May 2008
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Friday, May 9, 2008
Ensemble ACJW
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 7:00 pm

Ensemble ACJW:
Erin Lesser, Flute   •   Gabriela Martinez, piano   •   Michael Mizrahi, piano
Andrew Beer, violin   •   Angelia Cho, violin   •   Owen Dalby, violin
Joanna Marie Frankel, violin   •   Joanna Kaczorowska, violin   •   Leah Swann, viola
Claire Bryant, cello   •   Julia MacLaine, cello   •   Caitlin Sullivan, cello
Kristoffer Saebo, bass


Golilov: Last Round
Crumb: Vox Balaenae
Dvořák: piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81


Arnold Steinhardt
Metropolitan Museum of Art, at 7:00 pm

Arnold Steinhardt, violin


Celebrating Bach's Chaconne

This lecture/performance, by the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, will delve into the humble beginnings of Bach's Chaconne. Mr Steinhardt will perform Bach's entire Partita in d minor, of which the Chaconne is the final movement.


The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.


Colorado Quartet
Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, at 7:30 pm

Julie Rosenfeld, violin   •   D. Lydia Redding, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola   •   Diane Chaplin, cello


Britten: Quartet No. 2
Ginastera: Quartet No. 2

Also, the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the BMI Foundation: TBA


The Bronx Opera Company
Lovinger Theatre, Lehman College, at 8:00 pm

Mozart: The Impresario

Leoncavallo : Pagliacci

Bronx Opera Orchestra, Michael Spierman & Eric Kramer, Conductors
Cast: TBA

Sung in English


Lovinger Theatre
Lehman College
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Goulden Avenue, Bedford Park, the Bronx Directions


Gateway Classical Music Society
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, at 8:00 pm


Beethoven: Ninth Symphony

Church of the Blessed Sacrament
152 West 71st Street


Gotham Chamber Opera
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, at 8:00 pm

Gotham Chamber Orchestra, Neal Goren, conductor
Emily Langford Johnson   •   Brenda Patterson
Featuring members of Armitage Gone! Dance

Ariadne Unhinged

Music of Monteverdi, Haydn, and Schönberg

The Playhouse, Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street

Mitsuko Uchida
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Bach: Contrapunctus No. 1, BWV 1080 from The Art of Fugue
Schubert: Sonata in c minor, D.958
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

Works by Goörgy Kurtág:
“Antiphone in F-Sharp Major” from Játékok, Book II
“Tumble-Bunny” from Játékok, Book III
“Portrait 3” from Játékok, Book III
“Dirge 2” from Játékok, Book III
“Play with Infinity” from Játékok, Book III


Ha-Yang Kim
Roulette, at 8:30 pm

Ha-Yang Kim, cello


Ms. Kim has developed a unique language of extended string techniques and has created her own music based on this work


Roulette
20 Greene Street


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

Verdi: Macbeth

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, Conductor
Andrea Gruber   •   Joseph Calleja
Carlos Alvarez   •   René Pape

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

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