Weekend Preview Sept 10-12

Submitted by Seth Rogovoy on September 8, 2010 - 9:42am

 

APOLLO TRIO at MUSIC & MORE

On Saturday, September 11 at 4:30 p.m., Music & More at the Meeting House in New Marlborough presents the Apollo Trio in a chamber-music concert featuring works by Haydn, Schumann, and Beethoven.  Performing together for over a decade, the trio, comprised of violinist Curtis Macomber, cellist Michael Kannen, and pianist Marija Stroke, will perform Haydn’s Trio in D Minor, H.XV No. 23, Schumann’s Trio in D Minor, Opus 63, and Beethoven’s Trio in Eb Major, Opus 70 No. 2.
 
 
Macomber, Kannen and Stroke have performed at numerous music festivals both here in the U.S. and in Europe, particularly in England, Switzerland and France. Select festivals include Mostly Mozart in New York City, Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, and the Soirées des Junies Music Festival in Southern France, where they first played together in 1997. They have also performed at many prominent New York venues, such as Caramoor, Bargemusic, Avery Fisher Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2009 they debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and are currently recording the complete piano trios by Antonin Dvorak.
 
 
Violinist Curtis Macomber is considered one of the most versatile soloists and chamber musicians performing today. His discography includes over 20 recordings, ranging from complete Brahms String Quartets to the Roger Sessions Solo Sonata for Violin. Of the latter, the American Record Guide said, “This is one of the best recordings of 20th Century solo violin music ever made.” A member of the 20th Century Music ensemble Speculum Musicae, Macomber spent 11 years as first violinist of the Naumburg Award-Winning New World String Quartet. He is currently on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City.
 
 
Cellist Michael Kannen is the Director of Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Kannen, formerly of the famed Brentano String Quartet, has performed in major concert halls throughout the world, including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and frequently in New York at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
 
 
The New York Times called pianist Marija Stroke “delightfully extroverted…[and] splendid.” She has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the City of London Festival, and Chamber Music Northwest. Stroke has appeared in New York recitals at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 
 
The concert will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 11 at the historic Meeting House on the Green in New Marlborough. A wine reception will follow in the Meeting House Gallery. Tickets cost $25/$20. Students with ID and children with parents are admitted for free. Please visit http://www.newmarlborough.org or call 413.229.2785 for tickets, discounts and information.
 
 
JUAN MUNOZ FILM at THE CLARK
 
The Clark presents Will It Be a Likeness, a film version of the award-winning theater piece originally conceived for radio by the artist Juan Muñoz and the writer John Berger on Sunday, September 12 at 3 pm. Will It Be a Likeness? was originally presented in 1996 in Frankfurt and simultaneously broadcast by Hessischer Rundfunk and BBC Radio. Conducted in English with Spanish translations, the piece provides a fresh perspective on Muñoz’s work. The Clark is currently presenting an exhibition of the Spanish artist’s sculptures at its Stone Hill Center.
 
 
During his twenty-year career, Juan Muñoz (1953–2001) invented a mode of storytelling using objects that inspire new ways of relating to space, memory, and displacement. His first sculptures employed an architectural language of disappearance and loss—wood banisters in unused spaces and metal balconies estranged from buildings. Though early in his career Muñoz used an architectural vocabulary to tell stories about people, he turned his focus to the human body in the late 1980s.
 
 
Muñoz proposed the radio collaboration to Berger during a meeting in Istanbul in 1995, and Berger was "seduced by the idea." In this unique and surprising meditation on art and the imagination, Berger plays a radio commentator whose live program is interrupted by Goya's dog, three disappearing women, and a sound-effects artist.
 
 
The exhibition Juan Muñoz is on view at the Clark through October 17 and was curated by Carmen Giménez, Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, with independent curator David Breslin for the Clark. Breslin will provide a brief introduction to the film.
 
 
The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm (daily in July and August). Admission is $15 June 1 through October 31. Admission is free for children 18 and younger, members, and students with valid ID. Admission is free November through May. For more information, call 413 458 2303 or visit clarkart.edu.
 
 
RAILWAY CAFE KICKS OFF with ANTJE DUVEKOT
 
Singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot kicks off Railway Cafe’s 10th season on Friday, September 10th at 7:30pm at MCLA's Gallery 51, 51 Main St, North Adams, Mass. Duvekot has won some of the top songwriting awards including the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the prestigious, Kerrville (TX) "Best New Folk Award" and in one of the nation's top music markets, she won the Boston Music Award for "Outstanding Folk Act."
 
 
The Boston Globe says, "Duvekot has gotten hotter, faster than any local songwriter in recent memory. Her songs feel at once fresh faced and firmly rooted, driven by the whispery sensuality of her voice. She believes in the redemptive power of the shared secret; and is utterly unafraid to mine the darkest corners of her life for songs that turn fear into resilience and isolation into community". And Neil Dorfsman, the producer of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Sting says, "When I first heard Antje I knew I was witnessing something very special. She creates an entire, detailed world in verse, and takes you there with beautiful and understated melody. Her songs are stunning paintings of color and shade and always generate the heat and light that real art should. In an unpoetic and 'in your face' world, she is lyrical and subtle"
 
 
413.664.6393

 
CHARLES THOMAS O’NEIL’S PAINTINGS at SIMON’S ROCK
 
Charles Thomas O’Neil: Standing on the Peel, an exhibition by Stockbridge-based artist Charles Thomas O’Neil, kicks off the 2010-2011 season at the Liebowitz Art Gallery at Bard College at Simon’s Rock with an artist’s reception and gallery talk on Friday, September 10 at 5. The exhibition runs through Oct. 22. Standing on the Peel includes new work on panel and copper.
 
