| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Sara Davis Buechner performs with Rosen Milanov and Buffalo Philharmonic |
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Sara Davis Buechner - The New York Times says " I can't imagine this music played with more integrity and affection" . Anthony Tommasini
Don't miss this stand out pianist in a performance of Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3. Performed with Maestro Rosen Milanov |
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| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Handel's Messiah |
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Handel’s Messiah was composed over the course of a month in 1741, six months before its premiere in Dublin at a new concert hall where several of Handel’s operas were also performed.Nearly 300 years later, Handel’s Messiah still invokes joy, and UMS’s 139th year of presenting the oratorio fills audiences with emotion for both the beauty of the piece and the pride of hearing friends and colleagues from the community bring this glorious work to life. |
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| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Quince: Feldman's Three Voices |
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Three Voices by Morton Feldman is a sublime piece that both mesmerizes and stupefies.
The length, the tunings, the melismas, textures, the range, the relentlessness—it’s challenging in a way that is unlike any other piece in the unaccompanied solo voice repertoire.
This piece was written initially for one singer to perform with two looming, black loudspeakers performing the other vocal lines rather than three live singers.
Feldman wrote the piece in memoriam to Frank O’Hara, a NYC poet who was very good friends with Feldman. O’Hara was a prominent figure in “The New York School” of poets and was very inspired by music, dance, and painting (specifically the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and 60s) and it came through in his poetry.
Feldman and O’Hara were life-long collaborators, dedicating multiple pieces to each other, including the poem referenced in Three Voices. O’Hara died very early in life (at age 40), and this piece serves as an ode to him. |
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| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Chelsea Opera presents one-act operas by Tom Cipullo in their NYC premieres |
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On Saturday, December 1 at 7:00 pm, Chelsea Opera presents the New York City premieres of Josephine and After Life, two one-act operas by Tom Cipullo. The performance is at Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 W 69th St., NY, NY). Tickets range from $20-$45 and are available online. Complete details are below and at ChelseaOpera.org.
In Cipullo's monodrama Josephine, the entertainer and activist Josephine Baker grants an interview in her dressing room shortly before her last triumphant appearance. Using Ms. Baker's own words as the libretto, Josephine explores the title character's equally charming and volatile personality as she muses on sex, race, war, and her experiences in pre-war Paris. The NYC premiere features the soprano Melissa Wimbish, whom the Washington Post declared "vocally stunning and theatrically riveting" at the world premiere.
After Life brings Gertrude Stein (mezzo Jennifer Beattie) and Pablo Picasso (baritone Steven Eddy) back from the hereafter to debate their legacies as well as the |
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| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Work Anthracite Fields |
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Bang on a Can All-Stars and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, led by conductor Julian Wachner, perform Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer Prize-winning work Anthracite Fields. Wolfe and scenographer Jeff Sugg join John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck, in a pre-concert talk in the hall at 8pm. Julia Wolfe's haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical Anthracite Fields, is an examination of the coal-mining industry. The Los Angeles Times remarks, "The music compels without overstatement. This is a major, profound work." This is the first New York performance of Anthracite Fields since its pre-Pulitzer premiere in 2014. |
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| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Thereminist Carolina Eyck & ACME-Free concert-National Gallery of Art |
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German-born composer, vocalist, and internationally renowned theremin virtuoso Carolina Eyck and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) perform a free concert presented by the National Gallery of Art. Eyck and ACME will give the DC premiere of Eyck's "Fantasias" for theremin and string quartet, and Eyck will perform her solo songs "Music on a Painting" and "Delphic." The program also features composer and The National guitarist Bryce Dessner's "Little Blue Something" for string quartet and improvised selections by Eyck and ACME cellist and artistic director Clarice Jensen. |
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| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Joyeux Noel, Canticles of Christmas |
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12/1/2018 |
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Annunciation Catholic Church |
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502-968-6300 |
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105 Main St |
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Shelbyville, KY United States |
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5029686300 |
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http://LouisvilleChorus.org |
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Louisville Chorus
Daniel Spurlock, Music Director
80th Season opening Christmas concert
12/1/18—1 PM
Organist Laura Sullivan
$23 Gen, $20 Sr, $5 Stu
LouisvilleChorus.org
502-968-6300 |
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| Dec 1, 2018 |
| Malta Philharmonic Orchestra |
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The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) embarks across the United States to celebrate its 50th anniversary and Malta’s capital, Valletta, which was named the 2018 European Capital of Culture. The orchestra is led by renowned conductor and honored artist of the Republic of Armenia, Sergey Smbatyan.
The MPO opens the performance with Rebbie?a, a symphonic poem penned by Maltese composer Joseph Vella. Travel Notebook, a concerto for piano and piano and orchestra by notable modern American-Maltese composer Alexey Shor, comes next featuring international prize-winning Austrian pianist and Deutsche Grammophon artist Ingolf Wunder as the soloist. The MPO rounds off the night with Dmitri Shostakovich’s famous Fifth Symphony. |
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| Dec 2, 2018 |
| Holiday Melodies & Sweets To Go, Too! |
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12/2/2018 |
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Gingerwoods |
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502-968-6300 |
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7611 Rose Island Rd |
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Prospect, KY United States |
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5029686300 |
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http://LouisvilleChorus.org |
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Louisville Chorus
Daniel Spurlock, Music Director
80th Season Christmas Holiday Family/Kids event for Everyone!
12/2/18—3 PM
$23 Gen, $20 Sr, $5 Stu
LouisvilleChorus.org |
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| Dec 2, 2018 |
| Award-winning Swiss-French pianist in Carnegie recital debut |
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On Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 7:30 pm, the pianist François-Xavier Poizat makes his Carnegie recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Tickets are $30-$75 and are available at Carnegie Hall's website, by calling 212-247-7800, or at the box office at 57th and Seventh.
The program includes seminal works by Franz Liszt and Maurice Ravel. "With this program, I wanted to show both the angelic and demonic sides of each of these piano giants," says François-Xavier Poizat. "Two devilish dances - Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, No. 1 and Ravel's La Valse - are contrasted by an excerpt from the angelic Années de Pélerinage by Liszt and Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel." |
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