Monthly Archives: May 2010

Music listings – May 17 through May 23

1. Roberto’s invites you to “Ellery Eskelin Trio and Hayes Greenfield Trio ”

Date: Monday, May 16, 2010
Time: 8pm Ellery Eskelin Trio (Ellery Eskelin – Tenor saxophone, Gary Versace – Organ and Tyshawn Sorey – Drums)  – 10pm Hayes Greenfield Trio (Hayes Greenfield – Sax, Dean Johnson – Bass and Rob Garcia – Drums)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. Debapriya Adhikary & Samanwaya Sarkar premier in NY!

Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: St. John’s Lutheran Church (81 Christopher Street, corner of 7th Ave., NY 10014)
Price: $25
Genre: World/India

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REPLAY – The Syracuse University Symposium on Sound Sampling: a short report.

Location: Syracuse University Library, Belfer Audio Archive (222 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010)
Date: April 9th, 2010

Text by Richard Palmer

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Film: Shirin Neshat’s “WOMEN WITHOUT MEN” New York CIty premiere!!

Title: WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (Zanān bedun-e mardān in farsi – 2009, Germany, Austria and France )
Director: Shirin Neshat (Iran)
Collaborator: Shoja Azari
Screenplay by: Shirin Neshat & Shoja Azari
Starring: Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Tolouei, Orsi Tóth and Shahrnush Parsipur
Soundtrack by: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Camera work by: Martin Gschlacht
Language: Farsi (Persian)
Produced by: IndiePix Films
Awards: Toronto (Special Presentations), Venice (Silver Lion for Best Director at Venezia 66), London (Cinema Europa), Sundance (Spotlight)
Runtime: 99 minutes
Format: 35 mm
Rating: Not Rated
Website: http://www.womenwithoutmenfilm.com

Date: Friday, May 14, through Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Movie theatre: The Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011  | map | more info)

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Music listings – 5/10 through 5/16

1. Roberto’s invites you to “Ingrid Jensen and Project O & Simona Premazzi and The Intruders ”

Date: Monday, May 10, 2010
Time: 8pm Ingrid Jensen and Project O featuring Seamus Blake (Ingrid Jensen – Trumpet and Flugelhorn, Seamus Blake – Tenor Saxophone, Gary Versace – Organ and Jon Wikan – Drums)  – 10pm Simona Premazzi and The Intruders (Simona Premazzi – Piano,  Stacy Dillard – Saxophones, Ryan Berg – Bass,  Jason Brown – Drums and Emily Braden – Vocals)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Jazz

2. The Crash Ensemble w/ music of Donnacha Dennehy, David Lang, and Terry Riley

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Shujaat Hussain Khan: A Branch of an Illustrious Tree

Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010
Venue: Peter Norton/Symphony Space
Presented by the World Music Institute

 

Shujaat Hussain Khan (photo by Jack Vartoogian)

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