past events
fall 2011
Friday, Sep 16, 2011, 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM
MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL (more information)
Moving Compositions: Czechsplorations I
Argento Chamber Ensemble + fourbythree
Bohemian National Hall
New York, NY
Co-produced by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Musical Information Center of Austria (MICA), and the Argento New Music Project, the Moving Sounds Festival features emerging and pioneering artists who focus on electronically generated music, and those who are at the interface of classically instrumented and electronic music. As part of the Festival's Moving Sounds Collaborative, fourbythree and the Argento Chamber Ensemble explored works by composers of Czech origin in reinvented contexts. Works included new arrangements of Leoš Janáček's Prelude from the House of the Dead (1930), featuring violinist David Fulmer, and Gustav Mahler's Adagio from his unfinished Symphony No. 10 (1910). fourbythree also performed Jiří Kadeřábek's Hamoody Jauda (2008) for string quartet, piano tape and pop singer with the composer.
PROGRAM
JIRI KADEŘÁBEK: Hamoody Jauda
JANÁČEK: Prelude from the House of the Dead
arranged by Kimmy Szeto for ensemble and violin (World Premiere)
- David Fulmer, violin
JANÁČEK: Violin Sonata, arranged by Eliot Gattegno for tenor sax & piano
- Eliot Gattegno, tenor sax; Michael Brown, piano
MAHLER: Adagio from Symphony No. 10
arranged by Michel Galante for chamber orchestra (New York premiere)
2010-11
Saturday, April 16, 2011, 8:00 PM
Collaborative Concert:
Brattle Street Chamber Players + fourbythree
Paine Hall, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Last season, fourbythree and Harvard University's string ensemble Brattle Street Chamber Players met onstage at Symphony Space in Manhattan. This time BSCP hosted us for a change, as we closed our season in Cambridge with woodwind works by Francis Poulenc and Madeleine Dring, Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question and Arnold Schoenberg's heartwrenching Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). BSCP presented a world premiere by Zachary Sheets, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach's timeless Art of Fugue and Francesco Geminiani's La Follia Variations (arranged for string orchestra by Michi Wiancko).
PROGRAM
fourbythree
POULENC: Sonata for Two Clarinets
DRING: Trio for Flute, Piano and Oboe
IVES: The Unanswered Question
SCHOENBERG: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
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Brattle Street Chamber Players
J.S. BACH: The Art of Fugue (selections)
SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major - Allegretto
ZACHARY SHEETS: Then the Silence Increased (World Premiere)
GEMINIANI/arr. WIANCKO: La Follia, Variations for String Orchestra
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Monday, March 28, 2011, 8:00 PM
Music Hum in a Day
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
2960 Broadway, New York, NY
"Music Hum in a Day" was a special lecture-concert written, directed, produced and performed by Columbia University students. As the name suggests, this program integrated the Music Humanities portion of Columbia's Core Curriculum by spanning over 800 years of music, exploring the evolution of the keyboard and displaying the flexibility of the chamber ensemble. The lecture portion of the event included a series of verbal preludes to each piece, with program notes supplied by the performers and students.
PROGRAM
PÉROTIN: Sederunt Principes (arranged for string quartet)
ORTIZ: Recercada Segunda Sobre el Passamezzo Moderno
J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (1st movement)
MOZART: "Deh, vieni non tardar" from Le Nozze di Figaro
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 95 "Serioso" (1st movement)
BRAHMS: Wie melodien zieht es mir
SCHUMANN: Widmung
CHOPIN: Etude Op. 10 No. 1 in C Major
LISZT: Transcendental Etude No. 10
-INTERMISSION-
VILLA LOBOS: Choros No. 2 for Flute and Clarinet
POULENC: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
STRAVINSKY: Histoire du soldat (selections)
LIGETI: Hungarian Rock
GOLIJOV: Last Round
FREE and open to the public.
This event was sponsored by Columbia Classical Performers and the Miller Theatre Fund.
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Saturday, FEBRUARY 26, 2011, 7:30 PM
how about now:
A collaborative concert presented by contemporaneous and fourbythree
Em Lee Concert Hall, Turtle Bay Music School
244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
In collaboration with contemporaneous, an independent new music ensemble based at Bard College in Annendale-on-Hudson, NY, fourbythree copresented a broad view of the music of now, featuring today's up-and-coming composers. fourbythree performed works by Ryan Beppel, Jiří Kadeřábek, Alex Klein and Phil Kline, while contemporaneous plays Conor Brown, John Boggs, Nico Muhly, Jeremy Podgursky, and Gabriella Smith.
PROGRAM
JEREMY PODGURSKY: Oh Dance! Oh Light! Onami!
RYAN BEPPEL: Missed
GABRIELLA SMITH: Travelogue
CONOR BROWN: Constellation
PHIL KLINE: Tarantella
JIŘÍ KADEŘÁBEK: The Tone of a Broken Harp, The Sound of a Snapped String
JOHN BOGGS: Gemini Montes
ALEX KLEIN: Gemini
NICO MUHLY: How About Now
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Friday, FEBRUARY 11, 2011, 7:00 PM
music for movers and shakers
Em Lee Concert Hall, Turtle Bay Music School
244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
fourbythree presented a whimsical program of modern and contemporary works inspired by dance, games and folk tradition. The night featured modern composers Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, a world premiere by our returning collaborator Ryan Beppel, and a concluding performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 instruments.
PROGRAM
PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes
BARTÓK: selections from 44 duos for two double basses
STRAVINSKY: Suite from Histoire du soldat
BEPPEL: Missed (World Premiere)
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring [suite for 13 instruments]
While this concert was FREE and open to the public, all donations made at the door benefitted Turtle Bay Music School's Saturday Music Project, a program that provides tuition-free instrumental music classes to New York City students with little or no financial access to music education.
