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The Way of Mountains and Desert
Paul Barnes is the featured artist in the opening concert of the 2023 Season. Performing the New York premiere of The Way of Mountains and Desert by Native American flutist and composer Ron Warren, he will be joined by James Nyoraku Schlefer who performs his composition Sidewalk Dances on the shakuhachi. Nyoraku Schlefer will be joined by a string trio to perform Rashomon by Victoria Bond. Barnes’s arrangement of Sacagawea by Philip Glass, with whom he has a long history of collaboration, features Ron Warren on Native flute. Additional works by Ron Warren fill out the program, which culminates in an improvised duet by the two flutists. For further program details, see below.
This program is made possible by the generous support of Liana K. Sandin and the Pearle Francis Finigan Foundation.
Enjoy videos from our 2022 season!
The theme for our 2022 Festival was ‘Bringing People Together’. Because of the stress, loneliness and isolation of the past year, Welltone New Music believes now is the time to bring people together with music that expresses uplifting spiritual themes of hope. To accomplish this, Cutting Edge Concerts will bring together four arts organizations during the 2022 season that share its vision, performing in different locations throughout the metropolitan area, along with live streaming offerings, and producing a season that powerfully expresses our theme.
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with keyedup music project
10.22.22
Tenri Cultural Center, 43A West 13th Street, NY, NY 10011
Robert Helps: Recollections and Epilogue
Marc Peloquin, piano
Victoria Bond: Goodbye My Fancy (Walt Whitman)
Art and Science (Albert Einstein) Dennis Tobenski, baritone; Marc Peloquin, piano
Dalit Warshaw: Different Loves performed by the composer
Victoria Bond: Illuminations on Byzantine Chant
Marc Peloquin, piano
David Del Tredici: Gay Life performed by Dennis Tobenski, baritone; Marc Peloquin, piano
Cutting Edge Concerts partners with The Village Trip!
September 17: Bowers/Fader Duo
September 23: Philip Glass at 85
4.6.22
From the Atlas of Imaginary Places
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Percussia
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
33-50 82nd Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372; 4:30 – 6:00PM
Victoria Bond: From the Atlas of Imaginary Places
Alexis Lamb: Murmuration
Dennis Tobenski: Starfish
click/tap here for video archive of Percussia’s partnership
5.13.22
How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Mostly Modern Projects
Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker Street, NY, NY 10012; 8:00 PM
Tickets: www.sheencenter.org
How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct
Victoria Bond, composer; Stephen Greco, librettist; Doug Fitch, director; Victoria Bond, conductor
Cast: Ariadne Greif; Glen Seven Allen; Peter Van Derick
Herschel Garfein: Untitled Work
Robert Paterson: The Companion
6.12.22
Japan Songs
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Kyo-Shin-An Arts
Tenri Cultural Center, 43A West 13th Street, NY, NY 10011
Featuring composers Aleksandra Vrebalov, James Nyoraku Schlefer, Paul Moravec, Douglas Cuomo, Jay Reise, and Victoria Bond
10.22.22
From an Antique Land
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with All Keyed Up
Tenri Cultural Center, 43A West 13th Street, NY, NY 10011
Robert Helps: Recollections and Epilogue
Marc Peloquin, piano
Victoria Bond: Goodbye My Fancy (Walt Whitman)
Art and Science (Albert Einstein) Dennis Tobenski, baritone; Marc Peloquin, piano
Dalit Warshaw: Different Loves performed by the composer
Victoria Bond: Illuminations on Byzantine Chant
Marc Peloquin, piano
David Del Tredici: Gay Life performed by Dennis Tobenski, baritone; Marc Peloquin, piano
Concert Programs
4.6.22
From the Atlas of Imaginary Places
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Percussia
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 33-50 82nd St, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Victoria Bond: From the Atlas of Imaginary Places
Alexis Lamb: Murmuration
Dennis Tobenski: Starfish
5.13.22
How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Mostly Modern Projects
Victoria Bond: How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct with Stephen Greco, librettist; Doug Fitch, director
Herschel Garfein: King of the River
Robert Paterson: The Companion
6.12.22
Japan Songs
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with Kyo-Shin-An Arts
Featuring composers Aleksandra Vrebalov, James Schlefer, Paul Moravec, Douglas Cuomo, Jay Reise, and Victoria Bond.
10.22.22
Cutting Edge Concerts in partnership with All Keyed Up
Robert Helps: Recollections and Epilogue
Marc Peloquin, piano
Victoria Bond: Goodbye My Fancy (Walt Whitman)
Art and Science (Albert Einstein) Dennis Tobenski, baritone; Marc Peloquin, piano
Dalit Warshaw: Different Loves performed by the composer
Victoria Bond: Illuminations on Byzantine Chant
Marc Peloquin, piano
David Del Tredici: Gay Life performed by Dennis Tobenski, baritone; Marc Peloquin, piano
