RECITAL

Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall Presents

Yuja Wang - Piano

Galuppi -  from Keyboard Sonata in C Major
Bach - Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911
Brahms - Intermezzo in A Minor, Op. 116, No. 2
Brahms - Chopin - Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 67, No. 4
Brahms - Intermezzo in E Minor, Op. 119, No. 2
Chopin - Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4
Brahms - Intermezzo in C-sharp Minor, Op. 117, No. 3
Chopin - Mazurka in F Major, Op. 68, No. 3
Brahms - Romance in F Major, Op. 118, No. 5
Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 30
Ravel - "Une barque sur l'océan" from Miroirs
Berg - Piano Sonata
Mompou - "Secreto" fromImpresiones intimas
Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

"She has been called “quite simply the most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today” (San Francisco Chronicle). Yuja Wang shares her staggering virtuosity, dramatic sense of style, exuberance, and flair in her first solo recital in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage since the 2017–2018 season."

LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Reicha - Quintet in D major for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn, Op. 91, No. 3 (1817-19)
Mozart - Quintet in E-flat major for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano, K. 452 (1784)
Barber - Summer Music for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn, Op. 31 (1955)
Ligeti - Six Bagatelles for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1953)
Françaix - L’heure du berger for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano (1947)

"The Hungarian György Ligeti was one of the 20th century’s greatest musical innovators. His effervescent Six Bagatelles for wind quintet connected the music of his great influence, Bartók, to the language of the future. This outstanding collection of internationally-renowned wind players, joined by pianist Michael Brown, offers wind ensemble classics of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries."

Listen to the Mozart Quintet with the score...

"Every season at CMS we look forward to hearing our extraordinary collection of wind instrumentalists, from frequent season artists to guest artists, performing either as featured individuals in small ensembles, or as groups of winds such as you will hear in today’s concert. In all cases, the unique timbres and expressive possibilities of these instruments augment the sonic palette of our art form in marvelous and refreshing ways.

Although ensembles such as the string quartet have been at the forefront of chamber music’s evolution since the 18th century, the presence of wind instruments in small ensembles dates back to the Baroque age. One has only to recall the casts of the Brandenburg Concertos of Bach to realize how much the sounds of the oboe, the flute, the bassoon, French horn, and even the piccolo trumpet added to the dimension of those works. During the Classical era, the improvements in wind technology enabled those instruments to keep full pace with the already-advanced strings and keyboards, and allowed composers such as Mozart to take full advantage of them.

Our program today showcases wind repertoire separated by centuries and continents alike. The opening work, by the Czech-born Anton Reicha, is one of 25 wind quintets he composed, making him history’s front- runner in the development of the ensemble. After intermission we jump to America in 1955 for Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, one of the most delightful works ever composed for wind quintet. The Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet by the Hungarian György Ligeti captured our Milestone designation for this program as they show just how far this versatile ensemble has evolved since its early days. And of course, it was a tough call not to award this Milestone award to Mozart for his Quintet for Piano and Winds, which was the first of its kind and inspired Beethoven to compose his own a decade later. Mozart, however, composed so many first-of-its-kind works that he was never in danger of being unappreciated in this season’s survey of the Milestones of our art. Come back on April 3 to hear his Piano Quartet in G minor."

LECTURE

One Day University
Are We Alone? The Search For Other Life in the Universe

David Helfand / Columbia University

"When Galileo turned the first telescope to the Milky Way, he found it was composed of tens of thousands of stars. He called them other "Suns" and speculated about the life their encircling planets might harbor. For most of the last 400 years this rampant speculation is all we knew about life beyond Earth.

In the last two decades, however, our knowledge has expanded explosively. We've gone from knowing about the eight planets circling our Sun, to billions in the Milky Way. We uncovered vast clouds of organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in regions of space where new stars are forming. And we've found life flourishing in extreme environments on Earth. We are now in a position to provide a quantitative estimate of prospects for life beyond Earth, and even to calculate the number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way. This illustrated lecture will present the results of these discoveries, as well as exploring the important issue as to whether or not our species yet qualifies as intelligent life in the cosmic sense."

David Helfand / Columbia University

David Helfand has been a Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University for 42 years where he served as chair of the Department for nearly half that time. He is also the former President of the American Astronomical Society and of Quest University Canada, and currently serves as Chair of the American Institute of Physics. He has received the Columbia Presidential Teaching Award and the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. He is the author of the new book, “A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age.”

LECTURE

One Day University
The History of New York in Fifteen Buildings

Sam Roberts / New York University / New York Times

"As New York celebrates its four hundredth birthday, this unique class tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation’s biggest and most influential city.

From nearly seven hundred thousand buildings, Sam Roberts selects fifteen that have been the most emblematic of the city’s economic, social, and political evolution. He describes not only the buildings and how they came to be, but also their enduring impact on the city and its people, and how the consequences of the construction often reverberate around the world.

A few structures, such as the Empire State Building, are architectural icons. However, students will also be guided beyond the familiar with intriguing stories of the personalities and exploits behind the unrivaled skyscraper’s construction. Some stretch the definition of buildings, to include the city’s oldest bridge and the landmark Coney Island Boardwalk. Others offer surprises: where the United Nations General Assembly first met; a hidden hub of global internet traffic; a nondescript factory that produced billions of dollars of currency in the poorest neighborhood in the country; and the buildings that triggered the Depression and launched the New Deal."

Sam Roberts / New York University / New York Times

Sam Roberts is an NYU Adjunct Professor, and has written for The New York Times since 1983. He is also the host of the NY1 show The New York Times Close Up and the author of “A History of New York in 101 Objects”.

