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From our inaugural concert, Wall to Wall Bach, to our enduring association with the World Music Institute, to our new music performances where composers from Cage to Corigliano, Ligeti to León and Adams to Zorn all have a place, Symphony Space is the place to open your ears, your heart and your mind.
Our 30th anniversary music season showcases our rich legacy, propels the next generation of rising stars and embraces musical innovation. Our series, which are thematically organized as mini-festivals, are designed to appeal to your singular tastes or your cross-over sensibility. |
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InterSchool Orchestras of New York Spring Concert Series featuring ISO’s
Morningside Orchestra, ISO at Turtle Bay Orchestra, conducted by Robert
Johnson; and Carnegie Hill Orchestra, conducted by Todd Doan
Tickets: $15; Senior/Child $8
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Thursday, May 1, 2008
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An exciting concert of Japanese music played on traditional instruments
by masters of Japanese Music. Featuring the Shakuhachi, the koto, the fue and
the taiko drums. An evening full of soulful music of new and traditional
compositions. With Masayo Ishigure, Marco Lienhard and Barbara Merjan.
Tickets: $21; Members $17; Student, Senior $15
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Friday, May 2, 2008
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GRAMMY Award-winner Mark O’Connor, a violinist-fiddler
and composer hailing from the American aural folk tradition, is joined by Colin
and Eric Jacobsen’s string orchestra The
Knights for two of Vivaldi’s and two of Piazzolla’s
Four Seasons, concluding
with O’Connor’s dazzling American
Seasons.
Tickets: $30/$25; Members $27/$23; Day of Show $35/$30
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Friday, May 2, 2008
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Aaron Gilmartin is a singer-songwriter and
guitarist of uncommon passion, commitment, and integrity. With a background
full of influences ranging from Brazil
and flamenco to rock and blues, he combines virtuosic, intricate guitar work
with a straightforward, honest, heartfelt vocal style. Aaron writes accessible
and appealing pop-folk tunes and delivers them in a voice of gentle strength
and powerful conviction.
http://www.myspace.com/aarongilmartin
Tickets: No Cover
Showdate(s):
Friday, May 2, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
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With her winsome smile and lilting voice, Suzi Shelton is taking New York by storm! Her first solo release for kids, Simply Suzi, garnered her three prestigious awards and wowed parents and kids alike. “A musical menagerie of tunes that depict a world of sleeping lions, juicy jellyfish and slithering snakes” (New York Magazine). All ages.
Tickets: $23/18; Day of Show $25/20; Children $13; Members $19/$14; Just Kidding Club $8
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Saturday, May 3, 2008
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Flutist Suzanne Gilchrest, violist Ina Litera and cellist Matthew
Goeke perform an all 20th and 21st century program featuring the world premiere of "Going Up?" by Martin Rokeach and the US premiere of Siegfried Thiele's Trio for flute, viola and cello. The program also includes music of California composer Katrina Wreede, Josef Friederich Doppelbauer and Astor Piazzolla.
Tickets: $25; Members $20; Student, Senior, Child $15; CUNY Student $10
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Saturday, May 3, 2008
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Guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli in a concert to benefit the Bergen Youth
Orchestras with the BYO Symphony Eugene Minor, Conductor. Presented by Bergen
Youth Orchestra.
Tickets: $55 / 35 / 25; Members, Students, Seniors $50 / $30 / $20
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Sunday, May 4, 2008
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InterSchool Orchestras of New York Spring
Concert Series featuring ISO’s Concert Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Minor
with guests from Talent
Unlimited High
School Chorus, conducted by Christian Smythe
Tickets: $15; Senior/Child $8
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Monday, May 5, 2008
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Crossing Boundaries invites the audience to travel through an eclectic musical journey. Bridging the sound worlds of virtuoso classical performance, electronic textures, world music, and multimedia, a diverse group of composers join forces to create an exciting and challenging blend. Composers Tom Beyer, Chris Calabrese, Carlos Delgado, Dinu Ghezzo, Eric Klein and friends share a common background in classical composition and offer a broad spectrum of experiences and expertise in audio production, interactive instrument design, synthesis, jazz performance, and film scoring. Individually and as a group, their music has received critical acclaim throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. Their work can be found on recognized labels such as Capstone Records, CRI (New World Records), Living Artist, and Sonoton ProViva. Under the leadership of internationally renowned composer and distinguished NYU professor Dinu Ghezzo, International Composers and Interactive Artists (ICIA) is committed to promoting new music and collaborative work across the arts. For more information please click here. Presented by ICIA, Inc.
