February 2008
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Emmanuel Villaume, Conductor
Olga Borodina • Krassimira Stoyanova
Marcelo Álvarez • Lucio Gallo
Sung in French with Met Titles in English
Joan Tower 70th Birthday Tree Concert Celebration
An exploration of Tower's influences and her musical legacy to younger generations of composers.
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (selections)
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2, final movement
Stravinsky: Elégie for solo violin
Sergei Tcherepnin: TBA (World Premiere, OSL commission)
Joan Tower: For Daniel for violin, cello and piano
Concert tickets also includes admission to the galleries.
Joyce Lindorff, harpsichord • Marshall Taylor, saxophone • Wendy Stern, flute
Catharina Chen, violin • Regina Golovina, cello • Yu Jung Park, piano
Special guests: Jean and Kenneth Wentworth.
André Singer was born in Austria-Hungary, in what is now Subotica, Serbia. Hereceived his musical training in Vienna. In the early thirties he cofounded the Literatur am Naschmarkt cabaret, where his works were often censored for their anti-Nazi content. From 1936-38 he worked in Paris and London, before emigrating to the U.S. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1946 to 1977, and also at City College and The New School. Singer composed more than 100 orchestral, operatic, chamber and keyboard works, now archived in the American Music Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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
Irantzu Agirre, Harp
Program: TBA
Joyce Lindorff, harpsichord • Marshall Taylor, saxophone • Wendy Stern, flute
Catharina Chen, violin • Regina Golovina, cello • Yu Jung Park, piano
Special guests: Jean and Kenneth Wentworth.
André Singer was born in Austria-Hungary, in what is now Subotica, Serbia. Hereceived his musical training in Vienna. In the early thirties he cofounded the Literatur am Naschmarkt cabaret, where his works were often censored for their anti-Nazi content. From 1936-38 he worked in Paris and London, before emigrating to the U.S. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1946 to 1977, and also at City College and The New School. Singer composed more than 100 orchestral, operatic, chamber and keyboard works, now archived in the American Music Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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
New chamber music composed, performed and presented by the New York Composers Circle
Dicapo Opera Orchestra, Oliver Gooch, conductor
Sarah Heltzel • Michael Chioldi • Anna Noggle
Lisa Chavez • Yvonne Bill • Kristin Vogel
Richard Furman • Sarah Kennedy • Stephanie Rodousakis
Mary Ramsey • Robin Flynn • Brian Ballard
The Guarneri String Quartet:
Arnold Steinhardt, violin • John Dalley, violin
Michael Tree, viola • Peter Wiley, cello
Haydn: String Quartet in G Minor, Opus 74, No. 3, “Rider”
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor “From My Life”
Beethoven: String Quartet in C Major, Opus 59 no. 3
The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Juilliard String Quartet:
Joel Smirnoff, violin • Ronald Copes, violin
Samuel Rhodes, viola • Joel Krosnick, cello
Haydn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 76, No. 6
Shostakovichv: Quartet No. 13 in b flat minor, Op. 138
Verdi: Quartet in e minor, Op. 68
Part of The Peoples' Symphony Concert series
Washington Irving Auditorium
Washington Irving High School
40 Irving Place, at 16th Street
James DePreist, Conductor
Pianist to be announced
Chen Yi: Ge Xu (Antiphony) for orchestra
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Vladimir Jurowski conductor • Stephen Hough piano
Schubert: Symphony No.8 in b minor “Unfinished,” completed version by Anton Safronov
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 in d minor
Pre-concert lecture by Walter Frisch at 6:45 in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Concertante:
Ittai Shapira, violin • Xiao-Dong Wang, violin
Ara Gregorian, viola • Rachel Shapiro, viola
Zvi Plesser, cello • Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello
Adam Neiman, Piano • Ani Gregorian Resnick, Violin
Ara Gregorian, Violin and Viola • Sarah Carter, Cello
Works by Bartók, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Donald Runnicles , Conductor
Karita Mattila • Marcello Giordani
Dwayne Croft • Dale Travis
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
