RECITAL

Carnegie Hall
Daniil Trifonov

Hommage à Chopin

Mompou - Variations on a Theme of Chopin
Schumann - "Chopin" from Carnaval, Op. 9
Grieg - Studie, Op. 73, No. 5, "Hommage à Chopin"
Barber - Nocturne, Op. 33
Tchaikovsky - Un poco di Chopin
Rachmaninoff - Variations on a Theme of Chopin
Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35

"The silken legato line, glittering ornamentation, melancholy sighs, and sheer brio of dazzling pianism define Chopin’s music. The sensational young pianist Daniil Trifonov takes a deep dive into the Polish genius’s world and the music he inspired. Trifonov performs Chopin favorites, selections from Rachmaninoff’s dazzling variations, and more. The beauty and power of Chopin’s music is eternal, his influence inestimable. Trifonov shows us why."

Listen to the artist discuss the recital...

"One of the greatest pianists of his day, Chopin revolutionized keyboard writing in dozens of nocturnes, waltzes, mazurkas, ballades, and other solo pieces that imbued the brilliance of the salon style with unprecedented poetic depth. Schumann—himself a master of Romantic character pieces—extolled Chopin’s accomplishment, in which, he wrote, “imagination and technique share dominion side by side.” Debussy and many others built on Chopin’s innovations in harmony, melody, and figuration.

Daniil Trifonov’s Hommage à Chopin surveys the Polish master’s enduring influence on composers as diverse as the Russian Rachmaninoff and the Catalan Mompou, who each wrote highly virtuosic sets of variations inspired by Chopin’s piano preludes. In addition to Schumann’s intimate pen portrait, this evening’s program includes short pieces by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Barber that translate Chopin’s musical language into more modern idioms. Having approached his subject obliquely, Mr. Trifonov concludes his tribute with one of Chopin’s most beloved and characteristic works: the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, with its ever-popular funeral march."

RECITAL

Carnegie Hall
Young Concert Artists

The 16 year old artist was phenomenal.

Nathan Lee at 15 years of age...

Nathan playing Chopin at 16 years of age..

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PERFORMANCE

Merkin Music Hall
What Makes It Great?

"The Songs of George & Ira Gershwin"

"Rob Kapilow is the best presenter of classical music appreciation around today."
                                               - The San Francisco Daily Journal

Featuring Broadway stars Sally Wilfert and Michael Winther

"Between 1918 and 1937 the Gershwin brothers produced more than 700 songs together for theater and film that helped invent the modern musical. An enormous number have become classics, performed and recorded by generations of performers. But why? What has made these songs survive? Come hear the stories and explore the music of some of their most enduring and groundbreaking hits including “I Got Rhythm,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “You Can't Take That Away from Me” and “Love is Sweeping the Country.”

RECITAL

Marble Collegiate Church
Lunchtime Organ Recital Series

LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Suk - Quartet in A minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 1 (1891)
Dvorák - Quintet in A major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 5 91872)
Smetana - Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 15 (1855, rev. 1857)

"A group of the Society’s superb young instrumentalists offers a program of Czech classics." - The New Yorker

The warmth and tenderness of Bohemian music is poignantly expressed by beloved Czech composers of three generations. Family and musical connections unite their works in an evolving genre of Bohemian romanticism.

LINCOLN CENTER

David Geffen Hall
New York Philharmonic

András Schiff - Piano/Conductor

Haydn - Symphony No. 80
Bartók - Divertimento for String Orchestra
J. S. Bach - Piano Concerto in A major, BWV 1055
Schumann - Piano Concerto

Watch Schiff playa the Bach...

Notice the ease and joy in the fingers.

András Schiff (“music of the highest order” — Boston Herald), celebrated as both pianist and conductor, leads the Philharmonic from the keyboard in works from opposite ends of the musical spectrum: a sparkling, joyous Baroque concerto by Bach and a masterpiece by the great Romantic Schumann — a sublime amalgam of rapture and fire. Plus delightful orchestral gems by Haydn and Bartók.

LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Mozart - Sonata in C major for Piano, Four Hands, K. 521 (1787)

Mozart - Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano, K. 526 (1787(
Mozart - Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 515 (1787)

"Mozart at his most joyous: fresh from the triumph of The Marriage of Figaro and at the height of his creative path, the exuberant genius expressed his elation in three of the most effervescent chamber works of his career."

CONCERT

92nd Street Y
Dick Hyman & Bill Charlap

"…We Also Take Requests" — Dick Hyman & Bill Charlap, jazz piano

This rare duo concert will feature our adored current and former Jazz in July artistic directors.

Come hear Dick, the NEA Jazz Master widely regarded as “one of jazz’s most spellbinding virtuosos” (Wall Street Journal) and Bill, the Grammy Award-winning musician whose artistry Downbeat calls “a master class in, well, class” in an evening of virtuoso duo piano improvisations on standards. Got a favorite song? They’ll also be taking requests!

“Hyman (is) the living, breathing, swinging encyclopedia of jazz piano history, from ragtime and stride to bebop and beyond.” (NPR)

“Charlap approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved… no matter how imaginative or surprising his take on a song is, he invariably zeroes in on its essence.” (TIME magazine)

A video of Dick Hyman...

A video of Bill Charlap...

LINCOLN CENTER

David Geffen Hall
New York Philharmonic

Paavo Järvi - Conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes - Piano

Esa-Pekka Salonen - Gambit (New York Premiere)
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 4
Sibelius - Symphony No. 5

"The Philharmonic performs Sibelius’s late-Romantic Fifth Symphony, with a finale inspired by a silver-ribbon-like flight of 16 swans and, after exultant washes of sound, ending gloriously and affirmatively with six remarkable hammered chords. Leif Ove Andsnes (“a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight”– The New York Times) makes his debut as Artist-in-Residence, performing Rachmaninoff’s brilliant Piano Concerto No. 4."

LINCOLN CENTER

Dizzy's Club
Jazz at Lincoln Center

T.S. Monk Sextet

With drummer T.S. Monk, pianist Theo Hill, bassist Chris Berger, tenor saxophonist Willie Williams, alto saxophonist/flutist Patience Higgins, and trumpeter Randall Haywood

On what would have been Thelonious Monk’s 100th birthday, we celebrate Monk’s legacy with his son, T.S Monk. Much like his father, drummer T.S. Monk has made invaluable contributions to jazz, including founding the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which has educated and helped launch the careers of some of our best musicians. T.S. first performed with his father’s group in the early 1970s, but for the last few decades he has been an excellent band leader with a reputation for highlighting obscure compositions deserving of larger audiences. We’re celebrating the Monk centennial all week at Dizzy’s, and there’s no better place to be on his 100th birthday than in the club with his son!

LINCOLN CENTER

David Koch Theater
New York City Ballet

20TH CENTURY VIOLIN CONCERTOS

An instrument of marvelous versatility, the violin has stimulated choreographers for centuries, including NYCB’s three artistic leaders who contribute their interpretations of three world-famous violin concertos to this program. Inspired by the instrument’s immense range, these works convey moments of reflection, poignancy, and brilliance.

The Red Violin

• Music by: John Corigliano
• Choreography by: Peter Martins
• Principal Casting: 
  OCT 10, 11: Unity Phelan, Megan LeCrone, Lauren King, Emilie Gerrity, Taylor Stanley, Zachary Catazaro, Harrison Coll, Joseph Gordon
  

Set to music arranged as a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra from the 1998 film by the same name, The Red Violin complements a score that is at turns faint or frenzied with languid duets punctuated by impassioned moments.

In Memory Of...

• Music by: Alban Berg
• Choreography by: Jerome Robbins
• Principal Casting: 
  OCT 10, 11: Tiler Peck*, Jared Angle, Zachary Catazaro (*first time in role)
  

Intertwining Berg’s poignant melodies with heart-stirring choreography, In Memory Of... is a serene and elegiac work recalling innocence and loss.

