Jeff Palmiotti & The Hey Rube @RSLilys Bar & Restaurant (video archive 9/12/11)
Posted on 09. Dec, 2010 by Birdsong in Arts, Events, Lily's Restaurant
Live from Lily’s Bar and Restaurant at the Roger Smith Hotel.
http://www.myspace.com/theheyrube
February 13th: Classical Guitar Concert with Tracy Anne Smith
Posted on 01. Nov, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Community, Hotel
February 13th 2011, 4pm: Tracy Anne Smith
Further Info Below
Called “a great musician…full of feeling and colors,” by composer Jacques Hétu, Tracy Anne Smith is garnering increasing praise for her expressive performances, rich tonal palette and musical control. Cuban guitarist/composer Leo Brouwer praised her “polyphonic hands” and “tremendous sound” while American virtuoso Benjamin Verdery commended her “ability to express the emotion of a work to its core.” Even 80’s icon Sinbad offered, “I don’t know what she’s doing — but I know it’s deep.”
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concerts Series takes place on the second Sunday of every month in The Solarium on the sixteenth floor of the Roger Smith Hotel. Co-curated by composer and musician Frank Wallace, and musician and president of the New York City Classical Guitar Society John Olson, the SSCCS series presents musicians performing in styles ranging from the Segovia Tradition to the rock inspired, from flamenco to modern art song. Click here for concert schedule.
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals.
For further information please call 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
LISTINGS INFORMATION
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert
Presented by Roger Smith Arts and The New York Classical Guitar Society
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
February 13th, 4pm
Price: $15 includes Wine and Cheese (pay at door, cash only)
Reservations: 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
For more information: http://rogersmithlife.com/art/art-at-rsh/second-sundays-classical-guitar-concert-series-20102011-schedule
November 14th: Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert with Michael Nicolella
Posted on 21. Oct, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel
Michael Nicolella
November 14th 2010, 4pm
Tickets: $15, includes wine and cheese
Reservations: 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
With a repertoire spanning from J.S. Bach to Jimi Hendrix, Michael Nicolella is recognized as one of America’s most innovative classical guitar virtuosos. He has received wide critical acclaim for his performances, recordings and compositions. As a concert artist, Michael has performed throughout North America and Europe as solo recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra. Nicolella’s most recent album, Shard, was described in Frets magazine as “an exciting textbook on how to honor classical tradition and kick it in the ass at the same time”.
Concerts take place in The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017 (map)
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 includes cheese and wine (cash only, paid at door)
Reservations: Please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Click HERE for information about the series
October 24th: Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Concert with Loadbang
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Chamber Music Series, Events, Hotel
FOURTH SUNDAYS CHAMBER
MUSIC SERIES
PRESENTS:
LOADBANG
OCTOBER 24TH, 4pm
THE PENTHOUSE AT
THE ROGER SMITH HOTEL
TICKETS $15 INC. WINE AND CHEESE
Pseudorandom
John Cage: Four6 (1992)
Jeffrey Gavett: Proverbial (2009)
John Cage: Five (1988)
Nick Didkovsky: Firm soapy hothead (2010)
Nick Didkovsky: Firm Soapy Hothead (2010)
Performed by Loadbang
The personal computer has transformed modern life in areas both mundane and exalted, and composition is no exception. Computers are very good at processing data and carrying out instructions exactly as they are programmed to do; they are not, however, very good at true randomness. Computer-generated random numbers satisfy general tests for randomness, but are generated by a definite computational process, and are therefore known as pseudorandom. loadbang presents a program of works composed with the aid of computers and pseudorandom numbers.
