May 2008
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, David Robertson, Conductor
Diana Damrau • Aleksandra Kurzak • Matthew Polenzani
Steve Davislim • Kristinn Sigmundsson • Matthias von Stegmann
Sung in German with Met Titles in English
Program 3: Interpreting Beethoven, Part 1 — Tempo and Tempi
A look at the performance style of Beethoven's music by some of the great interpreters of the twentieth century.
José Alejandro Guzman, conductor • Scott Jackson Wiley, guitar
Rossini: Overture to La Cenerentola
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Schubert: Symphony No. 1
Program 4: Carlos Kleiber — Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7
Mirna Lekic, piano
Program: TBA
Suzanne Gilchrest, flute • Ina Litera, violin • Matthew Goeke, cello
Martin Rokeach: Going Up? (World premiere)
Siegfried Thiele: Trio for flute, viola and cello (US premiere)
Also works by Katrina Wreede, Josef Friederich Doppelbauer and Astor Piazzolla
Phillip Gaskill, conductor
Antonio Arosemena, bassoon • Shoji Mizumoto, flute
Works by Mozart:
Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, K. 191
Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 “Haffner”
St. Thomas Aquinas Church
249 9th Street, at 4th Avenue, Brooklyn
Jay Meetze, conductor, Christopher Bruckman, pianist
Tracy Wise • Mary Rauh • Amelia Watkins
Maija Lisa Currie • Risa Renae Harmon • Danielle Musick
Candice Hoyes • Giuseppe Spoletini • Aaron Theno
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue 30 West 68th Street, Manhattan
Andy Simionescu, violin •
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola
Matt Haimovitz, cello •
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Jean Francaix: Trio for violin, viola and cello in C Major (1933)
Dohnanyi: Serenade for String Trio in C Major, Op. 10
Dvořák: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 87
Performers include Daedalus String Quartet, Electric Kompany, Ethel, Mark Stewart
Special Guests include George Crumb, Mario Davidovsky, and others
Works by Carl Christian Bettendorf, members of Electric Kompany, Ethel, Kristin Hevner, Mark Stewart, Igor Stravinsky
Ambient music Gesang der Junglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen
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
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Harry Bicket, Conductor
Heidi Grant Murphy • Tamar Iveri • Susan Graham
Anke Vondung • Ramón Vargas • Oren Gradus
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
New York Choral Society & Brooklyn Philharmonic, John Daly Goodwin, conductor
Berlioz: Requiem
David Bernard, conductor
Brittany Sklar, violin •
Neena Deb-Sen, cello
Works by Brahms:
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Concerto for Violin & Cello
Symphony No. 3
All Saints Episcopal Church
230 East 60th Street
Itzhak Perlman, with Members of the Perlman Music Program
David Kadouch, piano
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048
Schumann: Quintet for Piano and Strings in E flat Major, Opus 44
The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Thomas Schultz, piano
Works by Webern, Liszt, Chopin, Busoni, Hyo-Shin Na, and Schubert
