March 2008
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, conductor
Deborah Voigt • Michelle DeYoung • Ben Heppner
Eike Wilm Schulte • Matti Salminen
Sung in German with Met Titles in English
Works lead from chant to its elaborations by Du Fay, Senfl, and Festa to the increasingly grand and expressive motets of Lassus, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and Byrd.
The concert is presented in The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Cloisters. All seats are unreserved.
The concert is sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York City Opera Orchestra, Steven Mosteller, conductor
Shu-Ying Li • Jennifer Tiller
Christopher Jackson • Michael Chioldi
Sung in Italian with supertitles in English
American Chamber Ensemble
Blanche Abram, piano • Naomi Drucker, Clarinet • Eriko Sato, violin
Deborah Wong, violin • Lois Martin, viola • Chris Finckel, cello
Marilyn Sherman Lehman, piano
Guest Artists: Karen Lehman, soprano • Stanley Drucker, clarinet
Mindy Dragovich, alto clarinet • Jess Gross, bass clarinet
Works by Nancy Bloomer Deussen, Douglas Moore, Robert Muczynski, Marga Richter, Peter Schickele, and Virgil Thomson
Works lead from chant to its elaborations by Du Fay, Senfl, and Festa to the increasingly grand and expressive motets of Lassus, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and Byrd.
The concert is presented in The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Cloisters. All seats are unreserved.
The concert is sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hellgate Harmonie Orchestra, Conrad Chu, conductor
Kathleen Keske • Leslie Middlebrook • Melissa Gerstein
Francis Liska • Salvatore Chiarelli
Jay Gould • Matthew Yohn
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This production is presented in English
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Violin • Amy Sue Barston, Cello • Olga Vinokur, Piano
Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 8 in B-Flat Major, WoO 39
Brahms: Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano in e minor, Op. 38
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, D. 898
New York City Opera Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, conductor
Anna Shafajinskaia • Raul Melo • James Schaffner
Museop Kim • Branch Fields • Todd Thomas
Sung in Italian with supertitles in English
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
Itzhak Perlman, with Members of the Perlman Music Program
Orion Weiss, piano
Mendelssohn: Quintet No. 2 for Strings in B flat Major, Opus 87
Bartók: String Quartet No. 3
Brahms: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, Opus 34
The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Marco Armiliato, conductor
Ruth Ann Swenson • Matthew Polenzani • Dwayne Croft
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
