Ensemble Connect
Ensemble Connect gives a performance of Daniel Schnyder’s Bass Trio, Janáček’s Mládí, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50.
Tuesday, December 5 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25-$35
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Prisma Interius: III
Catherine Lamb will perform Prisma Interius: III, the most recent development in a series of pieces constructed around the Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer, an instrument created with composer Bryan Eubanks that spectrally filters a live sound input of the outer atmosphere into the concert space.
Tuesday, December 5 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20, $15 members
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY
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Cage, Kotik, and Eastman: 1972 / 2017
Petr Kotik– Courtesy of the S.E.M. Ensemble.
In a tradition which began in 1984, the S.E.M. Ensemble (SEM) led by artistic director Petr Kotik returns to Paula Cooper Gallery for its annual holiday concert on Thursday, December 7, at 8 p.m. The evening will repeat the program conceived by SEM for its first European tour in 1972. The pieces to be performed will be Song Books I, II, There is Singularly Nothing, and Macle.
Thursday, December 7 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21st Street, New York, NY
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Song Installation (mechanical instruments by Nick Yulman) | UnCaged Toy Piano Festival
Nick Yulman will fill the DiMenna Center’s Benzaquen Hall with Song Installation, an array of digitally controlled mechanical instruments, creating an immersive listening environment for listeners to explore. These musical automata will accompany disembodied voices emanating from radios, and perform a musical program that ranges from tightly choreographed pop songs to textural soundscapes that move around the room like shifting weather patterns.
Friday, December 8 at 4:00 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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La Dolce Morte
Suzanne Farrin
Countertenor Eric Jurenas and the International Contemporary Ensemble perform Suzanne Farrin’s monodrama based on the poetry and love letters of Michelangelo, in the intimate setting of The Met’s Vélez Blanco Patio.
Friday, December 8 at 7:00 PM
Tickets starting at $95
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 534, Vélez Blanco Patio, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Orchestra Underground: Reflected in Glass—Philip Glass and the Next Generation
Bryce Dessner– Photo by Shervin Lainez
American Composers Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director George Manahan, performs Violin Concerto No. 2, “The American Four Seasons” by Philip Glass, featuring violinist Timothy Fain. This piece is paired with premieres by composers who have worked closely with Glass, including the world premiere of Pauchi Sasaki’s GAMA XVI for Orchestra and Electronics, featuring the composer on electronics, and the New York premiere of Bryce Dessner’s Réponse Lutosławski.
Friday, December 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $41-$51
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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The Philadelphia Orchestra
Thomas Adès – Photo by Maurice Foxall
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns with The Philadelphia Orchestra to conduct the New York premiere of Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face Suite, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its 125 Commissions Project; Bernstein’s Serenade (After Plato’s Symposium) with violinist Hilary Hahn; and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39.
Friday, December 8 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $22-$140
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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ALL TOY In C | UnCaged Toy Piano Festival
Terry Riley
For a typical uncagean twist, In C will be performed entirely on toy instruments! In C is a minimalist masterpiece composed by Riley in 1964 for an indefinite number of performers which uses a mosaic of short melodic fragments. Do you have a toy instrument you plan to bring and play? Please do! Do you want to come and have an interesting toy instrument handed to you to play? That also works!
Friday, December 8 at 8:00 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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La Dolce Morte
Countertenor Eric Jurenas and the International Contemporary Ensemble perform Suzanne Farrin’s monodrama based on the poetry and love letters of Michelangelo, in the intimate setting of The Met’s Vélez Blanco Patio.
Saturday, December 9 at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Tickets starting at $95
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 534, Vélez Blanco Patio, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY
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Kettle Corn New Music
Kaija Saariaho– Photo by Priska Ketterer
Kettle Corn New Music presents the Argus Quartet with special guest Lucy Fitz Gibbon in a program of Kaija Saariaho’s Cloud Trio, the New York premiere of Loren Loiacono’s Waxing Cerulean, and the world premiere of Jordan Nelson’s Tender Buttons, a new work for string quartet and soprano based on text by Gertrude Stein
Saturday, December 9 at 7:00 PM
Free
New York Public Library at 53rd Street,18 West 53rd Street, New York, NY
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Celebrating Philip Glass | Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa
Philip Glass
Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa perform an all-Philip Glass recital of music for two pianos and piano four-hands. The program includes the two-piano suite from Glass’s opera Les Enfants Terribles, a selection of music for piano-four hands including “The Chase” from Orphée, the New York premiere of the musical interlude from The Voyage, and Stokes, as well as Glass’s Four Movements for Two Pianos.
Saturday, December 9 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $15-$20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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The Knights: A Brooklyn Schubertiade Evening Concert
The Knights offer up an intimate program of poetry, music, song, and art next month, featuring Puerto Rican-born Brooklyn-based composer Angélica Negrón and drag queen Miz Jade.
Saturday, December 9 at 8:00 PM & Sunday, December 10 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $18 Saturday & $10 Sunday
BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY
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All About India
All About India features performances by CompCord Ensemble, Neela Vaswani, and Raga Massive Duo, among others. Compositions by Lukas Ligeti, Milica Paranosic, Dan Cooper, Gene Pritsker, Payton MacDonald, Edmundo Ramirez, and Daniel Schnyder will be premiered. Traditional Indian instruments such as tablas, sitar, and santoor (hammered dulcimer) will be heard alongside classical winds and strings, as well as electric guitar, bass, electronics, and hybrid instruments designed by Ken Butler.
Sunday, December 10 at 6:00 PM
Tickets $15, $12 students/seniors
Goddard Riverside, Bernie Wohl Center, 647 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY
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