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Schedule // Little William Theater Festival of New Music
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Each Saturday from 1:00 to 4:00pm, a different duo will perform new works written for the festival. Approximately 25 new works will be performed every weekend to audiences of two at a time. Concerts are FREE and open to the public.
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FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC BEGINS week 1
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, August 7
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music kicks off this weekend with the performance of a new work for two trumpets by Ben Johnston entitled Goin. Following this, Andrew McIntosh and Andrew Tholl will perform new works for two violins in our coatroom-theater. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 96 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
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Saturday, August 14
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC – WORKS FOR ACCORDION week 2
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 2, with duo accordion pieces performed by Daniel Corral and Isaac Schankler. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.Works to be performed this weekend:
Greg Davis
Robin Hayward
Jeffrey Treviño
Jacob David Sudol
Lona Kozik
Liza White
Antje Vowinckel
Eric KM Clark
Linda Caitlin Smith
Marc Sabat
Sam Pluta
James E. Klopfleisch
Casey Thomas Anderson
Laura Steenberge
Lainie Fefferman
Rama Gottfried
Jenna Lyle
David Kant
Andrew Rowan
Ryan Tanaka
Roberto Azaretto
John Bischoff
Douglas Detrick
Larry Polansky
Nicholas Deyoe -
Saturday, August 21
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC – OPEN INSTRUMENTATION & TEXT SCORES week 3
1:00 to 4:00pmScott Cazan and Chris Kallmyer step in to perform scores of open instrumentation with a variety of objects including, but not limited to: glasses, bowed guitars, violins, pots and pans, and possibly an inductive amplifier. Come check out a unique week in the Little William.
Works to be performed this weekend:
Cat Lamb
Yolande Harris
Joseph Kudirka
Michael Deragon
Isaac Schankler
Bibi Calderaro
Julia Holter
Martin Hiendl
Andrew Bucksbarg
Casey Anderson
Douglas Barrett
Marc Sabat
Adam Overton
Chris Kallmyer
Scott Cazan
Gary Schultz -
Saturday, August 28
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC – TUBA WORKS week 4
1:00 to 4:00pm
The festival of new music continues into week 4, with experimental tuba pieces performed by Luke Storm and Doug Tornquist.Works to be performed this weekend:
Helgeson, Aaron
McWhorter, Brian
Sabat, Marc
Schultz, Gerhard
Kudirka, Joseph
Soper, Kate
Smith, Linda Caitlin
Clark, Eric
Bellerue, Bob
Coons, Lisa R.
Sudol, Jacob
Azaretto, Roberto
Lyle, Jenna
Fefferman, Lanie
Griffith-Loeb, Brian
Narveson, Jascha
Vowinckel, Antje
Polansky, Larry
Anderson, Casey
White, Liza
Krebs, Anette
Orsher, James
Lamb, Catherine
Deragon, Michael
Kozik, Lona -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, September 4
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 5
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 5, with new works for clarinet duo! The pieces will be performed by Brian Walsh and James Sullivan. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 96 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
Mark Menzies
Scott Gresham-Lancaster
Matt Sargent
Scott Cazan
Daniel Kant
Lem Jay Ignacio
Aaron Helgeson
Julia Holter
Carolyn Chen
Julien Ponvianne
Bibi Calderaro
Isaac Shankler
Kate Soper
Robin Hayward
Ulrick Krieger
Douglas Detrick
Laura Steenberge
John Bischoff
Hans Koch
Martin Hiendl
Andrew Bucksbarg
Douglas Wadle
Antje Vowinckel
Andrew Rowan
Jeffrey Trevino
Liza White
Linda Caitlin Smith
eric KM clark
Nicholas Deyoe
Mark Applebaum
Larry Polansky -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, September 11
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 6
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 6, with experimental accordion! The pieces will be performed by Daniel Corral and Isaac Schankler. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 97 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
Works to be performed this week:
Matt Sargent
Ulrich Krieger
Chris Kallmyer
hans w. koch
Daniel Matej
