Theo Bleckmann News

New York Youth Symphony Jazz, led by Director Andy Clausen, will finish their season at The Times Center on Monday, May 9, 2022 at 7:00 PM featuring Benny Benack III as a trumpeter and Shenel Johns as a vocalist. Also, they will be performing a NYYS First Music Commission from Benjamin Morris.

Showcasing her broad vocal range through Intuition: Songs From The Minds of Women, Alicia Olatuja is coming to Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre on Wednesday, March 2.

Joe’s Pub is celebrating female performers for Women’s History Month with Sandra Bernhard, Bridget Everett, Julie Klausner, Priya Darshini, Kathryn Allison, Eleri Ward, Betty Buckley, Brooklyn Raga Massive Rāginī Festival (formerly known as the Women’s Raga Massive Festival), Ayodele Casel, Desaparecidas featuring Daphne Rubin Vega, and more.

The quartet's performance from Old St. Mary's Cathedral, (660 California Street) will include Florence Price's Five Folksongs in Counterpoint and Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 132.

Showcasing her broad vocal range through Intuition: Songs From The Minds of Women, Alicia Olatuja is coming to Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre on Wednesday, March 2.

This December, composer Phil Kline's mobile surround sound-sculpture UNSILENT NIGHT — a landmark in avant-garde public sound art — takes place in more than 35 cities across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Streets, parks and sidewalks will come alive with “a shimmering sound-wall of bells and chimes that is dreamlike to wander through in the December nip” (The Village Voice).

On Friday, November 12, 2021, at 11am PT the Telegraph Quartet, winner of the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, will perform on Live from Vienna and San Francisco: A Musical Call for Climate Action, presented by The ClimateMusic Project and Friday Nights with Yury Revich.

Internationally acclaimed composer, director and performer Meredith Monk will premiere concert performances of her upcoming interdisciplinary, evening-length music theater work, Indra's Net, on November 12 & 13. Presented by Mills Performing Arts and The House Foundation for the Arts, with the Mills College Music Department.

Rite of Summer Music Festival launches their 10th Anniversary season on Saturday, June 19th with  two free concerts at 1pm and 3pm featuring The Knights. Artistic Directors Pam Goldberg and Blair  McMillen are thrilled to present this very special season in Nolan Park on Governors Island, New  York City.

This week (June 7-13) in live streaming: Matthew Morrison visits Backstage Live, the Next on Stage Season 3 finale, Show of Titles premieres, and so much more!

Now, in celebration of the organization's belated five year anniversary, National Sawdust and The WNET Group's ALL ARTS present Contemplations from National Sawdust, a six-episode retrospective presenting an overview of National Sawdust's impressive past, ambitious present and hopeful future.

Beginning on Saturday, May 22, 2021 the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) is presented in a virtual performance by Music in Corrales.

The annual Uncharted concert series at Greenwich House Music School was cancelled in 2021, after it had been fully booked, but the program maintained its commitment to many of its artists and is bringing them back to the stage - in partnership with Joe's Pub - this spring.

The awards honored six musicals from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the West End with nominations for Best Musical Theatre Album - 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'American Utopia,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'The Prince of Egypt,' 'Soft Power,' and Amélie.'

The quartet's program includes Korngold's wistfully lonesome and defiant String Quartet No. 3 and Brahms' String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2, to be followed by a live Q&A and discussion with the quartet members along with Noe Music Artistic Directors Meena Bhasin and Owen Dalby. The performance video will be sent to registered ticket holders and available to watch until March 7, 2021.

New York-based vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan’s debut full length album Maquishti is released today on the Valley of Search label. At times exploring silence and space, stillness and patience the album investigates new sonic territories with an endless sense of curiosity. 

New York based vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan has released the fourth video from her forthcoming debut full length album Maquishti, out January 15, 2021 on the Valley of Search label. 

Bang on a Can will stream performances from all four 2020 Bang on a Can Online Marathons - “A Marathon of Marathons” for on-demand viewing from December 24, 2020 - January 1, 2021 at marathon2020.bangonacan.org.

The Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) announced ChamberFEAST, its first chamber music festival in Taiwan, from November 12-22, 2020. ChamberFEAST is born out of Telegraph’s mission to spread music through education and audience engagement, and is presented by Revolving Gate Music.

On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7:30pm PT, the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) presents a livestream concert on the Faculty Artists Series at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where the ensemble is quartet-in-residence. The quartet will perform live in Sol Joseph Recital Hall, and the stream will be free to watch online with advance registration.