This free concert was part of TBMS's Artist Series and Hear it Now! A Celebration of the Music and Musicians of our Community.
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Satuday, FEBRUARY 5, 2011, 11:00 AM & 12:15 PM
Interactive Performance: What makes and ensemble?
TBMS Saturday Music Project
Em Lee Concert Hall, Turtle Bay Music School
244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Continuing our partnership with Turtle Bay Music School, fourbythree made its second annual visit to the TBMS Saturday Music Project, a tuition-free music program for New York City school-age students and families. In two back-to-back presentations, fourbythree and SMP students explored the question, "What makes an ensemble?" implementing Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals.
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Saturday, DECEMBER 4, 2010, 7:00 PM
the break-up: an evening of chamber music
Richmond Room, Turtle Bay Music School
244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Don't worry -- we just needed some time apart. Retreating from the usual larger-scale works, fourbythree broke down into smaller ensembles and performed an intimate program of chamber music. Selections from works by Brahms, Mozart, Bruch, Janáček and others.
SELECTIONS FROM
BRUCH: Eight pieces for clarinet, viola & piano op. 83
BARTÓK: 44 duos for two double basses
JANÁČEK: String quartet no. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata"
BRAHMS: String sextet in B flat Major op. 18
BRAHMS: Sonata for cello and piano in F Major op. 99
SMETANA: Piano trio in g minor op. 15
MOZART: Quintet for clarinet and strings K. 581
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Monday, NOVEMBER 22, 2010, 7:00 PM
Kadeřábek: The Tone of a Broken Harp, the Sound of a Snapped String
Bohemian National Hall
321 E. 73rd Street, New York, NY
(between 1st & 2nd Aves.)
In a return collaboration with Jiří Kadeřábek, members of fourbythree gave the world premiere of the composer's work for video, tape, voice, piano & string quartet as a part of Love is without end!, a night of poetry and music in celebration of Czech romantic poet K. H. Macha's 200th anniversary. Organized by the Czech Center New York.
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Sunday, OCTOBER 24, 2010, 7:30 PM
fourbythree: re-wound
Em Lee Concert Hall, Turtle Bay Music School
244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
In a program comprised of music old and new — including the very old and new — fourbythree leapt back and forth through time, weaving threads between medieval,
baroque, and contemporary traditions. The ensemble premiered the
versatile Alex Klein's new work Gemini for strings and electronics, and performed a rescoring of 13th-century composer Pérotin's vocal organum Sederunt Principes, transitioning into John Corigliano's 1983 work Voyage for
flute and string orchestra.The program opened and closed with two
seminal baroque works: Heinrich Ignaz Biber's excitingly percussive Battalia a 10 imitates
the sounds of a battle scene, while Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg
Concerto No. 5 features flute, cello and harpsichord in ensemblic
virtuosity.
PROGRAM
BIBER: Battalia à 10
KLEIN: Gemini (World Premiere)
PÉROTIN: from Sederunt Principes
CORIGLIANO: Voyage
J. S. BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
featuring soloists Shannon Lee (violin), Caroline Sonett (flute), and Mi-Eun Kim (keyboard)
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2010 season
Saturday, APRIL 17, 2010
"What is an Ensemble?" Interactive Performance
Saturday Music Project
Turtle Bay Music School
244 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenue)
fourbythree held a series of performances at Turtle Bay Music School, a non-profit community music school in east midtown Manhattan. The ensemble presented "What is an Ensemble?" for the Saturday Music Project, TBMS’s tuition-free outreach program for middle-school students and families. FREE and open to the public.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010, 7PM
fourbythree + friends:
unwound/deconstructed
Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway, New York, NY
(@116th Street, entrance of Columbia University)
fourbythree made a return appearance at Miller Theatre in an all-contemporary program that broke down the versatility of texture and rhythm as musical language, and how these concepts play a part in the overall structure that our featured composers try to build in their works. Beginning and ending with two prominent works, György Ligeti's Ramifications for String Orchestra (1969) and John Adams' Shaker Loops (1978), the program also featured new works by fourbythree colleagues and emerging composers Ryan Beppel and Eugene Birman, and Czech composer Jiří Kadeřábek.
PROGRAM
LIGETI: Ramifications for String Orchestra
BIRMAN: String Symphony: Todesfuge (World Premiere)
with Stilian Kirov, guest conductor
BEPPEL: Speed Demon (World Premiere)
KADEŘÁBEK: Concertino for Double Bass and String Orchestra (American Premiere)
featuring fourbythree bassist Gabrielle Marx
ADAMS: Shaker Loops
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Saturday, FEBRUARY 20, 2010, 8PM
fourbythree + Brattle Street Chamber Players
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York, NY
(@ W 95th Street)
Cambridge met Manhattan in a first-time collaborative concert between two young unconducted string ensembles! fourbythree presented works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Osvaldo Golijov, and Edward Elgar, demonstrating the many layers of string ensembles through the twentieth century in three different configurations: the string octet, two string quartets and double bass, and orchestra with string quartet. On their New York tour from Harvard University, Brattle Street Chamber Players presented two distinct works that refer to environments of inspiration: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky's virtuosic Souvenir de Florence and Forrest O'Connor's Homage to the Old Mill in its New York premiere.
PROGRAM
TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Florence
O'CONNOR: Homage to the Old Mill (New York Premiere)
GOLIJOV: Last Round
SHOSTAKOVICH: Prelude & Scherzo for Octet
ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro
This event was sponsored in part by Columbia Classical Performers, the Activities Board at Columbia University, and the Arts Initiative at Columbia University. This funding is made possible through a generous gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
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