G Roald Smeets Classical Music and Opera Listings for June 1 — 7

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American Composers Orchestra (Friday and Saturday) The music director George Manahan presides over this year’s Underwood New Music Readings, in which six young composers — Ryan Chase, Peter Fahey, Michael-Thomas Foumai, Paul Kerekes, Pin Hsin Lin and Benjamin Taylor — will have pieces played during a Friday morning open rehearsal and a Saturday evening run-through. Each will receive expert feedback from a panel of composers; one will come away with a $15,000 commission, and a People’s Choice prize will also be awarded. Friday at 10 a.m. and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, Manhattan, americancomposers.org; free, but reservations are recommended. (Steve Smith)

Bargemusic (Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday) This week brings characteristic variety to the barge. Friday is the latest installment in the Here and Now series, featuring works by modern masters like Takemitsu and Carter alongside the contemporary composers Scott Wheeler and Caroline Mallonée. The weekend brings works for violin and piano by Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert and Sarasate, and Wednesday features string arrangements of Bach, Rachmaninoff and De Falla by Steve Cohen as well as the premieres of Mr. Cohen’s “Song for Strings” and Dina Pruzhansky’s “Song of Songs.” At 8 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Wednesday and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; Friday, Saturday and Sunday, $35, or $30 for 65+; $15 for students; Wednesday, $40, or $35 for 65+, $20 for students. (Zachary Woolfe)

★ Darmstadt 2012 (Friday and Saturday) For an immersion in avant-gardes past and present, head to Issue Project Room for Nick Hallett and Zach Layton’s stimulating annual festival. The first weekend features a celebration of the composer Pauline Oliveros’s 80th birthday and a concert pairing the Mivos Quartet and the Wet Ink Ensemble in works by Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek and Kate Soper. At 8 p.m., Issue Project Room, 22 Boerum Place, downtown Brooklyn, (718) 330-0313, issueprojectroom.org; $15. (Woolfe)

Dorian Baroque Orchestra (Saturday) This recently formed ensemble makes its debut with the program “A German Feast,” celebrating the banquet tradition of aristocratic 17th- and 18th-century German households. The program includes selections by Graupner, Biber, Schmelzer, Schein and Telemann. At 8 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 1393 York Avenue, Manhattan, dorianbaroque.org; $10 (cash only at the door; no advance tickets). (Vivien Schweitzer)

Ensemble ACJW Neighborhood Concert (Sunday) One of the most admirable ventures of the Ensemble ACJW is its series of free neighborhood concerts. The players are all exceptional postgraduate student musicians participating in a two-year fellowship program run by the Juilliard School, Carnegie Hall and the Weill Music Institute. For this program at Our Saviour’s Atonement Church in Upper Manhattan, the musicians perform pieces by Martinu, Ravel and Schoenberg (the composer’s landmark work for vocalist and chamber ensemble “Pierrot Lunaire”). At 5 p.m., Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church, 178 Bennett Avenue, at 189th Street, Washington Heights, (212) 923-5757, carnegiehall.org; free. (Anthony Tommasini)

Christopher Houlihan (Saturday) This young organist begins a six-city tour in honor of the 75th anniversary of the death of the French composer and organist Louis Vierne, who died at 66 while performing at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Mr. Houlihan will play all six of Vierne’s colorful works for solo organ in two concerts on the French-built Manton Memorial Organ. At 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Church of the Ascension, 36 Fifth Avenue, at 10th Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 358-7060; voicesofascension.org; $10 to $35 (includes admission to both concerts). (Vivien Schweitzer)

The Knights and Friends (Sunday) Precisely what this feisty, inventive Brooklyn indie-classical orchestra has planned for these two sets celebrating John Cage’s 100th birthday is a mystery. But the ensemble is full of bright players and has clever friends, so whatever transpires is bound to be fascinating. At 8 and 10 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, thestonenyc.com; each set $10. (Smith)

The Mannes Beethoven Institute Faculty Concert (Tuesday) The Mannes College Beethoven Institute, a weeklong annual event that explores Beethoven’s works and relevant themes in panels, workshops and concerts, presents a faculty concert featuring Colin Carr, Thomas Sauer, Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Soovin Kim. The program includes Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio and the “Kreutzer” Sonata for Piano and Violin. At 8 p.m., Mannes College the New School for Music, 150 West 85th Street, Manhattan, (212) 580-0210, Ext. 4879, mannes.edu; $20. (Schweitzer)

