This Week
Soprano Renée Fleming Sings at Carnegie Hall
Tickets are available here for Renée Fleming at Carnegie Hall. "Vocally, Fleming’s renowned sumptuous sound has only slightly retrenched with age – ever so. She is smart, and she navigates her vocal journey with the shrewdness of that of her character work." That is ...
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila Plays Mahler's Haunting Sixth ...
Tickets are available here as Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Celina continues their Carnegie Hall engagement. Tragedy and rapture are the essence of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. The storm-tossed finale’s three titanic hammer blows presaged personal tragedies in Mahler’s life, including his own ...
L'Arpeggiata and 'La lyra d'Orfeo' at Zankel Hall
Tickets are available here, as the vocal music of Luigi Rossi is performed by L'Arpeggiata, which the New York Times calls "...the superb early music ensemble with a quirky sensibility." Rossi juxtaposes styles within a single work, often shifting from intense recitative to mellifluous song. ...
Michael Feinstein With the Music of Harold Arlen at Zankel ...
Tickets are available here for Standard Time with Michael Feinstein: Harold Arlen was one of the great song masters of the 1930s and ’40s, composing such unforgettable hits as “Get Happy,” “Stormy Weather,” and the Academy Award–winning “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of ...
Howard Crabtree's 'When Pigs Fly' at Stage 42
Tickets available here for "...a raucous, joyful, and unapologetically outrageous romp." Loaded with laughs and brimming with heart, Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly is a celebration of being bold, dreaming big, and wearing your heart on your fabulously-sequined sleeve.
Philadelphia Opens Carnegie Season with Bernstein, Gershwin, Lang Lang & Chick ...
Tickets are available here as New York's classical music season begins officially with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra playing a popular program of Gershwin and Bernstein. Popular pianist Lang Lang, jazz icon Chick Corea, and 14-year-old Maxim Lando join Philadelphia for a ...
Orchestra of St. Luke's and Heras-Casado play Mozart and Beethoven ...
Click here for tickets as OSL's fiery conductor laureate Pablo Heras-Casado opens its season at Carnegie with Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, joined by Camilla Tilling, Susanna Phillips, Thomas Cooley, Michael Samuel and Westminster Symphonic Choir in a performance that will be a season ...
Trifonov Joins Mariinsky Orchestra for Trifonov at Carnegie
Tickets available here. Daniil Trifonov made his Carnegie Hall debut in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. He reunites with them for another composer’s first concerto—his own. Trifonov’s Piano Concerto has pianistic flash, ...
L'Arpeggiata and 'La festa d'Arpeggiata' at Zankel Hall
Tickets available here. An improvised double bass solo with a riff on Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," a rousing encore of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," and an impassioned Purcell song are some of the delights L'Arpeggiata brings to every performance. Artistic director Christina Pluhar is joined ...
Pianist Daniil Trifonov Plays 'Hommage to Chopin' at Carnegie
Tickets available here. The silken legato line, glittering ornamentation, melancholy sighs, and sheer brio of dazzling pianism define Chopin’s music. The sensational young pianist Daniil Trifonov takes a deep dive into the Polish genius’s world and the music he inspired. Trifonov performs Chopin ...
New York Philharmonic: Van Zweden Opens Season at David Geffen Hall
Experience Jaap van Zweden’s chemistry with the Philharmonic as our Music Director Designate leads Mahler’s epic Fifth Symphony — a tour de force for the Orchestra’s virtuoso musicians encompassing intense passion, demonic energy, and breathtaking radiance — plus a brilliant concerto ...
Twyla Tharp Dance at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater
http://www.joyce.org/performances/twyla-tharp-dance175 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10011
From Broadway to Hollywood, television, and American Ballet Theatre, Twyla Tharp has virtually done it all. Lately—and lucky for us—she’s been returning to the concert stage with her own troupe of truly stellar dancers, masters of her quicksilver, musical movement. In a program ...
Mingus Big Band Wows Every Monday Night in Its Residency at Jazz Standard
You can talk Bird and Trane and Miles and Monk—all the storied jazz titans. But jazzers forget: Charles Mingus stands as one of jazz’s most uncompromising composers and band leaders. He’s huge and deep, and since his death in 1979 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his music lives ...
Jazz Notes: Berklee Hosts a Gala Honoring Jazz Impresario Fred ...
By Doug Hall, Contributing Writer, September 20, 2017 In all his years as the legendary music promoter of the Boston area and cultivator of many renowned jazz musicians and contemporary artists, Fred Taylor hardly expected someone to be promoting musical acts for his benefit. But on the ...
