Line C3 Shows Announced!

Join Line C3 Percussion Group for exciting shows this spring:

World Premier of Judd Greenstein's Shlomo
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Ecstatic Music Festival
Merkin Hall, NYC (Tickets and More Info)

World Premier of Sean Friar's Clunker Concerto
Friday, March 4th, 2011 at 7:30 PM
American Composers Orchestra, Playing it UNSafe
Zankel Hall, NYC (Tickets and More Info) 

超すごい : Music of Japan by NY and Tokyo Composers
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at 8 PM
World Premiers by Miura, Thompson
Works by Kitazume, Naito, Takemitsu, Muhly
Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City (Tickets and More Info)

Gavin Bryars' Sinking the Titanic
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
2 Departures: Boarding Closes at 8:40 and 10:40 PM 
Line C3 and Wordless Music Orchestra
The Guggenheim, NYC (Tickets and More Info)

And stay tuned this summer for Serving Size 4 Bunnies with Live puppetry at La Mama!

ALSO:

Now you can visit the ALL NEW WWW.LINEC3.COM featuring more super fun time with percussion! You know you love it.

sometimes the stick bag gets all the press

Here we have a little preview of the Ecstatic Music Festival, which is going to be exciting and groundbreaking and fun and everyone should come! I'm looking forward to playing concerts with Alarm Will Sound and ACME in January and then Judd Greenstein in March, as well as attending concerts by a spectacular variety of others. Also, although I'm not in this little video, my stick bag TOTALLY IS:

Yes, I like all those Stevens marimba mallets. What.

Saturday, 1/22/11: Craig Wedren, Jefferson Friedman, and ACME.

Sunday, 1/30/11: Alarm Will Sound and Face the Music. 

Thursday, 3/30/11: Judd Greenstein (The Yehudim) & Olga Bell.

hubcap preview

Composer Sean Friar on his "Clunker Concerto" for Line C3 Percussion Group and the American Composers Orchestra: to be premiered March 4, 2011 at Zankel Hall.

The Way We Bow a Vibraphone Now

Selections from Riceboy Sleeps by Jónsi & Alex.
Performed by Jónsi & Alex, Latvian National Choir and the Wordless Music Orchestra led by Jeffrey Milarsky. Live from the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NYC.

(Sleeping Giant, Happiness, Indian Summer, Daníell in the Sea, Atlas Song and Boy 1904)

JónsiThe entire "Credo" concert from Lincoln Center's White Lights Festival is now streaming on Q2 here.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't super excited to realize an excellent orchestrational use of whirly-tubes (7:55). Also, props to Q2 (and Nadia Sirota, and John Schaefer) for a great live broadcast and attendant web-chat that hosted comments from thousands of listeners all over the world (including one from my dad: "listening from Sedona, Arizona, where the vortexes are crying uncle").

When cynicism starts to creep in about music-making, these are the type of events that wipe it away. More please!

badassery 101

Remember when you had to figure out what to do with the guy in your high school band who couldn't really drum and had less than stellar timing and focus and was kind of physically awkward? Remember how you had that guy play cymbals? This is not that.

SCV 2008 Cymbal Line