John Cage had been composing using chance for decades before the personal computer was invented. With the aid of the I Ching, an ancient Chinese oracular tool, he would determine aspects of his work by tossing coins. Near the end of his life, and with the help of assistant and computer programmer Andrew Culver, Cage turned to a computer program to simulate these I Ching coin tosses. The efficiency of the system helped Cage, despite his failing health, to compose some fifty late works known as the “Number Pieces”, as they are named for the number of players they are scored for with a superscript number to indicate further works for the same number of players. The works also make use of “time brackets”, a method Cage devised of specifying the range of time in which a given action was to be performed. Four6 is one of Cage’s final works, and in typical anarchic fashion, is scored for any way of producing sounds. Each performer chooses twelve different sounds to perform which correspond to numbered time brackets in the score. Five is one of the earliest number pieces, and is scored for unspecified instruments or voices. Since loadbang is a quartet, we have commissioned composer Jude Traxler to program a Max/MSP patch to perform the fifth part, complete with pseudorandom deviations within the score’s time brackets, approximating a true human realization of the score.
Loadbang’s own Jeffrey Gavett has been working with modern software for computer-assisted composition (IRCAM’s OpenMusic) for pseudo- and non-random purposes. Proverbial is a setting of three Proverbs of Hell from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The work’s recasting of the traditional images of Heaven and Hell is reflected in the texts, which express progressive ideas in an outwardly gruesome fashion. OM was used to determine pseudorandom microtonal deviations around central structural pitches, as well as to build the form of the piece. The unique syllabification of each proverb in each language in which it is presented determines the rhythmic structure of the instrumental and vocal parts.
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, band leader and software programmer based in New York City. He is the creator of a programming language and the author of many computer programs specifically intended for music composition. The short movements of Firm soapy hothead are entirely composed by this software, with no ex post facto editing by Didkovsky; versions of the works are simply generated, evaluated and selected.
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The members of Loadbang met as part of the first class of Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance program, and have been playing together ever since. In the past two years they have premiered more than 20 works for their unique instrumentation (bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, baritone voice), including several works written by members of the band, and a new arrangement by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. They also perform works for indeterminate ensemble, including such New York School classics as Brown’s December 1952 and Cage’s Four6. Not content to dwell solely in the realm of notated music, Loadbang is known for its searing and unpredictable improvisations, exploring the edges of instrumental and vocal timbre and technique.
Most recently they have ventured outside New York, performing in art galleries, restaurants, and churches in Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. They have performed alongside musicians and ensembles such as So Percussion, Lukas Ligeti, and Newspeak. Their recent performances in New York include appearances at The Tank, The Stone, The 1st Annual New York New Music Bake Sale, and an all John Cage evening at the Gershwin Hotel.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
QUICK INFO:
Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Concert Series
Performance by Loadbang
October 24th, 2010 at 4pm
Concerts take place in The Penthouse at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017 (map)
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 inc. cheese and wine (cash only, paid at door)
Reservations: Please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Further info: www.rogersmithlife.com
ALSO
Be part of the Roger Smith Hotel’s Lobby Show: As part of The Roger Smith’s latest Lobby Show Lobby Series #18: iheart variation 003, attendees of this concert are invited to create their own variation of the artist’s work in the lobby corridor, following Loadbang’s performance. Every individual ‘re-mix’ will be documented as part of a 3 month evolution of Seth Carnes’ work, on http://iheartvariation.tumblr.com http://artwelove.com and http://rogersmithlife.com
The Sam Lardner / Lower East Side Weekend Package
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by admin in Arts, Community, Hotel
The Sam Lardner / Lower East Side Weekend Package –
15% Off Best Available Rate on a Suite at the Roger Smith Hotel
Package Includes:
- 2 Complimentary Tickets to hear Sam Lardner play at The Living Room. (click here for concert details)
- Complimentary Full American Breakfast for 2.
- Complementary bottle of wine at Check-in.
- Signed Sam Lardner CD.
- 10% discount off bill at White Slab Restaurant on the corner of Orchard and Allen after the show.
Package requires:
- 2 night minimum stay.
- Deluxe Suite Reservation
- Offer good for weekend of October 2nd only.
