About Interpretations
Now entering it’s 24th season, Interpetations is Thomas Buckner’s longstanding series for new music in New York City. With a special emphasis on premieres of new works and new collaborative endeavors, Interpretations has a long history of presenting the most innovative composers and performers from New York City and around the world. As curators for the Free Music Archive, we are offering material recorded at events from previous seasons, as well as unreleased material from artists featured on the current season.
The 2012-13 season features artists with diverse creative activities, hailing from across the globe: from Canada, Germany, Australia, Mexico, California, France, and, of course, New York. The season features many composer/improvisers that are familiar to New York audiences: Pheeroan akLaff, Marty Ehrlich, Peter Evans, Douglas R. Ewart, Brandon Ross, and Steve Swell. We also have some amazing new music ensembles: New York’s Ekmeles vocal ensemble Petr Kotik's Ostravska Banda, Parisian string quartet DIOTIMA, and Hamburg’s L’Art Pour L’Art. We also have many composers and performers who will be newer to New York audiences: bassist John Eckhardt, pianist Erik Griswold, the flute/piano duo of Camilla Hoitenga & Taavi Kerikmäe, and the English tuba virtuoso Melvyn Poore. This season also welcomes some innovative and highly respected composers: David Behrman, Tim Brady, and Anne LeBaron. We look forward to seeing you this season!
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10khrs on 05/06/2013 at 09:15AM
New Tracks from Brandon Ross and Marty Ehrlich
Thursday May 9 at Roulette, Interpretations presents Marty Ehrlich's Plowshares People and Brandon Ross's For Living Lovers. Plowshares people presents music for string quartet and solo woodwinds, from saxophonist/clarinetist Marty Ehrlich, including the NY premiere of his string quartet Plowshares People, and two world premieres: Lay Down Your Weary Tune for solo clarinet, and Starlings Suite, for string quartet plus alto saxophone. Featuring Jennifer Choi and Cornelius Dufallo – violins; Lev Zhurbin – viola; Alex Waterman – cello. “For Living Lovers” is the instrumental duo of the exceptional acoustic guitarist Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist, Stomu Takeishi, performing Ross’s unorthodox but highly infectious compositions. They are joined by JT Lewis –drums, and Stephanie Richards- trumpets/flugelhorn.
In anticipation of this concert, we are offering four new tracks: Two from Marty Ehrlich's seminal group Darkwoods Ensemble, and two from Brandon Ross, and one featuring his partner with For Living Lovers, bassist Stumo Takeishi.
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10khrs on 04/10/2013 at 12:53PM
Diotima Quartet Plays Hugh Levick's Empire, Inc
Paris based Diotima string quartet returns to New York to present a characteristically eclectic set of works from the 20th Century to the current era. Works include the illustrious Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la Nuit (called “the only repertory French string quartet of the postwar period” by The New Yorker’s Russell Platt), Japanese modernist Toshio Hosokawa’s Silent Flowers, and two works from LA-based composer Hugh Levick: The Unimagined and Empire Inc, both featured on Diotima’s new CD on Signature Records.
We would like to offer two tracks from Hugh Levick's work for string quartet, Empire, Inc: the first and fourth movements, as performed by the Diotima quartet.