May 2008
Symphony Space celebrates its 30th season, with a tribute to the very first Wall to Wall which opened the doors of the boarded-up theater to the public and offered a marathon of music by Bach.
The artists perfoming in the Fest are too nermous to mention, but includes the American Symphony Orchestra (under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein) and a slew of artists performing Preludes, Fugues, Cantatas, Suites, Concerti, Sonatas and more, concluding with a resounding performance of the b minor Mass.
The concert is free, starting at 11:30 am, ending?
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Tan Dun, conductor
Sarah Coburn • Ning Liang • Susanne Mentzer
Plácido Domingo • Paul Groves • Hao Jiang Tian
Sung in English with Met Titles in English
Bronx Opera Orchestra, Michael Spierman & Eric Kramer, Conductors
Cast: TBA
Sung in English
John Cranford Adams Playhouse
Hofstra University
Hempstead, Long Island
Alondra de la Parra, conductor • Edicson Ruiz, bass
Works by Golijov, Piazzolla and Ginastera
El Museo Del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue
Mark Peskanov, violin • Steven Beck, piano
Choose from the complete sonatas for violin and piano by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms
Mark Peskanov and Steven Beck have performed all of these pieces together, and now they would like for you to choose the program. Pick four sonatas (one by each composer), and vote when you purchase a ticket. One sonata by each composer will be selected according to the popular vote. The resulting programs will be announced at the concerts.
Keiko Tanaka, piano
Program: TBA
Mitsuko Uchida, piano •
Llŷr Williams, piano •
Martin Fröst, clarinet
Soovin Kim, violin •
Christian Poltéra, cello
Liszt: La Lugubre gondola
Bartók: Contrasts for violin, clarinet, and piano
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Paul Sperry, narrator • Jacquelyn Familant, soprano • Robert Gardner, baritone
Sato Moughalian, flute • Meighan Stoops, clarinet • Robin Zeh, violin
Victoria Paterson, violin • Dave Eggar, cello • Sean McClowry, double bass
Tom Kolor, percussion • Blair McMillen, piano • Robert Paterson, conductor
Aaron Jay Kernis: The Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine
Barbara Kolb: Three Place Settings
Marc Mellits: Fruity Pebbles
Leonard Bernstein: La Bonne Cuisine
Robert Paterson: Eating Variations∗
Yotam Haber: The Gourmand's Lament
William Bolcom: Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise
Derrick Wang: Hors d'oeuvres∗∗
Derrick Wang is the winner of AME's Third Annual Composition Competition
∗World Premiere, ∗∗NYC Premiere
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
43A West 13th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Jonathan Yates, conductor • Colin Carr, cello soloist
Dan Coleman: Songs and Conversations (1996 - NY Premiere)
David Popper: Requiem for Three Cellos, Op. 66
With Colin Carr, Raman Ramakrishnan and Stephen Cho, cellos
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite (1945)
Wiancko: La Follia Variations for String Orchestra, after Geminiani and Corelli (2006)
Washington Irving High School
40 Irving Place, New York, NY
Paul Crabtree, a new choral work based on Hermaphroditus by Ovid
Works by Paul Crabtree:
Dive: A Water Music
An American Persephone
Church of the Holy Trinity
316 East 88th Street
The Empire City Men's Chorus conducted by Jonathan Babcock
Featuring pianists Geoffrey Kiorpes and Marc Peloquin
The Astoria Symphony Orchestra conducted by Silas Huff
Works by David Del Tredici, Leonard Bernstein, Lee Hoiby, Randall Thompson, Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Weisman, Brahms and Mozart
The Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew
263 West 86th Street
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, Conductor
Andrea Gruber • Joseph Calleja
Carlos Alvarez • René Pape
Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English
Momenta Quartet, a New Music collective
Program: TBA
Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Thea Kano, conductor
Works by French composers, including:
Fauré: Requiem
Church of St. Paul the Apostle
Columbus Avenue at 60th Street
David Leibowitz, conductor • Anna Polonsky, piano
D'Indy: Suite from Karadec
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in e minor “From the New World”
NYRO concerts are free
Good Shepherd Church
152 West 66th Street
Music for the Capilla Flamenca by Pierre de Manchicourt
Manchicourt, court composer of Philip II of Spain, has been long overshadowed by his more familiar contemporaries, Gombert, Clemens non Papa and Crecquillon. As composer to Philip's Flemish chapel, Manchicourt wrought music of great beauty; sonorous rich, and mysterious, composed fittingly for the chapel of a King.
Lukas Ligeti • Colleen
Composer and percussionist Lukas Ligeti fuses disparate elements (African polyrhythms, non-tempered tuning, pop melodies) to create an infectious cross-cultural sound.
French composer and performer Colleen filters minimalist qualities of early music through live electronics and found instruments, including her favored electric viola da gamba.
Rowena Mariano, piano
Works by Scarlatti, Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt
Program: TBA
