New Music Bake Sale

Press

Renewable Music: Embedded, from the Opera Ball to the Pancake Breakfast

...New music doesn't need the scale or the prestige of opera, much less the institutional status... However, to thrive, even at the margins, new music needs a similar social embedding, a connection to civic life.

No, nothing as large in scale and extravagance as the annual Opera ball, rather something more like the annual pancake breakfast the local Little League holds, an event that brings a community together in regular intervals, does some useful outreach and fundraising, and does so in an informal and comfortable way.

Mind the Gap: If You Didn't Arrive Here Depressed

The Bwog: Guide to the Weekend: Countdown Edition

Lucid Culture: New York City Live Music Calendar April-May 2009 Plus Special Events

Interchanging Idioms: First Annual New Music Bake Sale and Concert in Brooklyn

aworks :: "new" american classical music: not your mother's bake sale

Renewable Music: Bake Sale

You is Awesome: New Music Bake Sale

Harmony Central Musician Community Forums

Monotonous Forest

Brooklyn Based: Tip Sheet: Apr. 15-Apr. 21

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: YouTube Symphony

GothamList: The Weekender

Short and Sweet NYC: The Weekend Shortlist April 17 to 19

Sequenza21: Festivals, etc.

A Composer's Notebook - Kyle Gullings: BEDA Day 17: New Music Bakesale

Twitter: Alexis Lloyd (alexislloyd)

Twitter: Nichelle: via @BrooklynBased New Music

Post-Event Press

Feast of Music: Church Social

Brooklyn Heights Blog: New Music Bake Sale and a Little de Sade on the Side

...like a modern day Woodstock minus the mud and the rain.

...Props to them and other arts organizations...who want to create community, who want to keep art and music alive even in times of economic insanity and hilarity.

Sequenza21: New Music Bake Sale

Two weeks ago at the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights, 25 different organizations in New York?s new music scene assembled for a the first annual New Music Bake Sale; an event that was a cross between a music festival and a the vendor fair at a conference. I mean that second part in only the best possible sense?in fact the sense of community created by the setup was the best part of the whole event...

...The modestly sized space was packed throughout the evening,and the participants and audience members were like a who?s-who of the 20-and 30-something music scene... Everyone milled around, listening to the music and hanging out, and it felt more like a genuine community event than anything I?ve been to in New Yorkexcept for Bang On A Can. ...

...Organized by Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade, this was the first of what should become an annual event. It?s hard to know for certain where it will go from here, but the concept is brilliant, the execution was spot-on, and we may well have witnessed the birth of a critical New York institution.

Createquity.: Around the horn: Bake sale edition

Last weekend, I visited NYC and checked out some new music concerts for the first time in a while. The first, on Friday night, was the first-ever New Music Bake Sale presented by Newspeak and Ensemble de Sade, a raucous affair with five hours of music, well over a hundred attendees, tables for different organizations (just like at a conference), and - that's right - cookies. (Not to mention cupcakes, real cake, Froot Loop bars, and at least one plate of fried chicken.)

...Fun event, great concept.