This week: concerts in New York (February 17, 2020 – February 23, 2020)

Philip Glass Ensemble performs “Music in Twelve Parts” (Parts 7,8,9)

Philip Glass Ensemble performs Music in Twelve Parts over four sets on February 16 (4:30pm and 7:30pm) and February 17 (6pm and 9pm). Each set includes three parts.
Monday, February 17 at 6:00 PM
Tickets $25-$40
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Philip Glass Ensemble performs “Music in Twelve Parts” (Parts 10,11,12)

Philip Glass Ensemble performs Music in Twelve Parts over four sets on February 16 (4:30pm and 7:30pm) and February 17 (6pm and 9pm). Each set includes three parts.
Monday, February 17 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $25-$40
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY
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Nathan Lee, piano

Pianist Nathan Lee performs ‘Til It Was Dark by YCA composer Chris Rogerson, as well as pieces by Beethoven and Schumann.
Wednesday, February 19 at 12:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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David Holzman in Concert: A Celebration

Pianist David Holzman performs music by Charles T. Griffes, Arnold Schoenberg, James Ricci, Melinda Wagner, John McDonald, and William Bland.
Wednesday, February 19 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
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Oscar Bettison | Composer Portraits

Two chamber concertos by Oscar Bettison comprise this Portrait, which features the return of Alarm Will Sound to the Miller stage.
Thursday, February 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets start at $20
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY
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The NYU Sound

Cellist Julian Schwarz performs pieces by composition faculty members Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw, and Justin Dello Joio; former students Alex Weiser, Paul Frucht, and Jon Cziner; and a work by Arthur Berger.
Thursday, February 20 at 8:00 PM
Free
Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY
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Mud/Drowning

Mabou Mines and Weathervane Productions, in association with Philip Glass’s The Days and Nights Festival, present a unique celebration of legendary playwright and director María Irene Fornés, featuring the New York premiere of Philip Glasss’ transformation of her five-page play Drowning into an opera and a version of Fornés’s Mud.
Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22 at 7:30 PM; Sunday, February 23 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $25, $20 students/seniors
Mabou Mines, 150 First Avenue, New York, NY
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Parlour Room Sessions: Rhymes With Opera

Rhymes With Opera will present a retrospective of the ensemble’s recent chamber opera premieres from 2012 to 2019, including excerpts from their May 2020 mainstage production of Adam Matlock and Brian Slattery’s Red Giant at The Flea Theater. Other selections include their 10th-anniversary opera Rumpelstiltskin (music by Ruby Fulton and George Lam), On Loneliness and Solitude (music by Colin Read), and their 2019 production of The Impossible She (music by Daniel Thomas Davis). This special performance will feature RWO ensemble members Elisabeth Halliday-Quan, Bonnie Lander, and Robert Maril, as well as conversations with the ensemble hosted by co-artistic director George Lam.
Saturday, February 22 at 5:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Sherlock Holmes And The Case Of The Fallen Giant | InsightALT

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant is a full-length main stage chamber opera, commissioned by ALT as part of the company’s initiative to develop new repertory works for family audiences. Following two piano vocal workshops at ALT, the opera has been further refined, Holmes’ case has been made more mysterious and now you can hear the fully orchestrated score.
Saturday, February 22 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Joan Weill Center for Dance, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, New York, NY
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The Opposable Thumb | InsightALT

The Opposable Thumb is a new opera about a young woman determined to escape the mayhem that descends upon a zoo when war strikes. Based on various true accounts of the last two hundred years, this work questions whether mankind is superior to the animals that are contained behind the bars of the zoo’s cages, or just another ape with an opposable thumb, and a trigger pulling finger.
Sunday, February 23 at 1:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Joan Weill Center for Dance, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, New York, NY
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Premonitions of Spring

The North/South Chamber Orchestra will perform recent works by American composers Roger Wesby, Andrew Thomas, David Maves, and Max Lifchitz. Violinsit Claudia Schaer and pianist Helen Lin will appear as soloists.
Sunday, February 23 at 3:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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Bolcom, Vaughan Williams, Bielawa, Winkler

An die Musik NYC presents The Parhelion Trio, soprano Erin Heisel, tenor Jamon Maple, pianist Andrea Christie, and violist Nickolas Kaynor in a concert of music spanning the past 100 years. Ranging from beloved 20th-century song cycles by William Bolcom and Ralph Vaughan Williams to new works for flute, clarinet, and piano, the concert will conclude with premieres performed by Parhelion Trio. Featuring the world premiere of Lisa Bielawa’s Rondolette (2020/2011), arranged for trio, and the New York City premiere of Rhapsody (2019) by Peter Winkler.
Sunday, February 23 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $10-$20
Union Temple, 17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
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Flutist Carol Wincenc

Flutist Carol Wincenc gives the world premieres of Sato Matsui’s The Goldenrod Sonata for flute and piano, and Robert Sirota’s Dancing With the Angels for flute, viola, and harp. Carol will be joined by Bryan Wagorn, piano, and the two other members of her trio, Les Amies – Cynthia Phelps, viola, and Nancy Allen, harp – for the program, which will open with Minuet and “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice for flute and piano. In between the selections, Terrance McKnight will talk with Carol, the composers and the guest artists about the music and the artists’ creative process.
Sunday, February 23 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $40
Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
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Fair Trade Trio

The program begins with Jessica Meyer’s I Only Speak of the Sun, which was inspired by Rumi’s Ode by the same title while exploring the palette of colors the string trio can produce, followed by Schnittke’s String Trio, and Faure’s first piano quartet.
Sunday, February 23 at 5:00 PM
Free
Our Saviour’s-Atonement, 178 Bennett Avenue, NY
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Relevant Tones

Relevant Tones is a livestreamed broadcast series that combines insightful conversations about current topics with storytelling and performances of music by living composers. The theme for this inaugural episode is astrology. Host Seth Boustead will chat with celebrity astrologers Rebecca Gordon and Sam Reynold , sun signs, the western zodiac versus Chinese zodiac and what you can do if through no fault of your own you were born under a bad sign and are, consequently, a bit of a jerk. Astrology inspired music by Sufjan Stevens, Peri Mauer, and Marc Mellits will be performed by Peter Ferry, Osso Quartet, and Ford Fourqurean. Two audience members will have their birth charts realized musically in real time.
Sunday, February 23 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15 advance, $20 doors
Caveat, 21 Clinton Street, New York, NY
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The Halloween Tree | InsightALT

Led by a mysterious guide, a group of teenagers embark on an unforgettable journey to find their friend Pipkin, who has disappeared on Halloween night. Through their search, the costumed adventurers learn about the cultural and historical traditions that have led to the contemporary celebration of Halloween today.
Sunday, February 23 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
The Joan Weill Center for Dance, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, New York, NY
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