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Music on the Edge

Elliott Sharp and the Sirius String Quartet at the Warhol

The Andy Warhol Museum sharp_sirius.jpg Music on the Edge and The Andy Warhol Museum present Elliott Sharp and the Sirius String Quartet. Tickets purchased in advance through ProArts: $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors, Call 412-394-3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org. Service fees apply. Tickets at the door: $15 and $8 Pitt students: Free with ID. Press Release Music on the Edge and the Warhol present guitarist/composer Elliott Sharp and the Sirius String Quartet “…an amazing group of musicians and musical visionaries...” — Indie Style On January 10th, 2009 Music on the Edge and The Andy Warhol Museum, two of Pittsburgh's most adventurous arts organizations, unveil their new collaboration with a performance by legendary guitarist/composer and improvisor extraordinaire Elliott Sharp and the equally influential Sirius String Quartet. The concert will feature the U.S. premieres of Elliott Sharp's Momentum Anomaly for solo guitar and Volpak Volapuk for guitar and string quartet. Also on the program are works for string quartet by Sirius violinist Gregor Huebner, and Fred Frith.

RATED X: Clarinetist Jean Kopperud and Pianist Stephen Gosling Push Contemporary Music to Extremes

Bellefield Hall Auditorium koppgoshigh1.jpg Music on the Edge presents clarinetists Jean Kopperud and pianist Stephen Gosling Tickets purchased in advance through ProArts: $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors, Call 412-394-3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org. Service fees apply. Tickets at the door: $15 and $8 Pitt students: Free with ID. Press Release Music on the Edge Presents RATED X: A Recital of Premieres with Clarinetist Jean Kopperud and Pianist Stephen Gosling “Ms. Kopperud has the technique and imagination to make nearly anything sound interesting…” Mr. Gosling’s playing is “luminous and poised” — The New York Times Music on the Edge continues a season of diverse and adventurous programming with RATED X: A Recital of Premieres presented by clarinetist Jeanne Kopperud and pianist Stephen Gosling, both outstanding proponents of the music of our time. Kopperud commissioned seven prominent composers to create works inspired by extreme circumstances or situations. The resulting program contains intense reflections on fear and aggression (Steve Ricks' Amygdala), torture (Jason Eckardt's Rendition), and current conflicts in the Middle East (Harvey Sollberger's Nemesis). Pitt composer Eric Moe's Grand Prismatic is an homage to the thermopiles (microorganisms that only thrive in extreme environments) that cause the brilliant colors in Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring. In his notes to Grand Prismatic Moe invites the listener to "meditate on the similarities between thermopiles and other creators of breath-taking beauty who toil away in apparently hostile environments."

Music on the Edge and the Warhol present violinist Mary Rowell and pianist Geoffrey Burleson

At The Andy Warhol Museum rowellburl.jpg Music on the Edge and The Andy Warhol Museum present Mary Rowell and Geoffrey Burleson Performing music by George Antheil, Jon Appleton, Eve Beglarian, Amy Kohn, Vincert Persichetti, Julia Wolfe, and Arvo Pärt Tickets purchased in advance through ProArts: $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors, Call 412-394-3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org. Service fees apply. Tickets at the door: $15 and $8 Pitt students: Free with ID. Press Release: Music on the Edge and the Andy Warhol Museum follow up the highly successful launch of their collaboration with a concert by Violinist Mary Rowell and Pianist Geoffrey Burleson. Both prominent figures in New York's new music scene, Rowell and Burleson will present an eclectic program that ranges from the ethereal atmosphere of Arvo Pärts famous Fratres to the experimental pop of Amy Kohn's Snow to Cement. In between those poles Rowell and Burleson present works by Gerogre Antheil (Sonata for Violin, Piano and Drum), Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe (Mink Stole), and the Pittsburgh premiere of Jon Appleton's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano. Burleson will add solo piano works by David Rakowski and Vincent Persichetti to round out the program.

Music on the Edge and the Warhol present Alarm Will Sound

The New Hazlett Theater aws360.jpg Music on the Edge and The Andy Warhol Museum present Alarm Will Sound “...as close to being a rock band as a chamber orchestra can be.” –The New York Times “...überhip....” –Entertainment Weekly The critically acclaimed chamber orchestra brings 1969 to life at the New Hazlett. Tickets purchased in advance through ProArts: $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors, Call 412-394-3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org. Service fees apply. Tickets at the door: $15 and $8 Pitt students: Free with ID. Update: Final Press Release Music on the Edge and the Andy Warhol Museum cap off the first season of their highly successful collaboration with the groundbreaking chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound performing their new music-theater event 1969. Through music, drama, and video 1969 seeks to encapsulate the extensive cross-pollenization between popular music and the avant-garde that characterized the 60s and 1969 in particular. The event incorporates music from both The Beatles (A Day in the Life, Revolution No. 9, etc.) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (Hymnen, Stimmung, and more), as well as works by Luciano Berio, excerpts from Leonard Berstein's Mass and much more.

Something for Everyone

Starting next Friday there are enough outstanding events taking place in the span of five days that any one could easily get lost in the shuffle, so here's a summary of what's on deck. Friday October 10: Pitt Night at the Symphony $12-$25 depending on seating area for Pitt students, faculty and staff

Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra, Roger Zahab, conductor

adamsjohn.jpg John Adams Roger Zahab leads the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra in a program featuring John Adams' Shaker Loops Amy Williams' Cineshape 2 Jonny Greenwood's (Radiohead) Popcorn Superhet Receiver Roger Zahab's vibrant life Including a pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m. by John Adams, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2008–09 Composer of the Year Bellefield Hall Auditorium Tickets purchased in advance through ProArts: $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors, Call 412-394-3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org. Service fees apply. Tickets at the door: $15 and $8 Pitt students: Free with ID. Press Release: Pitt's acclaimed contemporary music series Music on the Edge kicks off its most ambitious season yet when Roger Zahab conducts the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra in a concert highlighting John Adams' Shaker Loops and Jonny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver. John Adams is the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Composer of the Year and he will give a pre-concert talk for all in attendance as part of a city-wide celebration of his residency with the PSO. Jonny Greenwood, perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for Radiohead, is also an accomplished concert music composer. He served in 2004 as the BBC's Composer-in-Residence and created the score for the Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood. Rounding out the program are Amy Williams' Cineshape 2 and Zahab's vibrant life. Williams and Zahab are both on the faculty of Pitt's Department of Music.