MicroNYC 2010 Saturday, May 15th

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC
Presents
MicroNYC 2010
Saturday, May 15th
AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC (AFMM), under the direction of
Johnny Reinhard, presents a concert in New York on Saturday May 15th at 8 PM
in the Church of St. Luke in the Fields (located at 487 Hudson Street in
Greenwich Village). General admission is $12 at the door, $10 for seniors
and students.
Saturday – May 15th – spotlights Madeleine Shapiro‘s performance of Ge
Gan-Ru‘s YI-SENG (Lost Style) for solo amplified cello scordatura (Shanghai,
1968). 10-year old twin Gayageum players Sarah and Stephanie Yoon present the
traditional Korean standard known as SANJO on their 12-string instruments
in its ancient microtonal tuning (think “whammy-bar” zithers). Also,
25-string Gayageum virtuoso Rami Seo introduces her NEXUS in confluence with
flute (Sasha Bogdanowitsch), bassoon (Johnny Reinhard), cello (Madeleine
Shapiro), and Terpstra synthesizer (Joshua Pierce). The Terpstra synthesizer, a
honeycomb keyboard design of 55 tones per octave over 5 octaves, is heard
publicly in its debut this evening. It is played by Joshua Pierce in a
53-tone equal temperament rendition of Arnold Schoenberg’s DREI KLAVIERSTUCKE,
as imagined by the composer.
Sasha Bogdanowitsch premieres SILK for a multitude of instruments, many
homemade,
for a theatrical jaunt, joined by Sarah and Stephanie Yoon. There is a
rare performance of Renaissance microtonalist Nicola Vicentino entitled
MUSICA PRISCA CAPUT for a SATB vocal quartet (TBD, Maya Galt, Brendan Glynn, and
Johnny Reinhard); Vicentino actually placed dots above note heads to
signify raising the pitch by an interval smaller than a quartertone. Johnny
Reinhard concludes the evening with the premiere of CAMBIA for bassoon and 3
Gayageums based on the underwater archaeology in Gujarat, India reputed to
be 9,500 years old. The tuning is intentionally polymicrotonal in that all
intervallic relationships may be employed.
Additionally, there are now 6 new PITCH CD titles, a new book by Johnny
Reinhard entitled BACH AND TUNING, and a Finale score of the Charles Ives
UNIVERSE SYMPHONY available on the AFMM’s website: http/www.afmm.org

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