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You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the Sixties at ...
Click here for more information. Discover the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. From communal living and forays into expanded consciousness, to tensions around race, politics, sexuality and the environment, this exhibition explores the breadth and significance of this period. This event is part ...
Caramoor: Opening Night Gala Featuring Audra McDonald
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/opening-night-gala-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts celebrates the arrival of their 2018 Summer Season at their annual benefit event. This year’s Gala festivities honor longtime trustee Susan Freund and her husband John for their 25 years of shared efforts and insights, helping make Caramoor what it is ...
Caramoor: Family Concert —The Knights at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/the-knights-family-concert/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
This special hour-long family-friendly concert is the perfect opportunity for a younger audience to engage with and get excited about music both familiar and new. Brooklyn-based orchestral collective The Knights and steel pan virtuoso Andy Akiho interact with the audience to inspire curiosity, ...
Caramoor: The Knights at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/the-knights-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Brooklyn-based and Grammy-nominated orchestral collective The Knights return to Caramoor for an evening of innovative, exciting, and elegant orchestrations. The program features steel pan percussionist and fantastic young composer Andy Akiho performing his Fantasy for Steel Pans and Orchestra, Judd ...
Art Break: Must-sees at the New Museum, Eldridge Street and ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, June 18, 2018 This week, Art Break shines the spotlight on the New Museum of Contemporary Art, located on the Bowery. Since its founding in 1977, the institution has given New Yorkers a front row seat to the international contemporary art scene, ...
Versatility Rules at the Eclectic Alt-Guitar Summit, Starring Bill Frisell ...
By David Rubien, Contributing Writer, June 15, 2018 When a large percentage of jazz guitarists under the age of 50 tell you that their primary influence was Jimi Hendrix, you know something interesting is going on. While the guitar has become as prevalent in jazz as almost any ...
Steve Tibbetts's 'Life Of' Is Both Endlessly Expansive and Deeply ...
By Denin Koch, Contributing Writer, June 14, 2018 Guitarist Steve Tibbetts’ long association with ECM has produced nine albums that span influences from Southeast Asian gamelan to Americana to jazz fusion. His 2018 release, Life of, is a quiet, meditative record that Tibbetts describes as a “sequel” to 2010’...
'Carmen Jones' Is Back — And She's Still Smokin' Hot
By Helaine Feldman, Contributing Writer, June 13, 2018 'Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?' She’s still the fictional character in a popular series of mystery video games that have been around since 1985. A question for 2018 might be: Where in the world is Carmen Jones? ...
Life In Focus: Preparing for Performance in Ballet Class
By Juliana Crawford, Contributing Photographer, June 13, 2018 [caption id="attachment_55885" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] A stretch before class begins; photo: Juliana Crawford.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_55889" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] At the barre; photo: Juliana Crawford.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_55886" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] It's changement ...
Review: A Nearly Forgotten 'Harlequinade' Leaps Again at American Ballet ...
By Sheila Kogan, Contributing Writer, June 12, 2018 The choreography of Marius Petipa is practically synonymous with classical ballet. His ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote are part of the repertoire of major and minor ballet companies all over the world and are frequently ...
Art Break: Ariel DeAndrea's Photorealism at Louis K. Meisel and ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, June 11, 2018 Art Break has been reflecting on the phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ and the ways it can be interpreted. For instance, you could think outside the box if you decided to measure time in images instead of numbers. ...
Jazz Notes Intel: Guitarist Russell Malone Gets Saluted; Dafnis Prieto ...
By Dan Ouellette, Senior Editor ZEALnyc, June 8, 2018 Maestro guitarist Russell Malone thanks six-string elder Kenny Burrell for giving him invaluable advice thirty years ago to advance his career. “Kenny told me to always be consistent,” the 54-year-old Malone said in a phone conversation from his ...
Review: Pianist Kariné Poghosyan Finds Unexpected Connections to New York ...
By Joshua Rosenblum, Contributing Writer, June 8, 2018 You might not expect works by Bartok, Rachmaninoff, and Khachaturian to be included in a recital purporting to celebrate New York, but pianist Kariné Poghosyan would remind you that the first two composers both emigrated to the Big Apple ...
TODAY: Composer Charles Strouse Celebrates His 90th Birthday
By Don Adkins, Managing Editor, June 7, 2018 The headline could read "Home Town Boy Makes Good." Ninety years ago today Charles Strouse was born in New York City and would go on to become one of the most iconic musical theater composers of the last half ...
Caramoor: Verona Quartet at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/verona-quartet-summer/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
The Verona Quartet, who have been hailed by The New York Times as “cohesive yet full of temperament…vibrant, [and] intelligent,” returns for their final performance as Caramoor’s Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence for a summer evening in our Venetian Theater. The program includes ...
Caramoor: Sō Percussion at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/so-percussion/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
A quartet of Brooklyn percussionists with a passion for new music, artistic collaborations, community service and engagement, and artistic education, Sō Percussion makes their Caramoor debut this summer with pieces ranging from 20th-century “classics” to contemporary works including the World ...