Tickets: $15; Members $12; Students, Seniors $10; Children $5; Day of show $20;
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Monday, May 5, 2008
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InterSchool Orchestras of New York Spring Concert Series featuring ISO’s
Symphonic Band, conducted by Brian P. Worsdale with guests Columbia University
Wind Ensemble, conducted by Andy Pease
Tickets: $15; Senior/Child $8
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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Student composers
present new works with performances by members of the New York Youth Symphony’s
award-winning orchestra, chamber music, jazz band, choral and conduction
programs.
Tickets: $20; Students $10
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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In a rare solo performance, the renowned violinist of
the Emerson Quartet, Eugene
Drucker presents a uniquely personal world-premiere event,
reading from his acclaimed first novel, The
Savior, about a Jewish, Nazi-era violinist forced to perform concerts
before prisoners of a Nazi labor camp in the waning days of World War II.
Tickets: $25; Members $20; Day of Show $30
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Thursday, May 8, 2008
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The internationally acclaimed, all-female Colorado Quartet, renowned for “impassioned playing and lyrical finesse” (Seattle Times), celebrates its 25th season with an exclusive New York concert featuring the second quartets of Britten and Ginastera and the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the BMI Foundation. Part of Upper West Fest.
Tickets: $25; Members $20; Day of Show $30
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Friday, May 9, 2008
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Africa and the African
Diaspora: Traditions, Revolutions and Innovations has been a year-long
programming initiative involving all of the academic units of Purchase College,
as well as The Performing Arts Center and Neuberger Museum of Art. This two-day festival and symposium
represents a culmination of this exciting year of artistic and intellectual
endeavor.
Tickets: FREE
Showdate(s):
Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 10:45 am
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Introduce your kids
to the uplifting music of a gospel choir!
Led by director Pete Malinverni, this 80-member gospel choir from Purchase College presents a program of classics
and new works, sure to be fun for everyone in the family!
Tickets: $23 / $18; Children $13; Just Kidding Club Members $8; SS Members $19/14
Tickets are no longer available for this event.
Past Showdate: Saturday, May 10, 2008
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The New York
premiere of Pete Malinverni’s “The Good Shepherd”
Directed by Pete Malinverni
Tickets: FREE
Showdate(s):
Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
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Directed by Ray Vega. Featuring the New York premiere of Mr. Santos’ “The
Palladium Suite,” commissioned by Purchase College with the support of the New
York State Music Fund
Tickets: FREE
Showdate(s):
Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
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Conducted by Tania León. Works by Ginastera: Dances from Estancia, Revueltas: Sensemaya, Duke Ellington: Black, Brown & Beige, Tania León: Ácana, commissioned by Purchase college
with support from the New York State Music Fund.
Tickets: FREE
Showdate(s):
Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
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The New
York premiere of a commissioned new work by Kevin
Wynn, set to the music of Tania León, plus excerpts from Dianne McIntyre’s Lyric Fire and Bill T. Jones’ D’Man in the Waters.
Tickets: FREE
Showdate(s):
Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
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The Janaki Trio pay tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki with his String Trio, Prelude and Clarinet Quartet juxtaposed with the Schubert String Trio and the world premiere of new work commissioned by the BMI Foundation. Presented in cooperation with Concert Artists Guild. Part of Upper West Fest.
Tickets: $25; Members $20; Day of Show $30
Showdate: Thursday, May 15, 2008, 7:30 pm
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A rare New York appearance for the Canadian-based Penderecki Quartet, “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensibility” (Fanfare), features two Penderecki quartets, plus works by Szymanowski, Panufnik, Kaminsky and Grella-Mozejko. Part of Upper West Fest.
Tickets: $25; Members $20; Day of Show $30
Showdate: Friday, May 16, 2008, 7:30 pm
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In the beginning it was Wall to Wall. This year, as Symphony Space celebrates its 30th season, we pay tribute to the very first Wall to Wall which opened the doors of the boarded-up theater to the public and offered a marathon of music by Bach. Our annual gift to the city offers, once again, a Bach feast in collaboration with the American Symphony Orchestra (under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein) and a slew of artists performing Preludes, Fugues, Cantatas, Suites, Concerti, Sonatas and more, concluding with a resounding performance of the B minor Mass. Part of Upper West fest.
Support Wall to Wall Bach by reserving a seat.
Tickets: FREE
Showdate(s):
Saturday, May 17, 2008 @ 10:30 am
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From Teatro alla Scala,
Milan. The three one-acts are staged in honor of the 150th
anniversary of Puccini's birth.
Tickets: $21; Members $19; 5 or more $18; Members 5 or more $16
Showdate: Sunday, May 18, 2008, 3:00 pm
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From Teatro alla Scala,
Milan. The three one-acts are staged in honor of the 150th
anniversary of Puccini's birth.
