Spectrum

10/24/2024

Spectrum Mini-Festival of European Composer-Performers Performers (and Steve Beck!) on Saturday 16 November - Kicking off at 2 PM with a Jerome Combier portrait concert, followed by 3, 4 and 5 PM sets of Sophie Dunér solo, Sophie + Steve Beck performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's Tierkreis, and finishing off with a Steve Beck solo piano performance.

Admission is $20 General / $10 Students & Seniors.

Superb Steinway Model B piano provided courtesy of Steinway Pianos at Park Avenue Pianos.

Venue graciously provided by BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition.

10/13/2024

Here is the official George Crotty Trio flyer for the upcoming Spectrum event - Sunday 20 October. 4 PM set by GC Trio, 5 PM set by Cornelius Dufallo and Guy Barash.

Come enjoy what is likely to be excellent weather and what certainly will be excellent music.

Venue graciously provided by BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition.

Piano provided courtesy of Steinway Pianos at Park Avenue Pianos.

10/07/2024

Sunday Salon: Piano+ event at Spectrum.

New YorkCity; Sunday6 October 2024.

09/21/2024

We regret that, due to transportation difficulties beyond our control, the artist for this evening will not arrive in a timely fashion. We therefore are canceling Spectrum 's 5:30 PM concert today.

09/20/2024

Angel Blanco - Quartertone guitar improvisation.
American Festival of Microtonal Music
Johnny Reinhard - Director; Jun 22, 2017

Angel returns to Spectrum tomorrow (Saturday 21 Sept) at 5:30 PM.

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09/20/2024

The Morton Feldman piece being performed tomorrow (Saturday) at Angel Blanco's 5:30 PM Spectrum guitar recital, "The possibility of a new work for electric guitar," was diligently rescued from obscurity by Berlin guitarist Seth Josel.

The one copy of the original piece (deep pre-digital era) was lost in a car theft. Dr. Josel's explains that he reconstructed the piece from "source materials that were kindly provided to me by the Sacher Stiftung and Other Minds." This version is available form Edition Peters (see link below).

Find out more about Feldman, Morton - The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar.

09/20/2024

Spectrum opens its 2024-25 season tomorrow (Saturday) at 5:30 with a notable succession of bangs (e.g., Paganini) and whimpers (e.g., Morton Feldman), all courtesy of eclectically-ambitious (and ambitiously-eclectic) guitarist Angel Blanco.

I know, Angel Blanco (in red jacket), caught here in Moscow on his recent tour, looks a bit too wild to play Morton Feldman, come and see for yourself. Also on the program are electric guitar transcriptions of Paganini and Angel's compositions "Tribute" and "Omaggio a Ligeti."

Full program:

Elegy….Hebert Vazquez
Andante…Domingo Prat
Étude for left-hand…Julio Sagregas
Capricci…Niccolo Paganini
Eternal Spiral + Cuban Landscape with Bells…Leo Brouwer
Little Prelude…Augusto Novaro
Prelude Impromptu + Cadenza…Julián Carrillo
The possibility of a new work for electric guitar…Morton Feldman
Cadenza for electric guitar…Blas Galindo
Tribute…Ángel Blanco
Omaggio a Ligeti…Ángel Blanco
Photo: Ángel Blanco

09/19/2024

Overlapping with Angel Blanco's characteristically-low-key Spectrum recital (Paganini transcriptions for electric guitar, etc.) at 5:30 PM: Opening event 1-6 PM this Saturday (21 September) at BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition: An excellent (and robustly-subscribed) exhibit concept.

Embracing a delightfully-Parisian tradition, every artist rejected for this year's annual Brooklyn Museum exhibit (and applies to this Salon) will be allowed to hang one work - evidently NO questions asked (other than: "Were you relegated to the 'No' category?")

08/19/2024

Nostalgia! The lead graphic for a McKinsey Global Institute article on clean-energy transition feature objects that look very much like the hex Simmons digital-percussion triggers from the 80s (e.g., Bill Bruford / King Crimson).

A queue-up of "Frame by Frame" could be just the thing.

McKinsey Global Institute research examines 25 physical challenges that must be overcome to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

06/15/2024

Spectrum is thrilled to present the first inaugural Van Brunt Solstice Festival, at Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition in Red Hook. Curated by stalwarts of the experimental music scene Gabriel Zucker and Aaron Edgcomb, the Festival presents nine sets across two stages, featuring a wide-ranging sampling of some of the most exciting improvising musicians in New York City, including several site-specific performances, and multi-media interactions with local artists.

Spectrum, 481 Van Brunt St, Door 7A
June 15, 6pm-11:30pm

Steinway Piano generously provided by Steinway Pianos at Park Avenue Pianos.

This largest-yet Spectrum is at the site of our generous partner, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), in a pre-Civil War warehouse with views of the Statue of Liberty and (from inside the venue) excellent, over-water sunsets.

06/13/2024

I had a great visit with Stuart Diamond to a soon-to-be-reopened museum of music instruments and technology. Here we are sitting on an comfortably-upholstered Mini-Moog simulacron.

Wednesday 12 June 2024.

05/16/2024

4 PM, Sunday 19 May at Spectrum: Junwen Liang performs piano music from four centuries: Bach, Chopin, Ned Rorem, Wanghua Chu and Catherine Likhuta. FOllowed by Stanford Chung, Shahzad Ismaily and Andrea Scala performing music from their new album, “ENDROLL”

Directions to Spectrum: 481 Van Brunt, Door Brooklyn NY 11231. Directions: Go to end of Van Brunt St. on Red Hook waterfront. 481 is the last building on left. Go to end of the building (through gate) & around the back. 3rd door is 7A; go upstairs.

Venue generously provided by BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition.

Steinway Piano generously provided by Steinway Pianos at Park Avenue Pianos.