Chris Porter
Lisa R. Coons
Brian Griffeath-Loeb
Michael Deracon
John P. Hastings
Carolyn Chen
James Orsher
Yolande Harris
Cat Lamb
Mark So
Bob Bellerue
Joseph Kudirka
Brian McWhorter
Annette Krebs
Adam Overton -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, September 18
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 7
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 4, with experimental tuba! The pieces will be performed by Luke Storm and Doug Tornquist. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 96 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
Nicholas Deyoe: music for two tubas in a coatroom
Andrew Tholl: hammer duos
Michael Jon Fink: Almost Over
Mark Applebaum: Coat Room
Laura Steenberge: 42 (for two tubas)
Adam Overton: Paraphrase Piece
Martin Iddon: Almagestes
Matthew Hough: Tubist’s Dilemma
Erik Ulman: Duo II for 2 Tubas
Mark So: Two Tubas
Rama Gottfried: Two Tubas
Andrew Rowan: Gorilla Tape
Christian Wolff: Four Small Duos
Scot Gresham-Lancaster: Solutions for two Tubas
Hans W. Koch: fo(u)r t(w)o play: tubular cells
Chris Kallmeyer: creosote
Gregory W. Brown: Mordida no rabo
Justine F. Chen: hppy brthdy stdy n. 3
Charlie Gurke: Preponderance of the Small
Daniel Corral: Tuba Round
Julien Pontvianne: 2 Minutes for 2 Tubas
Daniel Matej: Little William’s Machine Music No. 2 (for two tubas)
Julia Holter: Flower, flower
Ken Steen: Little William’s Dioramas, 4 Duo Entertainments (after Daguerre): Little William’s Tubas
Aaron Helgeson: Oceans of nothing (IV) -
Saturday, September 24
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC – WORKS FOR VIOLIN week 8
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 7, with duo violin pieces performed by Andrew McIntosh and Andrew Tholl. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.This week . . .
1. Daniel Corral – Two Violins For About Two Minutes
2. Ken Steen – Little William’s Violins
3. Mark Trayle – Duet: Silkworms
4. Julia Holter – Flower, flower
5. Michael Deragon – swarm: eight
6. Mark Applebaum – Coat Room
7. Joseph Kudirka – Bowed Instrument(s)
8. Matthew Hough – Violinist’s Dilemma
9. David Kant – Harmony Studies: Duets no. 2 for two violins
10. Gregory W. Brown – What the Snow Hides
11. Matt Sargent – comforts fail
12. Scot Gresham-Lancaster – Solution for 2 violins
13. Scott Cazan – Still
14. Ulrich Krieger – Hammer House #4
15. Lona Kozik – Escape Velocity
16. hans w. koch – fo(u)r t(w)o play
17. Robin Hayward – Comma Machine
18. Erik Ulmam – Duo IV for 2 violins
19. chris kallmyer – Santa Clarita, CA 3/15/10 [9:00 am]
20. Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh – Condensation and Rarefaction
21. Christian Wolff – Four Small Duos
22. Brian Griffeath-Loeb – Beach Hat Minis
23. Adam Tinkle – Coat Room I: Symmetry Study
24. Brian McWhorter – Build
25. Jacob David Sudol – Four Broken Reflections -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, October 2
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 9
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 8, with new works for clarinet duo! The pieces will be performed by Brian Walsh and James Sullivan. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 96 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
Mark Trayle
Justine Chen
Christian Wolff
Chris Kallmyer
Ken Steen
Michael Jon Fink
Gregory W. Brown
Peter Ablinger
Laura Steenberge
Catherine Lamb
Nick Didkovsky
Adam Tinkle
Jacob David Sudol
Mathew Hough
Sam Pluta
Michael Deragon
Adam Overton
Gerhard Schultz
Jascha Narveson
Yolande Harris
Jenna Lyle
Bob Bellerue
James Klopfleisch
Carolyn Chen -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, October 9
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 10
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 9, with experimental accordion! The pieces will be performed by Daniel Corral and Isaac Schankler. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 94 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
This week’s selection:
Andrew Mcintosh
Charlie Gurke
Scott Pinkmountain
Adam Tinkle
Nick Didkovsky
Jascha Narveson
Lem Jay Ignacio
Gerhard Schultz
Scott Gresham-Lancaster
Erik Ulman
G. Douglas Barrett
Ken Steen
Scott Cazan
Mark Trayle
Daniel Corral
Kate Soper
Julia Holter
Aaron Helgeson
Andrew Bucksbarg
Andrew Tholl -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, October 16
