This Week
This Week from ZEALnyc is your guide to the very best in New York city arts, culture and entertainment happening this week. From theater to jazz, from dance to classical music, from art museum to art gallery, This Week lists the most exciting, the most interesting and the most important shows, concerts, exhibitions and performances happening this week in NYC.
Caramoor: Season Finale Features the Orchestra of St. Luke’s ...
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/orchestra-st-lukes-finale-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Click here for tickets! Caramoor’s 2018 Summer Season comes to a close with Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie and the inimitable mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. Performing selections from the roles that brought her renown, the first half of the program ...
NYO2 at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2018/07/24/NYO2-0730PM?utm_source=zealnyc&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=stix-nyo2&sourceCode=2962757th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Click here for tickets! Comprising a "remarkable array of talent" (The New York Times), NYO2 is an orchestral training program for talented young players ages 14–17 with a focus on recruiting musicians from communities underrepresented in classical music. NYO2 is joined by conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto ...
Handel’s Atalanta at Caramoor Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/handels-atalanta/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Click here for tickets! Handel’s Atalanta at Caramoor, composed for a royal wedding, is a tale full of hidden love and disguise, complete with vocal fireworks. Long dormant since its 1736 premiere, Atalanta’s lively overtures, festive melodies, and favored arioso, “Care selve,” were revived ...
Dancing at Dusk — Grupo Ribeiro at Friends Field and Caramoor
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/dancing-at-dusk-groupo-ribeiro/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Click here for tickets! Prepare for a high-energy evening of festivities that will have your whole family celebrating like they do in Rio de Janeiro! Featuring traditional dances from the Samba to the Capoeira and Maculele, Grupo Ribeiro at Caramoor will educate, entertain, and inspire ...
Jazz Festival in Collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center at ...
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/jazz-festival-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Click here for tickets! Now in its 4th year in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, Caramoor Jazz Festival is back with exceptional talent and music for you to enjoy throughout the stunning gardens and historical venues within Caramoor. Join us for a full day ...
You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the Sixties at ...
Click here for more information. Discover the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. From communal living and forays into expanded consciousness, to tensions around race, politics, sexuality and the environment, this exhibition explores the breadth and significance of this period. This event is part ...
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America at ...
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2018/07/19/NATIONAL-YOUTH-ORCHESTRA-OF-THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA-0730PM?utm_source=zealnyc&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=stix-nyousa&sourceCode=2962757th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Click here for tickets! Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, showcasing his mastery of a wide range of repertoire, dedication to mentoring young talent, and commitment to the music of living composers. Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Gershwin's effervescent ...
Caramoor: Angélique Kidjo at Venetian Theater
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/angelique-kidjo/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Click here for tickets! Time magazine has called her “Africa’s premier diva.” Beninese singer, songwriter, activist, and Grammy-award winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Caramoor debut, bringing her “canyon-filling voice” (Billboard) and an energy that can’t help but inspire you to get up ...
Chanticleer at Caramoor in the Spanish Courtyard
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/chanticleer/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Click here for tickets! Three-time Grammy-winning vocal group Chanticleer at Caramoor makes their Caramoor debut in our stunning Spanish Courtyard. Celebrating their 40th Anniversary, they will perform works by Palestrina, Lassus, Gibbons, Byrd, Steven Stucky, Chen Yi, Matthew Aucoin, Ellington, Rodgers & Hart, Berlin, and ...
Caramoor: Brentano Quartet with Todd Palmer, clarinet, in the Spanish ...
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
https://www.caramoor.org/events/brentano-quartet-todd-palmer/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Click here for tickets! Enjoying over 20 years of acclaim and a place as one of the world’s top string quartets, the Brentano Quartet with Todd Palmer returns to Caramoor with three-time Grammy-nominated clarinettist Todd Palmer. Their program includes transcriptions of madrigals by Gesualdo, whose ...
Mostly Mozart Festival: Bernstein’s MASS at David Geffen Hall
David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/show/bernstein-mass20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Conductor Louis Langrée, the Festival Orchestra, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, and a huge cast of singers, musicians, and dancers celebrate Leonard Bernstein with a fully staged production of his bold 1971 MASS. Born of the Vietnam War era, MASS is an endlessly inventive dramatic happening and ...
Straight White Men
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pajamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeout. But when a question they can’t answer interrupts their holiday cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities. Obie Award-winning playwright Young Jean ...
