Symphony Space Music
Whether you like jazz or classical, new music or world music, there's always something to suit your taste at Symphony Space. From our free Wall to Wall marathon concerts in the splendid Peter Jay Sharp Theatre upstairs, to our engaging and innovative shows downstairs in the intimate Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space is the place to open your ears, your heart, and your mind.
| The Music of Now Marathon An exhilarating 8-hour marathon curated by Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky, "a composer with an ear for the new and interesting" (The New York Times) and hosted by celebrated WQXR host Terrance McKnight.
Tonight is a Symphony Space MEMBER MIXER! Join artists and composers during the break for a complimentary drink in Bar Thalia. Click here to become a member of Symphony Space. |
| Guitar Plus: Music of David Leisner Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon joins Symphony Space All-Star David Leisner in a rare US appearance with the Arc Duo and the Enso Quartet. Featuring the world premiere of Leisner's new song cycle West Wind to poems by Mary Oliver, performed by Leisner and Metropolitan Opera tenor William Ferguson. |
| Flowers Are Sleeping with Eisa Davis During her two-year stint as artist-in-residence at Symphony Space, this Pulitzer Prize nominee gets to do it all. This evening Davis shares excerpts from Flowers Are Sleeping, a work in progress inspired by a fictional Harlem Renaissance heroine. Be part of art-in-formation during an audience talk-back about this Symphony Space commission. |
| David Del Tredici at 75: A Celebration in Song Symphony Space All-Star, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici reveals all in this intimate evening of performance with his collaborator, soprano Courtenay Budd, interspersed with frank conversation about his life and emotionally-charged work. |
| Stars of the Future Piano You'll be able to say "I saw them when..." with Symphony Space's Chopin Competition winners Chaoyin Cai and Drew Petersen featured in a piano recital including works by Chopin, Ravel, Szymanowski, and Messiaen. |
| Guitar Plus: David Leisner with Pianist Jon Klibonoff Featuring the world premieres of Oh T.I.!, an Outback-inspired work by Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe for the unusual combination of guitar and piano, and Symphony Space All-Star David Leisner's Labyrinths #2 for solo piano. The program also includes Hans Haug's Fantasia, Mauro Giuliani and Ignaz Moscheles' Grand Duo Concertant, and Johann Kaspar Mertz's Three Pieces.
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| Wearing the Lost Generation: A Musical/Sartorial Salon The Nouveau Classical Project - a collective of composers, performers, and fashion designers - reimagines the Parisian avant garde in an evening of music by Ravel, and the world premiere of The Lost Generation by Trevor Gureckis. Inspired millinery will be custom designed for the evening's music. |
| The Django Experiment Known for the music in Woody Allen's films Vicky Christina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris, Stephane Wrembel presents a new perspective on some of the sizzling jazz and pop music of the Parisian avant garde, in particular the Hot Club of Django Reinhardt. |
| Tin Hat takes on e.e. cummings Tin Hat defies categorization, blending jazz, folk, tango, blues, bluegrass, chamber music, Americana, and Eastern European Gypsy sounds. The poetry of e.e. cummings, who spent much time in Paris, is the source for this program's adrenaline-fueled festivities. |
| A Song is a Song is a Song An evening of songs by Poulenc, Debussy, Honegger, Milhaud, Gershwin, Copland, Thompson, and Bowles performed by Opera Singers Initiative winners debut recital with soprano Catherine Meyers and countertenor Tyler Wayne Smith in their debut recital. |
| Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano Everyone has a favorite Sondheim song... including other composers! As part of Anthony de Mare's inspired Liaisons Project, 36 of today's leading jazz, classical, music theater, pop, and film composers have come together to re-imagine their favorite Sondheim songs as solo piano works in their own distinct styles. The great musical theater genius himself also takes the stage. |
| Singing Stein (Encompass New Opera) Gertrude Stein's words inspired many a composer, most notably Virgil Thomson, whose rarely performed Capital Capitals, and Ned Rorem's setting of Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters are featured on this "audaciously entertaining" (The New York Times) program with Encompass New Opera. |
| Wall to Wall: Gertrude's Paris You're sitting outside on a cobblestone street, a glass of wine perched on your café table. Salvador Dali and Man Ray walk by in heated discussion. Django Reinhardt's band is tuning up a few doors down, and you can't stop tapping your feet as the hot beats seep out into the warm Paris evening. Wafting down from 27 Rue de Fleurus is the scent of Alice's famous fudge, as it's another Saturday Salon at the Stein/Toklas household, and you're invited. Re-live this magical time of art in life and life in art at our annual free marathon - Wall to Wall: Gertrude's Paris. |
