Friday, March 21, 2008

Carnegie Hall $10 Student Rush Tickets

$10 student tickets for these events are available now at the Box Office.
Show I.D. in person at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 57th and 7th, during open weekday and Saturday hours.

WED, MAR 26 at 7 PM
Weill Recital Hall
ENSEMBLE ACJW
Featuring Fellows of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education
RAVEL
Sonata for Violin and Cello
THOMAS ADÈS
Catch, Op. 4
GERALD BARRY
“______”
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, “Trout”
Familiar chamber music favorites surround two works of recent decades, including Thomas Adès’s Catch, which has three of its four players attempting to “catch” an elusive clarinetist who is not entirely willing to become part of the group.

FRI, MAR 28 at 7:30 PM
Zankel Hall
BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP
Thomas Adès, Conductor
Stephen Wallace, Countertenor (Pleasure)
William Purefoy, Countertenor (Truth)
Christopher Lemmings, Tenor (Beauty)
Roderick Williams, Baritone (Deceit)
Stephen Richardson, Bass (Time)
GERALD BARRY
The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (concert performance; NY Premiere)
“[Barry’s opera is] delirious, lascivious, hilarious”—Los Angeles Times
A celebration of youth, beauty, and sensual pleasure, Gerald Barry’s opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit has its New York premiere in Zankel Hall. Composer-pianist-conductor Thomas Adès leads this remarkable concert production with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and an all-male cast of virtuoso vocalists. Be there when Pleasure, for a change, gets the better of Time!
Pre-concert talk starts at 6:30 PM in Zankel Hall: Thomas Adès and Gerald Barry in conversation with Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning, Carnegie Hall.

SAT, MAR 29 at 7:30 PM
Zankel Hall
MAKING MUSIC: THOMAS ADÈS
“one of the most imposing figures in contemporary classical music”—New Yorker
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Thomas Adès, Conductor and Pianist
Valdine Anderson, Soprano
Ara Guzelimian, Series Moderator
ALL–THOMAS ADÈS PROGRAM
Five Eliot Landscapes
Chamber Symphony, Op. 2
Court Studies from The Tempest
Living Toys
Explore the world of acclaimed young composer Thomas Adès in an evening of music that grips the listener with its edgy brilliance, including Five Eliot Landscapes, songs inspired by T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and some compelling instrumental interludes from The Tempest, an opera based on Shakespeare.

Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity-Ongoing

March 21 12 p.m.
Rick Erickson--St. John Passion
With Soloists from the Bach Choir
FREE

March 23 5p.m. EASTER
Easter Oratorio, BWV 249
Johann Michael Bach
Organ: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 547

March 30 5p.m.
Bach Cantata 67
Michael Praetorius
Organ: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 545

April 6 5p.m.
Bach Cantata 146
Michael Praetorius
Organ: Toccata in d dorian, BWV 538
Pre-Vespers talk 4p.m.
Michael Marissen, Professor of Music, Swarthmore College

April 13
5p.m.
Bach Cantata 175
Heinrich Schutz
Organ: Schafe konnen sicher weiden, from BWV 208

April 20 5p.m.
Complete Bach Motets, Part II
BWV 229
BWV 227
BWV anh. 159
BWV 225

April 27
5p.m.
Bach Cantata 108
Johann Michael Bach
Organ: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 531

FREE
At Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 W 65th St.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Veritas Forum NYU March 3-4

Schedule
Monday, March 3
One Nation Under God
Faith & Love in the Public Sphere
7:30pm. Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Rosenthall Pavillion, 10th Floor
Tim Keller
Senior Pastor—Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City. Author—The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.
The Veritas forum is a safe space dialogue hosted by the Christian community to bring NYU together to explore the role that faith plays in our public and political world. Tonight we begin the forum by looking at the way faith and moral law affect public concepts of personal freedoms with acclaimed author and pastor, Timothy Keller.

Tuesday, March 4
Politics of Jesus
7:30pm. Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914
Lisa Harper
Founder—New York Faith & Justice League.
This event will transition the forum into specific questions of the politics and economics of Jesus Christ in media, politics and scripture with Lisa Harper: respected author, speaker and director of New York Faith and Justice.

