May 2008
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia
Trinity Church at 1:00 pm

Works by Haydn, Monteverdi and Stravinsky


Trinity Church
Broadway at Wall Street

Alexander String Quartet
Baruch Performing Arts Center, at 2:45 pm

Alexander String Quartet:
Zakarias Grafilo, violin   •   Frederick Lifsitz, violin
Paul Yarbrough, viola   •   Sandy Wilson, cello


Webern: Five Pieces
Riley: Mythic Birds Waltz
Peterson: Jazz Play

The concert is free.


Engelman Recital Hall
Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC)
55 Lexington Avenue
entrance on 25th street between Lexington & 3rd Avenue


Cyprien Katsaris
Yamaha Artist Services, at 7:30 pm

Cyprien Katsaris, piano


Works by Haydn, Schubert Songs arranged by Godowsky and Liszt
Transcriptions of Strauss and pieces from France and Latin America


Yamaha Artist Services
689 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor, Piano Salon
Entrance on East 54th Street


Frederic Rzewski
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 7:30 pm

Frederic Rzewski, Pianist and Narrator
Stephen Drury, piano
Opus 21
Ara Guzelimian, Series Moderator


Making Music: Frederic Rzewski

Attica
Spots
Natural Things (NY Premiere)
Cadenza
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (two piano version)


Look & Listen
Robert Miller Gallery, at 8:00 pm

Performers include 2 Foot Yard, Biava String Quartet
Odd Appetite, So Percussion with guest performer Zeena Parkins


Look & Listen Seventh Annual Festival!

Music by 2 Foot Yard, Nathan Davis (2008 Look & Listen Prize Winner), Ha-Yang Kim, Zoltan Kodaly, and members of So Percussion

Ambient music by Joshua Hilson


Admission is $10 per concert. To purchase tickets, call 718-622-3005
Tickets also available, if remaining, at the door on all three nights of the event

Robert Miller Gallery, May 3 & 4, at 8:00 pm
524 W. 26th Street, between 10th and 11th Aves


Robert Mann Players
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

Robert Mann Players:
Nicholas Mann, violin   •   Robert Mann, violin
David Fullmer, viola   •   Bonnie Hampton, cello

Guest artist, David Geber, cello


Works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert

The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 8:00 pm

Glass: Satyagraha

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Dante Anzolini, conductor
Rachelle Durkin   •   Alan Oke
Earle Patriarco   •   Alfred Walker

Sung in Sanskrit with Met Titles in English

New York Philomusica
Broadway Presbyterian Church, at 8:00 pm

Haydn: Quartet in g minor, Op. 74, No. 3 (1793)
Dvořák: Quartet no. 12 in F, Op. 96 “The American”
Michael Berkeley: Quartet No. 1 (1981)
Beethoven: Quartet No. 5 in A, Op. 18, No. 5


The Broadway Presbyterian Church
Broadway at 114th Street
Jessye Norman & Mark Markham
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

Jessye Norman, soprano   •   Mark Markham, piano


Works by Arlen, Berlioz, Berg, Brahms, Danielpour, Duke, Gershwin, Kosma, Legrand, Messiaen, R. Strauss, Schubert, Schönberg, Wagner, Weill, Wolf


Orchestre National de France
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, at 8:00 pm

Kurt Masur conductor   •   Anne-Sophie Mutter violin


Works by Beethoven:
Romance in F major, Op. 50
Romance in G major, Op. 40

Dutilleux: Sur le même accord
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in e minor, Op. 64


Polyhymnia
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, at 8:00 pm

Rachel Bazaz, Fiona Chow, Emma Hoyt, Nancy Temple: sopranos
June Severino Feldman, Aaron Lauber, Marjorie Naughton: altos
Jeff Hindman, David Lee, David Usdan: tenors
Rob Hollander, Erik-Peter Mortensen, Edward Willis, bass

Jim Miller, Ravi Rajan, cornetto   •   Terry Pierce, sackbut
Tony Elitcher, Ronald Evans, dulcian   •   Holly Mentzer, spanish cross-strung harp
James Smith, Charles Weaver, lute & Baroque Guitar   •   David Shuler, organ


Elected of the Lord

17th-Century Mexican Ceremonial Music by Fernandes, de Lienas, Padilla & Lopez Capillas

Pre-concert lecture by James Middleton 7:00 pm


Part of St. Luke in the Field's Fiesta of Mexican Baroque Music

The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson St


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