Caramoor: Apollo’s Fire at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/apollos-fire/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Hailed as “one of the pre-eminent period-instrument ensembles” (The Independent, London), Apollo’s Fire was founded in 1992 by award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, who envisioned an ensemble dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or ...
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell
The festive summer program features Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21/61 arranged by Andreas Tarkmann; the New York premiere of Othmar Schoeck’s Summer Night, Pastoral Intermezzo for Strings, Op. 58, inspired by the Gottfried Keller poem of the same name; and Beethoven’s ...
Caramoor: Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano, and Sharon Isbin, guitar, in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/isabel-leonard-sharon-isbin/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Join us for a Spanish program performed by Metropolitan Opera star Isabel Leonard and renowned classical guitarist Sharon Isbin in the perfectly-suited setting of the enchanting Spanish Courtyard of the historic Rosen House. Featuring works by Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, Xavier Montsalvatge, ...
Caramoor: Kronos Quartet in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/kronos-quartet/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Kronos Quartet is the string quartet reimagined, having spent its 40 years exploring new sounds by bringing over 900 works and arrangements into the world and delving into an eclectic repertoire spanning 20th-century masters, contemporary composers, jazz legends, rock artists, and genre-defying ...
Caramoor: Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Conductor Ludovic Morlot and Violinist Benjamin Beilman at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/orchestra-st-lukes-benjamin-beilman/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Currently serving as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot makes his debut leading Caramoor’s orchestra in residence, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, in this program featuring the New York Premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Evidence, a musical adventure full of “color and character” ...
Caramoor: Inuksuit by John Luther Adams
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/inuksuit/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Caramoor throws open its gates and invites you to discover John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit, an epic outdoor piece performed by more than 60 percussionists and other instrumentalists, directed by Doug Perkins. Inuksuit calls for the audience to wander outside among musicians playing an incredible ...
Caramoor: Pops, Patriots, and Fireworks at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/pops-patriots-fireworks-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Celebrate July 4th the Caramoor way as we pay tribute to Leonard Bernstein alongside other grand symphonic works with the esteemed Westchester Symphonic Winds and two stellar alumni from Caramoor’s Schwab Vocal Rising Stars. Then, stick around for a proper ending to the evening with ...
Caramoor: Jasper String Quartet in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/jasper-string-quartet-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Hailed by The Strad as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” and “powerful” by The New York Times, the Jasper String Quartet bring their passion for performing emotionally personal and significant pieces to Caramoor. Presenting two contemporary pieces alongside classic works ...
Caramoor: I’m With Her in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/im-with-her-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
These charismatic vocalists and instrumentalists (fiddle, mandolin, guitar) are on the road constantly with their busy individual projects, except for those rare and magical times when they come together as the Americana supergroup I’m With Her, whose debut album, See You Around, was released ...
Caramoor: Pianist Marc-André Hamelin at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/marc-andre-hamelin/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Marc-André Hamelin is an accomplished and unrivaled virtuoso when it comes to the renowned works of the established repertoire for piano. He brings to his Caramoor debut one of Schumann’s greatest works for solo piano, central to the early Romantic period, and Schubert’s elegant masterpiece ...
Caramoor: Pianist Michael Brown in the Spanish Courtyard
Spanish Courtyard / Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/michael-brown/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Michael Brown is a pianist on the rise. Recently named an Emerging Artist of 2018 by Lincoln Center, Brown is not only “a young piano visionary” (The New York Times) but an exceptional composer as well. In his Caramoor recital, he celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s centennial with a composition ...
Caramoor: Mozart’s ‘The Secret Gardener’ in the Sunken Garden
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/mozarts-secret-gardener/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Become entangled in the storytelling of The Secret Gardener (La finta giardiniera) as performers and audience members meet in the beautiful setting of Caramoor’s Sunken Garden. Written by an 18-year-old Mozart, The Secret Gardener is a story of love, madness, and redemption that unfolds in ...
Caramoor: Family Concert — Bridge to Broadway in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/bridge-to-broadway/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Bridge to Broadway will take audiences on a journey all the way from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Lin-Manuel Miranda! Beginning with the elegant forms of the Classical period, on through to the imaginative Art Song, the drama and emotion of the Romantic period, the excitement and optimism of Tin Pan ...
Caramoor: Bernstein’s Broadway at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/bernsteins-broadway/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Join Broadway stars Mikaela Bennett (The Golden Apple), Alysha Umphress (On the Town), Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), and Ben Davis (Violet) in celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday! Tony Award winner Ted Sperling is Music Director and host for this evening of ...
Caramoor: 2nd Annual Chamber Feast at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/2nd-annual-chamber-feast/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Caramoor presents their Chamber Feast, featuring a host of exceptional musicians. Come to the Caramoor grounds by 2:00pm to hear performances by the National Youth Orchestra of the USA and NYO2, two incredible programs built to select and sustain talented and diverse musicians for the future ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Bernstein’s MASS at David Geffen Hall
David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/bernstein-mass20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Conductor Louis Langrée, the Festival Orchestra, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, and a huge cast of singers, musicians, and dancers celebrate Leonard Bernstein with a fully staged production of his bold 1971 MASS. Born of the Vietnam War era, MASS is an endlessly inventive dramatic happening and ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Haydn’s ‘The Creation’ at Lincoln Center
Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/the-creation10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10023
Avant-garde Catalan theater collective La Fura dels Baus brings its “freewheeling blend of audiovisual wizardry, acrobatics, and puppetry” (Guardian, U.K) to Haydn’s famous oratorio. A relentless stream of imagery, text, and stage pageantry touching on everything from philosophy and physics ...
