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.
The Soho Pops
Saturday, April 26, 1986. 9:00 pm
The enigma meets the perfect entertainment… Beethoven, Rossini, fifties television music, tangos, sambas, waltzes and more arranged and […]
Mikel Rouse
Friday, April 25, 1986. 9:00 pm
Broken Consort presents new work from the forthcoming LP ‘Minor Scale’ with pieces for saxophone, piano, electric bass and drums. To […]
Takehisa Kosugi
Monday, March 24, 1986. 9:00 pm
Violin Concert, melodies include tango Argentino, Chanson de Paris, simultaneously performed with electronic media.
Jim Staley, Elliot Sharp, and Wayne Horvitz
Sunday, March 23, 1986. 9:00 pm
Trombonist Staley has been contemplating the dynamics of threes. Mr. Sharp’s edgy guitars and processed bass clarinet go chasing spirals, […]
Tim Berne
Friday, March 21, 1986. 9:00 pm
New works for an ensemble of Berne’s alto sax; Marty Ehrlich, bass clarinet and flute; Hank Robert, cello; Lindsey Horner, acoustic bass; […]
Yves Musard
Thursday, March 20, 1986. 9:00 pm
Antipodes, a new dance in solo by the French born choreographer known for his bursts, jerks, flows, compression, drive, and bizarrely eccentric […]
Borah Bergman
Thursday, March 20, 1986. 9:00 pm
Upside Down Visions, by one of the most luxuriant of all pianists to wax and wane on the Roulette piano. We pass a hat to fund the inevitable […]
Zeena Parkins & Chris Cochrane
Wednesday, March 19, 1986. 9:00 pm
Two important downtown improvisers (both went on to join many influential groups, including Parkins’ tours and recordings with Bjork) perform […]
Jill Burton, Edward Rollin
Sunday, March 16, 1986. 9:00 pm
A vocalist of dexterity and imagination, Burton performs solos and her Music for Sleeping Vegetables, with percussionist Yuval Gabay and Kumiko […]
Gordon Monahan
Saturday, March 15, 1986. 9:00 pm
Piano Mechanics, from Toronto, the composer/performer makes an ordinary piano sound like airplanes, voices, insects, other musical instruments, […]