Parker Quartet & Anthony McGill | Music Mondays
The Parker Quartet and clarinetist Anthony McGill perform music by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Shostakovich, and Mozart.
Monday, January 6 at 7:30 PM
Free
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway, New York, NY
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Broken Silence | Music for Contemplation
Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Dan Joseph, Dev Ray and Alex Lahoski (ebow steel string acoustic guitars), and Craig Shepard (speaker) present music supporting listeners to engage with text drawn from court testimony connected with the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church.
Monday, January 6 to Wednesday, January 8 at 8:25 PM
Free
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Metropolis Ensemble Presents: Ciranda
Metropolis Ensemble
Metropolis Ensemble gathers a super-group of internationally recognized soloists and composer/performers from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States to showcase folk-inspired Nuevo Latino music as it intermixes with New York’s contemporary classical scene. Newly commissioned and arranged music from musical artists Clarice Assad (voice/piano), JP Jofre (bandoneon), João Rezende (guitar), and Samuel Torres (percussion) will be performed in collaboration with two recent Avery Fisher Career Grant winners, violinist Francisco Fullana and harpist Bridget Kibbey, clarinet Louis Arques, and accompanied by Metropolis Ensemble strings and percussion.
Tuesday, January 7 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$35
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Hygge | Jeffrey Palmer and Irena Portenko
Countertenor Jeffrey Palmer and pianist Irena Portenko explore the concept of “hygge”—a Nordic word for “cozy”— through music. This eclectic program features a selection of arias and art songs by such composers as Handel, Debussy, and Schubert. The evening’s program also includes new settings of traditional Irish and Icelandic melodies, an original a cappella arrangement of a piece by Huang Ruo, and the New York premiere of a solo piano work by 17-year-old composer Benjamin Araujo.
Wednesday, January 8 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $65-$80
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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Blood Moon | PROTOTYPE
Blood Moon is a poetic, opera-theatre piece for three characters who encounter the past on the night of a full moon: a nephew who returns to the mountain-top where he left his aunt to die forty years earlier, the ghost of the aunt he abandoned, and the moon that presides over this night of reckoning. A contemporary response to a 15th century Noh play, Blood Moon uses choreography, puppetry, and a Taiko-infused score to create a meditation on the end of life, the nature of joy, regret, and whether atonement is possible.
Thursday, January 9 and Sunday, January 12 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, January 11 at 2:00 PM
Tickets $35-$75
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Beethoven Reflections | Five Boroughs Music Festival
Longleash
In their 5BMF debut, new music piano trio Longleash marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with a program that features two of the composer’s celebrated trios alongside contemporary responses by John Zorn and Reiko Füting.
Friday, January 10 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $25, $15 members/seniors, $10 students
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY
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Iron & Coal | PROTOTYPE
A rock-opera, Iron & Coal zeros in on the relationship between a father and son in the shadow of the Holocaust. Taking inspiration from his father, an Auschwitz survivor, composer Jeremy Schonfeld weaves together his personal experiences with excerpts from his father’s memoir, Absence of Closure. The ghosts of a vanished world mix with the present, brought to life through animation, a rock band, an orchestra, and multigenerational choruses, to celebrate the indomitable spirit of our ancestors and the legacy we carry with us.
Friday, January 10 and Saturday, January 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $35-$75
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY
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Magdalene | PROTOTYPE
This meditation on transformation and desire is scored by the collective voices of fourteen women. Set to Marie Howe’s Magdalene poems, the opera invites an audience into the interior world of Mary Magdalene — enlarging her to cross time and space, she appears as a woman alive now, who strives to heal the unyielding split between the sacred and the sexual. Encountering her life in flashes – wandering through a hotel, lighting birthday candles, making love in the ocean – Magdalene finds transcendence in the mundane to finally become the subject of her own story.
Saturday, January 11 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, January 12 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $35-$75
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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The Processing Series Part II: A Barely Arching Bridge | FERUS Festival
Lucy Dhegrae performs at Resonant Bodies 2018–Photo by Gretchen Robinette
The concert is the second installment in The Processing Series performed by Lucy Dhegrae. This concert confronts sexual violence squarely and unapologetically, and explores how one can transform one’s abuse into a tool of healing. Eve Beglarian’s She Gets to Decide, which combines personal history, the painting Thérèse Dreaming by Balthus, and the words of Judge Rosemarie Aquilina during the trial of Larry Nassar — “Leave your pain here, and go out and do your magnificent things” — is the centerpiece of a program which also features works by Amadeus Regucera, Philippe Leroux, Georges Aperghis, Chaya Czernowin, Peter Kramer, Guillaume de Machaut, and Francis Poulenc.
Saturday, January 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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New Year Celebration | North/South Consonance
The North/South Chamber Orchestra performs recently completed compositions by Edmund Cionek, Leandro Espinosa, Ethan Resnik, William Schimmel, and Davide Tammaro.
Sunday, January 12 at 3:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Beethoven Reflections | Five Boroughs Music Festival
In their 5BMF debut, new music piano trio Longleash marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with a program that features two of the composer’s celebrated trios alongside contemporary responses by John Zorn and Reiko Füting.
Sunday, January 12 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 students/seniors
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 921 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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Come ‘Round Right | FERUS Festival
Taking its name from one of the most famous Shaker hymns, Come ‘Round Right is an opera with no characters — taking place after everyone has left — and explores the persistence of a disappearing community by examining what remains. Blurring the lines between music, visual art, and theater, it concerns itself with labor, identity, survival, love, and the passage of time. Come ‘Round Right pairs sculptural set pieces by Mara Baldwin, inspired by Shaker furniture and crafts, with music by Sarah Hennies based on Shaker hymns. Hennies reinterprets this monodic music by replacing horizontal time (melody) with vertical time (harmony), each section of the piece consisting of a block of immersive and hypnotic sound.
Sunday, January 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Bob Brashear & CompCord Ensemble
Composers Concordance and the Kostabi World Uptown salon concert series present the CompCord Ensemble with special guest vocalist-songwriter Bob Brashear. The program includes arrangements of Bob’s songs as well as chamber compositions by Gene Pritsker, Joseph Pehrson, Mark Kostabi, Ginka Mizuki, William Schimmel, and Dan Cooper.
Sunday, January 12 at 7:00 PM
Free
Kostabi World Uptown, 357 East 62nd Street, New York, NY
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