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Church of the Transfiguration
A Little Midday Music

Laura Bontrager - Cello
Bernadette Hoke - Piano

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Marble Collegiate Church
Monday Soul Break

LINCOLN CENTER

Walter Reade Theater
Long Day's Journey into Night

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https://www.filmlinc.org/films/long-days-journey-night-bi-gan/

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Following his knockout debut, Kaili Blues (ND/NF 2016), writer-director Bi Gan returns with this immersive art-house sensation that broke box office records in China. Long Day’s Journey Into Night

is a noir-tinged film about a solitary man (Huang Jue) haunted by loss and regret, told in two parts: the first an achronological detective story, the second a nocturnal dream. Again centering around his native province of Guizhou in southwest China, the director has created a film like nothing you’ve seen before, especially in the second half’s hour-long, gravity-defying 3-D sequence shot, which plunges its protagonist—and us—through a labyrinthine cityscape. An NYFF56 selection. A Kino Lorber release.

Watch Bi Gan and Huang Jue’s Q&A from the 56th New York Film Festival. Also available on The Close-Up.

An interview about the movie...

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Rose Hall
Jazz at Lincoln Center

Wynton Marsalis and Ken Burns: Country Music

What to Expect
• Never-before-seen clips from Ken Burns’ upcoming Country Music series,
•A look into the fascinating histories of songs made famous by artists like Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton

"Iconic documentarian Ken Burns and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis explore the shared roots found throughout American music. With never-before-seen clips from Burns’ upcoming Country Musicseries, audiences will learn the fascinating and often intertwined histories of songs made famous by Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Hank Williams, Vince Gill, Rhiannon Giddens, Stephen Foster, DeFord Bailey, Jimmie Rodgers, and others—and then hear brand-new arrangements of those songs written and performed by the JLCO.

Burns has some very special guests lined up to join the Orchestra, including Emmylou Harris, Rhiannon Giddens, and Marty Stuart, making this performance a special moment in the music’s ongoing story. From country music to jazz, folk to gospel, bluegrass to old country blues, there’s a deep commonality in our all-too-often segregated genres. In this exclusive Rose Theater event, Ken Burns and the JLCO will reveal, celebrate, integrate, and passionately perform that which unites us."

"From country music to jazz, folk to gospel, bluegrass to old country blues, there is a deep commonality in our all-too-often segregated genres. With never-before-seen clips from Burns’s upcoming Country Musicseries ─ which will premiere on PBS on September 15 ─ audiences will learn the fascinating and often intertwined histories of songs made famous by artists such as Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Hank Williams, Vince Gill, Rhiannon Giddens, Stephen Foster, DeFord Bailey, Jimmie Rodgers, and others—and then hear brand-new arrangements of those songs written and performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and guests."

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David Geffen Hall
New York Philharmonic

Semyon Bychkov - Conductor

A rehearsal.

Thomas Larcher - Symphony No. 2, Kenotaph (US Premiere)
Brahms - Symphony No. 4

"Brahms’s impassioned Fourth is the pinnacle of this Romantic-at-heart composer’s symphonic output. The intensity of this autumnal work is illuminated by an inner beauty that touches hearts with its deep emotions. The Guardian describes Thomas Larcher’s Kenotaph as a “formidable symphony commemorating refugees drowned in the Mediterranean [that] builds to a climax of tremendous irony and power.”

The orchestra was wonderful.  Thew sounds produced are beautiful and awing.  The Brahms was outstanding.

Below is the orchestra warming up prior to the rehearsal.

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Alice Tully Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

George Crumb at 90

"When George Crumb’s music hit main stages in the early 1970s, he was proclaimed “the savior of music.” In an era in which proponents of atonal, abstract music dismissed all who couldn’t understand it, Crumb’s luminous humanity appealed to those who longed for an emotional, visceral experience in contemporary music.

CMS pays tribute to Crumb with two probing programs which reveal the composer in all his kaleidoscopic creativity. Featured in this CMS mini-festival is pianist Gilbert Kalish, whose definitive interpretations helped fuel Crumb’s meteoric rise."

Crumb - The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I) for Voice, Guitar, and Percussion (2008)
Crumb - Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) for Electric String Quartet (1970)
Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion (1974)

One of the pieces performed... Hold On!

A conversation with the composer...

The performing pianist and the composer...

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Marble Collegiate Church
Monday Soul Break

THEATER

New World Stages
The Play That Goes Wrong

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COMIC GOLD!
Variety

The time is right to see THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Broadway's funniest smash hit! This Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it’s “A RIOTOUS EXPLOSION OF COMEDY!” (The Daily Beast) and “TONS OF FUN FOR ALL AGES!” (HuffPost). Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG “A GUT-BUSTING HIT,” and Cindy Adams of the New York Post has just one word for you: “GO!” Get tickets now – it would be WRONG to wait!

NOTHING IS AS FALL-DOWN FUNNY!
Cindy Adams, New York Post

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The Morgan Library and Museum
Young Concert Artists

Xavier Foley - Double bass
Kelly Lin - Piano

Mozart - Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304/300c, arranged by Foley
Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821
Foley - Selections from Star Sonata
Glière - Intermezzo & Tarantella

Mr. Foley established himself with prodigious playing, hall-filling sound, and passionate involvement in the music. - Oberon’s Grove

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Merkin Hall
Tuesday Matinée Series

Marianna Prjevalskaya - Piano

Beethoven – Sonata in A major, Op.2 No.2
Brahms – Two Rhapsodies Op.79
Debusy – Three Preludes from Book I
Debussy - Three Preludes from Book II
Prjevalskaya - La Valse a la Ravel
Chopin - Mazurkas Op.63
Chopin - Scherzo Op.31 in B flat minor

“An extraordinary musical nature of a first class, gifted with a technique of the highest level…we are in the presence of a grand pianist.” – Il Chittadino di Monza

Marianna Prjevalskaya has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Cincinnati, Korean and National Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra