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

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 tuning@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
>