Wednesday, March 5
Coffeehouse Discussion
8:00pm. Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 802
We will finish off the forum with this evening's coffee house discussion where all voices come together to address these public questions which affect us as our individual conceptions of morality, freedom and politics form law and discourse in the public sphere.

All FREE and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.veritas.org/nyu/

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Carnegie Hall Update

$10 student tickets for these events are available now at the Box Office.
Alarm Will Sound
THURS, FEB 28 at 7:30 PM
Zankel Hall
Alarm Will Sound
Alan Pierson, Artistic Director and Conductor
“equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity … crisp and exhilarating”—Financial Times
A/RHYTHMIA
The 20-member band brings their virtuosity, passion, and commitment to an evening of contagiously energetic and rhythmically-charged new music, highlighted by the New York Premiere of John Adams’s Son of Chamber Symphony, written especially for Alarm Will Sound.
NANCARROW Player Piano Study 2A (arr. Gavin Chuck); Player Piano Study 6 (arr. Yvar Mikhashoff)
LIGETI Movimento preciso e meccanico (third movement) from Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments
JOSQUIN DES PREZ (arr. Payton MacDonald) Agnus Dei II from Missa l'homme armé super voces
THE SHAGGS
(arr. Gavin Chuck) Philosophy of the World
BIRTWISTLE Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum
JOHN ADAMS Son of Chamber Symphony (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Stanford Lively Arts, and the San Francisco Ballet)
RICHARD JAMES (APHEX TWIN)
(arr. Ken Thomson) Gwely Mernans
CICONIA
(arr. Gavin Chuck) Le ray au soleyl
MOCHIPET
(arr. Stefan Freund) Dessert Search 4 Techno Baklava
Nonesuch at Carnegie

ACJW
SAT, MAR 1 at 7 PM
Zankel Hall
Ensemble ACJW
Featuring Fellows of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education
“a fine ensemble … elegant, tart, and incisive”—New York Times
Christopher Hogwood, Conductor
HAYDN Symphony No. 22 in E-flat Major, “The Philosopher”
MARTINŮ La revue de cuisine
HAYDN
(arr. Wranitzky) Divertimento, Op. 71
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite
Praised as “an enormous success” by the New York Times, the public concerts of the fellows of The Academy are not to be missed. For this concert, the ensemble performs works from across the 18th and 20th centuries, including one of Haydn’s earliest symphonies and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella ballet.

Ax
WED, MAR 5 at 8 PM
Emanuel Ax, Piano
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
“Mr. Ax’s shapely, tempestuous accounts were never less than spellbinding.”—New York Times
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2; Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, “Appassionata”
SCHUMANN Humoreske in B-flat Major, Op. 20; Papillons, Op. 2
Beethoven, from his early A-Major Sonata to the “Appassionata,” made the piano a vehicle for insatiable inquiry. Schumann, from his Papillons to his Humoresque, drew from it ever richer colors for his portraits of human life. The inimitable Ax considers both composers’ perspectives for this special recital.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Feb 24

Meira Warshauer: Streams in the Desert
3:00PM
The modern classical composer will discuss her new work, "Streams in the Desert," and present selections from the piece based on Biblical themes and passages.
FREE
Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle
1972 Broadway - at 66th St.
1-212-595-6859

5:00 p.m.
Oculi (3rd Sunday in Lent)
JUXTAPOSING THE GREAT AND POSITIV
Johann Sebastian Bach - Clavierübung III (The Great Catechism)
James B. Bobb-organ, Rick Erickson-organ
Holy Trinity Church at 65th Street and Central Park West

Feb 25

Dr. Philip Mango
Director, St. Michael's Institute
The Neurobiology and Psychology of Femininity
All regularly scheduled talks are held at Metro 53, located at 307 East 53rd Street (at 2nd Avenue). Happy 1/2 Hour at 7:00pm, Speaker at 7:30 and Socializing at 8:30.
Serving Catholic young adults in the greater New York area. There is no charge for any lecture events. Voluntary donations are welcome.

