Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup makemicromusic MicroFest concerts coming up!

Check out MicroFest.org for sound, audio, and more information about upcoming microtonal concerts:

Erik Satie's Vexations: The Vicentino Variations
Sunday April 1
4 pm
A team of 15 pianists takes on Erik Satie's notorious masterwork but each performing in a different tuning commissioned from 15 international composers, metamorphosing the enigmatic piece with up to 21 pitches per octave on a transforming piano.
Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Center
4300 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles
$10/$5 students
For more information: 818-397-6954

Ben Johnston Premieres
Wednesday April 25
7:30 pm
The world premiere of the microtonal master's Parable plus the Los Angeles premiere of the String Quartet #10 performed by San Francisco's Del Sol Quartet. Also, John Schneider's performance of The Tavern for microtonal guitar and voice and the bluesy, rollicking Suite for Microtonal Piano performed by Aron Kallay.
Salmon Recital Hall, Chapman University
1 University Dr., Orange
$10 / $5 seniors and non-Chapman students / Free for Chapman students and staff

RAD!
Sunday May 6
8:00 pm
The American premiere (?) of German composer Enno Poppe's Rad, a microtonal tour de force for two pianos, together with Bill Alves's Concerto for Violin and American Gamelan with Susan Jensen and more!
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, Pomona College
Corner of Fourth and College, Claremont
Free

A Traveling Gnarwhallaby
Tuesday May 22
8:00 pm
The hodgepodge of clarinets, trombones, cello, and keyboards known as Gnarwhallaby premieres microtonal works by Tasmanian composer Ron Nagorcka, Austrian composer Klaus Lang, and Los Angeles composer Matt Barbier.
Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th St., near Hoover, Los Angeles
$15 / $12 students, seniors, and members. Tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/220443
For more information go to panoramaview.org

Bitter Music CD Release Concert
Thursday June 14
8:30 pm
Celebrating the release of the first recording of Bitter Music, microtonal pioneer Harry Partch's often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking long-lost 1935 hobo journal will be performed as a special multimedia presentation including the work's original pen & ink illustrations, photographs from the composer's scrapbooks, and his legendary instruments.
REDCAT Theater at Walt Disney Concert Hall
631 W. Second St. Los Angeles
$25/20 (students and seniors)
For more information (213)237-2800

Beyond Twelve: The Re-Imagined Piano
Saturday June 23
9:00 pm
For nearly two hundred years the piano's design has been exactly the same: 12 keys/7 times, low-to-high/left-to-right. Period. But why 12...? Why left-to-right...? What if...
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd. Venice
$10/5
For more info (818)397-6954

🔗William <alves@...>

By the way, I've just added some sound files to the page about the Vexations concert. Hear Satie's piece in four different tunings by me, Clarence Barlow, Kraig Grady, and Wolfgang von Schweinitz (http://www.microfest.org/microfest20123.html).

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "William" <alves@...> wrote:
>
> Check out MicroFest.org for sound, audio, and more information about upcoming microtonal concerts:
>
> Erik Satie's Vexations: The Vicentino Variations
> Sunday April 1
> 4 pm
> A team of 15 pianists takes on Erik Satie's notorious masterwork but each performing in a different tuning commissioned from 15 international composers, metamorphosing the enigmatic piece with up to 21 pitches per octave on a transforming piano.
> Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Center
> 4300 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles
> $10/$5 students
> For more information: 818-397-6954

🔗kraiggrady@...

Thanks for posting Bill. A treat to hear these samples.
Is there somewhere that has a list of all 15 composers?

,',',',Kraig Grady,',',',
'''''''North/Western Hemisphere:
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
'''''''South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria
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To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
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🔗William <alves@...>

Here's the concert order (sorry I don't have the first names):

12tet
Duffin
Grady
Barlow
DiVeroli
Schneider
Hajdu
Nagorka
Schweinitz
Gibbens
Golden
Gann
Polanski
Sabat
Burt
Alves
Terumi
Bartling
12tet

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, kraiggrady@... wrote:
>
> Thanks for posting Bill. A treat to hear these samples.
> Is there somewhere that has a list of all 15 composers?
>
> ,',',',Kraig Grady,',',',
> '''''''North/Western Hemisphere:
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
> '''''''South/Eastern Hemisphere:
> Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria
> ',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',',
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William [mailto:alves@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 11:52 AM
> To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MMM] Re: MicroFest concerts coming up!
>
> By the way, I've just added some sound files to the page about the Vexations concert. Hear Satie's piece in four different tunings by me, Clarence Barlow, Kraig Grady, and Wolfgang von Schweinitz (http://www.microfest.org/microfest20123.html).
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "William" <alves@> wrote:
> >
> > Check out MicroFest.org for sound, audio, and more information about upcoming microtonal concerts:
> >
> > Erik Satie's Vexations: The Vicentino Variations
> > Sunday April 1
> > 4 pm
> > A team of 15 pianists takes on Erik Satie's notorious masterwork but each performing in a different tuning commissioned from 15 international composers, metamorphosing the enigmatic piece with up to 21 pitches per octave on a transforming piano.
> > Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Center
> > 4300 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles
> > $10/$5 students
> > For more information: 818-397-6954
>
>
>
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>
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> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

🔗jonszanto <jszanto@...>

Hello, Bill!

Impressive line-up! Best of luck on all your concerts. One minor point:

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "William" <alves@...> wrote:
> Bitter Music CD Release Concert
> Thursday June 14
> 8:30 pm
> Celebrating the release of the first recording of Bitter Music, microtonal pioneer Harry Partch's often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking long-lost 1935 hobo journal will be performed as a special multimedia presentation including the work's original pen & ink illustrations, photographs from the composer's scrapbooks, and his legendary instruments.

The fact of the matter, and it may seem a small quibble, but these are *reproductions* of "his legendary instruments", not his original ones themselves. When one knows, one can tell the difference with the eyes and ears. Very nicely done reproductions, though.

Cheers,
Jon

🔗William <alves@...>

For those of you in Southern California, I hope you can come to the next MicroFest event, at the Russian Hall in Hollywood, tomorrow, Thursday 4/11 at 8:00 pm. Come hear microtonal soprano Rebecca Tomlinson singing works of Bill Alves, Ben Johnston, and Wolfgang von Schweinitz, plus the Bill Alves Visual Music Ensemble accompanying computer video.

The next MicroFest event follows soon after: Saturday 4/13 8:00 pm at ArtShare downtown LA -- California MicroGuitars featuring The Living Earth Show, Giacomo Fiore, Garry Eister, and Alex Wand.

Details at MicroFest.org

Should be a blast. I hope to see you there!

Bill