Classical Action presents Deborah Voigt on Broadway
Soprano Deborah Voigt and several of Broadway's leading men--including Malcom Gets
(Amour); Howard McGillin (The Phantom of the Opera); Adam Pascal (Aida); Patrick
Wilson (Oklahoma); and Tom Wopat (42nd Street)--gather to raise money for AIDS
research. The evening of arias, songs, and duets is hosted by Dick Cavett. November 11 at 7:30pm.
Ford Center Theatre, 42nd St. and Broadway; (212-840-0770, ext. 268); $45-$100.
Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera
Donizetti's potboiler stars Ruth Ann Swenson as Lucia, Marcelo Álvarez
as Edgardo, Anthony Michaels-Moore as Enrico, and John Relyea as Raimondo. Patrick
Summers conducts. November 11, 15, 21, 25, 29.
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center; (212-362-6000); $33-$195.
New York Philharmonic with tenor Ian Bostridge
The Brits are coming... to the Philharmonic for a weekend of English masterworks,
including music by Britten, Elgar, and Purcell. Guest conductor Sir Colin Davis
makes the first of several New York appearances this season, joined by the superb
tenor Ian Bostridge. November 14-16 at 8pm.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212-875-5000);
‘Round Midnight Variations featuring pianist Emanuele Arciuli
Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli has commissioned some of today's leading composers
to write variations on Thelonious Monk's classic "'Round Midnight,"
including Rzewski, Babbitt, Torke, Kernis, Picker, Harbison, Daugherty, Bolcom,
and Eric Reed, among several others. Arciuli will also perform the American
premiere of George Crumb’s Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (A Little Midnight
Music): Ruminations on a Tune of Thelonious. November 14 at 8pm.
Miller Theatre, Broadway at 116th St., (212-854-7799); $20, $7 for Columbia students.
Pianist Jonathan Biss
A student of Leon Fleisher, the 22-year-old American pianist Jonathan Biss was
a recipient of a 1999 Avery Fisher Career Grant and has since been racking up
an impressive list of performance credits. Here he presents three Beethoven
sonatas, Kirchner’s Interlude, and Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch for
his only New York recital of the season. November 15 at 8pm.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave; (212-570-3949); $20.
American Symphony Orchestra
Music director Leon Botstein has fashioned some unusual programming for the
ASO’s 40th anniversary season including this concert of 20th-century American
symphonic works: John Alden Carpenter’s sweeping Skyscrapers, Morton Feldman’s
hypnotic Coptic Light, and Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4, a work which
received its 1965 premiere by the ASO under the baton of Leopold Stokowski.
Sunday, November 17 at 3pm.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center; 212-868-9ASO; $22-50.
Ahn Trio
The sassy sisters of the Ahn Trio play selections from their new EMI release “Groovebox,” which includes
music by the Doors, Michael Nyman, Kenji Bunch, Astor Piazzolla, and Erik Satie. Providing a perfect backdrop for this eclectic musical mix is the posh setting of Joe's Pub.
November 17 & 18 at 9:30pm.
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., (212-239-6200); $20.
The Collegiate Chorale presents Bernstein’s Mass
Leonard Bernstein’s extravagant, take-no-prisoners Mass had its premiere at
the opening of the Kennedy Center 31 years ago. It hasn’t been performed in
New York in nearly that long, which makes this concert performance under the
baton of Robert Bass much more than a quaint curiosity. Don't miss the pre-concert
discussion, "Leonard Bernstein: a permanent case of questioning" with Jamie
Bernstein Thomas at 7pm. November 19 at 8pm.
Carnegie Hall, Seventh Ave. at 57th St. (212-247-7800); $30-$100.
Making Music: Magnus Lindberg
With Cellist Anssi Karttunen and Carnegie Hall’s Ara Guzelimian
This discussion-recital showcases Magnus Lindberg, a composer and pianist who
has been one of the leading lights of Finland’s resurgent contemporary music
scene. He is joined by countryman and cellist Anssi Karttunen, with whom he
has had a fruitful artistic partnership for many years, and series moderator Ara Guzelimian. November 19 at 7:30pm.
Weill Recital Hall, Seventh Ave. at 57th St. (212-247-7800); $32.
Violinist Hilary Hahn with pianist Natalie Zhu
The winsome 22-year-old violinist Hilary Hahn has had a big year, recently leaving her label Sony Classical to take on a contract with Deutsche Grammophon. She also makes her long-overdue Carnegie
Hall recital debut in a program of Schubert, Bloch, Bach and Debussy. November 26 at
7:30pm.
Carnegie Hall, Seventh Ave. at 57th St. (212-247-7800); $22-$69.
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