April 2008
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti, Conductor
Angela Gheorghiu • Ainhoa Arteta • Ramón Vargas
Ludovic Tézier • Quinn Kelsey • Oren Gradus
Paul Plishka
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
New York City Opera Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, conductor
Anna Shafajinskaia • Raul Melo • James Schaffner
Museop Kim • Branch Fields • Todd Thomas
Sung in Italian with supertitles in English
Lecture-demonstration by Cecilia Brauer
The concert is free, no ticket required
Bruno Walter Auditorium
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
Matt Tosca, Violin •
Alina Kiryayeva, Piano
Guest Artist: Victor Main, Guitar
Works by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Paganini, Piazzolla, Debussy
Ravel, and Brian Adam McCune
Ralph Allen, violin • Junah Chung, viola • Iris Jortner, cello
Mozart: Preludes to Fugues by J.S. & W.F. Bach for String Trio
Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Opus 7
Beethoven: String Trio, Opus 9 in G major
Admission is free
Chapel of the Good Shepherd
543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island
Robert Spano, Conductor • Hila Plitmann, Soprano
Richard Clement, Tenor • Nathan Gunn, Baritone
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Norman Mackenzie, Director
Sibelius: Tapiola
Christopher Theofanidis: The Here and Now (NY Premiere)
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete)
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Eight world premiere performances by Oscar Bianchi, Mahir Cetiz, Anthony Cheung
Mario Diaz de Leon, Dan Iglesia, Alex Lunsqui, Jeff Snyder, and Lu Wang
Free admission and a reception to follow.
Beth Griffith, vocalist • Andrew Bolotowsky, flute • Bern Nix, guitar
Works by Mary Jane Leach, John McGuire, Noah Creshevsky, and Mauricio Kagel
Roulette
20 Greene Street
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Roberto Abbado , conductor
Sondra Radvanovsky • Marcello Giordani
Thomas Hampson • Ferruccio Furlanetto
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
New York City Opera Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Jan Opalach • Paela Armstrong • Anna Skibinsky
Ursula Ferri • Heather Johnson • John Tessier
Joel Sorensen • Jeffrey Halili • Alfredo Daza
Sung in Italian with supertitles in English
Colin Davis, conductor • Richard Goode, piano
Works by Beethoven:
Leonore Overture No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 4
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4
Rossetti String Quartet:
Henry Gronnier, violin • Nina Bodnar, violin
Thomas Diener, viola • Eric Gaenslen, cello
With guest Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
Handel: Concerto in B-flat for harp and strings
Mozart: String Quartet in G Major K. 387
Ravel: String Quartet
Mahler: Adagietto (from Symphony No. 5) for harp and string quartet
Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane for harp and strings (from Iolanta)
Part of The Peoples' Symphony Concert series
Washington Irving Auditorium
Washington Irving High School
40 Irving Place, at 16th Street
Peter Serkin, piano
Des Prez: Ave Christe (reset for piano by Charles Wuorinen)
Messiaen: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux
Brahms: Theme and Variations in d minor (arr. of Andante, ma moderato from String
Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18)
Wuorinen Scherzo for Piano (world premiere, 92nd Street Y commission)
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel in B-flat Major, Op. 24
Nakia Verner, soprano
Program: TBA
Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Guitar
Works by Santorsola, Nazareth, Bonfa, Villa-Lobos, Barrios, Lecuona, Madriguera, Jobim, Byron Yasui, Gershwin, Gentil Montana, Ernesto Cordero, Vianna, and Barroso
Program: TBA
thingNY:
Gelsey Bell, voice • Andrea La Rose, flute • Andrew Livingston,
cello/bass
Noah Palmer, piano • Paul Pinto, voice/percussion • Erin
Rogers, saxophone
Stefanos Tsigrimanis, guitar • Jeffrey Young, violin
Silas Huff: Der Whisky (US premiere)
Andrea La Rose: untitled (world premiere)
Elliot Carter: Canon for 3
Paul Pinto: Canon 5 (world premiere)
Mark Jensen: Patterns of Living and Sounding
Andrew Livingston: Voicepiece (world premiere)
Jeffrey Young: untitled (world premiere)
Frederic Rzewski: Attica
the tank
279 church street, tribeca
