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...