February 2008
Master Class: Carl Schachter & the Orion String Quartet
Musical theorist and author Carl Schachter and the Orion String Quartet will present a lecture on the music to be performed by the Orion Quartet on their concert later that evening.
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served.
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano • Alan Feinberg, Warren Jones, pianos
Ani Kavafian, violin • Priscilla Lee, Fred Sherry, cellos
Anthony Philip Heinrich Sylvan Scene in Kentucky, or the Barbecue Divertimento for Piano (1825-26)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk Union for Piano, Op. 48 (1852-62)
Charles Ives Piano Trio (c. 1909-10, rev. c. 1914-15)
Alan Louis Smith Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman
(from the Daily Journal of Margaret Ann Alsip Frink, 1850) for Mezzo-Soprano, Piano, Violin, and Cello (2006)
Pre-concert Composer Chat with Alan Louis Smith, 45 minutes prior to curtain. Free to all ticket holders.
Society for Ethical Culture
64th St. at Central Park West
Kronos Quartet:
David Harington, violin • John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola • Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Joe Meek: Night of the Vampire (arr. Harry Whitney, NY Premiere)
Trad. Lullaby (arr. Jacob Garchik)
Clint Mansell: Requiem for a Dream Suite (arr. David Lang) (NY Premiere)
Aviya Kopelman: New work (World Premiere, Co-commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation, Cal Performances, and the Kronos Performing Arts Association)
John Adams: Fellow Traveler
Aleksandra Vrebalov: New work (World Premiere, Co-commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation)
Eugene Tzigane, conductor • Karen Lubeck, soprano
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Franck: Symphony in d minor
Mahler: Fünf Lieder nach Rückert
Colin Jacobsen, violin • Jesse Mills, violin •
Nicholas Cords, viola
Max Mandel, viola • Edward Arron, cello •
Andrew Armstrong, piano
Beethoven: String Quintet in c Minor, Opus 104 (Composer's arr. of the c minor Piano Trio, Op. 1 No. 3)
Wuorinen: Quintet for Piano and Strings, 1994
Dvořák: String Quintet in E flat Major, Opus 97
The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Renée Fleming • Johan Botha • Carlo Guelfi
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
Orion String Quartet:
Daniel Phillips, violin • Todd Phillips, violin
Steven Tenenbom, viola • Timothy Eddy, cello
Program: TBA
Tickets are free and must be picked up on the day of the concert starting at 6:00 pm at the security desk, one ticket per person. Seating begins at approximately 7:30 pm.
Karen Parks, Soprano • Wayne Sanders, Piano
Works by Still, King, Hairston, Hayes, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Uzee Brown, Jr., Leslie Adams, Hall Johnson, and Burleigh
Timothy Rhea, Conductor •
Travis Almany, Guest Conductor
Kathryn Woodard, Piano
David Wilborn, Bass Trombone
Works by Bernstein, Holst, Gershwin, Donald Grantham, Grainger, Wilborn, Frank Ticheli, and Sousa