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 11
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 10, with experimental violins! The pieces will be performed by Andrew McIntosh and Andrew Tholl. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 94 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
This week’s selection:
1. C.R. Kasprzyk
2. Justine Chen
3. Roberto Azaretto
4. Andrew Tholl
5. Martin Iddon
6. Kate Soper
7. Julien Pontvianne
8. Aaron Helgeson
9. Nicholas Deyoe
10. Gerhard Schultz
11. Martin Hiendl
12. Yolanda Harris
13. James Orsher
14. G. Douglas Barrett
15. Annette Krebs
16. BibiCalderaro/Isaac Schankler
17. Eric KM Clark
18. Colin Woodford
19. Olivia Block
20. Adam Fong
21. Daniel Matej
22. Scott Pinkmountain
23. casey thomas anderson
24. Lisa Coons
25. Christian Wolff -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, October 23
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 12
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 11, with experimental TUBA! The pieces will be performed by Luke Storm and Doug Tornquist. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 94 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
This week’s selection:
Memory Hole – Colin Wambsgans
Coat Room II – Adam Tinkle
Kingdom Through a Keyhole – Jeffrey Trevino
Tubas for Algernon – Sam Pluta
Miniature I – Douglas Detrick
Thrush Nightingale – Carolyn Chen
Harmony Studies – David Kant
Seven (6) – Scott Cazan
Stupa – James Klopfleisch
Two by Two – Yolande Harris
Composition for La Monte Young – Marc Sabat
on the arc of travels that have no beginning – Gerhard Schultz
Hammer House #2 – Ulrich Krieger
March 10, 2010 – Eric deLuca
Kleine Muenze – Martin Heindl
Maychine – Antje Vowinckel
Miniature I – Annette Krebs
Stars & Stripes – Peter Ablinger
44 Notes for Two Tubas – John Bischoff
Music for Mansions – Andrew Bucksbarg -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, October 30
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 13
1:00 to 4:00pmThe Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 12, with new works for clarinet duo! The pieces will be performed by Brian Walsh and James Sullivan. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.
Pieces to be performed this week:
Eric DeLuca
Andrew Tholl
Eric Ulman
Greg Davis
G. Douglas Barrett
Mark So
Chris Porter
John P Hastings
Daniel Matej
Brian Griffeath-Loeb
Brian McWhorter
Lainie Fefferman
Rama Gottfried
David Kant
Andrew Rowan
Ryan Tanaka
Roberto Azaretto
Lona Kozik
Lisa R. Coons
Annette Krebs
Liza White
Kate Soper
James Orsher
Joseph Kurdirka
Marc Sabat
Casey Thomas Anderson -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, November 13
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 14
1:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music continues into week 13, with experimental accordion! The pieces will be performed by Daniel Corral and Isaac Schankler. Each piece is under two minutes in length, and seating is first come, first served basis.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 97 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.
Works to be performed this week:
Pontvianne, Julien
Harris, Yolande
Detrick, Douglas
Holt, Danny
Wadle, Douglas
Brown, Greg
DeLuca, Erik
Schankler, Isaac
Wolff, Christian
Hough, Matthew
Hiendl, Martin
Applebaum, Mark
Ablinger, Peter
Block, Olivia
Chen, Justine F
Clark, Eric KM
Fink, Michael Jon
Fong, Adam
Golia, Vinny
Iddon, Martin
Kasprzyk, Cory
Overton, Adam
von Schweinitz, Wolfgang
Woodford, Colin -
at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, November 20
FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC week 16
12:00 to 4:00pm
The Little William Theater Festival of New Music closes its doors after 16 weeks of new, experimental works. With over 375 pieces premiered over the last four months, we host a special four-hour run with works for two clarinets, and two tubas in our coatroom theater. We will close the festival with a new work by the legendary composer, Ben Johnston. The piece, ‘Goin’ was commissioned for the Little William Theater opened the festival in August, and will be closing it at 4pm this Saturday.The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 94 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum. All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length.