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Kyle Miller and ETHEL

ETHEL with Kyle Miller, electric guitar

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Acclaimed guitarist-composer Kyle Miller joins the ever exciting and eclectic string quartet ETHEL for a dynamic program rooted in their shared New York City songbooks.

$25 – $30
The Bergamot Quartet

The Bergamot Quartet: Three World Premières

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

The ever-innovative Bergamot Quartet performs world premières – by Samuel Adler, Louis Karchin, and Eli Greenhoe. The virtuosic yangqin player Cheng Jin Koh joins the quartet for a performance of her work Mountain of Echoing Halls.

$25 – $30
Clockwise from top left: Astor Piazzolla (Eduardo Comesana) Charles Ives (Smithsonian Institution), George Gershwin, Bela Bartok.

Poetica Musica: Inspired by the Village

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

New York-based chamber group Poetica Musica presents a concert celebrating composers inspired by Greenwich Village and the East Village – among them Astor Piazzolla, George Gershwin, Charles Ives, Bela Bartok, and William Anderson. Featuring guitarists Oren Fader and William Anderson; flutist Barry Crawford; pianist Molly Morkoski; and soprano Eleanor Valkenburg, artistic director of Poetica Musica.

$15 – $20
Leonard Bernstein backstage with visitors during a young peoples concert intermission. Nina Bernstein Simmons, photo by Steve Sherman

Classical Cool! Kids’ Concert hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Taking a leaf from the Maestro’s inspirational Young People’s Concerts, this family concert celebrates the legacy of conductor, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein and also honors the 150th anniversary of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). Classical Cool! includes works by Bernstein and Saint-Saëns’ whimsical family favorite Carnival of the Animals, performed by The Village Trip Festival Orchestra conducted by Victoria Bond and with narration by Nina Bernstein Simmons.

$20 – $35
Lynn Raley and James Martin

Village Voices: With James Martin, baritone & Lynn Raley, piano
World Premières of New Work by David Amram, Carman Moore & Maria Thompson Corley

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

The world première of Five American Voices, a song cycle by David Amram, “the renaissance man of American music” and Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip. The work “reflects the diverse voices of our cultural mosaic” and features settings of writings by Carolyn Cassady, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ron Whitehead, Ted Joans, and Tom Piazza. The piece was commissioned by the Roger Shapiro Fund for The Village Trip and will be performed by baritone James C Martin, and pianist Lynn Raley.

$25 – $30

‘Impressions and Strokes’ by Rainer Gross

World Central Kitchen Fundraiser

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

World Central Kitchen is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We, as artists, support this non-profit organization with our music and poetry, helping to raise awareness and money for their worthy cause by organizing this event and inviting everyone to join us in supporting World Central Kitchen. 
Presented by Composers Concordance in association with The Village Trip.

$25 – $30
Clarice Assad and Ceylon Mitchell

From the Courtyard

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

“Art preserves life in a very special way. Our memories die with us, but art preserves the values and experiences” – Undine Smith Moore

From the Courtyard first recreates the sounds of an East Village tenement courtyard, shared by multicultural immigrant families, then moves into the concert hall to hear how the rich legacy of folk music inspired later generations of composers. The concert features a premiere by Clarice Assad.
Presented in cooperation with the Tenement Museum.

$20 – $30
Adam Tendler and Hayley-Laufer Duo

Genius & Invention: Schoenberg, Ives, Cage & Harrison – An Exploration American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Celebrating ground-breaking composers Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives at 150 with the Hayley/Laufer duo’s stunning interpretation of the lushly expressionistic Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Ives’ violin and piano sonata. Plus Varied Trio and early keyboard music by unlikely Schoenberg students  Lou Harrison and John Cage. 

$20 – $30
Anderson The Village Guitar Orchestra

The Village Trip GuitarFest 24: Featuring soloists Oren Fader and Giacomo Fiore American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

GuitarFest 24 expands on American Primitive, with the wildly inventive Ictus Novus, the Curtis Guitar Quartet, soprano Sharon Harms, and many of New York’s best guitarists. It features music by American Primitives John Fahey, and Julián Carrillo and works by Paul Lansky, Kyle Miller, David Amram, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, and Gary Philo, among others.

$20 – $30
Kevin Gorman pianist

William Bland: Village Maverick American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Kevin Gorman, praised for his “passion, technical facility and explosive tonality,” (Fanfare Magazine) is a champion of the piano music of maverick composer, poet, painter William Bland. He has performed and recorded Bland's epic cycle of piano sonatas for Bridge Records to great acclaim.

$15 – $20

Mascha Kaléko poet

Seeking Refuge: Sounding loss and displacement

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Poet Mascha Kaléko is your guide to an afternoon of song and chamber music that explores the themes of loss, isolation and displacement common to so many refugees. Soprano Sharon Harms is joined by pianist Joan Forsyth and guitarist William Anderson to perform music by Dawe, Hailstork, Pollock and more.

$25 – $30

The Village Trip GuitarFest III – Finding Beauty in Small Things – Mel Powell to Chester Biscardi

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Among the finest guitarists of all time” (American Record Guide), David Leisner will perform three solos written for him by Chester Biscardi, Laura Kaminsky and Bun-Ching Lam. Guitarist Xingxing Yao, from Hangzhou performs Mel Powell; Chilean guitarist Sebastian Molina, Bowers Fader Duo, and more…

$25 – $30
Mel Powell and Benny Goodman

The Village Trip GuitarFest II – Mel Powell Centenary – My Guy’s Come Back

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

The TVT GuitarFest assembles a formidable group of guitarists from all over the Western Hemisphere for a 3-day festival of new and old music for guitars. GuitarFest II focuses on the centenary of jazz legend Mel Powell.