RECITAL

The Morgan Library and Museum
The George London Foundation Awards Competition Finals

"The George London Foundation for Singers offers substantial awards to the most promising performers through its forty-ninth annual juried competition for outstanding young North American opera singers. The Competition Finals include performances by the finalists, a reception while the judges deliberate, and the announcement of the winners."

RECITAL

The Morgan Library and Museum
Young Concert Artists

Nathan Lee - Piano

Beethoven - Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Chris Rogerson - ’Til it was dark
Schumann - Carnaval for piano, Op. 9

"The prodigiously talented 17-year-old pianist Nathan Lee gave a brilliant account of Mendelssohn’s youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor and played with nuance, delicacy and rich variety of touch.—The New York Times"

HERE IS THE CONCERT!

Lincoln Center

Alice Tully Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Beethoven - Quartet in C-sharp minor for Strings, Op. 131 (1825-26)
Beethoven - Quartet in F major for Strings, Op. 135 (1826)

"Ludwig van Beethoven literally changed the course of music—not only how music sounded, but how it was performed, listened to, and used in society. Beethoven’s 16 string quartets, composed in groups corresponding to his early, middle, and late periods, leap from one level of sophistication to the next. They tell the complete story of one of history’s greatest artists, a composer possessed of an inexplicable, cosmic genius whose work continues to transcend the confines of era, style, or nationality.

The Danish String Quartet performs the quartets in the order that Beethoven composed them, between 1798 and 1826. Join us for one of music’s incomparable journeys."


"Cycles of music have been created over time by composers especially drawn to specific genres as vehicles of self-expression and advancing their art. We have distinguished quartet cycles from Haydn and Mozart, from Bartók and Shostakovich, all of which reveal the composers in multi-dimensional views. We have Wagner’s Ring Cycle. From Beethoven, we have his nine symphonies, six piano trios, and ten violin sonatas. But none of these cycles, as great as they are, compare to the Beethoven quartet cycle. In these 16 quartets, Beethoven not only tells his life story, but re-imagines the art of music as no one has ever done. Drawing from music’s distant past, from his present, and even from the future, Beethoven created a body of work that qualifies as true desert-island music. If necessary, one need not hear anything thing else: these quartets say it all, and more."

MUSEUM

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection

"The Costume Institute's fall 2019 exhibition features promised gifts from Sandy Schreier, a pioneering collector, who over the course of more than half a century assembled one of the finest private fashion collections in the United States. The show explores how Schreier amassed a trove of twentieth-century French and American couture and ready-to-wear, not as a wardrobe, but in appreciation of this form of creative expression.

The gift is part of The Met's 2020 Collections Initiative celebrating the Museum's 150th anniversary. In Pursuit of Fashion features approximately 80 of the 165 promised gifts, including womenswear, accessories, and fashion illustrations dating from a 1908 pochoir album, Les Robes de Paul Poiret, developed in collaboration with Paul Iribe to a 2004 Phillip Treacy butterfly hat."

"This clothing exhibition dazzles…such a pleasure…treasures by little-known or even unknown designers are a delight to discover."—New York Times

"A remarkable treasury of fashion history"—Vogue

"The exhibit is as good as a Willy Wonka factory for fashion buffs."—Fashionista

"High glamour with pristine pieces from…designer forces."—WWD

Trailer for the exhibit...

PERFORMANCE/DINNER


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Like a Rose, love is soft & sweet, with many shades, infinite layers, & the occasional brutal thorn. Are you ready to experience a night of love in all its forms? Are you ready to ignite your heart with a full spectrum of delicious emotion?

Rose is an intimate dinner variety show with a lavish flower-inspired menu. Join Combustion Inc. & The Brooklyn Proposition for an indulgent smorgasbord of evocative live performances & opportunities for genuine & meaningful connection with performers & guests. Whether you’re partnered or single this Valentine’s Day, there is something beautiful- something body & soul-stirring- for you at Rose. Our family welcomes you with open hearts. 

Timing - Cocktail hour 7-8, seated dinner and performance 8-10.

General Open Seating - Choose your seat(s) when you arrive at the event. Drinks can be purchased separately through our waitstaff by paying with a credit card. 

Choice Seating Plus Perks - Choose seat(s) for you and your guest(s) online before you arrive. Perks include 2 beverages from the Rose specialty drink menu and extra attention from the performers. 

Custom Experience Add On - Have our creative directors script a scene, write a name in fire, stage a moment, project photos, or present your guest with a gift as part of the event. Event directors will contact you directly to create the custom experience with you.

Dress Code - Dress to match our menu- fancy, formal, floral, & delicious! Rosy reds & pinks are encouraged.

Menu Options - Choose from a vegan or omnivore option at check out. Both menus are Prix Fixe and include 5 plated flower-inspired courses that excite the senses.

FULL MENU:

Salad:

Burrata on Arugula w/ Pistachio & Pomegranate, Balsamic Reduction 

Vegan option: Coconut Chia Seed Globe on Arugula w/ Pistachio & Pomegranate, Balsamic Reduction 

Appetizer:

Bacon “Rose”, Parsnip & Goat Cheese Galette 

Vegan option: Parsnip Galette w/ Cashew Cheese 

First Main:

Rose Shrimp Scampi w/ Herb Crouton 

Vegan option: Rose Artichoke Scampi w/ Herb Crouton

Second Main:

Rose & Chocolate Braised Short Rib on Pink Peppercorn Polenta cake.

Vegan option: Rose & Chocolate Braised Cauliflower Steak on Pink Peppercorn Polenta cake.

Desert:

Rosewater Creme Brulee