Music: Past
Roulette’s Concert Series for New + Adventurous Music, launched in 1978, presents a wide range of experimental music including avant-jazz, new music, opera, world music, and electronic. This eclectic series features the work of well-known innovators in contemporary music, but a large percentage of the Series is devoted to emerging artists and composers.
John Zorn: Game Pieces
Saturday, May 6, 2017. 8:00 pm
Zorn hosts an assembly of great players in a display of strategy, tactics, and musical chutzpah for his classic game pieces, Cobra & Hockey.
RBA: RIYAAZ QAWWALI – A World in Trance Festival – 3rd Edition!
Sunday, April 30, 2017. 7:00 pm
Riyaaz Qawwali performs the ecstatic improvisational Sufi vocal tradition.
RBA: NIYAZ featuring AZAM ALI – A World in Trance Festival – 3rd Edition!
Saturday, April 29, 2017. 8:00 pm
Niyaz seamlessly blends Sufi poetry and folk songs from its native Iran and surrounding countries.
RBA: CHARTWELL DUTIRO – A World in Trance Festival – 3rd Edition!
Friday, April 28, 2017. 8:00 pm
Voices of the Ancestors: Mbira Music of Zimbabwe
[GENERATE] Spectral Streams: ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) and Ensemble L’Itinéraire
Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 8:00 pm
Three generations of French and American music, from Gérard Grisey's Périodes to a new work by 2016 Rome Prize winner Christopher Trapani.
[GENERATE] Ensemble FIRE & Momenta Quartet: Huang Ruo’s Sonic Garden
Monday, April 24, 2017. 7:00 pm
Five new pieces by Huang Ruo performed by The Momenta Quartet and Ensemble FIRE and solo works performed by Huang Ruo.
RBA: LAKOU MIZIK with special guest PAUL BEAUBRUN
Saturday, April 22, 2017. 8:00 pm
Haitian Roots & Grooves
[DANCEROULETTE] Stephanie Skura: Surreptitious Preparations For An Impossible Total Act
Wednesday, April 19, 2017. 8:00 pm
Night 2 with seven age-defying stellar improvisers. Oxymoronic scores create fluid narratives illuminated by nuanced presence.
[DANCEROULETTE] Stephanie Skura: Surreptitious Preparations For An Impossible Total Act
Tuesday, April 18, 2017. 8:00 pm
The director/performer, a multi-generational 7tet of improvisers, and oxymoronic scores of fluid narratives illuminated by nuanced presence.
INTERPRETATIONS: Thomas Buckner w/ Earl Howard, JD Parran, Ted Mook, & Andrew Drury – Works by Annea Lockwood, Sam Ashley, Earl Howard, & Daniel Rothman
Thursday, April 13, 2017. 8:00 pm
Thomas Buckner (baritone) with JD Parran (winds), Andrew Drury (percussion), Earl Howard (electronics), and Theodore Mook (cello) […]