The Interpretations Series 35th season begins Thursday November 7, 2024, 8:00PM with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers Marty Ehrlich and Ingrid Laubrock.A noted improvisor and multi-instrumentalist, Ehrlich will lead his septet in a new large-scale work combining composition, improvisation and poetry. The performers will include Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Ron Horton (trumpet); Erik Friedlander […]
Interpretations 4/11/24: David Behrman / Ben Neill
The Interpretations Series 34 season continues on Thursday April 11th, 2024 with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers David Behrman and Ben Neill.A composer and artist,Behrman will present current updates on a project he did together with Ben Neill and his Mutantrumpet in the 1980s and early 90s. The performers will be Neill on Mutantrumpet and John […]
Interpretations 3/7/24: Yuko Fujiyama / Reggie Nicholson
The Interpretations Series 34th season begins on Thursday March 7th, 2024 with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers Yuko Fujiyama and Reggie Nicholson. Pianist Yuko Fujiyama leads her trio Contemporary East with drummer Lesley Mok and dancer Miki Orihara. The trio will perform original compositions and improvisations with the aesthetics of Eastern expression. Drummer/percussionist Reggie Nicholson will lead his quintet, the Reggie Nicholson Brass Concept, with Eddie Allen (trumpet), Marshall Sealy (horn), Steve Swell (trombone), and Joe Exley (tuba). The group will perform Nicholson’s original compositions from the […]
Interpretations 4/13/23: Alexandra Gardner / Johannes Sidenius
The Interpretations Series 33rd season concludes on Thursday April 13th, 2023 with a split bill featuring the music of composers Alexandra Gardner and Johannes Sidenius. Composer Alexandra Gardner will present new and recent works for instruments and electronics, including Juniper for solo shakuhachi, and Ayehli for marimba and electronics, Seduction Involves Patience for viola & soundtrack, Cypress for baritone sax and soundtrack, and Lantana for soprano saxophone and soundtrack. With Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi, percussionist Jeff Stern, […]
Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey Reviewed in The Wire
Our Interpretations event with Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey on February 9th, 2023 has been reviewed in the April issue of The Wire Magazine:
Interpretations 3/9/23: Michael Byron / Dan Joseph
The Interpretations Series continues on Thursday March 9th, 2023 with a split bill featuring the music of composers Michael Byron and Dan Joseph. Byron’s program will include the premier of his new work In One Second There Will Be A Thousand Plateaus Perhaps for two pianos and small orchestra. A work about “sheer multiplicity which has neither subject nor object,” the piece will be […]
Interpretations 2/9/23: Tyshawn Sorey / Adam Rudolph
The Interpretations Series continues on Thursday February 9th, 2023 with composer/percussionists Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey.Continuing a creative association that began in 2018 with a series of percussion duet concerts at The Stone, Rudolph and Sorey will present a two-part collaborative program. The first half will feature a set of duo improvisations utilizing drum kit, […]
Interpretations 11/3/22: SCOTT ROBINSON / WADADA LEO SMITH
SCOTT ROBINSON / WADADA LEO SMITHNOV 3 AT ROULETTE The Interpretations Series continues on Thursday November 3rd, 2022 with split bill featuring the music of multi-instrumentalist/composer Scott Robinson & composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. A respected performer in all areas of jazz,Robinson will present Hypocycloid, a suite of original compositions based on a set of parametric […]
Interpretations 9/29/22: PETR KOTIK 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
PETR KOTIK 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION“MANY MANY WOMEN”SEP 29 AT ROULETTE, 6PM – MIDNIGHT The Interpretations Series opens its 33rd season on Thursday September 29th, 2022 with Petr Kotík’s monumental, six-hour piece Many Many Women (1975–78) performed by members of S.E.M. Ensemble under the composer’s direction. The performance will begin at 6:00PM and conclude at Midnight […]
INTERPRETATIONS SERIES SEASON 33
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Dan Joseph, 718-930-2286, info@interpretations.info The Interpretations Series returns for its 33rd season of leading contemporary composers, performers and improvisers. From September 2022 to April 2023, Interpretations will present five concerts at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info. […]