 
Born in New York City in 1966, O’Neil now lives and works in Stockbridge, Mass.. He received his B.S. in Fine Art and Art History from Skidmore College in 1988. In the summer of 2009 O’Neil’s abstract paintings were showcased alongside the work of early Modernists from the collection of the Berkshire Museum in an exhibition called Color and Form: The Language of Abstract Art. In recent years O’Neil has held solo shows with Lemmons Contemporary Art in Tribeca and Linda Durham Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The artist’s work can also be found in many public collections including the Portland Museum of Art, Asiel Corporation, Time-Warner, Inc. and Smith Barney, Inc.
 
 
Standing on the Peel includes new work on panel and copper. The curator of Color and Form, Helmut Wohl, wrote that O’Neil’s “manner of working is a fluid process, which he refers to as ‘push and pull’, in which shapes and colors emerge in playful combinations and interactions, the result of the possibilities that the space offers as well as those found by the artist as he works.” O’Neil states that his goal is for “the viewer to define what they are looking at - the forms are real enough to provocatively draw the viewer in but amorphous enough to keep one guessing.”
 
 
The Liebowitz Art Gallery is located within the Liebowitz building at Simon’s Rock, across from the College’s central campus at the intersection of Hurlburt and Alford Roads. The Art Gallery is open Friday - Sunday 12-5 p.m. and by appointment.
 
 
 
NEW MUSIC SERIES at WILLIAMS COLLEGE
 
The William College Department of Music opens the 2010-2011 concert season with a performance by department faculty members of the I/O Music Ensemble on Friday, Sept. 10, at 8 p.m. in the '62 Center CenterStage. The ensemble performs works by David Lang, Alex Mincek, and Rebecca Saunders among others. The free event is open to the public but does require tickets.
 
 
Directed by Steven Dennis Bodner and Matthew Gold, the ensemble presents pieces by faculty members David Kechley and Ileana Perez-Velazquez as well as David Lang, Alex Mincek, and Rebecca Saunders with musicians Thomas Bergeron, trumpet; Steven Bodner, saxophones and conductor, Stephanie Busby, bassoon; Matthew Gold, percussion; David Kechley, double bass; Chaz Lee '11, synthesizer; Nat Parke, cello; Jonathan Salter '02, clarinet; and Doris Stevenson, piano.
 
 
I/O Ensemble, the house band for THE BOX, kicks off the new season with Repeat, a program featuring recent works by Williams faculty composers David Kechley and Ileana Perez-Velazquez, and cutting-edge new music by David Lang, Alex Mincek, and Rebecca Saunders. I/O continues its exploration of the world of contemporary music, from Williamstown to its farthest fringes, with a program of new sounds and mangled grooves for small ensembles.
 
 
Concert hotline: 413-597-3146
 
 
WIYOS HOST VARIETY SHOW at HELSINKI HUDSON
 
When whaling ships of the old Hudson port met on the high seas, they usually held a “gam,” an exchange of visits -- a social time of trading, party, and song. In that spirit, GamVille, a variety concert hosted by old-time musical ensemble the Wiyos and featuring numerous special guests, takes place on Friday, September 10 at Club Helsinki Hudson in Hudson, N.Y., at 9. Among those expected to appear are Adam Matta, Ryder Cooley and Lady Moon, the Bleeding Hearts Belly Dance, Chris Neumann, and the Grand Track Railway (Jonathan Talbott, Sara Parrilli and Kip Beacco).
 
 
The Wiyos take their name from the toughest gang to prowl the streets of old New York (The Why’os, circa 1890). They have spent eight years touring extensively in the USA, Canada, France, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom. They are featured in the BBC television documentary, “Folk America – Hollerers, Stompers and Old-Time Ramblers”.
 
 
In 2009 The Wiyos were hand picked by Bob Dylan to tour for seven weeks as the opener of the Bob Dylan Show, with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. Their 2009 release, Broken Land Bell, sat in the top 20 of the AMA charts for 14 weeks. The Wiyos unique charisma transcends typical social boundaries. They appeal to everyone from young hipsters to seasoned music connoisseurs. They have emerged as a hallmark band in the resurgence of traditional American music over the past decade.
 
 
Friday Sept. 10th, Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia St., Hudson, N.Y.
9 pm, doors 8 pm, $15
 
 
IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION in HOUSATONIC MILL
 
Currents, an immersive video and sound environment by New York City-based artists Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo, is a site-specific installation on the third floor of an old mill in Housatonic, Mass. Currents is composed of video monitors, sound, objects and video projection. Walking through the 4,000 sq. ft. installation, visitors encounter many allusions to “currents” (water currents, electrical currents or the currents of movement in the body) while seeing images of Housatonic that they will recognize.
 
 
While Beck and Calvo worked in their peaceful studio, they spent a lot of time staring out the window, listening to the Housatonic River and surveying the landscape. As time passed, each of these elements began to make its way into their creative process, inspiring new manifestation of ideas that have been brewing in their work for some time. Housatonic became the perfect collaborator.
 
 
410 Park Street. 3rd floor (top floor of the Pulse building), Housatonic, Mass.
Open: Saturdays 12 - 5 pm and by appointment through September 18
For an appointment email: beckcalvo@hotmail.com
 
 
 
 
 

 

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