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eighth blackbird, ensemble
7.30pm, Thursday 17 April 2008
Steve Reich’s Double Sextet is the programme’s first half, and Singing in the Dead of Night, a collaboration by David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe, is the second half, directed by innovative dancer/choreographer Susan Marshall.
In February, the Chicago-based new-music sextet scored its first Grammy. The album Strange Imaginary Animals, took the award for Best Chamber Music Performance. BBC Music named strange imaginary animals “CD Choice of the month” in September, stating: “eighth blackbird play like musicians possessed; excited by the new, determined that their CD audiences will be too, they take wing, soaring on an upthrust of precision-tooled virtuosity.”
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Steven Osgood, conductor; Tony Arnold, soprano; Alison Tupay, mezzo-soprano; Gregory Warren, tenor; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
7.30pm, Thursday 17 April 2008
Stravinsky's Complete Songs
This performance is at Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library and Museum. More information.
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Ingrid Fliter, piano
8.00pm, Thursday 17 April 2008
Schubert:
2 Impromptus, op. 90
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, op. 110
Chopin:
Nocturne No. 3 in B major, op. 9, No. 3
Chopin:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 58
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New York City Opera
8.00pm, Thursday 17 April 2008
Leonard Bernstein:
Candide, operetta in 2 acts
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Performances: 8.4.08, 9.4.08, 10.4.08, 11.4.08, 12.4.08, 13.4.08, 15.4.08, 16.4.08, 17.4.08, 18.4.08, 19.4.08, 20.4.08
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Jon Nakamatsu, piano
8.15pm, Thursday 17 April 2008
Johann Kalliwoda: Duet for violin and viola in C major, op. 208
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, op. 2
Burgmuller: Duo for clarinet and piano
Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, op. 47
A native of California, Jon Nakamatsu came to international attention in 1997 when he was named Gold Medalist of the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the only American to have achieved this distinction since 1981.
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