Miscellany

This weekend the ever-innovative Community MusicWorks organization, in Providence RI, is celebrating the music of André Cormier, a Canadian composer affiliated with the Wandelweiser collective. It's a wonderful departure from the norm for an education-oriented initiative to emphasize experimental music.... LA's Southland Ensemble has announced a meaty 2017-18 season: Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder (Oct. 29), Fluxus (Dec. 9), Wadada Leo Smith (Jan. 26), Ruth Crawford Seeger (April 7), and Laura Steenburge (June 2).... The Open Source Music Festival, in NYC, will present ten hours of new music on Nov. 18: works of Julia Wolfe, Evan Ziporyn, Anthony Cheung, TIGUE, and many others.... On Oct. 29, the ONE gay and lesbian archive at USC will pay tribute to Pauline Oliveros with a program entitled Beethoven Was a Lesbian.... Tyshawn Sorey will make several appearances at Jazzfest Berlin from Oct. 31 to Nov. 5.... On Nov. 17, the Rainy Days Festival in Luxembourg will feature Chaya Czernowin's Guardian, a new concerto for cello and orchestra, alongside Feldman's Neither. The work will have had its in Donaueschingen on Oct. 22... The theme of the new Chicago Sinfonietta season is Women Rule.... Note a worthy campaign to save Bizet's house.... The no less worthy fundraiser to record Gregory Spears's Paul's Case is entering its final days.