THEATER

Barrymore Theater
The Band's Visit

Welcome to Nowhere...

"In THE BAND’S VISIT, a mix-up sends a group of Egyptian musicians to a remote Israeli town. When the locals take them in for the night, their lives intertwine in the most unexpected ways.

Fate brought them to town. Their music brought it to life.

Winner of four BEST MUSICAL awards, and now honored on every major BEST OF THE YEAR list, THE BAND’S VISIT rejoices in the deeply human ways music, longing and laughter can bring us all together. The New York Times cheers, “It’s time to fall in love with one of the most ravishing musicals ever. ‘Feel Something Different’—that’s the heart-clutching sensation that throbs throughout this miraculous show.”

Trailer for The Band's Visit...

“The uncanny virtuosity of Mr. Yazbek’s score feels
as essential as oxygen!”

–Ben Brantley, 

“Welcome to Nowhere”

Performed by the Cast of THE BAND'S VISIT / Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek

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“Welcome to Nowhere”

“Haj-Butrus”

“Haled's Song About Love”

“Omar Sharif”

“Answer Me”

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Merkin Hall
Tuesday Matinées

Henry Schneider Young Virtuosos Concert

J. S. Bach  – Suite No 3. in C Major, BWV 1009 for Solo Violoncello
Prelude
Sarabande
Gigue
Jonah Kernis - Cello
Student of Yari Bond

Vieuxtemps - Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 31
III. Scherzo: Vivace
Olivia Pantoga - Violin
Student of Nurit Pacht
Vilija Naujokaitis - Piano

Schumann - Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
Ari Freed - Cello
Student of Yari Bond
Vilija Naujokaitis - Piano

Schumann - Variations on the name “Abegg” in F major, Op. 1
Mia Bramel - Piano
Student of Golda Tatz

Génin - Carnival of Venice, Op.14
Theme and Variations for flute and piano
Kali Blain - Flute
Student of Valerie Holmes
Marina Ossipova - Piano

Liszt - Venezia e Napoli
Tarantella
Henry Tang - Piano
Student of Igal Kesselman

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Marble Collegiate Church
Lunchtime Organ Recital Series

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Carnegie Hall
Great Artists

Anne-Sophie Mutter - Violin
Lambert Orkis - Piano

André Previn - The Fifth Season for Violin and Piano (World Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Bach - Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor
Brahms - Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100
Krzysztof Penderecki - Violin Sonata No. 2

"Anne-Sophie Mutter has been called the “undisputed queen of violin-playing” (The Times, London). Mutter, however, is not content merely sitting on the throne. She is constantly stretching her repertoire, refining her interpretations of classics and championing new music. On a program that includes Bach's Violin Partita No. 2 and Brahms's Violin Sonata No. 2, Mutter also gives the world premiere of André Previn's The Fifth Season, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall."

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The Appel Room
Rags, Strides & Habaneras

"Rags, Strides & Habaneras is a visually dazzling showcase of musical traditions at the core of jazz, Latin jazz, and popular styles from throughout the Americas. Four brilliant pianists and three of New York City’s most captivating dancers will bring to life a virtuosic repertoire rooted in Africa and developed through New Orleans, Harlem, Argentina, Cuba, and Spain.

Pianists include 90-year-old national treasure Dick Hyman; 14-year-old international sensation Joey Alexander; flamenco jazz genius Chano Dominguez; and rising star Sullivan Fortner, the American Pianists Association’s 2015 Cole Porter Fellow.

Tearing up the stage will be tap dancers Michela Marino Lerman (Friday, March 2 only) Jared Grimes (Saturday, March 3 only), recently featured in Wynton Marsalis’ Spaces; young phenomenon Eddie Torres, Jr., son of the legendary Tito Puente dancer Eddie Torres; and Jesús Carmona, an internationally acclaimed flamenco dancer gracing us from Spain. They will reinterpret early jazz and ragtime tunes like “Maple Leaf Rag,” “The Entertainer,” “Viper Drag,” and “Harlem Strut,” emphasizing their infectious beats, unexpected rhythms, and fleet-footed melodies.

They will also teach you to love a single rhythm that took the entire Western world by storm: the habanera. Latin rhythms have always been central to jazz’s identity, and the habanera is the bedrock — the crucial ingredient in the evolution from ragtime into jazz. When you witness classic pieces like “La Paloma” and their accompanying dance routines, you’ll understand why this contagious rhythm spread like wildfire. This high-energy performance will leave you with a fresh perspective on America’s most enduring musical traditions."

Then when we got home and came up out of the subway, this is what we saw from the street in front of our building.

We then went to our building's terrace for a better view.

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Carnegie Hall
Keyboard Virtuosos

Mitsuko Uchida - Piano

ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM
Piano Sonata in B Major, D. 575
Piano Sonata in A Minor, D. 845
Piano Sonata in D Major, D. 850

"Mitsuko Uchida—one of the great Schubert interpreters—reveals the sweet, unforced lyricism, depth of emotion, and technical brilliance of the master’s piano sonatas as she continues a two-season exploration of these works. Sudden harmonic shifts make the B-Major Sonata one of Schubert’s most daring early works in the form. The set of variations in the A-Minor Sonata have a fluid, songlike quality, while the D-Major Sonata is a technically brilliant work with a lighthearted finale."

"During his tragically foreshortened lifetime, Franz Schubert was far better known for his vocal music than for his instrumental works. Not until the 1820s did audiences and critics grow to appreciate Schubert’s rich trove of orchestral and chamber masterpieces, ranging from symphonies to solo piano works. Even then, fewer than a quarter of his major works in these genres—including just three of his 21 piano sonatas—saw the light of publication before his death in 1828.

The three works on this evening’s program illustrate the qualities that prompted Schubert’s contemporaries to compare his piano music with Beethoven’s. In the early and comparatively short B-Major–Sonata (which Schubert wrote when he was only 20), the composer is already pushing against the formal and expressive boundaries of the genre. The sonatas in A minor and D major—both written in 1825—are notable for the grandeur of their conception (each work lasts more than 30 minutes), the richness and complexity of their tonal and thematic relationships, and the intricate interweaving of drama and lyricism.

Schubert’s propensity for bending the rules without breaking them elicited mixed reviews in his lifetime. One bemused critic tut-tutted about certain aspects of the A-Minor–Sonata, “over which one can hardly refrain from shaking one’s head a little. But once it has been shaken and one has thus acknowledged the rules … one cannot refrain from accepting it with pleasure as it is.”

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David Geffen Hall
New York Philharmonic

Jaap van Zweden - Conductor
Yuja Wang - Piano

Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5

"Charismatic Yuja Wang (“She seems to have everything” — The New York Times) performs Brahms’s First Piano Concerto — symphonic, virtuosic, and thrilling. And the Orchestra shines in Prokofiev’s thrilling Fifth Symphony — the composer’s effort at “glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit,” in his words — led by Music Director Designate Jaap van Zweden."

Here is the artist, Yuja Wang, playing the Brahmns Piano Concerto No. 1...

The video is really good and shows her hands and fingers as you'll never see them at a concert.