March 2008
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
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Bach: Contrapunctus I — XI from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Schönberg: Five piano Pieces, Op. 23
Beethoven: Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
ETHEL:
Cornelius Dufallo, violin • Mary Rowell, violin
Ralph Farris, viola • Dorothy Lawson cello
Joining the quartet is a musically omnivorous, prolific and passionate lineup of collaborators that includes bluegrass legend Dean Osborne, pixie-songstress Jill Sobule, “free-range” punk-jazz quartet gutbucket, GRAMMY Award-winning harmonica legend Howard Levy and more.
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor
Patricia Racette • Anthony Dean Griffey • Anthony Michaels-Moore
Sung in English with Met Titles
New York City Opera Orchestra, Steven Mosteller, conductor
Shu-Ying Li • Jennifer Tiller
Christopher Jackson • Michael Chioldi
Sung in Italian with supertitles in English
Cassie Yukawa • Rosey Chan
Works by Cage, Rachmaninoff, Takemitsu, William Bolcom, Piazzolla, David Lang, Victoria Bond, Ives, Debussy, and Lutoslawski
Jean Piche (Montreal)
Pluridisciplinary work: the composer as visual artist; fabricating color and sound, stream and movement, shape and timbre, the artist articulates a highly kinetic discourse at the juncture of abstraction and documentary
224 Centre Street at Grand
Third Floor
Tickets: $4.99
