The Abandoned Castle and Other Stories
The New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy (NWS), presents a special event featuring a string quartet comprised of NWS Fellows, playing music by Jessie Montgomery, Antonín Dvořák, and the world premiere of Jordan Millar’s, The Abandoned Castle.
Tuesday, April 30 at 12:00 PM
Free
Yamaha Artist Studio, 689 5th Avenue #3, New York, NY
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New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic performs the U.S. premiere of Thomas Larcher’s Symphony No. 2 (“Kenotaph”).
Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $33-$130
Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, New York, NY
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Mary Prescott: Songs Between Life and Death
For her Roulette Commission, interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist Mary Prescott presents Songs Between Life and Death—a performative song cycle integrating music, word, movement, physical theater, and installation. Inspired by the idea of conscious spiritual existence unattached from the physical body, Songs Between Life and Death explores the hidden spaces, emotional experiences, clarity, and chaos of inhabiting this unknown place for the first time.
Tuesday, April 30 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Brendon Randall-Myers / Marateck / Miki Sawada: Machines and Mirrors
Brendon Randall-Myers–Photo by James Anthony Brooks
This show presents two thematically-related large scale pieces representing composer/guitarist Brendon Randall-Myers’s work with instrumental rock band Marateck, and with pianist Miki Sawada and director Daniel Pettrow.
Wednesday, May 1 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $18 online, $25 doors
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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New World Symphony
Julia Wolfe – Photo by Peter Serling
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the NY premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Fountain of Youth.
Wednesday, May 1 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $12-$08
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Lovestate | Silent Voices
Toshi Reagon–Photo by Erica Beckman
Featuring commissions by Pulitzer Prize winners David Lang and Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, Paola Prestini, Toshi Reagon, and others, Silent Voices: Lovestate explores a young generation’s vision of a more inclusive and compassionate future.
Thursday, May 2 at 7:00 PM; Saturday, May 4 at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM; Sunday, May 5 at 12:00 PM and 4:00 PM
Tickets from $17
The New Victory Theater, 229 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
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New World Symphony
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (photo credit: michaeltilsonthomas.com)
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the NY premiere of his own work Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind while pianist Yuja Wang performs the NY premiers of Thomas’s Sunset Soliloquy and You Come Here Often?.
Thursday, May 2 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $63 to $75
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Interpretations | Annie Gosfield & Edmund Campion
Commissioned by the Library of Congress, Gosfield presents the NYC premiere of A Mother’s Note and a Single Vote, written for the centenary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Edmund Campion will present Recumulations, Four Bells For Tom, the NY premiere of Auditory Fiction II, and the world premiere of Late Bloomer.
Thursday, May 2 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Alexander String Quartet
The Alexander String Quartet performs Penderecki’s String Quartet No. 3 “Leaves of an Unwritten Diary” as well as music by Mozart and Dvorak.
Thursday, May 2 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $16 to $36
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Roberts / White / Hall | Qubit
Mariel Roberts
Philip White, Mariel Roberts and Alec Hall will perform solo sets.
Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
Santander Bank, 172 East 4th Street, New York, NY
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The Lost Words
Amalgama presents a performance of new commissions from their 2018-19 season project, The Lost Words. A collaboration with author Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris based on their children’s book of the same title, “The Lost Words” addresses current environmental concerns, and engages children (and adults!), with creativity and optimism. This season finale concert features all ten pieces written for The Lost Words project.
Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church, 178 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY
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Cinco de Mayo Celebration – Music from Mexico and the Americas
The concert features arias and art songs by Carlos Chávez, Rafael Castellanos, Manuel Enríquez, Karina Glasinovic, Carlos Guastavino, Max Lifchitz, Odaline de la Martínez, Orejón, Manuel Quiroz, and William Ortiz.
Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Macro & Micro | 8th Annual CompCord Festival
The first program, a collaboration with the ‘Entertaining Science’ series, will be a study in music of the large and extremely small fauna. In alternation with a scientific mini-lecture, CompCord Ensemble will premiere eight compositions examining extraordinary life forms on our planet.
Sunday, May 5 at 7:00 PM
Michiko Rehearsal Studios, 149 West 46th Street, New York, NY
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Loadbang, Majel Connery, Darius Jones | Look + Listen Festival
Darius Jones
The 2019 Look + Listen Festival continues May 5 with “So To Speak” — a curation of performances featuring experimental songwriting and contemporary chamber music focused on the relationship between music and the written word.
Sunday, May 5 at 8:00 PM
Free
Areté, 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY
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