Oct 11: Baruch PAC presents 1st concert of the season: Sonnambula

October 11 at 7:30 pm

Baruch Performing Arts Center presents acclaimed viol ensemble

Sonnambula

 

Sound Carving: Sacred and Profane Music of the Austrian Baroque

On October 11, at 7:30 pm the acclaimed early music ensemble Sonnambula returns to the Baruch Performing Arts Center with a program of music from the Austrian and German Baroque. Sonnambula's performance is the first chamber music concert of Baruch PAC's 2019/20 season of classical music, opera, and jazz. Tickets are available at this link; complete program details are at this link.

Listen: Sonnambula in concert at Baruch Performing Arts Center

Watch: Sonnambula recorded live at Metropolitan Museum

Johann Rosenmüller and other Austrian and German composers at the end of the seventeenth century developed a highly original style, infused with mysticism — haunted by memories of three Thirty Years’ War and the Siege of Vienna. Exploratory and robust, this sound is marked by extravagant harmonic experimentation and fanciful instrumental virtuosity.

The concert is at 7:30 pm on October 11, 2019 at BPAC, 55 Lexington Avenue (enter on 25th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues, on the south side of the street) in the heart of Manhattan. Praised for its superb acoustics, the Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall has been called "a perfect hall for chamber music" by Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Tickets are $36 for general admission and $16 for students and are available at www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/.

Praised as "superb" by The New Yorker, Sonnambula is a Renaissance ensemble that brings to light unknown music for various combinations of early instruments with the lush sound of the viol at the core. Sonnambula has performed at The Met Museum, Frick Collection, Alice Tully Hall, Columbia University, and Princeton University, among other venues, and was Ensemble in Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018–2019.

October 11, 2019 at 7:30 pm

Baruch Performing Arts Center presents:

Sonnambula

Sound Carving: Sacred and Profane Music of the Austrian Baroque

Baruch Performing Arts Center

55 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan

(enter at 25th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues) 

 

Tickets are $36 for general admission ($16 for students) and are available at www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac

October 11, 2019 | Sonnambula: "Austrian Baroque"

October 22 | Pianist, Alon Goldstein: "Art of the Imagination"

November 12| Daedalus String Quartet: "Music from Exile"

November 20 | Alexander String Quartet

December 4-15 (select dates)| Heartbeat Opera: "Der Freischütz"

January 9-17, 2020 (select dates)| Prototype Festival: Blood Moon

March 10 | Michael Brown/Nicholas Canellakis Duo: "Distinct Souls"

March 17 | Clarion Quartet: "Fate and Genius"

March 19-21 (select dates) | dwb (driving while black)

March 24 | Guy Livingston & Rayanne Dupuis: "Tears at the Happy Hour"

April 2-4 | Talea Ensemble: "Love & Diversity" by Manos Tsangaris

April 17 | Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: "A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke"

April 22 | Alexander String Quartet: "Beethoven at 250"

April 29 | Israeli Chamber Project: "American Immigrants"

Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC) is an active presence in the heart of Manhattan. Located just east of the Chelsea neighborhood, BPAC presents world class Classical music, Jazz and Pop, in addition to theater, dance, literary and discussion programs. BPAC's 2019/20 music programs feature Met Museum ensemble-in-residence Sonnambula; Israeli Chamber Project; the Daedalus, Clarion, and Alexander String Quartets; Canadian soprano Rayanne Dupuis with pianist Guy Livingston; Grammy-nominated composer/pianist Vijay Iyer with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith; and Blood Moon, a world premiere opera-theatre work presented with PROTOTYPE Festival and the Japan Society.