- Based on availability
To book package please call 212 755 1400
Concert Details: An Evening With Sam Lardner & Barcelona
Friday October 1, 6:30 pm
154 Ludlow St
New York New York 10001
US 212-533-7235
October 10th: Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert with Irene Gómez
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel
Irene Gómez
October 10th 2010, 4pm
Tickets: $15, includes wine and cheese
Reservations: 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Irene Gómez graduated with the gold medal in guitar and chamber music at the Conservatory Claude Debussy in Saint Germain en Laye, France, with maestro Javier Quevedo. She was the first guitarist to graduate from the National University in Bogotá with maestro Ramiro Isaza. Gómez has released four albums with contrasting repertoires that have been highly acclaimed. Irene has toured extensively in France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Germany, The United States, and Colombia. She has both taught and coordinated the Guitar Program at the National University in Bogotá, and in the fall of 2010 will be relocating to New York to study at The Juilliard School with Sharon Isbin.
Concerts take place in The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017 (map)
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 includes cheese and wine (cash only, paid at door)
Reservations: Please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Click HERE for information about the series
September 26th: Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Concert with The Talea Ensemble
Posted on 13. Sep, 2010 by danikadruttman in Chamber Music Series, Events
rogersmitharts
The Fourth Sundays Chamber
Music Series
with The Talea Ensemble
Tickets: $15, includes Wine & Cheese
September 26th, 2010 at 4pm
What happens when composers and performers go outside the conventional tuning systems prescribed by centuries of unquestioned pedagogy and the cumulative technological perfection of western classical instruments?
What are the reasons, historical, musical, and spiritual, for these deviations from the norm?
The Talea Ensemble presents a program that addresses these questions in music from the recent and distant past. The technique of scordatura, which literally means “mistuning” in Italian, is a salient feature in the works of all the composers on the concert. The Baroque master Heinrich Biber’s rarely-played Mystery Sonatas explore the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the mood and affect of each reflected in the retuning of the violin’s strings.
Inspired by the micro-inflections of everyday speech, which do not conveniently fit into the confines of a twelve-note system, Harry Partch rediscovered ancient tunings from the Greeks based on Pythagorean ratios, and built his own instruments to fit his personalized musical language. Turning his back on hundreds of years of western music theory, his inventions were built on the foundation of language, the mathematics of overtones, and Corporealism, the unifying of body, action, and spirit in art. Independence and individualism were great traits of Partch’s private life in addition to his music, and for several years he lived as a hobo. Barstow (1941), his first masterpiece, uses graffiti texts culled from a highway railing in Barstow, California, which he encountered during his hobo years. In the true fashion of a bard, Partch accompanied himself on the “adapted Viola,” an instrument of his own invention, as well as the Chromelodeon, capable of 43 tones to an octave.
Over the years, Partch would make several versions of the piece; Talea will perform his student Ben Johnston’s arrangement for voice and string quartet. Johnston’s student Marc Sabat, a Canadian living in Berlin, has been one of the leading exponents of just intonation, the system of tuning that Partch rediscovered from the Greeks. His 3 Chorales for Harry Partch explore the expressive power of pure, just intervals between two retuned string instruments. Taylor Brook is a young American-Canadian composer not only influenced by just intonation, but also the Hindustani music of North India. His Vocalise, for Solo Retuned Violin with Drone, is a work filled with long, sighing phrases; like Partch, he is interested in imitating the human voice through refined micro-intervals, but through the lens of another tradition.
Reimagined Tunings
Heinrich Biber: Selections from the Mystery Sonatas (ca. 1676)
for violin with continuo
Harry Partch: arr. Ben Johnston: Barstow (1941) for voice and string quartet
Marc Sabat: 3 Chorales for Harry Partch (1993) for retuned violin and viola
Taylor Brook: Vocalise (2009) for scordatura violin with drone
For further information please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
QUICK INFO:
The Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series with The Talea Ensemble
Presented by Roger Smith Arts
The Penthouse at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
September 26th, 2010 at 4pm
Price: $15 includes wine and cheese (pay at door, cash only)
Reservations: 212-339-2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
For more information: www.rogersmithlife.com/fourth_sundays
Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert with Simon Powis
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
Simon Powis
September 12th 2010, 4pm
Tickets: $15
includes wine and cheese selection
Reservations: 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
A passionate and expressive style coupled with a formidable technique has garnered attention for Simon Powis as a talented soloist, chamber musician and innovator. Growing up in Sydney, Australia, Powis began his studies at the age of five on the cornet. Inspired by his brother’s musical pursuits he took up the guitar at age eleven and began an enduring obsession that would result in performances throughout Europe, Australia and the Americas.
