The New York Philharmonic in collaboration with CAMI Music will celebrate the Chinese New Year for the third consecutive year, welcoming the Year of the Horse with a concert featuring major works of both the Chinese and Western canon on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. The event celebrates the cultural heritage of China and America and honors the Chinese- American community. Long Yu — artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic, music director of the Shanghai and Guanzhou Symphony Orchestras, and artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival — will return to the Philharmonic to conduct the concert.
On January 18, 2014, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) presents the American premiere of The Passenger (1968), a powerful Holocaust opera by exiled Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Based on a novel by Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz, The Passenger was recognized as "a perfect masterpiece" by Shostakovich but was censored by the Soviet establishment and never performed in Weinberg's lifetime. It premiered at the 2010 Bregenz Festival, and its subsequent UK premiere at the English National Opera took place only thanks to award-winning British director David Pountney, whose staging inspired the Telegraph to write: "Risky though it may be to label a first production 'definitive,' it is hard to imagine it ever being done better." Now HGO brings the same production across the Atlantic, complete with mezzo-soprano Michelle Breedt, who "excelled" (New York Times) in the leading role at two European premieres. All five of The Passenger's first American performances (Jan 18-Feb 2) will be led byPatrick Summers, HGO's artistic and music director.
National public television series 'All-Star Orchestra' has been awarded the 2013 ASCAP Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award for outstanding broadcast and new media coverage of music. The award will be presented on November 14, 2013, to Music Director Gerard Schwarz, Video Producer John Forsen and Executive Director Paul Schwendener. 'All-Star Orchestra' airsSundays at 12:30 p.m. in the New York metro area on THIRTEEN & in Philadelphia on WHYY and Sundays at 3:30 p.m. in the New York metro area on WLIW21.
With one hundred concerts, three hundred world premieres, and enough accolades to fill an auditorium, composer driven chamber music outfit, The Firm, are gearing up to present their 100th concert since their inception in 1996. Distinguished pianist Clemens Leske will perform Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959, Metamorphosis One and Three by Philip Glass, Winterklavier by Raymond Chapman Smith, Schubert Variations by Quentin Grant and the world premiere of Time's Long Ruin by Anne Cawrse today October 7, 8pm in Elder Hall.
The Collegiate Chorale announces its 2013-14 season of three important works: Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele at Carnegie Hall, followed by with Max Bruch's Moses at Carnegie Hall, and David Lang's battle hymns at Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
Japan Society is proud to host groundbreaking artists John Zorn and Ryuichi Sakamoto for an improvisatory pair of currently sold-out performances tonight, October 4 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm. This evening represents the final performance in the multi-show Zorn@60 celebration, commemorating John Zorn'skanreki, his sixtieth birthday; coinciding with the Japan Society Performing Arts Program's sixtieth anniversary celebration.
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, will present its annual Monday Night Open Rehearsal Series, this year featuring Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. On three Monday evenings - October 21 & 28 and November 4 - different actors and directors will explore the text of Julius Caesar, giving theater-goers the opportunity to become part of the discovery process, and experience different acting approaches and directorial interpretations of one of Shakespeare's boldest tragedies. Here is the line-up for this year's Open Rehearsal series:
Music Director Gerard Schwarz's All-Star Orchestra, the made-for-television classical music concert series featuring leading musicians from top orchestras across the country, has been awarded the 2013 Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award for outstanding broadcast and new media coverage of music. The award will be presented on November 14, 2013 to Mr. Schwarz, Video Producer John Forsen and Executive Director Paul Schwendener. All-Star Orchestra will commence with the second half of its programming on NYC's THIRTEEN and Philadelphia'sWHYY beginning on October 6 at 12:30 p.m. (check local listings). Episode five, "Relationships in Music," features Brahms' Academic Festival Overture and Schumann's Symphony no. 3,Rhenish. The series will conclude with episode eight, "Mahler: Love, Sorrow & Transcendence," on October 27.
