Alice Tully Hall: Opening Night Broadcast

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Airs at 8PM on 93.9FM and wnyc.org
WNYC brings you an exclusive vantage point from backstage, as Terrance McKnight and American Public Media's Fred Child (host of Performance Today) co-host the opening night concert of Lincoln Center's newly renovated Alice Tully Hall. In a program that ranges from 15th-century Sephardic music to works by Bach and Golijov, the performance features the celebrated viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, soprano Montserrat Figueras, pianist Leon Fleisher, cellist Maya Beiser, the Brentano String Quartet, members of The Chamber Music Society, and conductor David Robertson leading the Juilliard Orchestra.

The Program

Sephardic Invocation: Three Romances
Palestina Hermoza y Santa (Anonymous)
El Moro de Antequera (Traditional)
Una matica de ruda (Anonymous)
Chromatic fantasia and fugue in D minor (JS Bach)
Mariel (Osvaldo Golijov)
Octet for Winds (Igor Stravinsky)
Grosse Fuge (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Suite from Pulcinella (Igor Stravinsky)

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