LSD • Ride
June 13th & 14th , 2024 8:30 PM
REDCAT
631 W 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
PARTCH Ensemble—the Grammy Award-winning ensemble specializing in the music and instruments of the iconoclastic American Maverick composer Harry Partch—returns to REDCAT with an evening of alluring and powerful music performed on the extraordinary orchestra of instruments Partch designed and built himself. This year’s program includes Partch’s Three Dances, Progressions/Abstractions & Delusions, and Five Intrusions, as well as the world premiere of Jeffrey Holmes’ Reið (Raidō) [Ride, Journey] and a staged concert version of new scenes from Anne LeBaron’s latest opera, LSD – Huxley’s Last Trip.
*Live Stream available to purchase for the Saturday performance.*
*The program includes an instrument “petting zoo”: audiences are encouraged to touch the instruments on stage after the show.*
Tickets available for purchase here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34348/production/1185794
American Mavericks: Hutchins Consort 25th Anniversary
Saturday May 18 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall
5775 Morehouse Dr, San Diego, CA 92121
Celebration of 25 years of creativity and fun with special guest artist, PARTCH Ensemble. Featuring the music of Harry Partch and a performance of Taylor Brook’s One-Footed. There will be a reception before the concert from 5:30-6:30.
Purchase tickets using the link below:
American Mavericks: The Hutchins Consort 25-year Anniversary Concert (givebutter.com)
Aron Kallay – The Blur of Time and Memory
Tuesday April 9 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Alternate Tunings. Past. Future. Perfect. Imperfect.
Equal temperament broke the world. This concert will fix it. Including works by Alexander Elliott Miller, Isaac Schankler, and Ben Johnston, with a new work for solo synthesizer by Matthew Brown and a new chamber concerto for retuned piano and American Gamelan by Akshaya Avril Tucker. Featuring guest ensemble Gamelan Light Streams.
Purchase tickets using the link below:
https://pianospheres.org/event/aron-kallay-the-blur-of-time-and-memory/
Vicki Ray: Nacht und Träume
February 20 @ 8:00 pm
Tuesday February 20th at 8PM: Vicki Ray at 2220 Arts and Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Pianist Vicki Ray presents Nacht und Träume – an evening that explores liminal states of consciousness through the music of Cage, Schubert and Berg alongside new works by Rachel Beetz, Andrew McIntosh, Noah Meites and Bill Alves. Using different keyboards, Ray – with guest soprano Elissa Johnston – will probe the territories of night and dreams using piano, prepared piano, synthesizer along with video and electronics.
Program:
Nacht und Träume – Schubert
Unofficial Dreams – Beetz
Book of Beasts – Meites
The Perilous Night – Cage
Nacht – Berg
Intermezzo: December 28, 2020, After midnight – McIntosh
Liminal Landscape – Bill Alves
MicroFest 2023
JUST ADDED!
Master pianists Vicki Ray & Steven Vanhauwert plus the piano duo Hocket (composer-performers Sarah Gibson & Thomas Kotcheff) recap their 2019 stellar performance of these works at San Francisco’s Other Minds festival, led by nationally recognized new music composer/conductor Donald Crockett.
MicroFest 2022
LIVE !!
We’re back, live, and on stage, with 5 thrilling concerts of notes-between-the-notes: World premieres, 20 th century classics, cross-cultural ragas & gamelan—it’s going to be a great year to put on that
mask, have a seat, and open your ears [and the gray stuff in between them, too!].* But worry not! Micro•Moments live on, so stay tuned for
your monthly dose of magical microtones at MicroFest.org.
*Covid compliance for all concerts required
For Ben: America’s Best Unknown Composer
February 8
Brightwork New Music joins forces with the Lyris String Quartet and soprano Stacey Fraser to present Ben Johnston’s masterpieces Suite for Microtonal Piano, Quartet #4 (Amazing Grace) and the rarely heard Calamity Jane to Her Daughter & the exquisite clarinet solo Ponder Nothing.
Tuesdays@Monk Space, 8pm
4414 W. 2nd St (at Western Ave) LA 90004
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March 5
Celebrating the release of Chris Votek’s new CD Memories of a Shadow (MicroFest Records) with an intersection of Western and Indian Classical traditions, world renowned violinist Kala Ramnath joins Votek’s cello & Neelamjit Dhillon’s tabla in exquisite raga, preluding the composer’s double cello string Quintet Memories of a Shadow, a superb blending of raga melody and early European polyphony. The program concludes with Sands of Time, an arrangement of Rajasthani folk music created by Chris & Neelamjit for Ustad Zakir Hussain, Kala Ramnath, & the San Francisco Symphony.
“(Kala is) Like an angel in human form. Just to watch her play is an extraordinary thing…She’s one of the greatest musicians on the planet.” — Terry Riley
Pico-Union Project, 8pm
1153 Valencia St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
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April 24
HMC American Gamelan
The Smudges premiere new work for violin/cello/gamelan by Bill Alves, the MicroFest debut of music by Irish composer Peter Moran, plus music by the creator of the first Just Intonation gamelan, Lou Harrison.
Harvey Mudd College, 7pm
301 Platt Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711
June 3
Visionary Wyschnegradsky – Music for four ¼-tone pianos
In 1916 Ivan had a vision: “I saw the great light in full-day,” and hence dedicated his life to “awakening in every man the slumbering forces of cosmic consciousness” with his music. He also experienced an “ultrachromatic revelation” that the notes of music were on a continuum and that the received 12 half steps of equal temperament were only isolated locations on an infinite spectrum. He began composing in thirds, sixths, eighths, twelfths of a tone, and famously composing for Music for Four Quarter-Tone Pianos to be performed at the Wende Museum.
Grammy-nominated pianists Vicki Ray & Aron Kallay plus the piano duo Hocket (composer-performers Sarah Gibson & Thomas Kotcheff) recap the 2019 stellar performance of these works at San Francisco’s Other Minds festival, led by nationally recognized new music composer/conductor Donald Crockett.
Music at the Wende
7 p.m.: Museum tour and reception
8 p.m.: Concert
10808 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90230
June 17/18
PARTCH Ensemble
The Grammy Award winning ensemble returns to REDCAT with two world premieres. Following their virtual premiere choreography of Harry Partch’s “Castor & Pollux” at REDCAT in June 2021, the “wonderful rollicking” (New York Times) Sarah Swenson Dance returns for a live performance of the entire triptych of Plectra & Percussion Dances, the composer’s 45-minute “Evening of Dance Theatre” that has never been choreographed in its entirety since being written 70 years ago. Then the group partners with the “luminous yet corporeal” (Los Angeles Times) Del Sol Quartet in Taylor Brook’s One Footed for string quartet and Partch instruments, paying homage to Harry Partch’s “One-Footed Bride” chart that explores the expressive qualities of “emotion,” “power,” and “suspense” inherent in his exquisitely tuned musical universe.
“Funny, moving, inventive and insanely theatrical…
an unforgettable performance.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
REDCAT, 8:30pm
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213 237-2800
Sarah Swenson Dance
Castor & Pollux
Micro•Moments
BEN JOHNSTON
LU TZU
TREY SPRUANCE
TAYLOR BROOK
Micro•Moments are supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
Resident Artists
Partch
HMC American Gamelan
Aron Kallay