America in the World: What Happened to the "Never" in "Never Again"?: Lessons From the Balkans
6:30PM
Following the Holocaust, the international community adopted the standard of “never again”: never again would the world sit by idly while another genocide took place. Despite the pledge, genocides and ethnic cleansings continued right up through the millennium, making the 20th century one of the most violent centuries in human history. Today, gross human rights violations are occurring in Sudan and Iraq. Why isn’t the international community doing more to curb mass-scale violence? What can the United States do to help arrest this continuing problem? What can we all do to make “never again” more than a hollow promise?
FREE
Center for Global Affairs
15 Barclay St. - 1-212-992-8380
Directions: Doors open 30 minutes before programs begin.

“Cool Mondays”: Linda Ciofalo
6:00PM
The swinging jazz vocalist Linda Ciofalo will delight you with selections expressing many moods of romance, Sun Set.
FREE
Barnes & Noble/Lincoln Triangle
1972 Broadway - at 66th Street.

Feb 26

Songs from the new Broadway musical, Songbook
6:00PM
New Broadway music performed by composers, lyricists, and Broadway singers. Directed by John Znidarsic. Presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul's.
FREE
Donnell Library Auditorium
20 W. 53rd St. - between Fifth and Sixth Ave.
Directions: By subway: Fifth Ave. stop on the E and V.

New Visions: Poets & Artists in Collaboration: C.D. Wright, Deborah Luster, and Louis Menand
7:00 PM
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
212/817.2005
Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Center for the Humanities
This program will highlight collaborations between poets and artists. Featuring poet C. D. Wright and photographer Deborah Luster. With Louis Menand. Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society for America.
This program will highlight artistic collaborations between poets and artists, and will include a presentation followed by a moderated discussion. Featuring poet C. D. Wright and photographer Deborah Luster, the co-creators of the poetry and photography collection One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. C. D. Wright is author of numerous poetry collections, including Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil, Steal Away: New and Selected Poems, and String Light, which won the Poetry Center Book Award. Deborah Luster’s photography has been the subject of numbers solo exhibition throughout the country. With Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club.
FREE

The Lights of Old Broadway: Theater in the Interwar Years
6:30 PM
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
212 817 8474
Elebash Recital Hall
Gotham Center for NYC History
Scholars will discuss various transformations in New York theater between the Wars. They will examine developments in theater companies, theater genres and the lives and works of playwrights.
Scholars will discuss various transformations in New York theater between the Wars. Please join Harriet Alonso (Professor of History, City College and the Graduate Center), Claudia Wilsch Case (Assistant Professor of Theater, Lehman College), Jackson Bryer (Professor Emeritus of English, University of Maryland), and Richard Davison (Professor Emeritus of English, University of Delaware) as they examine developments in theater companies, such as The Theater Guild, genres, such as American musical theater, and the lives and works of playwrights, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert E. Sherwood.
FREE

Idina Menzel in Conversation with Glen Ballard: An Inside Look at an Artistic Journey A CD selling and signing afterwards.
Idina Menzel won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her role as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the awarding musical Wicked.
Idina Menzel's Warner Bros. Records debut album, I Stand is a powerful collection of exquisite new songs written by Menzel. The album is filled with pop tunes and heartfelt ballads—intimate yet universal stories of life, its challenges, relationships and of course—the subject of love.
She’ll be interviewed about her career as actress/singer/songwriter.
8:00pm
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Directions
Kaufmann Concert Hall Seating Chart
$26.00 All Sections (Ask for Student half-price discount at door)

Mouchette
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Dir. Robert Bresson, 1970. B&W. 78 min. 
With Nadine Norbert, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal.
In French with English subtitles.
In a career marked with films like Diary of a Country Priest and Au Hasard Balthazar, it might be easy to overlook Bresson’s quietly devastating Mouchette. The title character, a young girl with an alcoholic father and dying mother, is left to fend for herself against the many indignities of life. A chance encounter in the woods with a poacher, Arsène, leads to an uneasy relationship as she becomes his alibi and object of affection. Mouchette remains a small masterpiece in Bresson’s towering canon.
In French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
Ticket Price
FIAF Members Free* ($2 advance tickets) 
Non-Members $10
Students w/ ID $7 
*Pick up free ticket on the day of event at the Box Office by presenting membership card.