Published: November 5, 2006

THE WEEK AHEAD: Nov. 5-11

Classical

Allan Kozinn

Last year a group of pianists intent on shining a spotlight on contemporary keyboard composition banded together to present KEYS TO THE FUTURE, a festival devoted to new and recent scores.

For this year's installment, six pianists (Polly Ferman, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore, Tatjana Rankovich, Joseph Rubenstein and Lora Tchekoratova) will play 27 works. Modern classics are included, among them Toru Takemitsu's "Rain Tree Sketch II" and Henri Dutilleux's "Jeu des Contraires" and works by Luciano Berio, Leo Ornstein and Arvo Pärt, but there will be 10 premieres. And the stylistic range is as eclectic as can be, touching on music by Osvaldo Golijov and Lowell Liebermann, Latin-tinged scores by Astor Piazzolla, Pedro Saenz and Juan José Ramos, a work by Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and a couple of Christopher O'Riley's piano arrangements of Radiohead songs.

Tuesday through Thursday at 8p.m., Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, West Village, (212) 242-4770, keystothefuture.org; $15, $10 for students and 65+.

 

  Published: November 5, 2006

Classical Music Listing

Keys to the Future Festival 2006

Renee Weiler Concert Hall at Greenwich House Music School. 8pm; $15, students $10.

Pianist-composer Joseph Rubenstein curates a three-concert series that takes an expansive view of the contemporary piano repertoire. In tonight's opening concerts, Rubenstein is joined by new-music champions Blair McMillen and Lisa Moore, in works by Ornstein, Dutilleux, Fred Hersch, Howard Skempton, Bruce Stark and Radiohead. The series continues on Wed 8 and Nov.9.

 

Published: November 6, 2006

Classical Music

“KEYS TO THE FUTURE”

The ambitious festival of contemporary piano music, under the command of Joseph Rubenstein, returns for a second year with three contiguous concerts. In the first, Rubenstein and two other acclaimed artists, Blair McMillen and Lisa Moore, offer music new and old by Ornstein, Dutilleux, Fred Hersch (“Twenty-Four Variations on a Bach Chorale”), and the British iconoclast Howard Skempton.

(Greenwich House, 46 Barrow St. 212-242-4770. Nov. 7-9 at 8. For details, see www.keystothefuture.org.)