ACA Festival in New York

Well, as it turns out, the music of Hubert Howe and other electronic
composers will be part of the upcoming American Composers Alliance
concerts in New York next weekend at the Flea theatre. It's Sunday
afternoon. (There are LOTS of concerts as part of this! :) I plan
to attend the evening concert honoring Otto Luening one, since
Luening was instrumental (no pun) in our composer's group.

Additionally, there is another great microtonal event: the music of
John Eaton on the previous Saturday night. I'm also planning on
going to that one (looks like a busy weekend :) John says it's his
best chamber piece.

In any case, here's the complete schedule for anybody in New York and
interested:

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE PRESENTS
AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2005
June 8 - 12
The Flea Theater, 41 White Street
New York, NY 10013

Tickets $15/10

For reservations call 212 362 8900
Presenting more than 60 American composers and performers

Wednesday, June 8, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
OPENING NIGHT - CELEBRATING THE 70th BIRTHDAY
OF GHEORGHE COSTINESCU

GHEORGHE CONSTINESCU Inventions 5 and 6 from
Evolving Cycle of Two-Part
Modal Inventions for Piano
Voices Within
Why Do You Wail, O Forest Trees?

Screening of two live performances:

Jubilus for soprano, trumpet and
percussive body sounds
UPantomimei for Chamber
Orchestra

Gheorghe Constinescu, piano, Vesselin Gellev, violin, Lucy Shelton,
voice

Thursday, June 9, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
WOMEN COMPOSERS -
A TRIBUTE TO ANN SILSBEE, COMPOSER AND POET

ANN SILSBEE Doors
Four Songs on Poems of
William Carlos Williams
The Other Stream
SARAH MENEELY-KYDER Bluebells in the Arbor Smoke with Bees
Mother Picks Grapes
ELIZABETH BELL Loss Songs

MARGARET FAIRLIE-KENNEDY Hey, Nonny, Nonny

Barry Crawford, flute, Jennifer Diamond, voice, Ana Milosavljevic,
violin, Christopher Oldfather, piano, Shelly Watson, voice

Friday, June 10, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
MUSIC AND ASTROLOGY

DANE RUDHYAR Poem
HAROLD SELETSKY Romance of Virgo and Leo
JAMES BEALE Pisces Ascending
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Fantasy
GEORGE CRUMB Makrokosmos (Volume I) Selections
JOHN CAGE 57 ½" for String Player

Loren Dempster, cello, Idith Meshulam, piano, Ana Milosavljevic,
violin, Christopher Oldfather, piano, Charles Schmid, percussion,
Philip Wharton, violin

Saturday, June 11, 2005, 2:00 p.m.
EMERGING AMERICAN COMPOSERS

ROBERT PATERSON Star Crossing
MICHAEL DUFFY Untitled
SEAN HICKEY Nocturne
MICHAEL DEALL Summer Heat
PAUL RIKER Prophecies
CHRISTOPHER AUERBACH-BROWN Suite for Brass Quintet

Andrew Bove, tuba, Jonathan Ackerman, piano, Barry Crawford, flute,
Loren Dempster, cello, Ken Finn, trombone, Karl Kramer, horn, Sycil
Mathai, trumpet, Charles Schmid, percussion, Amy Zoloto, clarinet,
Shelly Watson, voice

Saturday, June 11, 2005, 3:30 p.m.
AN AFTERNOON OF CHAMBER MUSIC

EUGENE VIOLA Brass Quintet
PAUL MARTIN ZONN Ultimate Nimbus
RICHARD BROOKS Maelstrom
GREGORY HALL SUNSET Sunset Water
GEORGE EDWARDS Trio
MARK ANTONIO CONSOLI Sciuri Novi 4

Andrew Bove, tuba, Chris Cullen, clarinet, Loren Dempster, cello, Ken
Finn, trombone, Jay Hassler, clarinet, Karl Kramer, horn, Ron
Lawrence, violin, Sycil Mathai, trumpet, Ana Milosavljevic, violin,
Nancy Ogle, voice, Christopher Oldfather, piano, Ester Lamneck
clarinet, Gina Valvano, bassoon, Amy Zoloto, clarinet

Saturday, June 11, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
WORDS AND MUSIC

THOMAS L. READ Four Whitman Songs
JAN GILBERT Gitanjali
JOHN EATON El Divino Narciso
FREDERICK C. THILLIS Rain Again, Omijima, A Tender Season, A Latin
Fringe

Michael Aberback, percussion, Jonathan Ackerman, piano, Ian Antonio,
percussion, Barry Crawford, flute, Jennifer Diamond, voice, Dave
Eggar, cello, Chris Jackson, voice, Karl Kramer, conductor, Marjorie
Melnick, voice, Nancy Ogle, voice, Ranee Ramaswamy, dancer, Jennifer
Roderer, voice, Heidi Schmidt-Martin, voice, the Sirius String
Quartet, Nikki Stoia, piano

Sunday, June 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLUS

BETH WIEMANN The Horse that, trotting
BURTON BEERMAN Playthings for Revisited
JOHN MELBY Concert No. 2 for Violin and computer
HUBERT HOWE Meditation
JOEL GRESSEL Civilization

Barry Crawford, flute, Amy Zoloto, clarinet, Loren Dempster, cello,
Shelly Watson, voice, Yonah Zur, violin, Celesta Haraszti, dancer

Sunday, June 1, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
HONORING OTTO LUENING

OTTO LUENING Piano Trio
Lament for George
Fantasy in Space
Sonata for Bassoon and Piano

ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ Phoenix
ELIAS TANENBAUM Keeping Going, By George
VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY Sonic Contours

Robert Burkhart, cello, Laurence Goldman, bass, Idith Meshulam,
piano, Kristen Nordeval, voice, Chip Kaufman, bassoon, Elliot
Schwartz, piano, Bill Trigg, percussion, Philip Wharton, violin