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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Movado Hour
Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, at 7:00 pm

So Percussion:
Josh Quillen   •   Adam Sliwinski
Jason Treuting   •   Lawson White

Soovin Kim, violin


Reich: Drumming (part 1)
Bach: Partita for Solo Violin in D Minor, BWV 1004


Admission is free. Reservations are required.
Seating is limited. Please call 917-934-4966 to make a reservation.


Brentano String Quartet
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 7:30 pm

Brentano String Quartet:
Mark Steinberg, violin   •   Serena Canin, violin
Misha Amory, viola   •   Nina Lee, cello

Guest: Todd Palmer, Clarinet


Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in f minor, Op. 80
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115

Lyric Chamber Ensemble
Kosciusko Foundation, at 7:30 pm

With guests Paquito d'Rivera, saxophone, and Friends


Cuba: The Pioneers

Music from Alejandro Garcia Caturla, and other Cuban composers


The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 7:30 pm

Verdi: La Traviata

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Marco Armiliato, conductor
Ruth Ann Swenson   •   Matthew Polenzani   •   Dwayne Croft

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

New York City Opera
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center at 7:30 pm

Verdi: Falstaff

New York City Opera Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Jan Opalach   •   Paela Armstrong   •   Anna Skibinsky
Ursula Ferri   •   Heather Johnson   •   John Tessier
Joel Sorensen   •   Jeffrey Halili   •   Alfredo Daza

Sung in Italian with supertitles in English


The New York Philharmonic
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, at 7:30 pm

Kurt Masur, Conductor
Matthias Goerne, baritone   •   James Taylor, tenor
Christiane Libor, soprano   •   Anna Larsson, alto
Dietmar Kerschbaum, tenor   •   Jason Grant, bass
Westminster Choir, Joe Miller, director
The American Boychoir, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, director


Bach: St. Matthew Passion


Chamber Music at the Y
Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, at 8:00 pm

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Jaime Laredo, violin   •   Sharon Robinson, cello   •   Joseph Kalichstein, piano

Leila Josefowicz, violin   •   Joseph Kalichstein, piano   •   Michael Tree, viola


Stravinsky: Duo Concertant
Danielpour: The Book of Hours for Piano and Strings (New York Premiere, 92nd Street Y Co-Commission)
Dvořák: Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Major, Op. 81


Meet the Composer
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphonyspace, at 8:00 pm

New Music For Soloist Champions

Meet the Composer celebrates soloists and composers collaborating to break new ground and traverse a broad musical terrain. The concert features eight remarkable new works from eight dynamic pairings:

Flutist Margaret Lancaster with Joan La Barbara
Trombonist Monique Buzzarté with Alice Shields
Pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen with Huang Ruo
Pianist Lisa Moore with Don Byron
Percussionist Dominic Donato with Ushio Torikai
Soprano Mary Nessinger with Steven Burke
Saxophonist Taimur Sullivan with Jason Eckardt
Violinist Todd Reynolds with Michael Lowenstern


University of Iowa Symphony Band
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

Myron Welch, conductor   •   Louis Hanzlik, Trumpet


R. Strauss: Festmusik der Stadt Wien
Aleksandr Arutiunian: Concerto for Trumpet
Chang Su Koh: Korean Dances
David Maslanka: Symphony No. 4


Folke Rabe
Experimental Intermedia, at 9:00 pm

The Eighteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)

Folke Rabe (Sweden), Works composed in the 1960s thru 80s

Composer of vocal and instrumental music with some emphasis on brass; but this will be a retrospective with tape pieces: ARGH!, Cyclone, What??, and Ship of Fools, a video with the New Culture Quartet


224 Centre Street at Grand
Third Floor

Tickets: $4.99


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