May 2008
Program 5: Interpreting Beethoven, Part 2 — The Eroica Unwrapped
A look at the performance style of Beethoven's music by some of the great interpreters of the twentieth century.
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
James Busby, conductor
Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
St. Ann's Church
157 Montague Street
Brooklyn Heights
Program 6: Eroica
A historically-based fictional feature film dramatizing the creation and the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony on June 9, 1804, in Vienna. 90 minutes.
Dame Felicity Lott, soprano • Graham Johnson, piano
Works by Capdevielle, Coward, Debussy, Duparc, Hahn, Mahler, Messanger, Sauguet and Schumann
Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor • Ji-Yong, piano
Russell Anixter: An Excerpt from Steppenwolf (World Premiere)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
Queensborough Community College Performing Arts Center
56th Avenue & Springfield Blvd., Bayside
Avian Music:
Sarah Schwartz, violin • Arash Amini, cello • Ann Cecil Sterman, flute
Andrew Sterman, flute and saxophone • Chris Nappi, percussion • Donald Berman, piano.
Works by composers Michael Gandolfi, Tom Lopez, Neil Rolnick, Peter Flint, Bret Battey, John Mallia, Andreia Pinto Correia, and Ben Dorfan.
The Performance Project
University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY
Mark Peskanov, violin • Raman Ramakrishnan, cello • Steven Beck, piano
Mozart: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 254
Haydn: Piano Trio No. 31 in G Major, Hob. XV:32
Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost ”
Bronx Opera Orchestra, Michael Spierman & Eric Kramer, Conductors
Cast: TBA
Sung in English
Lovinger Theatre
Lehman College
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Goulden Avenue, Bedford Park, the Bronx Directions
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, Tan Dun, conductor
Sarah Coburn • Ning Liang • Susanne Mentzer
Plácido Domingo • Paul Groves • Hao Jiang Tian
Sung in English with Met Titles in English
Guest soloist, Sarah Chang, violin
Restighi: Gli Ucelli (The Birds)
Wuorinen: Synaxis
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Mihaela Ursuleasa, piano
Messiaen: 1 Prelude from Huit Preludes, “La colombe”
Kernis: New work (New York City premier)
Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Opus 116
Rachmaninoff: Etudes tableaux, Opus 39
Part of The Peoples' Symphony Concert series
Washington Irving Auditorium
Washington Irving High School
40 Irving Place, at 16th Street
Frederic Rzewski: De Profundis and Piano Piece #4
Scott Wollschleger: Chaos-Analog
Olivier Messiaen: Le baiser de léEnfant Jesu
Christopher Marianetti: it would be beating a dead dog if we do anything but present this statement
David Broome: New works
Erik Friedlander, cello
Works from Block Ice & Propane
Roulette
20 Greene Street
Ann J. Kirschner, mezzo-soprano • Stephen Francis Vasta, piano
Guest Artists:
Pamela Glaser, soprano •
Bettina Covo, soprano •
Michael Klitsch, tenor
Gerald Greland, tenor •
Dale Rejtmar, baritone •
David Hawkins, bass
Program featuring art songs, arias, musical theatre standards, and folk songs
