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Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 3.30pm
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Blaze of Youth
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
NYOGB
Kristjan Järvi conductor | Chad Hoopes soloist
The world's greatest orchestra of teenagers burns bright in this electrifying sound experience conducted by vibrant musical personality Kristjan Järvi.
Join virtuosic young soloist Chad Hoopes and 'the most uplifting orchestra in the world' (The Times), for Fire and Blood, a concerto by one of America's greatest composers Michael Daugherty. It's highly charged music, describing the fiery furnances of 1930's America car assembly lines, with colourful orchestration and pulsing rhythms.
In contrast Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Firebird is a romantic sparkling fairy-tale ballet based on the Russian legend, weaving human and supernatural worlds, and wonderfully showcasing every instrument in the orchestra.
A production of NYO in association with the Menuhin Competition.
Igor Stravinsky : Fireworks
Michael Daugherty : Fire and Blood
Igor Stravinsky : The Firebird
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12 Oct
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7.30pm
Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
Royal Ballet
Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014. His earlier creation Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was the Company’s first full-length ballet since 1995 and is now one of its great popular successes. The Winter’s Tale has built on that success, and on its premiere was acclaimed by critics and audiences as an intelligent, distinctive and emotionally powerful story, told through exquisite dance.
The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through remorse and regret – and after a statue of Hermione appears to come miraculously to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. With powerful designs by Bob Crowley and atmospheric music by Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale is a masterful modern narrative ballet.
Performances:
12 APRIL—10 JUNE 2016
Joby Talbot : The Winter's Tale
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16 Oct
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Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 7.30pm
Sun, Moon and Stars
Bristol Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TJ
United Kingdom
0117 926 4879
http://bristol-cathedral.co.uk
reception@bristol-cathedral.co.uk
UWE Singers, Lydbrook Band and members of the South-West Open Youth Orchestra
The conductor will be Ian Holmes, with narrator Barry Farrimond and organist Alison Howell.
The UWE Singers join forces with a brass band for the first time in this sparkling concert of choral, brass and organ music within the beautiful surroundings of Bristol Cathedral. Lydbrook Band, one of the South-West’s premier brass bands, will accompany the UWE Singers in a programme of music conducted by Ian Holmes, including John Rutter’s acclaimed Gloria for choir, brass ensemble, timpani, percussion and organ.
Choir and brass can also be heard together in the third performance of Liz Lane Silver Rose for brass band and narrator, commissioned by Bristol 2014. First performed in November 2014 with actor Robert Hardy CBE, this new version will see the addition of voices and also feature members of the South-West Open Youth Orchestra, the UK’s first disabled-led orchestra for young musicians. The work will be narrated by actor Barry Farrimond, Managing Director of OpenUp Music, also known as Ed Grundy from BBC Radio 4 The Archers.
Lydbrook Band, whose association with Bristol includes performances at Colston Hall and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, will also play the final movement of Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 (‘Organ’) in a glorious arrangement by Philip Wilby, the theme to which featured in the 1995 Disney film Babe. Other brass band arrangements include the magnificent Wagner Procession to the Minster (from his opera ‘Lohengrin’), Boëllmann Suite Gothique with its rousing finale featuring the lower brass, and the sweet melody of Dvorak Rusalka’s Song to the Moon.
Léon Boëllmann : Suite Gothique Op. 25
Antonin Dvorak : Rusalka’s Song to the Moon
Liz Lane : Silver Rose
John Rutter : Gloria
Camille Saint-Saëns : Movement 2 from Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78
Richard Wagner : Procession to the Minster (from ‘Lohengrin’)
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19 Oct
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 8pm
Takemitsu, Cage, Varčse, Hiller
Musikverein, Vienna
Bösendorferstr. 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich
Austria
+43 1 505 81 90
http://www.musikverein.at/startseite.asp
tickets@musikverein.at
Josef Gumpinger, künstlerische Leitung
Johannes Wildner, Dirigent
Miriam Fussenegger, Schauspiel (Maria Stuart)
Toru Takemitsu : Rain Tree Sketch
John Cage : Third Construction
Edgar Varčse : Ionisation
Wilfried Hiller : An diesem heutigen Tage. Monodram für Schauspielerin und Schlagzeug
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19 Oct
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 7.30pm
The King’s Singers
Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.mupa.hu
info@mupa.hu
The King’s Singers
The works by Morley, Reger, Ligeti, Bartók, Biebl, Kodály and Bob Chilcott, along with a popular selection from the repertoire of The King’s Singers.
