Music in the Chambers

The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA- LA) announces the Culver City Centennial Celebration Music in the Chambers concert on Saturday, April 15, 2017, at 7:00 PM in the Mike Balkman Council Chambers at Culver City City Hall. Reservations required. Telephone: (323) 536-2123. Or Email nacusa.la@gmail.com There is free parking in the parking garage below Culver City City Hall. The concert will be streamed live http://www.culvercity.org/city-hall/information/city-cable-channel.

Featured artists are The Lyris Quartet (renowned string players), and Culver City artists: Dr. Berkeley Price (clarinet), Nancy Roth (viola), Stephen M. Fry (piano), Warren Sherk and Deon Nielsen Price (composers); and also Los Angeles composers Frank Campo and Daniel Kessner.

The April 15, 2017 concert was inspired by the Culver City Redevelopment Agency’s Music in the Chambers series, which occurred from 2003 to 2012. Dr. Deon Nielsen Price was featured, along with other local composers and performers, for Music
in the Chambers concerts in 2003 and 2004, The April 15 concert is, in part, a reconstruction of those concerts with the addition of new string quartets, film music from the 1930s, and Price’s “Serenade in the Chambers” and Tableaux for String Quartet
and Clarinet based on Culver City history with scene titles: “La Ballona,” “Alabados y Fiestas,” “’Keep ‘em laughing’ (Hal Roach)”, “Sister Cities,” and “Enterprising Harry Culver.”

This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment. Additional support is by Sorrento Italian Market, John Riordan Plumbing, Culver Crest Publications and other local businesses.

Performance Opportunity! - Moved See Current Call for Scores
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art  - Concert Program

We have the opportunity to organize a concert of music by NACUSA Los Angeles chapter composers during the month of June at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in downtown Santa Ana, California. The Center will be presenting an exhibit entitled “Art As Protest” from June 3 through July 8. The exhibitions director Carolyn Yarnell has invited NACUSA to present pieces that are related to the theme of the exhibit: protest.

If you have a piece (or can write a piece) about “protest” please send a description including the name of the piece, its instrumentation and its duration to Richard Derby at richardderby@att.net by March 17, 2017.

See CALL FOR SCORES for more details!

A String Quartet Celebration Sunday, Feb 5th

Please join us for an a STRING QUARTET CELEBRATION in honor of Frank Campo's 90th birthday. We are thrilled to have the LYRIS QUARTET giving this performance of works by NACUSA composers. Featured will be Compo's Improvisation for String Quartet.

Sunday, February 5th, 3:00 p.m.
Cypress Recital Hall, CSUN
18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330
Admission is Free. Parking is $8 in Lot B1. Then entrance is on Darby Ave.

This concert is presented jointly by NACUSA-LA and the CSUN Department of Music.

New Years Concert/Party

Saturday, January 7th, 2017

Please join the NACUSA community for a concert/party to welcome in another year of new music. Deon has been hosting this informal gathering of L.A. composers and supporters since our late President Emeritus Marshall Bialosky initiated it. This year there will be a Silent Auction to raise much needed funds for upcoming concerts. (Our goal is to build audiences for new music without charging admission.) The auction will will be from 1:15 PM and the music will begin at 2 PM. Potluck refreshments, so you are welcome to bring a dish to share. RSVP to Deon Nielsen Price 310-838-4465 for location information.

We invite you to donate items for the silent auction (books, compact discs, dvds, music scores, objects des artes, “white elephants,” music accessories). Please send an email to jeanniegaylepool@gmail.com, with a description of the item (s) and a suggested minimum bid. You will be responsible for bringing the item to the event, or sending it ahead if you cannot attend. Bring cash or your checkbook - you might find a treasure!

Concert Remembering Marshall Bialosky November 15th

Please join us for BOLOS and STETSONS: Remembering Marshall Bialosky on November 15th. Bialosky was the founder of the CSUDH Music Department and long-term National Association of Composers USA President. The concert features Bialosky's "Fantasia for solo basoon" and his "Six lyrics of Dorothy Parker", as well as music by former students and friends. Performers include Mary Au, piano; Chika Inoue, saxophone, Sally Etcheto, soprano and Caroline Beck, bassoon.

November 15th, 7:30 pm.
Marvin Laser Recital Hall, La Corte Hall 103 A
1000 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747
Admission is Free. Parking is $6 in lot 6 located adjacent to La Corte Hall on the CSUDH campus.

This concert is presented jointly by NACUSA-LA, the CSUDH College of Art & Humanities and Department of Music, Mu Phi Epsilon Gamma Sigma and as part the "Festival of New and Improvised Music".

Call for Scores - Lyris Quartet 

We are happy to announce a Call for Scores for a concert by the Lyris String Quartet. See CALL FOR SCORES for more details. The concert will feature the premiere of 'Improvisation for String Quartet' by Frank Campo in honor of the composer’s 90th birthday. The rest of the program will be chosen from works submitted by NACUSA-LA member composers. An anonymous donor has stepped up to underwrite the concert, so composers will not have to contribute funds, as had been earlier publicized.