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Handel’s Messiah at Trinity Wall Street
Trinity Church Wall Street presents its acclaimed performance of Handel’s Messiah conducted by Julian Wachner, the Director of Music and the Arts. Messiah and Trinity have a long history – Trinity presented one of the first performances of the work in North America in 1770, and the GRAMMY®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra are still widely regarded as some of the greatest interpreters of the work. Last year, the New York Timesdescribed Trinity’s presentation as “perhaps the essential New York ‘Messiah.’…
Find out more »YIVO – Sweet is Thy Voice
Shir hashirim, “The Song of Songs,” is the ur-love poem. An ecstatic erotic book found in ketuvim (writings) in the Hebrew bible, it has been a source of inspiration for generation after generation of Hebrew love poems, and has inspired musical settings in a variety of languages, and from a variety of Jewish and non-Jewish perspectives. This concert will feature a selection of songs that set to music excerpts of “The Song of Songs” or texts inspired by it, in languages ranging…
Find out more »Sandbox – Michigan State University Symphony
Sandbox Percussion performs Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al, with the Michigan State University Symphony.
Find out more »PASIC, with The Percussion Collective
The Percussion Collective performs their recent commissions by Garth Neustadter and Alejandro Viñao, alongside Steve Reich’s Sextet.
Find out more »PASIC, with Andy Akiho
Ian Rosenbaum and Andy Akiho perform duos at PASIC.
Find out more »PUBLIQuartet/Andy Akiho
The dynamic, groundbreaking PUBLIQuartet teams up with percussion stars Andy Akiho and Ian Rosenbaum for a concert of Akiho’s vibrant, viscerally driving music. Hailed as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music” (Washington Post), PUBLIQuartet has collaborated with artists ranging from the International Contemporary Ensemble to Helga Davis and Billy Childs, and has appeared everywhere from Lincoln Center to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. As one of National Sawdust’s 2018-2019 Artists-in-Residence, PUBLIQuartet are advancing their work to…
Find out more »Sandbox – Kettle Corn New Music
On Saturday November 3rd at 2:30 pm, Kettle Corn New Music presents Sandbox Percussion with singer Eliza Bagg, in a program of György Ligeti’s “Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel”, a newly written song cycle by Alex Weiser, and more.
Find out more »LIgNEouS with the PUBLIQuartet
Applauded by the Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by the New Yorker as “independent-minded,” PUBLIQuartet’s genre-bending programs span the classical canon and also feature open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet. This program features three original works from the quartet’s MIND|THE|GAP initiative—developed to generate interest in new music and keep traditional classical music relevant to modern audiences—as well as composer Andy Akiho’s LIgNEouS for string quartet and marimba, featuring percussionist…
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