The royal vocal ensemble are returning guests to Budapest, where their performances are always greatly anticipated. Their concert programmes cover a wide range of works from Renaissance madrigals to the covers of current pop hits, and their ethereally clear sound has become a byword over the years.
46 years, over 2000 musical pieces, more than 150 records, two Grammy Awards, the premiere of some 200 contemporary works, and thousands of sell-out concerts in Europe, the United States and the Far East. Figures that characterize what is one the best, if not the best, a cappella ensembles today, which made its debut at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 1 May, 1968.
Though 22 singers have held tenures in the ensemble during its history of almost five decades, The King’s Singers owns an inimitable sound that can only be compared to that of the Vienna Philharmonic or the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. What makes these gentlemen truly unique is that whatever music they perform, the quality is world-class: they apply the same consistent enthusiasm, team spirit and professionalism to everything they sing, be it a Renaissance motet, a mass, a chanson, a Romantic choral song, a spiritual, a contemporary piece or a pop hit.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 19:30
210416
The Yard
Unit 2A, Queen’s Yard White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN
United Kingdom
http://www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/event/210416/
Tickets: Ł5 in advance / Ł8 on the door
210416|JS#r1|Ltpor/bot|TPsfm|JW/ajftggb|JSripcm2016|JFcm2
ddmmyy commences its long awaited London series with 210416, an evening dedicated to experimental music for ensemble, electronics and objects.
James Saunders: reassigned #1 (world premiere)
Laurie Tompkins: Puddles of Rain / Buckets of Tears
Tim Parkinson: Song For Many
Jennifer Walshe: /AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
Jack Sheen: Rest in peace club music 2016 (world premiere)
Jürg Frey: Circular Music no.2
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21 Oct
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Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7pm-8pm
No Dice: Stillness
The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus Christ
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PG
United Kingdom
http://https://www.facebook.com/events/1264415096906762/
Tickets: Ł2
There are few acoustics in the UK like Holy Name Church with its imposing exterior and Tardis-like interior, sustaining sounds long after they begin. No Dice brings you an evening celebrating the space inside a building heavy in symbolism and ritual with five specially commissioned pieces on the theme of modern spirituality. This concert will feature works by local composers such as Rob Corrin, Sophie Sully, and Luke Mather
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22 Oct
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Friday, April 22, 2016 at 8pm
Light from the Outside World
Budapest Spring Festival
Various, Budapest
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.bsf.hu
info@btf.hu
Light from the Outside World
Jeff Mills and the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda
The American Jeff Mills is one of today’s best-known and most innovative DJs, who also started to work with symphonic orchestras in recent years. He presented Light from the Outside World in 2012 at the Paris Salle Pleyel, and the project has since met with great success in Portugal, Belgium and Australia. At the Budapest concert, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda will be directed by Christophe Mangou, the conductor of the Paris premiere.
One of the greatest stars of techno clubs, Jeff Mills came up with a unique project in 2000, composing a new musical score for Metropolis (1926), Fritz Lang’s cultic film. This monumental work effected a great breakthrough. It was wild, timeless and narrative in nature at the same time. It was shown at several places in the world, including the Paris Music Museum, the London Royal Albert Hall and the International Festival of Vienna.
It was at this time Mills started to explore a different sound, a different kind of musical dramaturgy. “Music always tells a story. Some we understand, some we don’t, and sometimes it all comes together only later,” which is one of the greatest adventures.
Jeff Mills : Light from the Outside World
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22 Oct
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Friday, April 22, 2016 at 7.30pm
László Dubrovay: Faust, the Damned
Budapest Spring Festival
Various, Budapest
Hungary
+36 1 555 3000
http://www.bsf.hu
info@btf.hu
Featuring:
Ballet Pécs, Zugló Philharmonia – King Saint Stephen Symphony Orchestra
Set, costumes:
Zsuzsa Molnár
Choreography:
Balázs Vincze
Conductor:
Kálmán Záborszky
László Dubrovay finished his grand ballet more than twenty years ago. The story of Faust the Damned is based on the two parts of Goethe’s masterpiece, and like that philosophical drama, the music of this piece also strives for an encyclopaedic thoroughness. “All I know about the apparatus of contemporary music is in there,” said the composer once. And indeed: the orchestra bathes in special colours, the dance scenes shape living characters, the notes turn into images on their own account, as it were.