Caramoor: Derek Gripper, guitar, in the Sunken Garden
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/derek-gripper/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Caramoor continues its long-standing tradition of Guitar in the Garden with Derek Gripper, a South African guitarist whom London’s Evening Standard hailed as “opening a whole new repertoire of classical guitar music.” The program, including his captivating transcriptions of works written for ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Jupiter Symphony at Alice Tully Hall
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/jupiter-symphony1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Conductor Thomas Dausgaard, recently appointed music director of the Seattle Symphony, and passionate pianist Francesco Piemontesi lead this sparkling evening of myth and Mozart. “Soulful and playful” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Piemontesi sheds light on the nuances of Mozart’s B-flat major ...
Caramoor: Brentano Quartet with Todd Palmer, clarinet, in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/brentano-quartet-todd-palmer/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Enjoying over 20 years of acclaim and a place as one of the world’s top string quartets, the Brentano Quartet returns to Caramoor with three-time Grammy-nominated clarinettist Todd Palmer. Their program includes transcriptions of madrigals by Gesualdo, whose works pre-date the string quartet as a ...
Caramoor: Handel’s ‘Atalanta’ at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/handels-atalanta/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Composed for a royal wedding celebration, Handel’s Atalanta is a tale full of hidden love and disguise, complete with vocal fireworks. Long dormant since its 1736 premiere, Atalanta’s lively overtures, festive melodies, and favored arioso, “Care selve,” were revived in 1970 and are now ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra — Americans in Paris at David Geffen Hall
David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/americans-in-paris10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
For this exhilarating evening inspired by fable, film, and the French-American connection, maestro Louis Langrée leads the Festival Orchestra in Bernstein’s Voltaire-inspired overture and a new edition of Gershwin’s score to An American in Paris. The ultimate American Mozart pianist Emanuel ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: A Little Night Music — Emanuel Ax, piano, at the Kaplan Penthouse
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/emanuel-ax-pianoLincoln Square, New York, NY 10023,
Emanuel Ax returns to the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse for another memorable late-night recital enhanced by complimentary wine and gorgeous views of New York’s sparkling skyline. Beginning with dreamy solo works by Debussy and Mozart, the program takes an enchanting turn when one of Mozart’s ...
Caramoor: Chanticleer in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/chanticleer/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Three-time Grammy-winning vocal group Chanticleer makes their Caramoor debut in our stunning Spanish Courtyard. Celebrating their 40th Anniversary, they will perform works by Palestrina, Lassus, Gibbons, Byrd, Steven Stucky, Chen Yi, Matthew Aucoin, Ellington, Rodgers & Hart, Berlin, and other ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra — Handel & Bach at David Geffen Hall
David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/handel-and-bach10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Charismatic early-music star and music director of the Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr leads the Festival Orchestra from the keyboard in jewels of the High Baroque. Whether it’s the lilting French dances of Handel’s Water Music or the dazzling runs of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. ...
Caramoor: Joey Alexander Trio in Collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/joey-alexander-trio/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Returning after his Caramoor debut at the 2015 Jazz Festival, Joey Alexander brings an original swing and improvisational style that is unmatched at his age, along with an artistic maturity well beyond his years. He is the youngest jazz artist to ever be nominated for a Grammy (twice), and as a ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: A Little Night Music — Virtuoso Vivaldi at the Kaplan Penthouse
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/helicon-ensembleLincoln Square, New York, NY 10023,
Several stars of New York’s early-music scene under the direction of the excellent keyboardist Avi Stein offer up an exhilarating late-night concert in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Relax with a glass of complimentary wine and revel in the chromatic color and dazzling virtuosity of Vivaldi and ...
Caramoor: Season Finale Features the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/orchestra-st-lukes-finale-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Caramoor’s 2018 Summer Season comes to a close with Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie and the inimitable mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. Performing selections from the roles that brought her renown, the first half of the program feature selections from ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/emerson-string-quartet1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
One of the great string quartets of our time joins with acclaimed viola virtuoso Nokuthula Ngwenyama for an invigorating evening of chamber music. From the finely wrought fantasia and fugue by Purcell and Bach, respectively, emerge the restless transcendence of Mozart’s G-minor string quintet and ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Festival Orchestra and Joshua Bell Play Bruch at David Geffen Hall
David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/joshua-bell-plays-bruch10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
The violin superstar Joshua Bell has long been associated with Max Bruch’s rhapsodic concerto, having recorded it for his first-ever concerto album released when he was just 19. Tonight, with Louis Langrée and the Festival Orchestra, he once again traverses the melodic peaks, brilliant runs, and ...