Coffee Conversation: Alondra de la Parra
by Steven Pisano Photo by Steven Pisano Conductor Alondra de la Parra is something of an anomaly. Aside from being a woman – still a rarity in the classical music world – […]
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FREE TICKETS: Voices of Ascension 25th Anniversary Concert
Join Voices of Ascension, one of the world's premier professional choral ensembles, on November 12th at 7:00pm as they celebrate 25 years of great choral music. The program will feature Poulenc’s Gloria, Dvořák’s Te Deum,and the Regina Coeli from
¡Viva México!: Alondra de la Parra and Natalia Lafourcade at Town Hall
by Steven Pisano Photo by Steven Pisano El Dia de los Muertos (“The Day of the Dead”) is a Latin American holiday when the dead are remembered a time to
White Light Festival: Britten’s Curlew River at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
by Robert Leeper The music of Benjamin Britten focuses on the idea of the outsider, of men uncertain of their place in the world. He delves into the lives those
John Adams Conducts the Yale Philharmonia and Brentano Quartet
by Nick Stubblefield Bernstein. Mahler. Stravinsky. These men were all highly-respected composer/conductors found in music history textbooks. Flip to the end of that textbook, and one is likely to find
White Light Festival: Basil Twist’s “The Rite of Spring”
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times In 1998, I was working at the downtown arts center HERE when Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique premiered in a small black box theater in the basement. Billed as
White Light Festival: The Berlin Philharmonic Bring Their Searing St. Matthew Passion to the Park Avenue Armory
In the world of music, there are small masterpieces: Allegri's Miserere, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Claire de lune. Then, there are bigger ones: Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Mahler's 2nd symphony. And then, there
FREE TICKETS: Emerson String Quartet and Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall
The renowned Emerson String Quartet shares a bill with pianist Yefim Bronfman for Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat major this Tuesday at Carnegie Hall. On its own, the quartet will perform Beethoven's
Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic Bring Russian Fire to Carnegie Hall
by Michael Cirigliano II It may not seem like Russian orchestral music would align with the Berlin Philharmonic's glossy, pristine sound, but luckily it seems that no one has ever