ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, shapeshifterlab.com; $15. (Chinen) Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra (Thursday) Mr. Berger is a composer, conductor and former guiding spirit of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y., now celebrating its 40th anniversary.
(Chinen) ★ Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra (Monday) Mr. Berger, the composer, conductor and former guiding spirit of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y., has been presiding over this exploratory large ensemble every Monday night for months.
Alarming that is, until it became apparent that the Lucy in question was Mr Blunkett's former guide dog, with whom he was reunited during a recent visit to the proposed site of a new guide dog training centre in Atherton.
Either way, by the time the bunch hit the cobbles at the start of the Grumari circuit, Harris and Armitstead at least appeared to have made up, with the former guiding her leader towards the front of the group.
Mr. Rowell, a 39-year-old from Placentia, Calif., who runs the Guidedbyrobertpollard.com fan Web site, said by telephone that he bought most of his copies through eBay and one through a former Guided by Voices guitarist, Tobin Sprout.
(Nate Chinen) ★ Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra (Monday) Mr. Berger, the composer, conductor and former guiding spirit of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y., has been presiding over this exploratory large ensemble every Monday night for months, with an open rehearsal at 7 15 p.m. and a performance at 9 p.m.
Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra (Thursday) Mr. Berger, the composer, conductor and former guiding spirit of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y., has set up a new residency for this loosely defined large ensemble, which features astute improvisers like the trumpeter Herb Robertson and the multireedist Peter Apfelbaum.
(Chinen) Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra (Thursday) Mr. Berger, the composer, conductor and former guiding spirit of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y., presents his final show of this season with his loosely defined large ensemble, which features astute improvisers like the trumpeter Herb Robertson and the multireedist Peter Apfelbaum.
(Chinen) Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra (Sunday) Mr. Berger, the composer, conductor and former guiding spirit of the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y., has set up another new residency for this loosely defined large ensemble, which features astute improvisers like the multireedist Peter Apfelbaum.
