STRANGE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC 9
New Music Detroit’s annual contemporary music marathon

performing with New Music Detroit and Willo Collective

2pm
September 17, 2016

@ Wasserman Projects
3434 Russell St., Detroit MI

Tickets: pay-what-you-want $5 minimum (sliding scale) - available atdso.org or at the door. This will sell out!


PROGRAM (subject to change)
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2pm
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble
National Parks Commissioning Project

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3pm
New Music Detroit & friends
Marc Mellits: Escape for marimba & sax (world premiere)
Joseph Schwantner: Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro

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4pm
Donald Sinta Quartet
music by: Ligeti, Albright, Mellits, Bresnick, Nyman, Maslanka

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5pm
Æpex Contemporary Performance
George Benjamin: At First Light
Pierre Boulez: Notations (in honour of Boulez’s death earlier this year)

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6pm
Latitude 49
“SHE: the music of female composers”
music by Shulamit Ran/Birkat Haderekh, Loren Loiacono, Annika Socolovsky, Joan Tower, Lili Boulanger, Gabriella Smith,

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7pm
Tribute: Steve Reich’s 80th
New York Counterpoint, Shannon Orme (clarinet)
Vermont Counterpoint, Ian Ding (marimba)
Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ, with Willo and guests

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8pm
New Music Detroit
Andrew Harrison: Hum (world premiere) ft. Jamaal May, author and poet
David Lang: are you experienced? ft. Dennis Nulty (DSO Principal Tuba), with narrator and 13-piece chamber orchestra

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9pm
Willo
ft. Tanner Porter with selections from "The Summer Sinks" 
electronic works for percussion quintet, music by Gold Panda, Caribou, Chrome Sparks, Samaris, Mt. Kimbie

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10pm
Detroit Bureau of Sound
debut performance of DBS Techno Ensemble, ft. Shara Nova
music by Octave One, Juan Atkins, Omar S, Richie Hawtin, Kevin Saunderson, and other Detroit techno legends, arranged by the ensemble