Musica Nuova (Sunday) This early-music ensemble likes to highlight the intrinsically dramatic elements of Baroque music through staging, story-telling and inventive rethinking of works. Here, under the artistic direction of Amanda Keil, it promises to give a modern gloss to Monteverdi’s 1608 work “Il Ballo delle Ingrate” (The Dance of the Ungrateful Woman). The production combines singing, dance, staging and English dialogue. At 7:30 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 505-3474, musicanuova.org or lepoissonrouge.com; $20. (Tommasini)

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Thursday) This admirable, ambitious orchestra concludes its season with Mahler’s transcendent Symphony No. 9, conducted by its music director, Jacques Lacombe. (The program repeats in Morristown, N.J., on June 9 and then returns to Newark June 10.) At 1:30 p.m., Prudential Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, (800) 255-3476, njsymphony.org; $20 to $85. (Smith)

New York Virtuoso Singers (Wednesday) The composer C. Edward Hupton’s work has taken him into classical, jazz, folk and world music styles. In 2010 his “Requiem for Victims of Genocide” had its premiere, a large-scale work for chorus and orchestra, described by the composer as a multiethnic tribute to those who suffered and died in Cambodia, Rwanda, the Russian gulags and other atrocities. The excellent New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by its founding director, Harold Rosenbaum, will perform the work with the Salome Chamber Orchestra, joined by the SilverCloud Native American Singers. At 8 p.m., St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 145 West 46th Street, Manhattan, nyvirtuoso.org; $20. (Tommasini)

★ Orchestra of the League of Composers (Monday) In 1923, the League of Composers was founded as an organization to foster contemporary music. In 1954 it became the United States chapter of the International Society of Contemporary Music. But what should matter to curious concertgoers is that the ensemble that performs today under the name Orchestra of the League of Composers is technically topnotch and continually adventurous. The orchestra’s next concert presents works by Copland and Ursula Mamlok (Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra), a premiere by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and New York premieres by Anthony Cheung and Pierre Jalbert. James Baker conducts; John Schaefer of WNYC radio hosts. At 8 p.m., Miller Theater of Columbia University, Broadway at 116th Street, leagueofcomposers.org; $20. (Tommasini)

★ Riverside Symphony (Wednesday) For its season-finale concert, the Riverside Symphony offers another typically imaginative program, “Poetry in Motion,” conducted by George Rothman. The actress Cynthia Nixon is the narrator for Poulenc’s adaptation of “The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant.” This work is followed by a musical reflection on children’s literature inspired by a French picture book, the composer Evan Hause’s “Tree Without End,” a remiere commissioned by the orchestra. To conclude, the thoughtful pianist Shai Wosner will be the soloist in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. At 7:30 p.m., Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500, riversidesymphony.org; $24 to $55. (Tommasini)

John Scott (Saturday) This prominent organist performs Bach’s German Organ Mass, a collection of compositions Bach published in 1739 that feature some of his most complex and technically demanding work for the instrument. This will be Mr. Scott’s first performance of the complete work in one sitting. At 4 p.m., St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street, (212) 664-9360, saintthomaschurch.org; free, with $20 suggested donation. (Vivien Schweitzer)

★ Margaret Leng Tan (Wednesday) In a program called “SATIEfaction,” this magisterial modern-music pianist plays works by Satie (including a very rare live performance of his “Extended Lullaby”) and those inspired by him in a multimedia performance featuring projections, film and readings of texts by Satie and John Cage. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, (917) 267-0363, roulette.org; $15, or $10 for students and 65+. (Woolfe)

Kent Tritle (Wednesday) This beloved chorus master takes the solo stage at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, where he was once head of music, for a program of organ music by Bach, De Grigny, Franck and Daniel Pinkham under the auspices of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space program. At 7:30 p.m., Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue at 84th Street, Manhattan, (212) 288-2520, smssconcerts.org; $20, $15 for students and 65+. (Woolfe)

Tribeca New Music Festival (Friday and Monday) Nomadic despite its name, this worthy grass-roots series concludes with two concerts in downtown Brooklyn. For the first, on Friday evening, the composer Eve Belgarian reprises material from her “River Project,” inspired by a rafting trek down the Mississippi; on Monday, the violinist Mary Rowell and the pianists Geoffrey Burleson and Kathleen Supové offer premieres by Mohammed Fairouz, Preston Stahly, Randall Woolf, David Rakowski and Gary Philo. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, (917) 267-0363, roulette.org; $20, or $10 for students and 65+. (Smith)

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: June 2, 2012

A classical music entry in the Listings pages on Friday about Darmstadt 2012, at Issue Project Room at 22 Boerum Place in Brooklyn, misidentified the area of the borough where Issue Project Room is situated. It is in downtown Brooklyn, not Gowanus.

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