April 2008
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Sunday, April 6
Julian Bliss
Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, at 11:00 am

Julian Bliss, clarinet


Finzi: Five Bagatelles, Op. 23a
Debussy: Premiére rapsodie
Berg: Vier Stücke, Op. 5
Brahms: Sonata in f minor, Op. 120, No. 1


The Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 1:00 pm

Dianne Berkun, Artistic Director and Conductor


Exploring Sounds of the Human Voice

Program: TBA

Pre-concert activities begin at 12:00 pm


Meet the Music Family Concert
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, at 1:00 pm

Bruce Adolphe, host
Erin Keefe, violin   •   Orion Weiss, piano


Exploring America

A trip across America, no passport required! Today's concert features a look at The Bad Boy of American Music.


The Waverly Consort
The Cloisters, at 1:00 pm

The Year 1492: Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus

This program presents musical examples from several 15th- and 16th-century sources.


The concert is presented in The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Cloisters. All seats are unreserved.

The concert is sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


New York City Opera
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center at 1:30 pm

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

New York City Opera Orchestra, Joseph Mechavich, Conductor
Yunah Lee   •   Rebecca Ringle
Christopher Jackson   •   Weston Hurt

Sung in Italian with supertitles in English


Simone Dinnerstein
Town Hall, at 2:00 pm

Simone Dinnerstein, piano


Bach: Goldberg Variations


Part of The Peoples' Symphony Concert series


Orchestra of St. Luke's
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 2:00 pm

Bobby McFerrin, Conductor   •   Dominique Labelle, Soprano
Nathan Gunn, Baritone

Morgan State University Choir, Eric Conway, director


Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, “Classical”
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Bobby McFerrin: A Cappella Improvisations
Fauré: Requiem


Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Institute
Tishman Auditorium, at 2:00 pm

Miriam Fried, violin   •   Yura Lee, violin   •   Jonathan Vinocour, viola
Min Ji Kim, cello   •   Amy Jiaqi Yang, piano


Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Institute

Haydn: Piano Trio in C Major, xv:27
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F, Op. 73
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 26


The Schneider Concert Series
Tishman Auditorium
The New School, 66 West 12th Street

Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra
St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, at 3:00 pm

Nicholas Armstrong, Conductor


Turina: Danzas Fantasicas
Revueltas: Sensamaya
Ravel: La Valse
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras #8


St. Ann's Church
157 Montague Street
Brooklyn Heights

Meet the Music Family Concert
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, at 3:00 pm

Bruce Adolphe, host
Erin Keefe, violin   •   Orion Weiss, piano


Exploring America

A trip across America, no passport required! Today's concert features a look at The Bad Boy of American Music.


Roulette Childrens Concert
Roulette, at 3:00 pm

Face the Music: A Modern Teen Ensemble from the Kaufman Center

Made up of twenty students, ages 10 to 15, Face the Music was founded in the fall of 2005 by Special Music School Music Director Jenny Undercofler and composer Huang Ruo

Tickets: $5.00


Roulette
20 Greene Street


Il Fondamento
Corpus Christi Church, at 4:00 pm

Paul Dombrecht, director and oboe


The Great German Masters of the French Overture

Works by: Fasch and Telemann, a suite by J. S. Bach, and an oboe concerto by Heinichen

The French overture, typically characterized by a slow introduction followed by a lively fugue, became such a prevalent baroque musical form that many German composers embraced it.


Sponsored by Music Before 1800

Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street


Emerson String Quartet
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, at 5:00 pm

Emerson String Quartet:
Eugene Drucker, violin   •   Philip Setzer, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola   •   David Finckel, cello

David Shifrin clarinet   •   Paul Neubauer viola   •   Colin Carr cello


Works by Brahms:
String Quartet No.3 in B-flat major
Clarinet Quintet in b minor
Sextet No.1 in B-flat major


Miori Sugiyama,
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 5:30 pm

Miori Sugiyama, Piano


Program: TBA


Ensemble Spotlight Series
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

North Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra, C. Myron Flippin, Conductor
Kansas City Wind Symphony, Philip Posey, Conductor
Winnetonka High School Band, Patricia Setser, Conductor
Centennial-Arbor View Symphony Orchestra, Terry Hill, Conductor


Program: TBA


Beaux Arts Trio
Metropolitan Museum of Art, at 8:00 pm

Beaux Arts Trio:
Menahem Pressler, piano   •   Daniel Hope, violin   •   Antonio Meneses, cello


Schubert: Trio No. 1 in B flat Major, Opus 99, D. 898
Kurtág: Work for Piano Trio
Schubert: Trio in E flat Major, Opus 100, D. 929


The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.


Manhattan Sinfonietta
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Center, at 8:00 pm

Works by Michael Klingbeil, Aenon Jia-en Loo, and Katharina Rosenberger


The California Chamber Players
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 8:30 pm

Arshak Andriasov, Piano   •   Marilyn Thompson, Piano   •   Anatole Wieck, Viola

The California Chamber Players:
Victor Romasevich, Violin   •   Phil Santos, Violin
Yun Jie Liu, Viola   •   Lawrence Granger, Cello


Music of Iosif Andriasov and Arshak Andriasov

Program: TBA


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