Stravinsky Violin Concerto

• Music by: Igor Stravinsky
• Choreography by: George Balanchine
• Principal Casting: 
  OCT 10, 11: Maria Kowroski, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Lauren Lovette, Chase Finlay
  

The outer sections of Stravinsky Violin Concerto are carefully-woven masterpieces of symmetry that peel away to reveal two of Balanchine’s most ingenious and unique pas de deux.

LECTURE

One Day University
The Nature of Genius

JUST ANNOUNCED:

 A special display in the lobby of a six page manuscript actually composed by Mozart (valued at more than one million dollars) Also four letters written and signed by Albert Einstein). Really! 

The Nature of Genius: From Leonardo Da Vinci and mozart to Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs

Craig Wright / Yale University

"About 1 in 400 people have an IQ considered genius (140 to 145) and anything above 165 is considered high genius. After a score of 200, genius is said to be immeasurable. Galileo would have hit about 185, with Descartes coming in close behind at an IQ of 180. Mozart had an IQ around 165 and Rembrandt 155. How do we account for the genius of Jefferson, Einstein, Newton, Leonardo, Joyce, Picasso, and others? What is genius? How do we define it? Can we all become geniuses if we just practice diligently for 10,000 hours over a 10 year period, as some recent books suggest? This never-before-offered class taught by Yale Professor Craig Wright will test our definition by evaluating luminaries past and present.




"Professor Craig Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale. Professor Wright's courses include his perennially popular introductory course "Listening to Music," his selective seminar "Exploring the Nature of Genius" and other specialized courses ranging from ancient Greek music theory to the music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Bach and Mozart. He was awarded the International Musicological Society's Edward J. Dent Medal and the American Musicological Society's Alfred Einstein Prize and Otto Kinkeldey Award - making him one of the few individuals to hold all three honors."

LECTURE

Socrates in the City
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, MARTIN LUTHER, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

Historically, Luther is often painted as a rebel. The two iconic moments in his life—the Ninety-Five Theses and the Diet of Worms, where he bravely stated that he feared God’s judgment more than that of his representatives on earth, including the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope—seem to point to a man who was bold, defiant, and eager to watch the Catholic Church crumble under the weight of its own sins. But in his searing biography, Metaxas brings to life a much more complicated and fascinating figure. Luther was in fact a vigorous champion of the church and wanted nothing more than for Rome to avoid the fate it eventually succumbed to—the fate that, ironically, he helped bring about.

In MARTIN LUTHER, Metaxas dispels popular myths about the legendary figure, while tracing his life and influences, including the fateful lightning storm that caused him to give up his studies and become a monk, his scandalous marriage to a nun, and his clashes with scholars like Erasmus. In many ways, Luther was the first celebrity of modern culture—the quirky genius of Wittenberg, a hero to the common man, willing to speak truth to the highest seats of power. His decision to publish in German rather than in Latin was an unprecedented move that allowed him to communicate his ideas to ordinary citizens, inviting them into important discussions about the world in which they lived and the institutions that shaped their lives.

Luther’s writings and actions didn’t just spark a religious movement; they fundamentally altered the landscape of the modern world, by giving voice to ideas like the individual, personal responsibility, pluralism, religious liberty, and self-government. We take these values for granted now, but they all entered history through the door that Luther opened to the future. Written in riveting prose and impeccably researched, MARTIN LUTHER is the story of the man whose monumental faith and courage cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and gave birth to the ideals that lie at the heart of all modern life."

LINCOLN CENTER

Jazz at Lincoln Center
Dizzy's Club

Juilliard Jazz Ensembles: The Music of Booker Little and Lee Morgan

"The Juilliard School has been a destination for world-class music education since it was founded, and these incredible young musicians will exemplify that legacy in this performance. The Juilliard School Jazz Ensemble features some of the world’s most talented emerging jazz artists, many of whom are already professional musicians. No stranger to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, the ensemble has also performed at noted venues such as the Blue Note and Alice Tully Hall. These gifted young musicians are proof of jazz’s bright future."