Ballet San Jose Artistic Director Jose Manuel Carreño has announced updates to the Company's November 16 all-star gala. Members of Ballet San Jose and Ballet San Jose School will be joined on stage by an impressive lineup of guest artists for the benefit evening, beginning at 5 pm with cocktails and dinner, followed by an 8 pm performance and VIP post-performance party, all at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
New York Live Arts will present, as part of the Replay Series, works by Molissa Fenley spanning more than thirty years of her choreographic experiments in two varied programs tonight, October 2 - 5 at 7:30pm, with a lecture demonstration October 5 at 3:00pm. Fenley will present the world premiere of Found Object, the reconstructed solos The Floor Dances and Witches' Float, and the quartet Energizer, bridging her choreographic past with the present.
Acclaimed nationwide for eclectic programming and virtuoso performances, string quartet ETHEL returns to the BAM Next Wave Festival to premiere its largest and most ambitious undertaking to date,Documerica. Inspired by the Environmental Protection Agency's Project Documerica-a massive 'snapshot' of America showcased in an astonishing archive of images captured during the recession-plagued, tumultuous 1970s-this multimedia meditation interweaves over 3,000 vintage photographs with commissioned contemporary music for a landmark work.
With one hundred concerts, three hundred world premieres, and enough accolades to fill an auditorium, composer driven chamber music outfit, The Firm, are gearing up to present their 100th concert since their inception in 1996. Distinguished pianist Clemens Leske will perform Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959, Metamorphosis One and Three by Philip Glass, Winterklavier by Raymond Chapman Smith, Schubert Variations by Quentin Grant and the world premiere of Time's Long Ruin by Anne Cawrse on Monday October 7, 8pm in Elder Hall.
Paris-based Compagnie Käfig will visit the UK in 2014, with a nationwide tour from 25 March to 18 April and two national press nights in Milton Keynes on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March. In the past 17 years, Compagnie Käfig has given over 2200 performances in 61 countries in front of more than 1 million people. However, they rarely perform in the UK, and this is rare and special visit is by the kind invitation of Dance Consortium.
The company releases an official statement on their Facebook page, saying: 'We at Mabou Mines are profoundly saddened to share the news of the passing of our Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director, Ruth Maleczech. Ruth died at home, in her sleep, with her children Clove & Lute at her side. Ruth was a living legend. The loss to the theater community is immeasurable. To those of us who knew and loved her the loss is devastating.'
Paris-based Compagnie Kafig will visit the UK in 2014, with a nationwide tour from 25 March to 18 April and two national press nights in Milton Keynes on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March. In the past 17 years, Compagnie Kafig has given over 2200 performances in 61 countries in front of more than 1 million people. However, they rarely perform in the UK, and this is rare and special visit is by the kind invitation of Dance Consortium.
The Collegiate Chorale announced its first concert of the season, Mefistofele, by Arrigo Boito on November 6, 2013 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, NYC. Tickets are available at www.carnegiehall.org or by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800. Single tickets for this concert start at $15. The Collegiate Chorale will hold its Annual Fall Gala immediately following the concert. (For more information or tickets to the Gala, please contact Mariane Lemieux at mlemieux@collegiatechorale.org or 646-435-9052.)
Long celebrated for his unique brand of contemporary choreography that combines powerful athleticism with profound emotional sensitivity, Takehiro (Take) Ueyama did not disappoint his opening night audience on Friday, September 27th at Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street. The program, which was repeated on September 28th, treated Take's fans to the world premiere of his 'Dark Mourning' as well as the world premiere of Kazuko Hirabayashi's 'A Baited Soul'. The closing piece was a favorite staple of Take's repertoire, his critically acclaimed 'Flight'.
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, presents Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, starring Elizabeth Olsen as Juliet and Julian Cihi as Romeo, directed by Tea Alagic, and beginning previews today, September 28 at 3 pm, one day later than originally scheduled. The official press opening is set for Wednesday, October 16.
