The Composers Concordance presents a concert Friday, May 18, 2007, 8PM at the Greenwich House Music School Renee Weiler Concert Hall, 46 Barrow Street, NYC.

We traverse a wide range of styles of contemporary music from Jeff Harrington's Blue Strider for piano, performed by Paul Hoffmann, which mixes ragtime and New Orleans jazz into a minimal fabric to the haunting sound world of John Eaton's Sor Juana Songs, based upon the 17th century Mexican poet, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, commonly considered to be one of the greatest poets of Latin America. Jennifer Roderer, mezzo-soprano, an Eaton devotee, performs the intricacies of this spellbinding work with great affection.

A team of dueling cellists, Soren Beech and Daniel Barrett deliver a "knockout punch" to Moscow composer Kirill Umansky's Long and Short Lines, a work which exaggerates the interplay and melodic contours of two cellos, which play contrasting parts.

Patrick Hardish's exploration of a unique sonorous world will be heard in his captivating Sonorific Duo, written for the duo team Due East, consisting of new music dynamo Erin Lesser, flute and percussionist Gregory Beyer, who will play and bang on a wide variety of percussion instruments. Like several of Hardish's recent works it is an essay in color and timbre partly achieved through the use of extended techniques on the flute and percussion instruments.

George Boziwick goes for the lyrical side of things with an ensemble piece Goliard Suite written for the Goliard Ensemble, a talented group with piano, violin, cello and trombone, featuring group leader James Blanton, tenor. The composer will join the ensemble on harmonica and add another color to the already unusual chamber combination.

Not to be outdone, we test the limits of audibility and compositional audacity in an amplified piece by Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino, Come vengono prodotti gli incantesimi? This solo flute piece, with unusual sounds amplified, will be navigated by new music's Erin Lesser. Sciarrino's work strips music down to a few basic elements: timbre and silence being hallmarks of the composer's well-known and musically controversial style.

From the lyrical to the audacious to the practically inaudible, we're again "all over the map" of new music with Composers Concordance. Come join us in experiencing the huge musical variety of our own time. There will be a reception following to mingle with composers, performers and enthusiasts. Tickets $12, $10 students/seniors. TDF accepted. See you there!