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12 Dec
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Monday, December 12, 2016 at 8.30pm
Jonglerie musicale
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Jérôme Thomas Juggler
L'Instant donné
Lorenzo Bianchi, Benoit Meudic, Augustin Muller IRCAM Computer Music Design
Frédéric Bevilacqua, Norbert Schnell Scientific Advisors (Sound Music Movement Interaction Team – IRCAM-STMS)
Emmanuel Fléty, Alain Terrier Conception and Construction of the IRCAM-STMS Augmented Balls
Bernard Revel Lighting Design
Conception Jérôme Thomas
Viola Ferraris, Florence Huet, Chloé Mazet, Ria Rehfuß, Jérôme Thomas Jugglers
Stanislav Makovsky, Moondog, Guillaume Tiger music
Bernard Revel Lighting Design
Emmanuelle Grobet Costumes and Props
Thanks to Jérôme Thomas, juggling is now recognized in France as a unique and distinct art. Conceptualized for a septet which includes a juggler, Dels dos principis is the fruit of an already established collaboration between the artist and the composer Henry Fourès. "Through the intervention of music technology and its new tools, the gestural characteristics are translated, manipulated and composed in a veritable chamber music score." Henry Fourès. Purely electronic works presented as solos, duos, and quartets of circus artists will complete the evening. PLAK and Elastic were developed during the In vivo Électro workshop during IRCAM's 2016 ManiFeste academy.
Gerard Grisey : Stèle
Henry Fourès : Dels dos Principis
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 7:30pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert
Church of the Gesu
1145 Wisconsin Avenue
United States
414-288-7101
www.gesuparish.org
Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)
Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series including Max Reger: The Last Romantic, The Muse’s Voice, An American Idyll, Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008; Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as “Best of 2008” of classical music and opera. Her recordings include the forthcoming, A Russian Journey in fall, 2016, The Muse’s Voice, Franz Liszt: A Hungarian Rhapsody, Bach: The Transcendent Genius, An American Idyll, A Mystic In the Making (Meyer Media), and The Orpheus of Amsterdam: Sweelinck and his Pupils (CALA Records). Her summer, 2016 European tour took her to Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and Russia. Highlights include Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy, St. Wenceslaus Church, Prague, Czech Republic, St. Paul’s Church, Odessa, Ukraine, Holmens Church, Copenhagen, Denmark, and the fifth century church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage site, famous for its extraordinary mosaics. She is the founder of Musforum, www.musforum.org an international network for women organists to promote and affirm their work. Ms. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.
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14 Dec
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 1pm
Webern, Sohrab Uduman and Schoenberg
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Britten Sinfonia
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, his first published work, led the composer to the borderlands between late Romanticism and atonality.
Heard here in Eduard Steuermann’s arrangement for piano trio, this impassioned work is paired with a new piano trio written by Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s competition for unpublished composers.
Anton Webern : Vier Stücke Op. 7
Sohrab Uduman : "Dann klingt es auf…"
Arnold Schoenberg : Verklärte Nacht Op. 4
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7.30pm
London Symphony Orchestra / Fabien Gabel
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Fabien Gabel conductor
James Ehnes violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Rising star Fabien Gabel conducts a programme highlighting the subtle connections between French and Russian repertoire.
Shostakovich’s searing Violin Concerto No 1 forms the centrepiece of this concert, performed here by the inimitable James Ehnes. The concerto was written during a time of great turmoil for Shostakovich, and was supressed for almost a decade before its first performance. This darkly dramatic work revels in devil-may-care virtuosity for orchestra and soloist alike.
A pair of works created by Ravel bookend the programme. La valse is a musical depiction of the birth and eventual destruction of the waltz genre that saw its heyday amidst the grandeur and excess of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Ravel’s iconic arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition brings the concert to a thrilling close, with Ravel’s flawlessly crafted orchestration breathing life and colour into Mussorgsky’s magnum opus.
Maurice Ravel : La Valse
Dmitri Shostakovich : Violin Concerto No 1
Michael Taplin : Ebbing Tides
Modest Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition
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15 Dec
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Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Finley
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor
Gerald Finley baritone
Two Russian blockbusters frame the UK premiere of True Fire: a new commission specially written for Barbican featured artist Gerald Finley.
Prokofiev said that his Fifth Symphony depicted ‘the greatness of the human spirit’. It’s a gripping climax to a concert that begins with Tchaikovsky’s star-crossed romance, and features Kaija Saariaho’s ravishing True Fire, performed by its dedicatee.
Saariaho’s music combines intense emotion with a shimmering, visionary sonic beauty, and this setting of poetry by Emerson and Seamus Heaney was created with the intelligence and burnished tone of Finley’s singing very much in mind. The results are both surprising, and exquisitely lovely: ’This is a profound, important work‘, declared the LA Times at last year’s world premiere.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Overture to Romeo & Juliet
Kaija Saariaho : True Fire
Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No 5
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Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 4:00pm
The Dessoff Choirs Host Holiday Messiah Sing-in
James Memorial Chapel
3041 Broadway
United States
Tickets: $15
The Dessoff Choirs
The Messiah Sing is a beloved seasonal event and the start of a new tradition for Dessoff. It marks the ensemble’s debut at the James Memorial Chapel at the Union Theological Seminary. All singers and non-singers alike are invited to join with the choir on the work’s many choruses while Dessoff singers will have the opportunity to perform the solo arias.
G F Handel : MESSIAH
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18 Dec
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Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 4:00pm
The Dessoff Choirs Perform Holiday Sing-in
St. John's Episcopal Church
319 St. John's Place
United States
Tickets: $25-35
The Dessoff Choirs
Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs celebrates the holidays as part of its 92nd season. This year, it presents a trio of concerts featuring seasonal repertoire and contemporary arrangements of carols, including Handel’s Messiah, the quintessential classical music highpoint of the Christmas season; Bach’s Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230, Gregg Smith’s Twelve Days of Christmas; and Robert Parsons’s Ave Maria, to name a few.
J.S. Bach : Lobet den Herrn
Robert Parsons : Ave Maria
John Tavener : God is With Us
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27 Dec
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.
Pianist Kayta Grineva Celebrates the Holidays
Carnegie Hall
New York
United States
Tickets: $35 and up
Katya Grineva (piano)
Celebrating her 16th annual solo appearance at Carnegie Hall, classical pianist Katya Grineva presents an evening of holiday music and virtuoso romantic masterpieces for one night only, Tuesday, December 27, at 8:00 p.m. The Russian native, whose dream it was to one day play at the iconic venue, is the first woman to perform as a soloist at Carnegie this many times. Known for her deep connection to the Romantics, Katya mixes staples by Mozart and Chopin with various seasonal chestnuts. Performing works from her holiday album A Classical Holiday, Katya showcases new arrangements of Christmas classics including Silent Night, Sleigh Ride, and I’ll be Home for Christmas as well as traditional carols and pieces from The Nutcracker. (
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Sonata in A Major
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