April 2008
Duo Marchard:
Marcia Young, soprano & &y Rutherford, lute
Program: TBA
12-30-1:00 pm $5 suggested contribution
Church of the Transfiguration
1 East 29th Street
A Little Midday Music is part of the Little Church Around the Corner concert series.
Program: TBA
Free hour-long lunchtime concerts by Juilliard artists at 180 Maiden Lane.
Salvatore Moltisanti, Artistic Director and Pianist
Katsiarina Anokhina, cimbalom • Elesin Fedor,cello • Martina Filjak, piano
Cara Hesse, piano • Masako Iwamoto-Ruiter, soprano • Alina Kabanova, piano
Krzysztof Kaczka, flute • Elena Kawazu, violin • Kristian Lindberg, piano
Adrienn Miks, soprano • Esther Muradov, violin • Laura Pauna, piano
Vladana Perovic, piano • Alessio Quaresima, piano • Chie Sato Roden, piano
Perry Schack, guitar • Anna Rutkowska Schock, piano
Konstantin Soukhovetsky, piano • Emrecan Yavuz, piano
Works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Floridia, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, and Messiaen
Andre-Michel Schub, piano • Cho-Liang Lin, violin
Paul Neubauer, viola • Gary Hoffman, cello
Beethoven: Variations in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 44
Haydn String Trio in G major, Op. 53, No, 1
Dvořák: Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65
Joan Tower:
Simply Purple for Viola Solo (2008) (CMS commission, World Premiere)
Wild Purple for Viola Solo (1998)
New Work for Piano Trio (CMS Co-commission, NY Premiere)
Pre-concert Composer Chat with Joan Tower, 45 minutes prior to curtain. Free to all ticket holders.
Society for Ethical Culture
64th St. at Central Park West
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Marco Armiliato, conductor
Natalie Dessay • Felicity Palmer • Juan Diego Flórez
Alessandro Corbelli • Zoe Caldwell
Sung in French with Met Titles in English
Charles Dutoit, conductor • Martha Argerich, piano
Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Ravel: La Valse
American Symphony Orchestra, Glen Roven, Conductor
Brooke Shields, reader • Ittai Shapira, violin
Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin • Netanel Draiblate, violin
Arnold Steinhardt, violin • Hagai Shaham, violin
Itamar Zorman, violin
Glen Roven: The Runaway Bunny, Concerto for Violin, Reader, and Orchestra
Bach: Double Concerto for two violins
Achron: Hebrew Melody (1911)
Hubay: Hejre Kati
Bernstein: Candide Overture
Sarasate: Navarra for two violins
To benefit the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Alan Alda, actor & director
Jaime Laredo, violin • Susie Park, violin • Mark Holloway, viola
Sharon Robinson, cello • Peter Lloyd, double bass • Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
Alan R. Kay, clarinet • Frank Morelli, bassoon • Raymond Mase, cornet
Weston Sprott, trombone • Ayano Kataoka, percussion • Anna Polonsky, piano
Reiko Uchida, piano
Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat
Nelson Freire, piano
This Concert has been Cancelled
The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Joel Smirnoff, violin • Ronald Copes, violin
Samuel Rhodes, viola • Joel Krosnick, cello
With Charles Neidich, clarinet
Carter: Quintet for clarinet and Strings (World Preimere)
Additional program: TBA
The concert is free, tickets required
NewMusicMannes, Madeleine Shapiro, conductor
Program: TBA
Free, no Tickets Required
Mannes Concert Hall Mannes College of Music 150 West 85th Street
Alyssa Reit, harp • Beth Anne Hatton, soprano • Zachary Stains, tenor
Andrew Pau, piano • Malina Rauschenfels, cello • William Dickerson, flute
Repertoire includes Art Songs by Stephen Paulus (with texts based on various paintings); Il Prigioni by Alyssa Reit (inspired by Michelangelo sculptures); Lou Harrison's Suite (inspired by cave drawings); World Premieres of La Femme au Chapeau by Mark Koval (inspired by the Mattisse painting) and a commissioned work by Richard Gleaves (text by Ayn Rand on skyscrapers of New York City); and more yet to be announced.
St. Peter's Church
619 Lexington Avenue, at 54th street
