WWFM The Classical Network, New Jersey's only full-time classical music radio station, will present a free concert to honor the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach tonight, March 21, at The Princeton Theological Seminary's Miller Chapel at 7 p.m.
WWFM The Classical Network, New Jersey's only full-time classical music radio station, will present a free concert to honor the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach Thursday, March 21, at The Princeton Theological Seminary's Miller Chapel at 7 p.m.
On November 8, maestro Julian Wachner - Director of Music and the Arts for Trinity Wall Street - returns to lead the 13th annual VOX festival at the Skirball Center in New York's Greenwich Village. Described by the New York Times as an "invaluable showcase," VOX is the New York City Opera's workshop for previously unproduced contemporary American opera. As this season's conductor, Wachner will direct soloists and members of the NYC Opera Orchestra in selections from six new works chosen to highlight the eclectic landscape of American opera, from composers John Zorn, Moto Osada, Christopher Weiss, Evan Meier, James Stepleton, and Osnat Netzer.
This summer marks the 52nd annual Summer Sing Program. Each summer, the New York Choral Society produces a Summer Sings series that features the most popular masterworks of the choral literature. Taking place every Wednesday at 7:30pm from tonight, July 25th - August 29th at Symphony Space in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, six prominent choral conductors from the New York area will lead audience members to sing through these popular works. Scores are provided by the New York Choral Society.
TENET, under the artistic direction of soprano Jolle Greenleaf, has announced their fourth New York season featuring four programs highlighting the music of Claudio Monteverdi and other masters of early music. Tickets for most TENET performances are available online (http://www.tenetnyc.com/) or by calling Showclix at (888) 71-TICKETS (888-718-4253).
Wolf Trap welcomes Jackson Browne with special guest Sara Watkins; Indie pop co-bill of Rufus Wainwright and Ingrid Michaelson; the Summerland Tour featuring Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit, and Marcy Playground; Three Consecutive NSO @ Wolf Trap Performances; and The Happy Together Tour 2012 featuring The Turtles with Flo & Eddie, Micky Dolenz, and many more. See full details below.
This summer marks the 52nd annual Summer Sing Program. Each summer, the New York Choral Society produces a Summer Sings series that features the most popular masterworks of the choral literature. Taking place every Wednesday at 7:30pm from July 25th - August 29th at Symphony Space in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, six prominent choral conductors from the New York area will lead audience members to sing through these popular works. Scores are provided by the New York Choral Society.
At 36, Paola Prestini has already forged a singular and celebrated path in new music. Both through her production company, VisionIntoArt, and as a composer, she has garnered praise from fellow artists, presenters and critics. Osvaldo Golijov has described Prestini's music as "wrenching and tender and luminous and pure and exuberant: always vivid and always generous." Terry Riley has called it "music [that] speaks from the heart and inspires," and The New York Times has called it "radiant" and "amorously evocative."
Wolf Trap has announced the following upcoming performances.
The Board of Trustees of The New York Choral Society announced today that The New York Choral Society has selected Julian Wachner and David Hayes to serve as its guest conductors for the 2012-13 concert season.
At 36, Paola Prestini has already forged a singular and celebrated path in new music. Both through her production company, VisionIntoArt, and as a composer, she has garnered praise from fellow artists, presenters and critics. Osvaldo Golijov has described Prestini's music as "wrenching and tender and luminous and pure and exuberant: always vivid and always generous." Terry Riley has called it "music [that] speaks from the heart and inspires," and The New York Times has called it "radiant" and "amorously evocative."
Paola Prestini's multimedia opera Oceanic Verses is described as :the most ambitious undertaking of her career to date, and the one that best reveals her sensibility. With her collaborators-including the film artist Ali Hossaini, the librettist Donna Di Novelli and the directorKevin Newbury-Prestini has expanded the work from a 35-minute oratorio to an evening-length opera commissioned by VisionIntoArt and produced by her frequent cohort, Beth Morrison Projects in association with Washington Chorus and Trinity Wall Street.'
In recognition of their leadership in revitalizing Lower Manhattan and laying the foundation for a new Downtown, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) will present Kevin Burke and Con Edison, Robert R. Douglass and the Alliance for Downtown New York, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum architecture and engineering team with Liberty Awards at its annual gala, The Downtown Dinner, at Cipriani Wall Street, today, April 23.
In recognition of their leadership in revitalizing Lower Manhattan and laying the foundation for a new Downtown, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) will present Kevin Burke and Con Edison, Robert R. Douglass and the Alliance for Downtown New York, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum architecture and engineering team with Liberty Awards at its annual gala, The Downtown Dinner, at Cipriani Wall Street on April 23.
Dubbed "outstanding" by Time Out New York, the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra set the tone for Holy Week and the Easter season with Bach's St. Matthew Passion, widely regarded as a masterpiece of Western sacred music.
Dubbed "outstanding" by Time Out New York, the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra set the tone for Holy Week and the Easter season with Bach's St. Matthew Passion, widely regarded as a masterpiece of Western sacred music.
On February 3, Trinity Wall Street's Director of Music and the Arts, Julian Wachner, welcomes guest conductor George Steel for an a cappella concert of English sacred music.
On February 3, Trinity Wall Street's Director of Music and the Arts, Julian Wachner, welcomes guest conductor George Steel for an a cappella concert of English sacred music.
Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel award nominee Amy Warren (The Adding Machine, August: Osage County), Zachary James (South Pacific, The Addams Family), Rebecca Ringle (The Metropolitan Opera's upcoming Nixon in China and Die Walkure), Ryan Bauer-Walsh (Chicago's Billy Elliot), Mellissa Hughes (The Little Death, Volume 1), and mezzo-soprano Flora Mendoza join previously announced Megan Stern (Straight Up Vampire, CHURCH) and Lauren Worsham (New York City Opera's Candide, Goodspeed Opera House's Carnival!) for The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12, at Joe's Pub on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
The Coterie (Royce Vavrek and Lauren Worsham, Co-Artistic Directors), a downtown opera-theater company devoted to developing contemporary music theater works, will present The Coterie: Twelve12Twelve12 an evening of twelve world premiere songs from new musicals and operas by twelve different composers on December 12th, 2010 at 9:30pm.
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