Michael Leonhard Orchestra at Jazz Standard
Jazz Standard
http://www.jazzstandard.com/?event=20180717116 East Twenty-Seventh Street New York, NY 10016
Michael Leonhard, GRAMMY Award winner at age 17, has been an in–demand trumpet player, arranger and composer for decades, with stage and studio credits including Steely Dan, Mark Ronson, and the Antibalas Orchestra to name a few. But it was when he took on the role as arranger/conductor for the ...
Carnegie Hall’s Inaugural Youth Jazz Orchestra Directed by Trumpeter ...
By Dan Ouellette, Senior Editor, July 18, 2018 Carnegie Hall debuts its National Youth Orchestra Jazz—22 members between the ages of 16-19 from 16 states—on July 27 at Stern Auditorium. What promises to be a rousing concert of teenage jazz spirit will be directed by renowned trumpeter Sean ...
Review: 'Fire in Dreamland' Is a Smoldering Metaphor
By Miles Harter, Contributing Writer, July 17, 2018 New York City has a rich and fascinating history. Plays that examine this history frequently can be compelling, and Fire in Dreamland perfectly fits the bill. Here, Coney Island provides the backdrop for two historic New York City disasters, ...
Shakespeare in the Park's 'Twelfth Night' Begins Performances Tonight
ZEALnyc, July 17, 2018 The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park continues its mission by presenting quality theatrical productions to the general public for free (see information for obtaining tickets below). So far this season has brought us a new production of Othello (read ZEALnyc's ...
Art Break: 'Chain Reactions' at The Painting Center; Delacroix at ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, July 16, 2018 As a rule, artists are a generous group of people. Yes, sometimes we meet one that is a jerk or worse, but for the most part, these individuals are engaging in the world around them, learning and exploring ...
Dispatch From London: Balancing Museums, Tea, and the Occasional Fish ...
By Brian Taylor, Contributing Writer, July 13, 2018 London is bustling. As cosmopolitan as New York City, as historic as Rome, and covering more ground than L.A. or São Paolo, the city of Dickens and Sherlock Holmes is more stimulating, and practical to navigate, than ...
Review: 'Gone Missing' at Encores! Off-Center — A Moving Tribute to ...
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, July 13, 2018 First, a confession, and one that will no doubt brand me as heartless in the eyes of some. I’ve never enjoyed the work of the late Michael Friedman, who died this past September at the age of 41. With ...
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Join the NYO
By Joanne Sydney Lessner, Contributing Writer, July 12, 2018 Since 2013, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States (NYO-USA) has drawn young musicians ages 16-19 from all over the country and Puerto Rico for a two-week residency at SUNY Purchase and a performance at Carnegie Hall, before ...
Review: Mummenschanz Creates Its Own World That Draws the Audience ...
By Don Adkins, Managing Editor, July 11, 2018 Mummenschanz, often referred to as “The Musicians of Silence," has returned to New York City for the first time in four years. Since its founding in Paris over forty years ago (1972), the troupe has toured extensively in both Europe ...
Montréal Jazz Festival Embraces All the Colors of the ...
By Doug Hall, Contributing Writer, July 10, 2018 Celebrating its 39th year, the Montréal Jazz Festival has remained true to its mission as stated by president/director general Jacques-André Dupont to offer “a massive festive urban event with a major component of free programming” while also “...
Art Break: The Art of David Wojnarowicz on View at ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, July 9, 2018 Sometimes it’s difficult to remember how much fear and unknowing there was at the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How the medical profession began to realize there was a new deadly disease that had a rapid and ...
MoMA: Toward a Concrete Utopia — Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia’s architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a postwar architecture both in line with and distinct from the design approaches seen elsewhere in Europe and beyond. The architecture that ...
Batsheva – The Young Ensemble at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater
http://www.joyce.org/performances/batsheva-young-ensemble175 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10011
Batsheva – The Young Ensemble performs Ohad Naharin’s Bessie Award-winning dance, Naharin’s Virus, inspired by the great Austrian writer Peter Handke’s play, Offending the Audience. Originally created in collaboration with Batsheva dancers, the work employs Naharin’s coolly ...
Caramoor: Jazz Festival in Collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center at Venetian Theater
Venetian Theater - Caramoor
https://www.caramoor.org/events/jazz-festival-2018/149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY 10536
Now in its 4th year in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, Caramoor Jazz Festival is back with exceptional talent and music for you to enjoy throughout the stunning gardens and historical venues within Caramoor. Join us for a full day of jazz, interactive activities for the kids, and evening ...