[Voxnovus] NO PIANOS ALLOWED - December 8th, 2010 9:30 PM - New York, New York

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December 8th, 2010 in New York City, Alphabet Soup Productions brings NO
PIANOS ALLOWED to The Tank for a night of acoustic and electroacoustic,
vocal and chamber music.  In a nostalgic, tree-clubhouse fashion, we
highlight the creation of new works without the iconic, Romantic instrument.
The result is a concert with an eclectic mix of music with live electronics,
guitars, vocals, computers, and acoustic orchestral instruments featuring
works from living composers: Composer in Residence David Morneau, Camila
Cano, Matt Frey, Yotam Haber, Marie Incontrera, Rob Voisey and Rain
Worthington

Described by Molly Sheridan as a "flashing beacon" of inspiration, David
Morneau's eclectic output is best exemplified by 60x365, his "ambitious
yearlong musical project" for which he composed a new one-minute composition
every day; which was highlighted on "The Year of Musical Thinking, A Minute
At A Time"  for NPR's All Things Considered

Morneau has been selected as this season's composer-in-residence with
Alphabet Soup Productions, which will feature selections from Love Songs
Project. The project is a collaboration with eleven poets that combines
Shakespeare's sonnets with contemporary poetry in genre-crossing songs.

Robert Voisey who has been described around the world as "mad" for his 60x60
project.  "With few opportunities and much competition, young composers show
creativity in just getting heard." And in Chris Pasles's article in the Los
Angeles Times, Robert Voisey is highlighted as one of those composers. In
David Cutler's book The Savvy Musician, he describes Voisey as "an artist
who knows how to create opportunities where they don't exist" 

His collaboration with David Morneau in "Monkey Lab" describes a journey to
reach the monkey lab from a labyrinth of catacombs below - nothing less than
madness for Robert Voisey's Birthday!

Marie Incontrera  was awarded the Meet the Composer's Metlife Creative
Connections to be a featured guest composer and speaker at the Hartford
Women Composers' Festival.   This performance will feature Two American
Poems, a short cycle comprised of contrasting poetic texts: the first,
Requiem, is Mark Twain's adaptation of Robert Richardson's poem Annette;
the second Little Orphant Annie, by James Whitcomb Riley, a humorous,
popular children's poem about the importance of being good and obedient. 

"The rhythmically thoughtful works of Rain Worthington take ideas of
American musical style to a new place - like a walk in a familiar, yet very
different park." -- Kyle Gann, Chamber Music, 

Yotam Haber has received the Frederic A. Juilliard/ Walter Damrosch Rome
Prize. He also won the second bi-annual ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize
for the wind ensemble work, Espresso, which was performed at Carnegie Hall.

Alphabet Soup Productions is a female-run opera company based in New York
City that focuses on works by living composers. The Board of Directors is
comprised of talented and dedicated musicians, each of whom exhibit a strong
investment in premiering new works. During their first season (2009-2010),
ASP proudly celebrated many successes, including the full production of a
night of new electro-acoustic opera, High Voltage Opera, at Galapagos Art
Space in Brooklyn, NY. High Voltage Opera was featured on the international
television network Noticias Culturales Iberoamericanas. In addition to
producing operas, ASP also hosts the Alphabet Soup Concert Series, which
features guest artists and chamber musicians.

NO PIANOS ALLOWED
Dec 8, 2010 9:30 PM
The Tank
354 West  45th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.thetanknyc.org/

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