Weekend Live Music Preview: 5/27-5/30
I know, it's a holiday weekend and a lot of folks are already on their way to the beach or country. But, for those sticking around, there are some solid […]
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Music in Time of War: Vienna Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall
(Photo: Steven Pisano) "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." – Leonard Bernstein, November, 1963 In dark times
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Weekend Preview: Vienna Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall
It's been three years since the vaunted Vienna Philharmonic has been to NYC – in pre-COVID times, they came here each year – but they'll be back this weekend with
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Louis Langrée Conducts the New York Philharmonic in Debussy, Ravel and Scriabin
This has been a sad, sobering day in the cultural life of New York City. As of today (3/12), all major NYC arts organizations – Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the
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Ian Hobson Paints Musical Colors with Debussy and Ravel at SubCulture
by Nick Stubblefield When SubCulture announced in July 2015 that they were “re-structuring their business model” and cancelling the majority of their lineup, many faithful concert-goers fretted about losing this intimate,
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Classical Thursdays Presents Pianist Francesca Khalifa
by Nick Stubblefield Classical Thursdays, a new concert series hosted in Bedford-Stuyvesant, presented its penultimate show of the year last week with pianist Francesca Khalifa, who performed a well-rounded program of Bach, Beethoven,
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Larry Weng Plays Charles Ives and Maurice Ravel at SubCulture
by Nick Stubblefield Award-winning pianist Larry Weng performed a brilliant set Thursday night at SubCulture, which has quickly become one of the hottest – and my favorite – places to hear music in the city,
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tears become… streams become… at the Park Avenue Armory
Over the past seven years, the Park Avenue Armory has hosted an impressive series of musical events and art installations. But, none of these presentations has sought to merge the
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Broadway Chamber Players Debut at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
by Melanie Wong Out from the dark and into the light: Six of Broadway's premier musicians left the depths of their homes in NYC's theater pits for the Broadway Chamber
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