ROULETTENew Home for Experimental MusicOPENS THURSDAY! With
performances by Henry Threadgill's Zooid, Laurie Anderson - Lou Reed -
John Zorn, Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, Marc Ribot's Film Noir, and much
more!
ROULETTE 509 Atlantic Ave (at 3rd Ave)Brooklynwww.roulette.org Henry
Threadgill's Zooid Kaija Saariaho Margaret Leng Tan Sylvie Courvoisier &
Mark Feldman Duo Thu Sep 15 - 8:00 PM $100 Front Row $35 General
Admission *No student, senior or member pricing The first night of
Roulette's eclectic Grand Opening Celebration features performances by
Henry Threadgill's ZOOID, new work for flute, electronics, and
projections by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, Margaret Leng Tan
performing John Cage piano works, and Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark
Feldman duo performing their own compositions as well as excerpts from
John Zorn's Masada Book II (Book of Angels). Marc Ribot's Film Noir
Project ETHEL Fred Frith + Shelley Hirsch Fri Sep 16 - 8:00 PM $100
Front Row $35 General Admission *No student, senior or member pricing
Guitarist/composer Marc Ribot presents Film Noir - an ensemble exploring
a lonely place between classic noir film scores of the 40's thru 60's,
and the 80's No-Wave bands who worshipped them, New York City's ETHEL
Quartet, a group dedicated to new music called the "…avatar of
`post-classical' music—the virtuosic alternative string
quartet…vital and brilliant." by the New Yorker performs work by
John King, Judd Greenstein, and Anna Clyne; and critically acclaimed
vocalist, composer, and storyteller Shelley Hirsch teams up with
iconoclast guitarist/composer/improvisor Fred Frith. Laurie Anderson +
Lou Reed + John Zorn Sat Sep 17 - 8:00 PM $100 Front Row $50 General
Admission $35 Members $25 Students (LIMITED AVAILABILITY) Three legends
of the New York Underground combine forces for an evening of extreme
improvised music. "The most important multimedia artist of our
time,"(LA Times), Laurie Anderson is best known for her multimedia
presentations and musical recordings that have challenged and delighted
audiences around the world for more than 30 years. Tonight Anderson
teams up with husband Lou Reed - arguably one of the most influential
musicians in rock history whose band, the Velvet Underground, redefined
the music of the late '60s. Also joining them tonight is maverick
composer/performer and godfather of the Downtown New York scene, John
Zorn.
COSA BRAVA (Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Zeena Parkins, Matthias Bossi,
Shahzad Ismaily, and the Norman Conquest) Sun Sep 18 - 8:00 PM $100
Front Row $35 General Admission $25 student, senior or member pricing
Cosa Brava is an all-star experimental rock and improvisation quintet
formed by multi-instrumentalist, composer, and icon of experimental
music, Fred Frith, featuring Frith on guitar, Zeena Parkins on keyboards
and accordion, Carla Kihlstedt on violin, Matthias Bossi on
drums,Shahzad Ismaily on bass, and The Norman Conquest on sound
manipulation. All About Jazz described their music as "somewhere between
folk, Celtic, modern chamber, Latin, funk, Eastern, and prog-rock". Join
us for this rare NYC performance!
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