Critically acclaimed soprano Jessica Gould, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra members harpsichordist Bradley Brookshire and lutenist Daniel Swenberg are joined by The Rose of the Compass Ensemble (Nina Stern, recorders, Ara Dinkjian, oud & Glen Velez, percussion) for a unique performance of the music of West and East in the Venetian Empire.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts has announced that Robert Cohen has joined the Fine Arts Quartet as its newest cellist.
Dominant as ever in the concert hall this winter, Christine Brewer - styled "the ideal modern Wagnerian soprano" by the Los Angeles Times - joins the San Francisco Symphony and guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for three concert performances of excerpts from Gotterdammerung, the closing chapter of Wagner's monumental Ring cycle (Dec 8-10). Following her recent account of the German composer's Wesendonck Lieder with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, "a performance that was a model of vocal allure and musical intelligence" (South Florida Classical Review), Brewer reprises the work - coupled with Beethoven's "Ah! perfido" - with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Ward Stare (Jan 20 & 21). She returns to Beethoven for four performances of the Missa solemnis with the Boston Symphony led by Kurt Masur, first at the orchestra's Boston home (Feb 23-25) and then at New York's Carnegie Hall (March 6). Early in the new year, the "superlative Strauss singer" (New York Times) assays the great late Romantic's Four Last Songs with the St. Louis Symphony under David Robertson (Jan 13 & 14).
The Collegiate Chorale is set to present Tippett's A Child of Our Time and Bruckner's Te Deum on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, NYC.
Critically acclaimed soprano Jessica Gould, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra members harpsichordist Bradley Brookshire and lutenist Daniel Swenberg are joined by The Rose of the Compass Ensemble (Nina Stern, recorders, Ara Dinkjian, oud & Glen Velez, percussion) for a unique performance of the music of West and East in the Venetian Empire.
In February 2012 The New York Philharmonic This Week - the weekly radio series of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Alec Baldwin - begins with an encore performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah from November 2010 led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, tenor Allan Clayton, bass-baritone Gerald Finley, and the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director. The second program - from the Orchestra's EUROPE / WINTER 2010 tour - is also led by Mr. Gilbert and includes EXPO by The Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg; Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist; and Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 and Valse triste as performed in Cologne, Germany.
Dominant as ever in the concert hall this winter, Christine Brewer - styled "the ideal modern Wagnerian soprano" by the Los Angeles Times - joins the San Francisco Symphony and guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for three concert performances of excerpts from Gotterdammerung, the closing chapter of Wagner's monumental Ring cycle (Dec 8-10). Following her recent account of the German composer's Wesendonck Lieder with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, "a performance that was a model of vocal allure and musical intelligence" (South Florida Classical Review), Brewer reprises the work - coupled with Beethoven's "Ah! perfido" - with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Ward Stare (Jan 20 & 21). She returns to Beethoven for four performances of the Missa solemnis with the Boston Symphony led by Kurt Masur, first at the orchestra's Boston home (Feb 23-25) and then at New York's Carnegie Hall (March 6). Early in the new year, the "superlative Strauss singer" (New York Times) assays the great late Romantic's Four Last Songs with the St. Louis Symphony under David Robertson (Jan 13 & 14).
Musical America, now in its third century as the indispensable resource for the performing arts, today announced the winners of the annual Musical America Awards, recognizing artistic excellence and achievement in the arts.
Tanglewood, one of the world's most beloved music festivals and the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, celebrates its 75th anniversary season, June 22-September 2, with a spectacular lineup of musical guests and programs that spotlight Tanglewood's rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts at their best since 1937.
Musical America, now in its third century as the indispensable resource for the performing arts, today announced the winners of the annual Musical America Awards, recognizing artistic excellence and achievement in the arts.
Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Schubert's Symphony in B minor, Unfinished, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar, with baritone Serge Leiferkus, and the Men of the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director, on Thursday, October 27, 2011, 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 28, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, October 29, at 8:00 p.m.
After Christine Brewer opened her season in a program of Wagner and Beethoven with the Atlanta Symphony, the Atlanta Journal Constitution marveled, 'Brewer's soprano is an instrument of rare luxury and power, at once silken, roaring, luminous,' and compared her to 'the great Wagnerians from legend.'
Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Schubert's Symphony in B minor, Unfinished, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar, with baritone Serge Leiferkus, and the Men of the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director, on Thursday, October 27, 2011, 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 28, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, October 29, at 8:00 p.m.
2011 has already become a defining year in the history of civil rights movements, with the long-awaited legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State.
2011 has already become a defining year in the history of civil rights movements, with the long-awaited legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State.
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival will present a 'Boston Comes to Cooperstown' concert on Wednesday, August 10 at 7:30 pm at The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown. Performing are: Keisuke Wakao, assistant principal oboe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Alexander Velinzon, the BSO's assistant concertmaster; and violist Marcus Thompson, Artistic Director of the Boston Chamber Music Society. Joining them are NYC-based cellist Inbal Segev, and Festival artistic director, flutist Linda Chesis.
René Pape is currently on tour with the Metropolitan Opera in Tokyo through June 18, proving himself a trouper as he sings one of his signature roles - King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlo - despite worries about radioactivity in the air after Japan's recent disasters.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced a new conductor lineup for five of the BSO's 21 concerts to take place during the 2011 Tanglewood season.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) and The Sheldon are pleased to welcome vocalist Sylvia McNair, performing popular classics from the American songbook and beyond, in a special, cabaret-style evening in The Sheldon Ballroom, Tuesday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m.
On this Sunday, April 17, Rene Pape makes his role debut as Wotan in Wagner's Die Walkure at the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim.
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