2024 New Music
Latest Past Events
World Central Kitchen Fundraiser
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New YorkWorld Central Kitchen is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We, as artists, support this non-profit organization with our music and poetry, helping to raise awareness and money for their worthy cause by organizing this event and inviting everyone to join us in supporting World Central Kitchen.ย
Presented by Composers Concordance in association with The Village Trip.
From the Courtyard
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New YorkโArt preserves life in a very special way. Our memories die with us, but art preserves the values and experiencesโ โ Undine Smith Moore
From the Courtyard first recreates the sounds of an East Village tenement courtyard, shared by multicultural immigrant families, then moves into the concert hall to hear how the rich legacy of folk music inspired later generations of composers. The concert features a premiere by Clarice Assad.
Presented in cooperation with the Tenement Museum.
Quattro Mani American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New YorkRenowned duo pianists Susan Grace and Steven Beck perform works by Lou Harrison, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, John Adams and Fred Lerdahl who, with linguist Ray Jackendoff, developed the Chomsky-inspired generative theory of tonal music, an endeavor inspired by Leonard Bernsteinโs Norton Lectures, given at Harvard in 1973.