Karl Berger at the Stone

We missed this one, folks. . . or were you there?

Karl played at The Stone in NYC on June 27.

It was "a CD release concert, with world-premiere performances of compositions/improvisations from Karl's Tzadik Release 'Strangely Familiar', introspective 'Miniatures for Piano Solo' (Tzadik Records)." http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=0

CMS Luminaries Celebrate

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Go to symphonyspace.org for more info.

More "Different Music"

There will be a repeat of this spring's "Different Music" Festival to benefit the Creative Music Studio's Archive Project

Friday October 10

8 PM
Joe Giardullo / Harvey Sorgen
"seraphic hep & the magic of juju"

9:30 PM
Marc Black Band
"his songs are great and his singing is superb"
- Paul Winter

Saturday October 11

4:30 PM
Rehearsal: The CMS Orchestra ( free audit )
"Woodstock Orchestra Workshop"

7:00 PM
John Lindberg and Eric Watson
A performance for double bass and piano
supported by Grants from Chamber Music America and
Meet the Composer and co-sponsored by Planet Arts, Inc

8:30 PM
CMS Woodstock Orchestra
conducted by Karl Berger
with Ingrid Sertso, voice, Don Davis, sax + clar., Peter Buettner, sax + flute, Jayna Nelson, flute, Sylvain Leroux, flutes + sax, Joe Giardullo, sax, Bob Selcoe, Paul Henderson, trumpet, Tomas Ulrich, cello, Ted Orr, guitar, John Lindberg, Tom Schmidt, bass, Tani Tabbal, drums

10:00 PM
Futu Futu
legendary Woodstock Worldbeat Band,with Joakim Lartey, Chris Lane, Ted Orr, Peter Buettner, Dean Jones, Mike Colletti, Jamiles Lartey

Colony Café, Woodstock, NY, 22 Rock City Road
creativemusic@verizon.net www.creativemusicstudio.org
$ 20 per day, $ 35 both days, seniors and students $ 15 / 25

Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, and Anthony Braxton

Talk about your cosmic, international, coincidental convergences:

I was talking with Karl Berger a few weeks ago, and he told me that Anthony Braxton had happened upon a concert that Karl and Ingrid were doing in Italy. They talked and agreed that a recording project with the three of them would be a fine and worthy thing to do. Karl seemed enthused and pleased at the outcome of their chance encounter.

Shortly after that, while on vacation with the family and waiting for our luggage at the Geneva airport, big whacky coincidence number two (maybe bigger and whackier than the first, given the context of my conversation with Karl) comes along. I looked up and who should I see, also waiting for his luggage? Did you guess Anthony Braxton?

How weird! I hadn’t seen Anthony since 1977 or ’78 at the Creative Music Studio. I went over to chat, and he corroborated his meeting with Karl and the upcoming project.

Look for the recording (I don’t know when it will happen), and if you ever run across Anthony Braxton in an airport, make sure you go up and say hi.