News
Timur and the Dime Museum CD Release Party
X-Ray Sunsets, the new record from LA’s operatic gypsy rock collective from the future Timur and the Dime Museum, is finally getting a CD release party this Saturday, September 21, at the Bootleg in Silverlake. Live Arts Exchange is hosting the show, and tickets are available at https://bootlegtheater.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a02A000000Al7nsIAB.
The record, which was largely written, arranged, recorded, edited, mixed, and produced by band member and local composer Daniel Corral, is up on bandcamp now. Timur’s voice is as impossibly flexible as ever, and there’s an enormous range of sounds in the arrangements. They’re featuring the final track, Until the Break of Dawn, on the bandcamp page, but my favorite by far is Here With Me. Enjoy:
Go see Julia Holter and wild Up! tonight
Julia Holter is back in town tonight, and our hometown underground orchestra heroes wild Up! are opening. They’re playing at First Unitarian Church in a show presented by Spaceland and Dublab. Nedelle Torrisi, Anenon, and Dublab DJs are also on the bill.
All the info (and tickets) are up here: http://www.theecho.com/event/326705-church-sessions-julia-holter-los-angeles/
Julia’s most recent record, Loud City Song, came out on Domino less than a month ago, and she’s been on tour pretty much nonstop.
Here’s a video:
Scott Worthington/ensemble et cetra: Even The Light Itself Falls
Though based in San Diego, bassist and composer Scott Worthington is no stranger to the LA scene. UPDATE: SCOTT HAS MOVED TO PASADENA.
Populist Records just released a recording of his epic yet introspective Even The Light Itself Falls, performed by the composer’s own ensemble et cetra. Give it a listen and a share and a buy below.
People Inside Electronics and Classical Revolution this Saturday
This is yet another great weekend for shows in LA. People Inside Electronics are bringing bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood to MorYork Gallery for a Saturday night program of music for voice and electronics.
Looking for a slightly earlier way to hear some music on September 7th? Classical Revolution LA have you covered. Elliott Goldkind and the Krysalis Ensemble will be rocking The Silverlake Lounge at 6.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE BOTH.
Here are links:
What’s Next? Ensemble have two awesome shows coming up
Free Show Alert: AYS plays Schnittke, Zatin, and Shostakovitch tonight!
This is very short notice, but New Classic LA is back, and we’ll kick it off with news that AYS is playing a free show at Royce Hall tonight at 7. All of the info is here:
http://aysymphony.org/2012/05/18/2012-13-season/
In rather important news for the site, I finally figured out a good way to do concert listings. It might look the same to you, but will be a zillion times easier for me to keep up to date. So let’s do this thing, round two.
Los Angeles Percussion Quartet plays on Saturday, Nominated for a GRAMMY
We are incredibly proud of our friends in the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet. If you haven’t heard yet, their album Rupa-Khandha, released earlier this year on Sono Luminus records, is nominated for two Grammy awards! Huge congratulations to Matthew Cook, Justin DeHart, Eric Guinivan, and Nick Terry. Here’s hoping you guys bring home some trophies.
The good news about this for you? You can hear them this Saturday night at Atwater Crossing, in collaboration with People Inside Electronics. The concert includes the premiere of Isaac Schankler‘s Blindness. Complete details are up at peopleinsideelectronics.com/lapq. See you there.
Cool show tonight: SCREAM at REDCAT
The Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music is putting on a show at REDCAT tonight that sounds completely awesome. Here’s the rundown from the event page:
The venerated annual music festival—begun in 1986—signs off in style, with works by four masters of the electro-acoustic idiom. The program opens withPacific Light and Water/Wu Xing—Cycle of Destruction(2005), which features solo trumpet by creative music luminary Wadada Leo Smith “overlaid” on a fixed electro-acoustic composition by SCREAM founder Barry Schrader. Next is Anne LeBaron’s Floodsongs (2012), a choral setting of three poems by Douglas Kearney performed by the Santa Clarita Master Chorale conducted by Allan Petker, with live electronics by Phil Curtis. Played by the Formalist Quartet, David Rosenboom’s Four Lines (2001) for string quartet and electronics experiments with “attention-dependent sonic environments.” The concert—and the series—concludes with the world premiere of three electro-acoustic movements from Barry Schrader’s opus The Barnum Museum (2009–2012) inspired by Steven Millhauser’s short story which describes a fantastical museum of the imagination.
Details are available at redcat.org/event/scream-finale
Free Show Alert: Leah Paul Quintet in Santa Monica on Saturday
Leah Paul just sent me this:
Concert This Saturday!
I’m excited to perform a new woodwind quintet I’ve written, played by myself, Myka Miller, Chris Speed, Danielle Ondarza, and Christin Phelps Webb, afterwards John Kibler and Brett Hool will perform as We Are The West.
The show is at 8pm in Santa Monica, directions below. This show is in a PARKING GARAGE made super cool and fun, with romantic lighting, drinks, and a general joie de vivre party-like atmosphere. Hope to see you there!
**The show is at The Parking Garage beneath the Office building on the corner of 7th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard, the entrance is down a stairway on 7th street.
Sounds pretty awesome.
Back in the states, more updates en route
I just got back to the US from a couple of weeks in Israel yesterday, and am currently moving into a new apartment. This post is solely to inform you that I will respond to your emails, update the concert listings, and generally do stuff within the next few days.
That said, the number of messages coming in and the sheer lack of time I’ve had to dedicate to the site lately highlights a couple of issues I’d like to address. So here goes:
1. We need writers. Want free tickets to shows? Want to meet people? Like seeing your name on websites? Then send me an email at newclassicla@gmail.com and let’s talk.
2. I could really use help setting up a better submission process for the concert listings page. Right now I’m manually entering everything in HTML. It would be great if someone with web development skills would be willing to help me set up a form so that I can just click “approve,” and also make it so that shows disappear once the date has passed. Any takers?
Thanks all.