out New York and The New York Times, curator Amelia Lukas’ contemporary chamber music series “Ear Heart Music” returns to The Tank in New York City.
Cellist Madeleine Shapiro will present an evening of works for cello and electronics on Thursday October 13th at 7:30pm. The program will highlight recent works which were written for her, and include several premieres; the world premieres of Trance for cello with live computer electronics by Utah composer Miguel Chuaqui, and The Beekeeper for cello and fixed media by Baltimore composer Anna Rubin. The Wetland for cello and live electronics by Juraj Kojs will receive it’s New York premiere. Rounding out the evening will be several other works commissioned by Madeleine for her Nature Project.
Buy tickets for Ear Heart Music presents: Madeleine Shapiro at 151 W 46th Street, 8th Floor