Production choreographer Balázs Vincze thinks Dubrovay’s vision of Faust is “monumental, its story worked out in great detail; it is astonishingly colourful, you can almost visualize the composition without the dance: the composer’s personality is at least as inspiring as Faust’s wanderings, loves and descent into hell.”
“Is damnation possible at the end of an honest, exemplary life? Can the forces of evil be victorious?” asks László Dubrovay. “This is the question addressed by this dance drama, whose music is one of the most extensive ballet compositions of the past seventy years. The dramaturgy of the plot allowed me to create a great many kinds of moods, and musical material rich in gestures and movements, all of which serves, together with the way dance and motion communicate, a harmonious presentation on the stage.”
László Dubrovay : Faust, the Damned
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22 Oct
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Friday, April 22, 2016 at 10.30pm
Cantate égale pays
Saalbau Witten
Bergerstraße 25, 58452 Witten
Germany
02302 581 24 24
http://www.kulturforum-witten.de/saalbauhauswitten/?no_cache=1
kulturforum@stadt-witten.de
Lighting Design and Direction Daniel Lévy
IRCAM Computer Music Designer Sébastien Roux
First imagined in 2007 and then further defined through the reading of Bach’s cantatas, this work by Gérard Pesson marks the his first acquaintance with electronics and virtual instruments.
The French composer's poetry – a theater of lights and intermittence – envelops the cantata’s entire scenic space: a meticulous machine of instrumental gestures, of found objects, adapted or created, "acoustic skies", the glass organ. The dramatic art is reminiscent of Baroque divisions with its movements of variable configurations, the rhythms of dance, the alternate performances of the soloists and the ensemble.
In this "country-cantata" which is made of traces and memories, origins and destinations, the lively writing of today present (texts by the young Mathieu Nuss and Elena Andreyev) is interrupted with a visitation from the past; here is the immense poetry of Gérard Manley Hopkins and his vision of nature transfigured.
Gérard Pesson : Cantate égale pays
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23 Oct
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Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 7.30pm
Shakespeare 400
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay Conductor
“How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!”
Shakespeare’s star-cross’d lovers have inspired composers for centuries, but there’s still nothing to quite match Prokofiev’s great Soviet ballet-score: Romeo and Juliet retold in music that’s as sharp as a rapier and as tender as a kiss.
It’s a true 20th century classic, and on the day that marks both the exact 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the traditional date of his birth, we could hardly celebrate the bard with anything else. But we haven’t stopped there, BBC Radio 3 has commissioned five of the freshest young talents amongst Manchester composers each to write music for one of Shakespeare’s plays, and we’ve invited Andrew Gourlay, one of our brightest young conductors, to give the world premieres.
“So all my best is dressing old words new…”
Preview, 6.30pm: Michael Symmons Roberts hosts a debate on the place of music in the work of Shakespeare.
Nina Whiteman : The map of days outworn Aaron
Aaron Parker : After sunset fades
Chiu-yu Chou : The Tongue
Tom Coult : Sonnet machine
Daniel Kidane : Incidental music (based on Shakespeare Sonnet 154 )
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo and Juliet - selection
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24 Oct
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Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 3pm
Glass Symphony No.9
Usher Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies Conductor
Melvyn Tan Piano
Dennis Russell Davies has an unquestioned commitment to the music of our age and has recorded several Philip Glass symphonies to great acclaim with this leading Central European orchestra. Not only do they anchor the Bruckner Festival in Austria, as their name might suggest, they tour extensively. Joining them on this tour is celebrated pianist Melvyn Tan for some powerful Beethoven.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : King Stephan Overture
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Piano Concerto No.4
Philip Glass : Symphony No.9
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24 Oct
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24 Oct
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Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.
Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert
Grace Episcopal Church
254 Hicks Street
United States
718-624-1850
http://www.gracebrooklyn.org
info@gracebrooklyn.org
Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)
Gail Archer is a Grammy-nominated, international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer. Lucid Culture proclaimed, "Like the composers she chooses, Archer's playing spans the range of human emotions—with Bach, there’s always plenty to communicate, but this time out it was mostly an irresistibly celebratory vibe." Ms. Archer's recordings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, a festive discography that highlights her musical mastery on grand Romantic instruments as well as Baroque tracker organs. Her most recent compact disc, Bach, the Transcendent Genius, celebrates the brilliant improvisations on Lutheran hymn tunes of the "Great 18" chorale preludes (MM1013). Ms. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.
