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.
Jim Staley w/Elliott Sharp, Jim Pugliese
Sunday, December 9, 2001. 9:00 pm
See the man think through his trombone. See him lose his thoughts and merge with his trombone. See the trombone begin to think for itself. New […]
Ned Rothenberg
Saturday, December 8, 2001. 9:00 pm
The composer and master reedman (sax, bass clarinet, shakuhachi) in duos with two unique and highly individual pianists, Denman Maroney and Jon […]
Greenpot Bluepot
Friday, December 7, 2001. 9:00 pm
Varyingly described as a “nutball, genuine freaky original, intense weirdo, and virtuoso of awkwardology” Greenpot Bluepot’s […]
Theo Bleckman
Thursday, December 6, 2001. 9:00 pm
Origami, an exploration into unsuspected emotional and expressive possibilities of the voice by using an exquisitely detailed collection of […]
Judy Dunaway
Wednesday, December 5, 2001. 9:00 pm
The premiere of balloon virtuoso and composer Dunaway’s For Balloon and String Quartet, featuring the Flux Quartet. Using balloons as […]
Michelle Kinney
Sunday, December 2, 2001. 9:00 pm
Do you remember sheep? What does the “sorrow string” sound like? Poet W.S. Merwin’s words about nature with titles like As Is, […]
Rosi Hertlein
Saturday, December 1, 2001. 9:00 pm
The Improvising Chamber Ensemble is Dave Taylor, bass trombone; Vincent Chancey, French horn; Howard Johnson, bass clarinet; Jay Rosen, drums; […]
Gregg Bendian
Friday, November 30, 2001. 9:00 pm
The composer’s Trio Pianissimo: Balance, with Steve Hunt, piano; John Lockwood, bass; and Bendian on drums and percussion. Bendian has […]
Dreiky Caprice
Thursday, November 29, 2001. 9:00 pm
Fantastic Light uses the composer’s mixture of the Willing Lung Choir, live and electronic percussion, strings, synths and found […]
Mark Dresser
Sunday, November 18, 2001. 8:30 pm
Twisted Tributes and Transformations, a series of new solo contrabass pieces exploring ideas of transformation and presented in the context of […]