March 2008
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Roberto Abbado , conductor
Sondra Radvanovsky • Marcello Giordani
Thomas Hampson • Ferruccio Furlanetto
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
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
Michael Christie, conductor
Sheryl Staples, violin • Lisa Kim, violin • Rebecca Young, viola
Eileen Moon, cello • Jon Deak, bass • Mark Nuccio, clarinet
Kim Laskowski, bassoon • Erik Ralske, horn
Schubert: Octet
Copland: Symphony No. 3
Ken Butler
Listen and watch in amazement as inventor and virtuosic musician Ken Butler plays his hammer violin and "guitars" made from a broom, snow shovel, and toothbrush! Children learn how instruments were invented, how they produce sounds, and how those sounds can be combined live with modern technology, stimulating imagination and creativity.
Roulette
20 Greene Street
Joan Tower 70th Birthday Tree Concert Celebration
Highlights from composers featured during Tower's 10-year St. Luke's residency
Chester Biscardi: Piano Quintet
Christopher Theofanidis: Flow My Tears for solo violin
Keith Fitch: TBA [World Premiere, OSL commission]
Daniel Wohl: TBA [World Premiere, OSL commission]
Joan Tower: Big Sky for violin, cello and piano
Joan Tower: Petroushskates for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Concert tickets also includes admission to the galleries.
Chiu-Yuan Chen, clarinet
Program: TBA
Thomas Adès, conductor and pianist • Valdine Anderson, soprano
Works by Thomas Adès:
Five Eliot Landscapes
Chamber Symphony, Op. 2
“Court Studies” from The Tempest
Living Toys
Shanghai Quartet:
Weigang Li, violin • Yi-Wen Jiang, violin
Honggang Li, viola • Nicholas Tzavaras, cello
With guests, Mark Peskanov, violin • Doris Stevenson, piano
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Daniel Ott: Blue Water for Violin, Piano and String Quartet (World Premiere)
Commissioned by Bargemusic (2008)
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in d minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”
Masterworks Festival Chorus, René Clausen, conductor
National Festival Chorus, Timothy Peter, conductor
John Rutter: Requiem
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti, Conductor
Angela Gheorghiu • Ainhoa Arteta • Ramón Vargas
Ludovic Tézier • Quinn Kelsey • Oren Gradus
Paul Plishka
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
New York City Opera Orchestra, Joseph Mechavich, Conductor
Yunah Lee • Rebecca Ringle
Christopher Jackson • Weston Hurt
Sung in Italian with supertitles in English
Program: TBA
St. Ignatius Episcopal Church
87th Street off of West End Avenue
Riccardo Muti, conductor • Pinchas Zukerman, Violin
Elgar: Violin Concerto
Copland: Symphony No. 3
Brian Cheney, tenor • Catherine Venable, piano
Liszt: Tre sonetti di Petrarci
Vaughan Williams: The Songs of Travel
Works by Hahn:
D'un prison
L'heure exquise
Si mes vers avaient des ailes
Spotlight on American Composers:
Herbert: “Gentle maiden, tell me, have I seen you in my dreams” from Natoma
Romberg, arr. Hadley: “Desert Song” & “One Alone” from Desert Song
Bernstein: “Maria” from West Side Story
Blitzstein: The New Suit
Youmans: Without a Song
Jason Kao Hwang, violin • Jessica Pavone, viola • Tomas Ulrich, cello
Pete Fitzpatrick, guitar • Joseph Daley, tuba • Luther Gray, drums
Kyoko Kitamura, voice and electronics • Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet and composition.
Taylor Ho Bynum: Madeleine Dreams
Madeleine Dreams is a secular oratorio for female vocalist and improvising chamber ensemble, written especially for SpiderMonkey Strings with special guest vocalist Kyoko Kitamura. The composition uses text and draws inspiration from the highly acclaimed and award winning novel Madeleine is Sleeping, by the composer's sister, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, a magical-realist fable of a girl's coming of age that moves between dreams and reality in 19th century France.
Roulette
20 Greene Street