Review: American Classical Orchestra Excels in a Revelatory Concert at ...
By Christopher Johnson, Contributing Writer, September 18, 2017 Let’s cut right to the chase: the American Classical Orchestra is one terrific outfit, and their concert this past Saturday evening at Alice Tully Hall was a mind-blower. This is a “period-instrument ensemble,” using “era-specific performance techniques” proper ...
Art Break: Water-Inspired Works by Maya Lin at Pace Gallery
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, September 18, 2017 This week Art Break is highlighting Maya Lin, a unique voice in contemporary art. Among her many strengths as an artist is the ability to use unusual materials, such as water, to invoke a mood or state of ...
The Arts Converge at the 12th Annual NY Art Book ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, September 15, 2017 The NY Art Book Fair is a great way to kick off the fall season of art fairs in New York City. Now in its twelfth year with over 370 vendors from 28 countries, this free event showcases the intimate ...
Carnegie Hall Prepares for a Powerful Season of Exciting Programming
By Christopher Johnson, September 14, 2017 Carnegie Hall opens its 2017-2018 season on October 4, with the annual gala in the main hall, this time featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra and a whole slew of bold-face names, including Yanick Nézet-Séguin, Chick Corea, and Lang Lang. Like much ...
ZEALnyc FALL PREVIEW: Arts and Culture in Canada
By Caitlin Leonard, Contributing Writer, September 13, 2017 This fall, Canada’s arts scene is going strong with international ballets, film festivals, and tons of outdoor performances and activities. Venture up North to catch the biggest names in music, art, and the movies, and enjoy the fall ...
Celebrate All Things Italian at San Gennaro
ZEALnyc, September 12, 2017 For the 91st time the Feast of San Gennaro, a faith-based celebration honoring the Patron Saint of Naples, Italy, takes place in the neighborhood of Manhattan affectionately known as "Little Italy" (Mulberry Street between Canal and Houston Streets; the festival stage is located ...
ZEALnyc FALL PREVIEW: Classical Music
ZEALnyc, September 12, 2017 The fall season typically signals a time of new beginnings, as well as the commencement of performances that we've been anticipating since they were first announced months ago, and this year is no exception. This season heralds the initial centennial celebrations for legendary ...
Art Break: All You Need is Love (And Some Great ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, September 11, 2017 This week, Art Break is thinking about what artists do to show love, so our choices feature artists who are passionate about creating and connecting with others. Robert Rauschenberg’s friendships, Leon Polk Smith’s joyous colorful forms, ...
Review: NYCO Brings the Old West to Life in Puccini's ...
By Brian Taylor, Contributing Writer, September 8, 2017 New York City Opera has not only successfully risen from the ashes, but is doing so through stimulating programming that fills a needed niche. They have opened this season with Puccini's overlooked, but heavenly, La fanciulla del West, and ...
Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at MoMA
Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints, books, and creative process of the celebrated sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Bourgeois’s printed oeuvre, a little-known aspect of her work, is vast in scope and comprises some 1,400 printed compositions, created ...
Charm
MCC Theatre @ The Lucille Lortel Theatre
http://www.mcctheater.org//currentseason.html121 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014
When Mama Darleena Andrews — a 67-year-old, black, transgender woman — takes it upon herself to teach an etiquette class at Chicago’s LGBTQ community center, the idealistic teachings of Emily Post clash with the very real life challenges of identity, poverty and prejudice faced by her ...
New York City Ballet Presents ‘Swan Lake’ at the David H. Koch Theater
Tchaikovsky’s stirring melodies usher in NYCB’s fall season with a two-week run of Swan Lake. Whether it’s innocent heartbreak or devious manipulation, there’s a reason why audiences flock to see the Swan Queen: the dual role of Odette/Odile is a testament to a ...
The Portuguese Kid at MTC
MTC / City Center Stage I
https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/2017-18-season/the-portuguese-kid/131 West 55th Street
In Providence, Rhode Island, habitually widowed Atalanta (Sherie Rene Scott) pays a visit to her second-rate lawyer Barry Dragonetti (Jason Alexander). Intending to settle her latest husband’s affairs, this larger-than-life Greek tightwad quickly becomes a nightmare for her cheesy, ...
Jerry Seinfeld Continues His Residency at the Beacon for 2017
Beacon Theater
http://www.beacontheatre.com/2124 Broadway (between West 74th and 75th streets) New York, NY 10023
Legendary New Yorker and comedian Jerry Seinfeld continues his once-a-month performance schedule at the Beacon Theatre as part of a residency entitled, “Jerry Seinfeld: The Homestand.”
“My favorite theater in New York to perform in has ...