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Symphony Space Live |
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The greatest musicians in the world play the stages at Peter Norton Symphony Space, and now you can enjoy them any time on Symphony Space Live, a new online audio series hosted by Laura Kaminsky, Symphony Space’s Curator of Music Programs. From the sounds of salsa and swing with Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra to the haunting indie-Persian melodies of the artist Haale, you can listen at your leisure to some of the most exciting artists that have graced our stages. Don’t forget to tune into our signature program Wall to Wall as it streams live, offering marathon musical entertainment from the world of opera, Broadway, classical and beyond.
Symphony
Space Live is produced by Murray Street with Symphony Space.
Recorded by Saundra Palmer Grassi. Senior Producer is Steve Rathe.
 | Harkening back to the days when mambo was king, Arturo O'Farrill's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra brings the power of the big band to greatest hits, including Machito's "Mambo America," Tito Puente's "Mas Bajo," Mario Bauza's "Sambia" plus music by rising stars Dafnis Prieto, Papo Vazquez and Tom Harrell.
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 | Symphony Space's gift to the city for the past 29 years. This year's marathon explored the world of Western opera over the past 400 years, from Baroque to contemporary. Highlights included a Master Class in Bel Canto singing with legendary soprano, Renata Scotto, the Opera Matinee section, featuring the New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Gerald Steichen, members of the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artists Program.
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 | Featuring the NYCO Orchestra and Singers, plus new works by William Balcom, Derek Bermel, Richard Danielpour & Toni Morrison, Tarik O Regan and more.
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 | The Boston Globe calls Lhasa "the ultimate global chanteuse" while the New York Daily News describes her music as combining “the lyricism of Tom Waits, the dark tones of Nick Cave and the sensuality of Kate Bush.” Taking her cues from Gypsy music, French cabaret, Mexican rancheras and American country ballads, her music is explosive.
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 | The indie-rock singer-songwriter performs his intimate, guitar-based rock, backed in this performance by string ensemble.
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 | Created fifty years ago, this collective has stayed true to its mission to enrich the heritage of the Bulgarian solo folk song by highlighting its beautiful timbres and irregular rhythms.
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 | A vital personality on the music scene since her days as Dance Theatre of Harlem’s first musical director, Tania León is a world-class composer and conductor, educator and adviser to the arts. Her music has fused a uniquely vital rhythmic and melodic musical style that draws from her own Afro-Cuban, Spanish, French and Chinese heritage.
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 | Pianist-vocalist Patricia Barber has been winning over audiences for the past decade on the merits of several “coolly modern” albums released jointly by Premonition and Blue Note Records. “Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag, and you get Patricia Barber, whose throaty, come-hither vocals and coolly incisive piano are displayed to devastating effect” (Time Magazine).
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 | After suffering from a severe brain aneurysm several decades ago, guitar master Pat Martino made a remarkable recovery, and through intensive study of his own historic recordings, managed to reverse his memory loss and return to the guitar in stronger form than ever.
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 | Pianist Bobby Avey, a Jon Faddis protégé, pairs with saxophonist Steve Wildon, from Chick Corea’s band Origins. Also, the musically vivacious pianist and composer Dawn Clement collaborates with the innovative saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom.
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The GRAMMY Award-nominated pianist Ursula Oppens, long a proponent of Elliott Carter’s music, offers the only New York performance of the composer’s piano music: 90+, Retrouvailles, Two Diversions, Night Fantasies, Intermittences, Catenaires
and the Piano Sonata. With Mr. Carter in attendance, experience her
powerful performance of this compelling body of work, celebrating the composer’s 100th birthday year.
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