J.S Bach : Great 18
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 7:30pm
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org
Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet
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27 Oct
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 7.30pm
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) Piano Sonata No. 2 (world premičre)
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Rolf Hind piano
Rolf Hind’s recital features the world premičre of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Second Piano Sonata, a major new work commissioned by Wigmore Hall from the octogenarian composer.
Hind, an acclaimed pianist-composer, considers impermanence and transcendence in his own work Thus Have I Heard, which recalls the opening lines of Buddhist scriptural texts, reflecting the aural tradition of the Buddha’s teachings.
The programme also includes the keenly awaited UK premičre of Ten Studies (1984–98) by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, who refers to his creation as ‘studies of the piano’s character or soul. A soul that has been created by all the music… written for the instrument, from its childhood until today.’
Rolf Hind : Thus Have I Heard
Hans Abrahamsen : Ten Studies
Simon Steen-Andersen : Rerendered (for piano and two assistants)
Peter Maxwell Davies : Piano Sonata No. 2
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28 Oct
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7.30pm
Hans Abrahamsen Concerto for the Left Hand
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov Conductor
Alexandre Tharaud Piano
Sarah Tynan Soprano
Gustav Mahler never wrote anything happier than his Fourth Symphony. Jangling sleighbells, Mozart-like melodies, and a child’s vision of heaven… if it almost sounds too sweet, trust Ilan Volkov to find the black comedy beneath the playful surface. First, though, we’ve a charming new version of Debussy’s Children’s Corner – and the first UK performance of a new piano concerto, specially written for tonight’s soloist by the Danish sonic magician Hans Abrahamsen.
Claude Debussy : Children’s Corner
Hans Abrahamsen : Concerto for the Left Hand
Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 4
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28 Oct
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:30pm
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org
Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet
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28 Oct
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Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7.30pm
Anthčmes 2 Pierre Boulez
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave.
United States
617.478.3103
http://www.icaboston.org
info@icaboston.org
With the ensemble Sound Icon (direction, Jeffrey Means).
Anthčmes 2 is an extanded version of Anthčmes 1 which has been revised for violin and live electronics at IRCAM in 1997. Compared to the first version, the question was to find how to coordonate the artist’s interpretation with the computer’s one.
The piece of Boulez work also uses a much more sophisticated system based on a perceptive approach of the spatial sound which enables the auditors to clearly hear the sounds wherever they are, regardless of the place and number of loudspeakers.
Pierre Boulez : Anthčmes 2 for violin and electronics
Beat Furrer : Gaspra et Aria
Tristan Murail : L'esprit des dunes
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29 Oct
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Friday, April 29, 2016 at 7.30pm
HIDDEN Chaya Czernowin
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave.
United States
617.478.3103
http://www.icaboston.org
info@icaboston.org
Chaya Czernoiwn plunges her vast creation HIDDEN in a subaquatic landscape, devoid of all human presence and pierced by sonorous monoliths. In this writing of observation and perception, silence plays an essential role. Here, this silence, not often a form of rhetoric, measures the distance to the object and imparts the work's spatial dimension. In the words of Gurnemanz' prophecy made to Parsifal, "here time becomes space".
According to Harvey, his fourth serie of String Quartet adopts “a simpler and more direct musical discourse (than the first, second, or third series) using pentatonic harmonies. While memories, or traces, of former movements occasionally surge forth, it is silence that dominates….. The desired effect is that of stasis; here there is no climax, but a state of meditation, vibrant and alert. We could imagine the life of a monk, a life dedicated to spiritual aspiration.”
JACK QUARTET
Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld violin
John Pickford Richards alto
Kevin McFarland violoncello
Chaya Czernowin : HIDDEN
Jonathan Harvey : String Quartet n°4
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29 Oct
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Friday, April 29, 2016 at 7:30pm
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org
Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet
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30 Oct
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 2:00pm + 7:30pm
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org
Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet
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Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 4:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs at Dartmouth 5/1
Church of Christ at Dartmouth
40 College Street
United States
603-643-3150
http://www.ccdccc.org
Tickets: Free
Organist Gail Archer
Gail Archer is a Grammy-nominated, international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer. Lucid Culture proclaimed, "Like the composers she chooses, Archer's playing spans the range of human emotions—with Bach, there’s always plenty to communicate, but this time out it was mostly an irresistibly celebratory vibe."
J.S Bach : Great 18
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