S.E.M. Ensemble 2003/04 Season
Performances

Thursday, June 3, 2004 8pm
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Roscoe Mitchell Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
Christian Wolff Spring
Petr Kotik B. L. & R. for 4 Voices and Percussion
Phill Niblock Three Orchids
Presented by the 2003/04 Interpretations Concert Series

Thursday, May 20, 2004
Exposition of New Music, Brno, Czech Republic
S.E.M. Ensemble & St. Vavrinec Quartet
Petr Kotik B. L. & R. for 4 voices and percussion
(on text by Vladislav Vancura “Scenes from Czech History”)
Petr Kotik There is Singularly Nothing (on text by Gertrude Stein)
Christian Wolff Percussionists (with flute)
Morton Feldman Why Patterns

Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Theater Archa, Prague, Czech Republic
S.E.M. Ensemble & St. Vavrinec Quartet
Petr Kotik B. L. & R. for 4 voices and percussion
(on text by Vladislav Vancura “Scenes from Czech History”)
Petr Kotik There is Singularly Nothing (on text by Gertrude Stein)
Christian Wolff Percussionists (with flute)
Morton Feldman Why Patterns

Sunday, May 9, 2004, 8pm
TONIC, 107 Norfolk Street, NYC
S.E.M. Ensemble presents "Drums & Solos"
Petr Kotik Drums & Solos (2004)
Christian Wolff Percussionists (with flute) (2003)
Alvin Lucier Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (1988)
Frederic Rzewski Les Moutons de Panurge (1969)
John Cage Ryoanji (1983)

Sunday, March 21, 2004
MaerzMuzik Festival, Berlin
S.E.M. Ensemble in cooperation with the
Janaceck Philharmonic & the Ostrava Center for New Music
Petr Kotik, Zsolt Nagy, Petr Vronsky, Conductors
Music in Space: Compositions for 3 Orchestras
Olga Neuwirth Locus…Doublure…Solos (version for 3 orchestras)
Petr Kotik Variations
Christian Wolff Ordinary Matter
Phill Niblock Three Orchids

Thursday, March 18, 2004
Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic
S.E.M. Ensemble in cooperation with the
Janaceck Philharmonic & the Ostrava Center for New Music
Petr Kotik, Zsolt Nagy, Petr Vronsky, Conductors
Music in Space: Compositions for 3 Orchestras
Olga Neuwirth Locus…Doublure…Solos (version for 3 orchestras)
Petr Kotik Variations
Christian Wolff Ordinary Matter
Phill Niblock Three Orchids

Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003
Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21st St, Manhattan
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Joseph Kubera, Piano
Christian Wolff Percussionists (with flute)
Petr Kotik There is Singularly Nothing
On text by Gertrude Stein
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Triosonata in G Minor
Sabrina Schroeder Simple Machines
Olga Neuwirth Locus…Dublure…Solus

Previews/Open Rehearsals/Workshops

Monday, May 31, 2004 8pm (Preview/Open Rehearsal)
Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn, NY
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, conductor
Roscoe Mitchell Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
Christian Wolff Spring
Petr Kotik B. L. & R. for 4 Voices and Percussion
Phill Niblock Three Orchids

Sunday, Dec. 14, 2003 (Preview/Open Rehearsal)
Willow Place Auditorium, 26 Willow Place, Brooklyn Heights
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Joseph Kubera, Piano
Christian Wolff Percussionists (with flute)
Petr Kotik There is Singularly Nothing
On text by Gertrude Stein
Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Triosonata in G Minor
Sabrina Schroeder Simple Machines
Olga Neuwirth Locus…Dublure…Solus