$25 – $30
Kees Wieringa and Simeon ten Holt

Piano & Dance: Kees & Winter Wieringa: Dutch Minimalist Simeon ten Holt and Greenwich Village

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Pianist Kees Wieringa performs music from the Netherlands and Greenwich Village, including Simeon ten Holt, Jacob TV, Alvin Curran and Phillip Glass. Simeon ten Holt's "Solo Devil's Dance 4" was specially written for Winter Wieringa and will have its world premiere, in collaboration with dancers from New York.

$25 – $30

Adam Tendler and Vicky Chow

Glass Houses: Celebrating Philip Glass at 85

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

The Village Trip partners with Victoria Bond and Cutting Edge Concerts to celebrate the legacy of ground-breaking composer Philip Glass.

$15 – $20
The Jazz Expressions

Charlie Parker & Stefan Wolpe

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Charlie Parker was crucial to the development of bebop, a uniquely American artform that thrived in Greenwich Village. Composer Stefan Wolpe fled the Nazis and settled in the Village, teaching avant-gardists and jazz musicians alike, forming a friendship with the jazz radical.

$20 – $25
adriana valdez and kitty brazelton village voices

Village Voices

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Greenwich Village has been home to some of America’s greatest creative minds – poets, composers, innovators, iconoclasts, and free-thinkers. Sopranos Sharon Harms and Adriana Valdes join pianists Joan Forsyth, Cathy Kautsky, Gavin Cappon and the Village Guitar Orchestra to perform songs by Henry Cowell, John Cage, Edna St Vincent Millay, Djuna Barnes, Robert Frost, Margaret Bonds, James Baldwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Tania Leon and Willa Cather. Exciting new settings by composers William Anderson, Nehemiah Luckett, Jonathon Dawe, Kitty Brazelton and Gavin Cappon enliven the program.

$15 – $20
Bowers Fader Duo

Bowers Fader Duo

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Cutting Edge Concerts joins The Village Trip to present the Bowers Fader Duo performing both classical and contemporary repertoire. Their ongoing mission is to promote new American art songs for mezzo and guitar, through commissions, performances, and recordings.

$15 – $20
David Del Tredici composing

Secret Music: Celebrating David Del Tredici at 85

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Pianist Marc Peloquin performs music of the great American composer and long-time resident of the West Village, David Del Tredici, as part of his 85th birthday celebration. Also included on the program will be works by composers affiliated with Del Tredici, including Robert Helps and Dennis Tobenski.

$15 – $20
Cygnus Ensemble Allison Loggins-Hull

7th Ave. S, Cygnus Ensemble

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Apologies, but we have had to postpone this event due to Covid.
In the New York Times, Paul Griffiths described Cygnus as an "enterprising and supple group featuring guitars, strings and woodwinds in pairs….” Composer Allison Loggins-Hull’s latest work, 7th Ave. S. calls for an electric guitar, bridging into the psychedelic sound-world of Greenwich Village, and telling her Village Stories in three movements.
Renowned soprano Leah Brzyski will join Cygnus for the premiere of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Gypsum, setting of poems by Diedre Huckaby.
Carman Moore riffs on “Cygnus” in Swans Across the Milky Way.

$15 – $20
Jack Kerouac Classical Jack

Classical Jack: Chamber Music Which Inspired Kerouac and Music Inspired by Him

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Musically as important as Beethoven,
Yet not regarded as such at all
So wrote Jack Kerouac in the 240th chorus of Mexico City Blues, speaking of Charlie “Bird” Parker, whom he regarded as the perfect musician. But Jack’s love of jazz did not diminish his great love for classical music and his knowledge of it. His innate musicianship, of course explains the music of his prose, and his ability to improvise words to music, as he did with his old friend David Amram. The program will include works by J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, and Amram performed by a group of distinguished musicians: pianist Yoshiko Kline, saxophonist Ken Radnofsky, and violist Consuelo Sherba.

$15 – $20
Anderson The Village Guitar Orchestra

The Village Trip GuitarFest:
Ah, Let’s go Back to the Village

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Celebrate the Jack Kerouac centenary with the world premiere of David Amram’s Ah, Let’s Go Back to the Village, a chamber music composition commissioned by The Village Trip and based on text from Kerouac’s book Lonesome Traveler. Tilted Axes – twenty electric guitars – kick off this unique guitar extravaganza. There follows a program of South American guitar music, and twenty classical guitarists wrap up, joining David Amram, who will jam on his score for the Robert Frank film Pull My Daisy.

$15 – $20

David Del Tredici composing

David Del Tredici, in Black and White

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

This event will also be livestreamed.
Pianist Marc Peloquin celebrates the keyboard music of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Westbeth composer, with whom he enjoys a symbiotic relationship

$10 – $20
Harold Meltzer Daniel Lin

An Evening of Chamber Music by Harold Meltzer

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

This event will also be livestreamed.
A journey through the “graceful, sensual and contemplative” sound worlds of the much-garlanded East Village composer

$10 – $20