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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. - Charlie Parker
For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Saturday, November 18th, 2023 at Steel Wig Music, Composers Concordance presents 'Todd Rewoldt & Friends', a concert featuring new music for alto saxophone, piano, and guitar, to be performed by Todd Rewoldt - alto saxophone, Gene Pritsker - guitar, and Jai Jeffryes - piano. Featured compositions include Gene Pritsker's 'Bach and the Nanny-Goat Bassoonist II,' Aaron Alter's 'Social Situations,' and Kitty Brazelton's 'A Woman Alone, But Not Lonely,' plus music by William Anderson, Seth Boustead, Gilbert Galindo, Jane Getter, Denise Koncelik, Eugene W. McBride, and Dave Soldier.
Saxophonist Todd Rewoldt has performed at major concert venues throughout Sweden, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, China, Ireland, Australia, and throughout the United States, including festival appearances at Calgary New Music, World Saxophone Congress, Veneto International Jazz, Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, International Computer Music Conference, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, Carlsbad Music Festival, and Tribeca New Music. He has recorded on the Nonesuch, Aleppo, Warner Bros., and Composer’s Concordance labels, and taught master classes at Juilliard, Yale, Beijing Central Conservatory, Sydney Conservatorium, North Texas, UCLA, Temple, and USC. Todd is a Selmer Artist and performs on Selmer saxophones exclusively.
The concert will be live streamed on Composers Concordance's Facebook page.
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Listing Information
Composers Concordance Presents
‘Todd Rewoldt & Friends’
Featuring New Music
for Alto Saxophone,
Piano, and Guitar
Saturday, Nov. 18th, 2023
7pm
Steel Wig Music
939 8th Ave (56th St)
Suite 502, NYC
TICKETS
$20 in advance
$30 at the door
Facebook
Live Stream
Composers:
Aaron Alter, William Anderson,
Seth Boustead, Kitty Brazelton,
Gilbert Galindo, Jane Getter,
Denise Koncelik, Eugene W. McBride,
Gene Pritsker, Dave Soldier
Performers:
Todd Rewoldt - alto saxophone
Gene Pritsker - guitar
Jai Jeffryes - piano
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Staying in rotation for 40 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a new music presenting organization, it requires not only diligence and cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one's ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments, as well as talented new composers on the scene. Composers Concordance, founded in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish, advised by Otto Luening, strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways, with an emphasis on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic, Peter Jarvis, Debra Kaye, and Seth Boustead. Composers Concordance has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance Records, co-directed by Gene Pritsker and Shanan Estreicher. Composers Concordance's overriding vision is to promote contemporary music, composers, and new works as a rightful and respected part of society. Good music performed and recorded well, pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.
"Composers Concordance..a veritable New York new music institution of concerts, album production and multiple ensembles under a sweeping, tenacious brand, thriving on the emulsion of contemporary classical, free improv, jazz and rock, overt humor and fearless political statements, all very much in evidence..The ensemble..was masterful throughout.”- John Pietaro, The New York City Jazz Record
"An unwavering force in giving composers exposure through concert bookings and its own record label, the intrepid new-music organization Composers Concordance” - The Brooklyn Rail
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