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.
George Lewis: The Empty Chair
Saturday, February 24, 1990. 8:30 pm
The Empty Chair: with David Behrman, Ray Edgar, Douglas Ewart, Don Ritter, and singer-actor Bernard Mixon. A NYSCA Commission. An extraordinary […]
Soldier String Quartet with William Schimmel
Sunday, December 17, 1989. 8:00 pm
Ron Lawrence, Laura Seaton, David Soldier, and Mary Wooten, “the Ramones of classical music”, perform an evening of unamplified […]
Jon Gibson & Nancy Topf
Saturday, December 16, 1989. 8:00 pm
Long-time partners/collaborators, the composer/choreographer duo perform both fixed and improvised material plus a new Gibson piece for solo […]
Lois V. Vierk
Friday, December 15, 1989. 8:00 pm
The composer with her band, lvv, featuring Theodore Mook, cello; David Seidel, electric guitar; James Pugliese, percussion. Works include Red […]
Phil Minton & Roger Turner
Monday, December 11, 1989. 8:00 pm
From London, the vocalist and percussionist doing ‘the Most Radical Music ever…but more extreme.’ Phil Minton comes from […]
Lenny Pickett
Sunday, December 10, 1989. 8:00 pm
Solo reeds and tape. Bad Dreams, the multi-instrumentalist’s music for choreographer Bebe Miller’s Big Sleep. Lenny Pickett is a […]
David Pleasant and the Multi-Ethnic-African-Music-Ensemble
Saturday, December 9, 1989. 8:00 pm
M.E.A.M.E. (Multi Ethnic African Music Ensemble) features the drummer/percussionist with guests Yekk Music and Pat Hall-Smith.
Linda Fisher, Brenda Hutchinson, Annea Lockwood Day 2
Friday, December 8, 1989. 9:00 pm
Three of the most vital and creative voices in the electronic music scene in individual and collaborative works over two evenings. Linda Fisher […]