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Saturday, February 9, 2008
The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 12:30 pm

Wagner: Die Walküre

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Conductor
Lisa Gasteen   •   Deborah Voigt   •   Michelle DeYoung
Clifton Forbis   •   Simon O'Neill   •   Mikhail Petrenko

Sung in German with Met Titles in English

Classical Music for Kids
Miller Theatre, at 2:00 pm

American Classical Orchestra, conductor
Horacio Franco, recorder   •   Nina Stern, recorder


Thrills and Chills

Experience the chills of Vivaldi's Winter from the Four Seasons and the pleasure and beauty of Baroque music as Maestro Thomas Crawford guides your family through an interactive concert performance.

Ticket prices: $10, $14, $18.


Clara Yang
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 5:30 pm

Clara Yang, Cello


Program: TBA


Queens Symphony Orchestra
QCC Performing Arts Center, at 7:30 pm

Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor   •   Allison Brewster Franzetti, piano


Copeland: A Quiet City
Bernstein: Facsimile
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “From the NewW orld”


Queensborough Community College Performing Arts Center
56th Avenue & Springfield Blvd., Bayside


The Villa-Lobos Event
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 7:30 pm

Marcelo Bratke, piano   •   Dori Caymmi, guitar   •   Rosana Lamosa, soprano


Homage to J.S. Bach

Program: TBA


Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

Marin Alsop, conductor   •   Colin Currie, percussion


R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Steven Mackey: Percussion Concerto (NY Premiere)
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 version)


Bargemusic Chamber Concert
Bargemusic, Brooklyn, at 8:00 pm

Johannes Dickbauer, Violin   •   Mark Peskanov, Violin   •   Lily Francis, Viola
Mark Holloway, Viola   •   Nicholas Canellakis, Cello


Schönberg String Trio, Op. 45 (1946)
Brahms String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 88
Mozart String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515


Tickets are $40 ($25 students)


Downtown Opera
Duo Theater, at 8:00 pm

Downtown Chamber Orchestra, Mimi Stern-Wolfe, conductor
Gilles Denizot   •   Steven Goldstein   •   Vanessa Salas


One Night Together
Daniel Burwasser, music
Illsa Gilbert, libretto


Duo Multicultural Arts Center
62 East 4th Street


Joan Kwuon & André Previn
Metropolitan Museum of Art, at 8:00 pm

Joan Kwuon, violin   •   André Previn, piano


Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A Major for Violin and Piano, Opus 100
Prokofieff: Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Violin and Piano, Opus 94
Beethoven: Sonata No. 10 in G Major for Violin and Piano, Opus 96


The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.


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

James Tenney: Harmonium #7 (2000) for any twelve sustaining instruments
Larry Polansky: h'ma — Fuging Tune in G (1979) for ensemble
Hery Cowell: Ensemble (1925) original version for string quintet and thundersticks
Michael Byron: Awakening at the Inn of the Birds (2003) for ensemble


The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 8:00 pm

Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, Conductor
Karita Mattila   •   Marcello Giordani
Dwayne Croft   •   Dale Travis

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

Tokyo String Quartet
Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, at 8:00 pm

Tokyo String Quartet:
Martin Beaver, violin   •   Kikuei Ikeda, violin
Kazuhide Isomura, viola   •   Clive Greensmith, cello


Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 50, No. 2
Hosokawa: Blossoming for String Quartet (U.S. Premiere)
Brahms: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2


Alex del Valle
Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, at 8:00 pm

Alex del Valle, Classical Guitar


3 Renaissaince Pieces
  Luis de Narvaez: Guá rdame las Vacas
  Anon: Canción del Emperador
  Alonso de Mudarra: Fantasía

Gaspar Sanz: Suite Española
Francois Couperin: Mysterius Barricades

Works by Domenico Scarlatti:
Sonata in D L.79
Sonata in E L.23

Works by Mauro Giuliani:
Souvenirs d'une Soireé a Berlin op 56
Variations from a Theme by Handel

Francisco Tárrega: 2 Spanish Pieces


Admission: $15

The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street


Ashley Bathgate
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 8:30 pm

Ashley Bathgate, cello   •   Todd Crow, piano


Beethoven: Sonata No. 4, Op. 102, No. 1
Brahms: Sonata No. 2, Op. 99
Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
Martino: Violoncello Solo, Parasonatina Al'Dodecafonia


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