Tickets: $21; Members $19; 5 or more $18; Members 5 or more $16
Showdate: Monday, May 19, 2008, 7:30 pm
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New York Youth Symphony’s Symphony Singers perform Gems by the Opera Masters, featuring selections from Verdi’s Rigoletto and Nabucco, Mozart’s Magic Flute, and Bizet’s Carmen. Presented by New York Youth Symphony. www.nyys.org
Tickets: $20; Students $10
Showdate: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 7:30 pm
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The dynamic musicians of America’s Dream Chamber Artists take a refreshing and inspiring approach to chamber music performance, replacing concert hall formality with unusual interaction with the audience, in a program featuring the New York premiere of O’Connor’s The Fallen for Solo Flute and Strings, as well as his Piano Trio No. 1, Poets and Prophets.
Tickets: $25; Members $20; Day of Show $30
Showdate: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Singer/Songwriter Avi Wisnia combines the
classic sounds of the Brazilian Bossa Nova with pangs of soul, folk, jazz and
pop to create a unique sound that is at once engagingly familiar and
refreshingly new. With a versatile repertoire of well-crafted original songs,
Wisnia and his talented ensemble take the Brazilian influence and make it
explode in a million different directions. A wordsmith as well, Wisnia’s clever
lyrics pay a knowing nod to his contemporaries and offer a fresh perspective on
issues facing his generation.
http://www.myspace.com/aviwisniapresents
http://www.aviwisnia.com
Tickets: No Cover
Showdate(s):
Thursday, May 22, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
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With equally impressive credits in jazz and classical, including tours with Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Celebration ensemble, crossover violinist Sara Caswell offers a solo concert showcasing the full range of her dazzling musical artistry.
Tickets: $25; Members $20; Day of Show $30
Showdate: Friday, May 23, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Gospel Jazz Celebration Featuring Soul Saint Ent Recording Artist Will
Finley C.D Concert Release. Celebration. Also Special Guest Robin Small, Rosie
Mendoza and AVP Choir, Dwight Sutton and VOG Choir.
Tickets: $29
Showdate: Friday, May 23, 2008, 8:00 pm
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Graduates of the U of O Opera Theater Program: Douglas Webster,
Director. Operas Henry Mollicone, Daron Hagen and Seymour Barab.
Tickets: $20; Advance: $15; Member $10;
Showdate: Monday, May 26, 2008, 4:00 pm
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In celebration of Spring awakening come and enjoy the sounds of Puerto
Rican folklore, music and dance. “Bomba” rhythms & sounds of African
heritage and “Plena” is the type of music that reflect community happenings
known as the singing newspaper.
Tickets: $25; $30 Day of Show
Showdate: Monday, May 26, 2008, 6:00 pm
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An evening of concert songs written by Tom Cipullo, David Eddleman, and recently deceased Gardner Read, sung by famed soprano D’Anna Fortunato, tenor Michael Polscer, and baritone Elem Eley, with Frank Daykin, piano collaborator. Songs will include a world premiere of Eddleman’s newest song cycle set to the humorous texts of Hal Sirowitz. This is the latest in a continuing series by Nova Kanto Concerts and promises to be the finest yet.
Tickets: $23; Members, Seniors $19; Students $16
Showdate: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Joe
Ongie’s music is an eclectic blend of folk rock, pop, and classic rock. His
exquisite song writing will blow you away.
http://www.myspace.com/joeongie
joeongie.com
Tickets: No Cover
Showdate(s):
Thursday, May 29, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
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Contemporary music for percussion, flute, viola, & harp,
including works
by Ptaszynska, Gubaidulina,
Woehr, and Takemitsu.
Tickets: $12; Members $10; Students $5; Day of Show $16
Showdate: Friday, May 30, 2008, 7:30 pm
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Created 50 years ago to highlight the Bulgarian folk music, this
ensemble of 22 women and 2 men’s voices has first toured North
America twenty years ago! Performing with special guest Zulal.
Tickets: $35; Senior $30; Day of Show $40
Showdate: Friday, May 30, 2008, 8:00 pm
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For it’s
2007-08 season finale, Fireworks Ensemble presents two major new commissioned
works by two of America’s most important Neo-Romantic voices: Pulitzer
Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici and west coast master symphonist Robert
Kyr. Pushing the boundaries of the composers’ tonal, expressive styles into
fresh territory, the large-scale commissioned works: Del Tredici’s A Field
Manual: Poetry of Edward Field, and Kyr’s Working Fire/Fireworks Variations
create a startling synthesis of lush romantic tonality and gritty,
rock-influenced vitality. Presented by Fireworks Ensemble. www.fireworksensemble.org
Tickets: $21; Members $16; Students, Seniors $11
Showdate: Saturday, May 31, 2008, 7:30 pm
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