In their 92NY debut on Nov. 21, 2025, the group will focus on music of the Americas with works by Brazilian composer Clarice Assad and American composers Carlos Simon and Valerie Coleman.
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Concert Review: Pianist Beatrice Rana at Carnegie Hall
The Italian artist wields her pianistic prowess in service of the wide-ranging expressivity that signals a true and complete virtuoso.
Read More »Interview: Composer Hana Ajiashvili, Winner of 2026 Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music
In 'Riddle' for chorus and orchestra the Georgian-Israeli composer transforms a medieval verse-riddle by poet Yehuda Halevi into a meditation on persecution and resilience.
Read More »Music Review: Erik Carlson and Ensemble Combinatoria – ‘Canone nel Nodo de Salamone’ by Pier Francesco Valentini
With 1,024 parts, the individual lines blend into what we hear as one prolonged chord. Listening to it out of context you'd likely think it was a piece of avant-garde conceptual art.
Read More »Concert Review: Focused on Ukraine, Dalia Stasevska Conducts the New York Philharmonic, Joshua Bell
A war-themed program at Lincoln Center featured volatile works by two Ukrainian composers, plus Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland.
Read More »Music Review: Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason – ‘Jane Austen’s Piano’
Kanneh-Mason's deft touch clarifies every ornament on this EP that also features music by Handel and two English composers Jane Austen was familiar with.
Read More »Music Review: Duo Gelland – ‘Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Four Sonatas for Two Violins’
What accounts for the persistent popularity of Vivaldi's music after all these centuries? Cecilia and Martin Gelland, together known as Duo Gelland, capture one important reason on their new recording.
Read More »Opera Review: ‘Orgy & Bess,’ This Year’s Drag Show from Heartbeat Opera, Soars on Campy Wings – Right into a Glam Gutter
To "get" a parody, you have to be familiar with what's being parodied, right?Usually. The annual drag shows from Heartbeat Opera are exceptions – hilarious, harmonious, happy ones. This year's extravaganza will cruise on camp, costumes, and kookiness right into your crooked little heart.
Read More »Music Review: David Salvage – ‘Dreams of Love and Travel’ – Music for Solo Piano
When music is so baldly programmatic we should listen in two ways: with the context in mind, and purely musically.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘The Mule’ by Natasha Cobb (and More) at the Queens Short Play Festival
Cobb introduces us to the figure of the Black woman employee whom companies keep on "to give the work you don't want to give to more important people."
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