Mar
28
7:30 PM19:30

PGII: Pocket Guitar

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For our 17th Groupmuse, Wren has organized Pocket Monsters + Classical Guitar.

Guitarist: Phil Goldenberg

Setlist:

Capricho Arabe - Francisco Tarrega

Sonata - Roberto Sierra
I. Con pasion
II. Expressivo, casi religioso

Elogio de la Danza- Leo Brouwer
I. Lento
II. Obstinato

Intermission

Trilogy - Frederic Hand
I.
II.
III.

When you wish upon a star... - arr. Joe Pass
While we’re young - arr. Wes Montgomery

Song to the Mother - Johannes Moller

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Mar
7
7:30 PM19:30
PGI

PGI: Dance, Flute & Guitar Symbiosis

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For our 16th Groupmuse, Wren has organized Dancing with Symbols: Music for Flute & Guitar with Dancer.

Flutist: Melanie Chirignan

Guitarist: Oren Fader

Setlist:

Jacques Ibert Entr'acte

Mauro Giuliani Duo Concertante op. 25
III. Minuet

David Leisner Dances in the Madhouse

Bartok Romanian Dances

intermission

Ravel Piece en forme de Habanera

Astor Piazzolla History of the Tango
I. Bordel 1900
II. Cafe 1930
III. Nightclub 1960

Hibiee Jeebies Marco Granados (Venezuelan Joropo)

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Feb
16
7:00 PM19:00
PGI

PGI: Movement & Music Symbiosis

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For our 13th Groupmuse, Wren has organized a performance by Moving Orchestra @movingorchestra 

Violinist: Kyu Hyeon (Katherine) Lim

Pianist: Joey Chang

Dancer: Thomas Woodman

Setlist:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004

Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992)
Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano

Lauren Hlubny
Īs (A Dance Concerto)

Free improvisations

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Aug
27
7:30 PM19:30

PG0: Thoughts & Prayers

At our ninth Groupmuse event, we heard the following setlist:

Contrapunctus No. 8

Sonata in Eb, BWV 525
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Intermission

Selections from Thoughts and Prayers

Lauren Hlubny presents and Thomas Giles performs selections from Danse Theatre Surreality’s project, Thoughts and Prayers.

“Thoughts & Prayers” explores America’s relationship with tragedy, catastrophe, and loss. Over the course of an hour, the work presents Dana and Felix, a fictitious couple, and their experience of Five Disasters through dramatic mixtures of music, movement, and images—a dance-theatre concerto. Six musicians (3 woodwinds, 3 strings) embody two distinct Greek Choruses: Congress and The Activists, giving full voice to the acrimonious clashes of present-day America. Each Act, or Disaster, is introduced through a virtuosic cadenza and dance solo, and followed by orchestrated structures of dialogue, physical partnering, and contrary staging. This collaboration between artists of completely different disciplines creates a complicated, disruptive, elegant, and dark world made cohesive by director Lauren Hlubny and her team of dedicated professionals.

Preview September 19 at 8pm

September 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 at 8pm

September 29 at 3pm

TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W 28th St, New York, NY 

Purchase your tickets / Acheter votre billet HERE

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Mar
26
7:00 PM19:00

PG0: Cardinal's Hex

On March 26th, 2019, Bryan M. Wilson and Midge Wattles reset our space. They took down all the old artwork and cleaned up the black paint on the walls. Instead of patching and erasing the history of hanging hardware, they added a gem to the head of each nail and screw, proportional to its size. It left us a constellation of four years of hanging history. After a cleansing ritual, they invited Thomas Giles to play some music.

In the garden, Bryan performed a ritualistic planting of the seeds of value:

FLAMINGO - gold, south right corner

CONDOR - silver, south left corner

OWL - bronze, north left corner

FINCH - lapis lazuli, north right corner

STARLING - peridot, under the center tree

Value is identified, then the bird was asked to visualize that value as a form in their mind.

Form is imagined and then I, CARDINAL, would flip a Morgan silver dollar, letting that value form give life by Lady Fate.

The bird was then asked to remember if the coin flip read heads/tails.

Once Lady Fate gave her judgement on the value form, the form is released into the world.

In five coin flips, they all came up heads.

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The MANA Quartet

Saxophone Quartet

Quartet for Four Saxophones Op. 109 (1932)
by Alexander Glazunov
I. Partie
II. Canzona Variée:
Theme
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3 (a la Schumann)
Variation 4 (a la Chopin)
Variation 5 (a la Mendelssohn)
III. Finale

Break

Saxophone Quartet (1995)
by Philip Glass

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May
20
7:30 PM19:30

PGV: Cello & Flowerpots

At our fifth Groupmuse event, we heard the following program:

Tony Guarino - Percussion

Mosa Tsay - Cello

PROGRAM:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
....Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Bourrees I & II
VI. Gigue

John Cage (1912-1992)
....Child of Tree (1975)
*featuring amplified cactus and various plants. Tony will be playing the spines of the cactus, and the sounds will be picked up by a contact microphone.

Kaija Saariaho (1952-)
...Petals for Cello

Caroline Shaw (1982-)
....Boris Kerner for Cello and Flowerpots (2012)

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