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Merkin Manor - Music From Merkin Manor (US Psychedelic Rock 1973)

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2008-05-28 05:08:00 by ChrisGoesRock in ChrisGoesRock
...Merkin sprang out of the small town of Orem, Utah. Rocky Baum and Ralph Hemingway were high school friends, and occasionally Hemingway would sing along with Baum's guitar playing as something of a lark. By the summer of 1969, after a few years of playing together, the duo felt the absence of a backbeat, so they set out to make the twosome a...
 
Tags: merkin, merkin manor, merkin sound, merkin sprang, huronymous merkin, rock band, band, rocky baum, hinkins
 
 
 
 
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Sequiturs Latest Concert: Wednesday, April 30th at Merkin Concert Hall!

2008-04-29 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Merkin Concert Hall Double Trouble (2002) by Kurt Rohde Daniel Panner and Kurt Rohde, viola soloists For two violas and ensemble New York Premiere Piano Quintet (2004) by Chester Biscardi In Spite of All This (2005) by Missy Mazzoli For seven instruments Smoke N Wid (2006) by Richard Belcastro For four instruments New York Premiere The Human...
 
Tags: merkin concert hall, concert, york, york premiere, april 30th, kurt rohde, mary nessinger, mezzo-soprano, west 67th street
 
 
 
 
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Composer/Performers Lukas Ligeti and Colleen Present a Multi-Cultural Collage of Electronic, Minimalist Work 5/17 at Merkin Hall, NYC

2008-05-10 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Merkin Concert Halls Fast Forward series, two of todays top contemporary artists join hands for the first time for a one-night only collage of multi-genre and experimental music. Featuring composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti on electronic Marimba Lumina and French composer/multi-instrumentalist Colleen on her favored electric viola de gamba,...
 
Tags: lukas ligeti, kaufman center, melodic qualities conjures, infectious cross-cultural sound, merkin concert hall, electronic marimba lumina, colorful fusion, collage, improvisational pieces
 
 
 
 
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Anthony Coleman and Stephen Gosling at Merkin 5/22

2008-05-20 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
Pianoply: Anthony Coleman and Stephen Gosling May 22, 2008 8 pm In both solo and duo piano formations, Gosling and Coleman will perform György Ligetis Musica Ricercata and Steve Reichs mesmerizing Piano Phase, among their own compositions Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th St. 10023 More info
 
Tags: coleman, anthony coleman, duo piano formations, ligetis musica ricercata, merkin concert hall, perform gyrgy, steve reichs, piano phase, info
 
 
 
 
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Stephen Gosling and Anthony Coleman at Merkin Hall

2008-05-25 10:08:04 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday by the pianists Stephen Gosling and Anthony Coleman that featured works reinventing older styles or techniques, in some cases the composers own
 
Tags: anthony coleman, merkin concert hall, modern classical, pianists, composers, contemporary flourishes, styles, reinvention, review
 
 
 
 
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Quartet for the End of Time at Merkin on Tuesday

2008-10-28 03:27:15 by Christian Carey in Sequenza21/
 
Charles Neidich and friends are performing Messiaens Quartet for the End of Time and music by Israeli composers The program is below. You can check out the notes over at my blog http://www.sequenza21.com/carey/?p=257 Moshe Zorman - Hora for Violin and Piano Arnaud Sussmann, Violin Vincent Balse, Piano Menachem Wiesenberg - Like clay in the...
 
Tags: vincent balse, piano, quartet, charles neidich, time, gal nyska, arnaud sussmann, cello, violin
 
 
 
 
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January and February 2009 Calendar for Live Music in New York

2009-01-02 15:30:40 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...Merkin Concert Hall, 8 PM 1/11/09 the Lucy Moses Music Schools annual student jazz concert at Merkin Concert Hall, 3 PM, free 1/11/09 flamenco siren Maria Bermudez Chicana Gypsy Project in their only 2008 US performance at Drom, 7 PM, $15 - they make the Gipsy Kings sound like a bunch of amateurs 1/11/09 innovative Quebecois acoustic band...
 
Tags: band, hilarious cover band, superfine band, funny garage band, aware band, japanese ukelele band, barbes house band, adv tix, adv tix expensive
 
 
 
 
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A butterfly emerges

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2008-01-10 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Merkin Concert Hall has long been slightly frustrating. Its intimate space seating 450 people has a pleasingly clear acoustic with excellent sight lines, but the lobby and exterior were as cheerless and institutional as a high school cafeteria. No more In a dramatic transformation, Robert A. M. Stern Architects have completely reconfigured...
 
Tags: kaufman center, kaufman, hall, merkin concert hall, center, kaufman center orchestra, merkin, windowless space, merkin hall director
 
 
 
 
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Refurbished hall, piano on-and-on

2008-01-22 16:56:14 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
Merkin Concert Hall nipped and tucked, 14 pianists astride keyboard genres drew an overflow audience from 2 pm to 9 on Martin Luther King Day -- free of charge, and this jewel-box holds only 450, but the acoustics are swell, and so was some of the music. Of course, an open Steinway grand ought to sound fine, when played by a dozen-plus sensitive...
 
Tags: concert, concert director, unpretentious concert, hall, merkin, return merkin, concert circuit, martin, birnam wood