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Carnegie Hall presents At A Glance

  IN THIS ISSUE
•   Taxi Driver to Conductor: “Where To?”
•   Russian Masterworks
•   From Queens to the Marmara Sea
•   “Einstein” Returns
•   Young Lions
•   Bad to the Bone
•   A Holiday Celebration


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CONCERT CALENDAR
  11/28 Measha Brueggergosman, Soprano / Roger Vignoles, Piano
 
  11/29 Sweet Honey In The Rock
 
  11/30 Trio Chausson
 
  11/30 The Philadelphia Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
 
  12/1 Kirov Orchestra
 
  12/1 Dar Williams
 
  12/2 Family Concert: Harbor Conservatory
 
  12/2 Kirov Orchestra
 
  12/3 Boston Symphony Orchestra / Renée Fleming, Soprano
 
  12/4 Trio Mediaeval
 
  12/4 Kirov Orchestra
 
  12/6 Philip Glass: “Einstein” in Concert
 
  12/7 Ensemble ACJW
 
  12/12 and 13 Emanuel Ax Master Class
 
  12/12 The Bad Plus
 
  12/14 Lavinia Meijer, Harp
 
  12/14 and 15 The New York Pops / A Holiday Celebration
 
  12/15 Family Concert: Young People’s Chorus of New York City / Holidays Around the World
 
  12/15 and 16 Emanuel Ax Young Artists Concert
 
  12/17 Yefim Bronfman, Piano
 
  12/19 Ensemble ACJW
 
  12/24 New York String Orchestra / Yefim Bronfman, Piano
 
  12/28 New York String Orchestra / André Watts, Piano  


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Sir Simon Rattle talks about the Berliner Philharmoniker’s educational mission and why it has become such an important part of the ensemble’s work.



 TAXI DRIVER TO CONDUCTOR: “WHERE TO?”

Gergiev
  In response to a taxi driver questioning his destination recently, the globe-trotting Russian conductor Valery Gergiev reportedly responded: “It doesn’t matter: I’m in demand everywhere.” A little coy, perhaps—but accurate, too.
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  12/1–4  
 Russian Masterworks

Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater
Soloists from the Mariinsky Theater


Gergiev and his ensemble travel from the famed Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg for three nights of Russian musical drama, including a rare chance to hear a complete concert version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s enchanting fairy tale The Snow Maiden.
Gergiev
Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg

SAT, DEC 1 at 8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

GLINKA  Act I of Ruslan and Ludmilla
STRAVINSKY  Le sacre du printemps


Perspectives: Valery Gergiev

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SUN, DEC 2 at 2 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV  The Snow Maiden

Perspectives: Valery Gergiev

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TUES, DEC 4 at 8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

STRAVINSKY  Les noces
BORODIN  Act II of Prince Igor

Perspectives: Valery Gergiev

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These concerts are underwritten by Yoko Nagae Ceschina.

Perspectives concerts are made possible, in part, by a generous grant from The Alice Tully Foundation.

 FROM QUEENS TO THE MARMARA SEA

Istanbul, Turkey
  In a classroom in Queens, a student looks out her window onto Corona Avenue, turns to her computer monitor, and types a question: “What kind of food do you eat?” The next day in a classroom overlooking the Marmara Sea in Istanbul another student replies, “We eat everything when we are hungry :) Of course, we eat normal food such as rice, kebab, salad, beans.” Back in Deanne D’Aloia’s class at Newtown High School in Elmhurst, the student asks her teacher, “What’s kebab?”
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  12/6  
 “Einstein” Returns

THURS, DEC 6 at 8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Philip Glass: “Einstein” in Concert
Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble
Timothy Fain, Violin
Michael Riesman, Conductor
Lucinda Childs, Spoken Word
Melvin van Peebles, Spoken Word

The first live performance in over 15 years of Philip Glass’s seminal Einstein on the Beach in a special version for the concert stage.

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Glass
Glass

Nonesuch at Carnegie

  12/7
 Young Lions

FRI, DEC 7 at 7 PM
Zankel Hall

Ensemble ACJW
Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor
Barbara Sukowa, Singer

“These performers have the musical goods.“
-New York Times

The stars of The Academy perform the landscape-infused music of Toru Takemitsu, an early score of Schoenberg, and an acclaimed song cycle by Reinbert de Leeuw.

All tickets $15

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ACJW
ACJW

The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education—is made possible by a leadership gift from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Major funding has also been provided by Mercedes and Sid Bass, The Kovner Foundation, Martha and Bob Lipp, Judith and Burton Resnick, Susan and Elihu Rose, and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, with additional support from the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, The Dana Foundation, and the William Petschek Family.


  12/12  
 Bad to the Bone

WED, DEC 12 at 8:30 PM
Zankel Hall

The Bad Plus

A piano trio that‘s anything but ordinary—they've covered songs by Nirvana, ABBA, Black Sabbath, and Björk—The Bad Plus is on the front lines of an emerging new alternative music.

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Bad Plus
Bad Plus

Presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with Festival Productions.

 12/14-15 
 A Holiday Celebration

The New York Pops
Doc Severinsen, Conductor
Nicole Cabell, Soprano
Fort Worth–TCU Symphonic Choir
Ronald Shirey, Director

The former Tonight Show conductor returns to lead a festive program of holiday favorites with rising star soprano Nicole Cabell and a 150-voice choir.
Severinsen
Severinsen

FRI, DEC 14 at 8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage


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FRI, DEC 15 at 8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage


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The New York Pops: Live at Carnegie Hall

New York Pops Debut Concert Recorded Live at Carnegie Hall April 8, 1983.


The Shop at Carnegie Hall




Photos:

Gergiev by Marco Borggreve, Bad Plus by Phil Knot, Doc Severinsen by Chris Cussaro

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