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Due to our pricey buddy Omicron, I took a chronic live performance break over the winter holidays — I principally spent Christmas week shuttling between my church gig and residential, the place I did nothing however watch 30 Rock in mattress. However I’ve determined that, for the sake of my very own psychological well being, it is time for me to return to the live performance corridor. I simply want that had been the case for the evening Igor Levit performed Carnegie…anyway, listed below are a few of my picks for the month.
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| Horszowski Trio |
EDIT: I’ve already seen a couple of concert events this month, I used to be just a bit gradual on the publishing facet. Life is busy, shit occurs. One, the Horszowski Trio, was phenomenal — their Feldman-and-friends set managed to hush an viewers filled with noisy 70-somethings. Spectacular. (That stated: I nonetheless consider that Dvořák’s Second Piano Quartet is among the many stupidest items of chamber music recognized to man. They performed it very effectively. I am not budging on this.)
Neither of the others was phenomenal on the entire, although the NY Phil’s efficiency of Julius Eastman’s Second Symphony — the brand new version’s skilled premiere — was astounding, and satisfied me that the contrabass clarinet is a badass instrument.
February 10 | Roulette Intermedium | $20
February 10, 12-13 | The Met Fifth Avenue (Rogers Auditorium) | $25 and up
Ten or fifteen years in the past, the manager group of Heartbeat Opera was sitting on the board of my undergraduate opera firm — the identical firm with whom I carried out, performed, sang, administrated (administered?) and most significantly, partied. This overhauled and largely rewritten Fidelio has obtained its share of fine press because it premiered in 2018, and I am excited to lastly expertise it.
February 11 | Holy Trinity Lutheran Church | $30 ($15 mounted earnings, $5 college students)
This season is the primary for Gotham Early Music Scene’s Open Gates Undertaking, an initiative which helps to advertise variety on early music phases in addition to entry to early music for underserved communities. 5 countertenors share this efficiency, which options favourite consort songs of Byrd and Purcell, a couple of picks each Italian and Italianate (this is taking a look at you, Ombra mai fu), and a brand new Ave Maria by native composer Trevor Weston — I sang his Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for a digital choir, I keep in mind it being incredible music, if exceptionally tough.
February 12 | Good Shepherd – Religion Presbyterian Church | $30 and up
I attempt to not miss The Sebastians if I will help it. This month, Bach obbligato sonatas and a few Frenchy harpsichord music — actually arduous to go mistaken there, particularly with Daniel Lee and Jeff Grossman, two performers I see typically and but nonetheless exit of my method to hear. That is the sort of efficiency I am at all times within the temper for.
February 17 | Willow Place Auditorium | Free?
On Could 28, 2019, I reviewed the S.E.M. Ensemble taking part in, amongst different issues, a piece by composer Anna Heflin. Anna is now an expensive buddy and colleague, considered one of only a few individuals who I belief to edit my work. So, in a means, S.E.M. director Petr Kotik unknowingly launched us. We predict he’ll discover that story very humorous. Plus, I really like Willow Place — YMCA basketball courtroom vibes, toddler gymnastics mats haphazardly shoved in a nook, equal components efficiency venue as sporting heart, kiddie social hub, and reception room.
February 17-19 | Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Middle | $49 and up
I have not listened to Tchaik 5 since highschool — actually, I am not the largest Tchaikovsky fan. However typically, you get an plain hankering for one thing you do not love. For me, it is all youth orchestra nostalgia. Anyway, I determine if I am solely going to hearken to the symphony as soon as each few years, I could as effectively go see it reside when the craving hits. And never solely reside, however with a conductor I am keen on (Santtu-Mathias Rouvali) alongside a soprano I am keen on (Golda Schultz) singing songs I am keen on (Strauss’s Brentano-Lieder) and watching considered one of my shut associates play as an alternative bassist.
February 19 | Miller Theatre | $30 and up
February 22 (Monteverdi), 23 (Versailles) | Carnegie Corridor (Zankel) | $85 and up (yikes)
Final time I noticed Jordi, his continuo group stole the present. He is fairly a high-quality participant — he was, in any case, the OG gamba participant — however these days, he is a bandleader firstly. I am hoping to go to the Monteverdi efficiency, although I am going to go on Versailles (I believe that was his program final time I noticed him a pair years in the past). For small-ensemble vocal music, Jordi Savall tends to encompass himself with Spain’s brightest and greatest younger singers, a demographic we often do not hear until they cross over into the French market as effectively. Spanish early music recordings are few and much between, and 80% of them come from Jordi — he has his personal document label, so it is not likely a good battle.
February 23 | Carnegie Corridor (Stern Auditorium) | $30
David Robertson, conductor | Yan Liu, clarinet
That is the place I will be on February 23. I am typically anti-Wynton Marsalis as a result of my favourite jazz does not fall below his slender conception of the style, however I really feel it is unlikely I am going to get to listen to his Swing Symphony once more anytime quickly. In case you take one factor away from this, let it’s: at all times see the live performance that’s hardest to breed.
February 24 | Peter Jay Sharp Theater | $20
February 26 | Home of the Redeemer | $55
My Spotify Wrapped final yr was principally only a who’s-who of French Baroque. It is the music I default to after I do not know what I would like, and a few of the music that I would like most frequently. I could have listened to Les Plaisirs de Versailles — considered one of Charpentier’s many opera-like gadgets — as soon as on the subway, however I am so excited to see it reside. TENET will do it justice, I do know. Plus, Ensemble Caprice supplies a uncommon glimpse into the insular, however thriving Baroque scene of North America’s most underrated historic efficiency mecca: Montreal.
February 27 | Corpus Christi Church | $25 and up (cheaper for blocked/partial view and college students)
February 28 | Roulette Intermedium | $20 on-line, $25 doorways
I am attempting to recollect how previous I used to be when my greatest buddy despatched me Eric Wubbels’s Katachi…senior yr of highschool, I wish to say? Anyway, that album hooked me on Moist Ink, in addition to all of the members individually — I’ve an especially particular reminiscence of listening to the group’s Twentieth anniversary album whereas strolling to class on a crisp spring day. (That sounds made-up, however I swear I keep in mind precisely the place and after I stood when that first bout of static hit. Scared the shit out of me.) And now, it is Eric Wubbels’s flip for an album. I am going to hearken to it recorded, certain. However why not have it each methods?
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