May 2008
Eugene Drucker, violin
Mr. Drucker will read from his novel about a Nazi era violinist and performing musical works relevant to the story. Also on the program is his new composition set to Shakespearean texts.
Couperin: Pieces on Forme du Concert for Cello and String quartet
Loeffler: Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola, and Piano
Fauré: Piano Quartet no. 1 in c Minor, op. 15
Gotham Chamber Orchestra, Neal Goren, conductor
Emily Langford Johnson • Brenda Patterson
Featuring members of Armitage Gone! Dance
Music of Monteverdi, Haydn, and Schönberg
The Playhouse, Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Marco Armiliato, conductor
Natalie Dessay • Felicity Palmer • Juan Diego Flórez
Alessandro Corbelli • Zoe Caldwell
Sung in French with Met Titles in English
Nico Muhly has promised a session of “Twitchy Minimalism Meets 16th-Century Austerity with Electronics” for soloists and tape.
Phillip Bimstein is a “found sounds” composer, his music will be performed by The Curiously Strong Winds, incorporating found sounds on tape.
Hosted By John Schaefer of WNYC Radio.
Nimrod David Pfeffer, piano
Guest Artists: Itamar Zorman, violin • Tibi Cziger, clarinet • Michal Korman, cello
Works by Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Matti Kovler
Opera on Tap, a beer-swilling ensemble of young professional singers and musicians (companies artists have performed with include NYC Opera, Berlin Deutsch Oper, and the NY Philharmonic) takes opera out of the concert hall and into the bar, opera's natural home.
