AURAS September 19 Tuesday 8pm Hendricks Chapel Syracuse University

Music by Cambodian composer

CHINARY UNG (Grawemeyer prize) & Vietnamese composer & Emmy

winner VANESSA Van-Ahn V0, dan tranh zither

Guest artists: sopranos Elissa Johnston & Kathleen Roland, Society All-Stars Heather Buchman, conductor

The CABINET of Dr. CALIGARI October 20 Friday 7pm Palace Theater 2384 James St., Syracuse

premiere of score by DONALD SOSIN for this iconic 1920 silent film, the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema in conj. with Syracuse International Film Festival & LeMoyne College

Society All-Stars w/

Colgate Chamber Singers

CURRENTS of DARK & LIGHT November 5 Sunday 3pm Grace Episcopal Church 819 Madison St., Syracuse

Music from 2014 – 2016 by LERA AUERBACH, DAVID HEUSER HAROLD MELTZER, JUDITH SHATIN & Israel Prize winner ALEX STEPHENSON

Society All-Stars

PUSHED ASIDE

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE opera

by PERSIS PARSHALL VEHAR

January 21 Sunday 4pm Carrier Theater, Civic Center, 411 Montgomery

libretto by Gabrielle Vehar fully staged PREMIERE w/ orchestra

Heather Buchman, conductor

Cast: Danan Tsan, Laura Enslin, Julia Ebner, Jonathan Howell Steve Stull, Greg Sheppard

MANY WORLDS February 25 Sunday 3pm Park Central Presbyterian Townsend & E. Fayette

PREMIERE of commissioned work by KEVIN ERNSTE, STEPHEN FERRE* 2nd perf, NY Fed. of Music Clubs

Israel winner SIMON FRISCH & ALEX BURTZOS+ (poems by Jonathan Aprea, S.U. grad student)

Society All-Stars

Society Music . . . on the road . . .

Sept. 29 – 11:15am Recital Hall, OCC Scenes from Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage Arts Across Campus series

October – Gage opera scenes in all 4 Syracuse City High Schools

Nov. 1 – 12:30pm Gage opera scenes at Utica College

Feb. 3 – Hobart-William Smith Colleges, Geneva MUSIC FROM THE HEART OF NY

Upstate Cancer Center VA Hospital Golisano Children’s Hospital

FRESH INK Sundays at 2pm on WCNY-FM

WJNY-FM, WUNY-FM & streaming online at www.WCNY.org

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+ Brian Israel winner *commissioned composer

VISION of SOUND APRIL 8 SUNDAY 4pm, Carrier Theater, Civic Center New works by 6 Upstate composers collaborating with 6 regional choreographers, w/ electronics & video

Society All-Stars & regional dancers –- a feast of sight & sound.

Music by DIANE JONES, SALLY LAMB McCUNE+*, MARK OLIVIERI*, OCTAVIO VAZQUEZ, JAMES GORDON WILLIAMS, DOC WOODS*

Also performed at Hamilton College, Wellin Hall April 7.

The Society for New Music is funded in part by grants from the NYS Council on the Arts, with the support of Gov. Cuomo & the NYS Legislature – GOS &

AIE, Copland Fund, Central New York Community Foundation, Amphion Foundation, Syracuse Sounds of Music Assoc., Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation, John Ben Snow

Foundation, County of Onondaga, administered by CNY Arts, Richard Mather Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation & private donations.

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2017-18 season (46th)

AURAS8pm Tuesday September 19Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University

The CABINET of Dr. CALIGARI7pm Friday October 20Palace Theater, 2384 James St.

CURRENTS of DARK & LIGHT3pm Sunday November 5Grace Episcopal Church, 819 Madison St.

PUSHED ASIDE4pm Sunday January 21Carrier Theater, 411 Montgomery St.MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE opera

MANY WORLDS3pm Sunday February 25Park Central Presbyterian, Townsend & E. Fayette

VISION of SOUND4pm Sunday APRIL 8Carrier Theater, Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St.

Great program! Amazing organizationTerrific concertAwesome recordingWOW . . . Love the festival!

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