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the dirty hearts

Sep 17, 2008 10:21 AM

Thank you so much for your friendship and support!! Keep in touch!

Hey we are The Dirty Hearts. We have a new record called "Pigs," and a music video, "Record Store" that you will enjoy.
Take a listen & let us know
Merkin Concert Hall

Sep 16, 2008 8:00 PM

Come and hear Israeli Jazz and Klezmer by Omer Klein (world premiere of Septet for jazz trio and string quartet)

and

Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars raise the roof with some of New York's finest brass players!

See you there!
James Harries

Sep 5, 2008 4:18 PM

Thanks for the add and moreso for listening! ~James
Rhys Chatham

Jul 3, 2008 4:40 PM

Thanks for visiting.

Merci de m'avoir fait écouter la musique que tu as postée sur ton site.

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Hey! How about G3 with strings! :-)

Best - Rhys
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Jun 3, 2008 8:53 PM

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Face the Music

Feb 13, 2008 1:28 AM

This is our review in the 1/30 Jewish Daily Forward:

The evening’s feel good hit may well have been Face the Music, an ensemble of two dozen members of Special Music School P.S. 859 — a New York City public school for 135 gifted children — that performed Ira Moskowitz’s “Kol Aharon” (“Aaron’s Voice”). Directed by Jennry Undercofler, “Kol Aharon” was commissioned by the Special Music School for this gala evening, and, along with trumpet, cello, bass, flute, horn and viola, included an intriguing digital soundtrack. As for the young virtuosos’ concert garb? They all wore T-shirts in yellow, aqua, blue, red and lilac! Adding to the ensemble’s charm and skill, two pint-sized piano artists — Brian Ge and Farrah Dupoux — managed to play the piano with verve while peering over the baby grands’ music stand to make eye contact with the conductor. Priceless.
Face the Music

Jan 24, 2008 9:18 PM

Another NYT review! From 1/23 (Wednesday), Allan Kozinn:

"The program began away from the keyboard, when Face the Music, an ensemble of 15 students from the Kaufman Center’s music schools, performed — unleashed, really — Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Poème Symphonique” for 100 metronomes (1962) in the hall’s mezzanine. The work involves letting the metronomes (set to different tempos) tick until they all run down, a process that took about 25 minutes and yielded constantly changing rhythms and textures.

Later in the afternoon Farrah Dupoux and Brian Ge, students from the center’s Special Music School, gave a vigorous, clear-textured performance of John Adams’s part-mechanistic, part-whimsical piano duo “Hallelujah Junction” (1996). "
Face the Music

Jan 19, 2008 2:33 AM

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Face the Music

Jan 16, 2008 1:54 PM

This is from the New York Sun review:

"But as was the case in the Niederhoffer/Unterberg foyer, the stars of the night were the child musicians. Violinist Haley Billia, 12, aced her solo in Ira Mowitz's "Kol Aharon," performed by the Face the Music ensemble.

"I really love the school. It's not competitive at all," Haley, who has studied violin since she was 4, said.

Ramin Abrams, 10, played the double bass in the ensemble. He attended the event with his parents and his brother, Justin, 15, who studies at the Special Music School while also enrolled at the Professional Children's School."
Face the Music

Jan 10, 2008 6:31 PM

Actually, here's the text that pertains to us:

The program ended, appropriately, with a performance by Face the Music, an ensemble of two dozen students (strings, flutes, two pianos, a horn and a trumpet) from the Special Music School. Conducted by Jenny Undercofler, the young musicians presented the premiere of a new version of Ira J. Mowitz’s “Kol Aharon” (“Aaron’s Voice”). The solo violin part, ably played by Haley Gillia, is demanding: fidgety music that shifts from virtuosic flights to elegiac musings. Often the solo violin floats almost unperturbed over the atmospheric hum of the ensemble, enriched with a digital soundtrack that includes the mumbling voice of the composer’s young son.
Face the Music

Jan 10, 2008 6:25 PM

CHECK OUT OUR NYTIMES REVIEW: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/arts/music/10merk.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
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