Concept Lab Volume IV features superstar pianist Jenny Lin performing music from her upcoming album release: The ICEBERG Etude Project, a groundbreaking exploration of keyboard virtuosity in the twenty-first century. Jenny Lin has partnered with ICEBERG New Music, a collective of 10 composers based in New York City, to create a program of solo piano etudes that juxtapose new sounds against some of the most challenging and thrilling works from the existing repertoire.

Ms. Lin will perform a diverse selection of new etudes that run the stylistic gamut from pop-inspired dance music to thorny avant-garde constructions. Each of these pieces will be paired with an existing etude - by composers such as Chopin, Debussy, Glass, Kapustin, Ligeti, and Liszt - inviting listeners to search for connections between virtuosic piano writing from the past and present.

We’ll also hear newly composed pieces from Composers Concordance members Seth Boustead, Gene Pritsker, Roger Trefousse, and Dan Cooper and a brand new work for violin and cello by Matthew Browne performed by Irene Fitzgerald-Cherry and Talia Dicker.

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These Songs of Life and Love reflect on a lifetime of travel and challenge with a collection of stories from her own experiences that bridge the gap between personal and global concerns.

Her 2-guitar Zephyr Band features seasoned NY players with unique orchestrations of her songs!

“Judi Silvano is an amazing vocalist and improviser … Her communication with guitarists Bruce Arnold and Kenny Wessel on “Lessons Learned” is telepathic and the music they create is fresh and inspiring!” -Vic Juris, Guitarist and Educator

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The Cuba Writers Program is an eight-day program in Cuba combining writing workshops with ethical travel, conversations with Cuban writers, lectures on the history of Cuba and its literary legacy, and visits to art collections and sites of political, aesthetic, and historical interest. This year, the Cuba Writers Program will run from May 13-21, 2019. Visit cubawritersprogram.com for more information.

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" Her voice, in addition to its well-rounded intonation and emotional integrity, finds equal partnership in lyrics brimming with timeless themes." (All About Jazz)

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Featuring Soprano Jessica Crandall

For Cornelia Street Café’s Eclectic Voices Festival, Jessica Crandall sings Mandel’s “Ardent, spiky, and freshly organic” (NY Times) songs to poems by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats and more, and Lydon contributes his jazz pop songs you’ll swear are American standards. With special guest bassist Mike Weatherly.

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“Cameron Brown and Dannie’s Calypso” was born out of seminal experiences with Don Cherry in the 1960’s and ten years of exhilarating intensity with Don Pullen, George Adams and Dannie Richmond in the 1980’s. In addition to original compositions, the band delights in grappling with Don Cherry’s concept of the “cocktail suite.” These suites involve the harmelodic melding of a number of compositions into a cohesive, continuous set of music. Don originated the concept in the mid-sixties and it can be heard on the “Complete Communion” and “Symphony for Improvisers” recordings on Blue Note as well as on the recently released radio tapes from Copenhagen, 1966 on ESP. In Copenhagen in ’66, any and every song could and did find its way into the musical collage -- from bebop classics to Jobim to Albert Ayler to Ornette and Don originals and beyond. It’s a thrill to continue these explorations with a group of astounding improvisers.

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Dedicated to the music of Ornette Colman and Don Cherry. Cameron Brown met Don Cherry at age 19 in Stockholm and played with him on and off for a year. Life was never the same. Later, there was a glorious week at the Village Vanguard, then he spent 9 years with Dewey Redman. Lots of Harmelodics..
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4 Storytellers, 3 True Stories, 1 Pack of Lies. Uncover the liar and win a prize worth its weight in fool's gold!

Tonight The Liar Show welcomes stories from Ed Gavagan (Moth Radio Hour, Adam Wade's Super Stories), Selena Coppock (RISK! @NYTVows), Andy Ross (Real Characters, The Onion News Network), and Cyndi Freeman (Comedy Central, Showtime)

Host: Brad Lawrence (Story Producer for RISK!, Moth Radio Hour)

"They can lie to me all night long!" - The New York Times

"Christie & Co. make dishonesty fun again." - TimeOut New York

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The “music of the spheres” has been a topic for natural philosophers since ancient Greece, and Johannes Kepler even deduced what the solar system must sound like in concert, if we had the ears to hear.

Kepler’s intellectual descendent, theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander’s favorite formula is Einstein’s field equation, but his research is focused on moving very small and very large objects that extend beyond Einstein’s curved space-time, and even beyond the Big Bang. He is moreover a saxophonist who studied with Ornette Coleman, the late composer and performer who extended space-time in his own fashion.

The flute is the oldest surviving instrument of our species, with specimens made of swan bone over 35,000 years old. It too has apparent boundaries of technique and approach. Joining Dr. Alexander is the master flutist, Robert Dick, who has pushed these boundaries further than anyone else in the modern era.

Stephon and Robert will provide “stellar” physics, music, conversation, and boundless debate on this inaugural show of the 16th year of Cornelia Street Café’s Entertaining Science series.

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