Program
Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757) Sonata K 491 arr. David Russell
J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750) Sonata BWV 1001 arr. Simon Powis
Adagio, Fugue, Siciliana, Presto
Benjamin Verdery (b. 1955) Satyagraha
Joaquín Turina (1882 – 1949) Sonata Op. 61
Allegro, Andante, Allegro Vivo
Intermission
Phillip Houghton (b.1954) Ophelia
Fear…and the Angel
Suffering and Madness…am I but a dream of a shadow?
Chant…of the Flower Moon
Water…memories – halls of ghotsts – wash away
Death…with moons in your hair
Isaac Albéniz (1860 – 1909) Mallorca Op. 202arr. Andres Segovia
Mauro Giuliani (1781 – 1829) Rossiniana Op. 119
Concerts take place in The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017 (map)
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 includes cheese and wine (cash only, paid at door)
Reservations: Please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or emailrogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Click HERE for information about the series
www.facebook.com/SimonPowisConcert
Second Sundays Guitar Series: San Francisco Guitar Quartet 8/8/2010 at 4pm
Posted on 06. Aug, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Chamber Music Series, Hotel
The Solarium, 16th floor at The Roger Smith Hotel Tickets $15, includes wine and cheese. Pay at the door, cash only . For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call 212.339.2092. Co-presented by the NYCCGS and Roger Smith Arts
Founded in 1997, the San Francisco Guitar Quartet has established itself as a dynamic force in the guitar world through its ground-breaking concerts and recordings. They are committed to presenting new music – coalescing classical, world, and improvisatory musical traditions.
The members of SFGQ, Mark Simons, Patrick O’Connell, David Dueñas, and Jon Mendle, have each distinguished themselves as recording artists and chamber musicians through their national and international touring, CD releases, and such achievements as first prize in the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards Competition, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a concert appearance in Carnegie Hall. Group members also hold faculty positions in Bay Area colleges and universities.
The SFGQ tours nationally and internationally; with performances on Guam and Taiwan, as well as appearances across the US, including: New York, New Jersey, Florida, the Northwest Guitar Festival, University of Texas Guitar Festival, Arizona State University, UC Santa Cruz, Cal State Fresno, and Glendale Community College. Other past performances include San Francisco’s Omni Series, La Guitarra California Festival, Pasadena’s Guitarra del Mar series, on NPR, and the syndicated radio shows, West Coast Live, and Classical Guitar Alive!
Second Sundays Guitar Series: Dieter Hennings 6/13
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Editor in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
Sunday June 13th, 4pm Dieter Hennings, a native of Mexico, was awarded the Aaron Brock Prize in 2008. A graduate of the University of Arizona School of Music, where he received the Outstanding Senior Award, in Guitar Performance in 2004, Mr. Hennings is currently pursuing a double Doctoral degree in Early Plucked Instruments and Guitar Performance and Literature with Paul O’Dette at the Eastman School. Mr. Hennings has won many prestigious competitions including the 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer (Spain) International Competition Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition the 1999 and 2000 Claire Schaeffer Guitar Competition.
In the field of guitar performance Dieter is deeply committed to the diffusion of new music, specially of Latin America, having recently performed works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Mario Davidovsky.
co-presented by the NYCCGS and Roger Smith Arts
The Solarium, 16th floor at The Roger Smith Hotel
Tickets $15, includes wine and cheese
pay at the door, cash only
For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
or call 212.339.2092
LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Dieter Hennings plays The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert
Roger Smith Arts & The New York City Classical Guitar Society
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
June 13th, 2010 at 4pm
$15 includes wine and cheese
212-339-2092
http://secondsundays.tumblr.com
