NY Premiere of Concerto for Westerlies

Mannes Orchestra returns to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for an evening of dynamic and innovative music, performing works by Marion Bauer, Conrad Tao, and John Adams.

Featuring The Westerlies, the acclaimed brass quartet and Ensemble-in-Residence at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School in the NY Premiere of Conrad Tao’s Concerto for Westerlies

Harmonielehre by John Adams...“a dazzling, whirling crystal ball of a piece in which Mr. Adams at once celebrates and parodies lush Romantic harmony."

-The New York Times

Sun Splendor - a rarely performed work by Marion Bauer, an influential American composer, educator, writer, and music critic whose work helped shape American music in the early 20th century and is worth rediscovering.
Program:

Marion Bauer: Sun Splendor
Conrad Tao: Concerto for Westerlies *NY PREMIERE
John Adams: Harmonielehre

THE WESTERLIES

The Westerlies, “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (The New York Times), hold a singular space in modern music. From Carnegie Hall to Coachella, the GRAMMY-nominated ensemble has upended presumptions of the brass tradition to create music that is “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music).

Comprising Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands on trumpet and Andy Clausen and Addison Maye-Saxon on trombone, the ensemble has relentlessly composed, arranged, adapted, recorded, and toured over the past fifteen years with the precision of a string quartet, the audacity of a rock band, and the charm of a family sing-along.

Across ten critically acclaimed studio albums, The Westerlies have earned “a unique reputation for exploring the emotional textures of American music” (DownBeat), championing living composers and collaborators including Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly, Conrad Tao, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, and Theo Bleckmann.

MANNES ORCHESTRA

Led by maestro David Hayes, Mannes Orchestra has been hailed by The New York Times as an orchestra whose quality is “a revelation,” and for its “intensity of focus.” The 2025/2026 Season sees the orchestra return to the stage in many performances, collaborations, and projects, including at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, City Center with the Martha Graham Dance Company, John L. Tishman Auditorium at The New School, and appearances with Mannes Opera at the Baruch Performing Arts Center and The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.

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Presented by the College of Performing Arts at The New School.