How does change really happen? What is revolutionary change? Are there relationships between political revolution, social revolution and musical revolution? Revolutions 2 explores these questions through the music and politics of 1918, in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Poiesis Quartet perform works by Calvin Ray Shawler, Max Lang, Maya Irizarry Lambright, and Jeff Scott, anchored by the world premiere of an NLM commission by Puerto Rican composer Ivan Enrique Rodriguez, who will be in attendance.
Soprano Chrystal E. Williams returns to Guarneri Hall for Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs composed by Franz Schubert in 1827 and set to texts by Wilhelm Müller. With host Zev Kane, classical program director at WRTI Philadelphia.
An evening of conversation between voices, In Dialogue brings together five works that explore how music speaks across difference, distance, and tradition. Composer Clarice Assad joins Nois Quartet on stage.
Grammy-nominated pianist John Novacek brings his deep inside knowledge of ragtime to Guarneri Hall for a solo performance that celebrates this uniquely American style. Syncopated America features wonderfully informed performances of classic rags by Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, James Scott and others alongside some of Mr. Novacek’s own compositions.
Grammy-nominated pianist John Novacek brings his deep inside knowledge of ragtime to Guarneri Hall for a solo performance that celebrates this uniquely American style. Syncopated America features wonderfully informed performances of classic rags by Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, James Scott and others alongside some of Mr. Novacek’s own compositions.
Seven-time GRAMMY-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart brings his singular vision to an evening that dissolves boundaries between classical, jazz, and American vernacular traditions,
What the Piano Holds invites audiences into an intimate evening of solo piano with internationally acclaimed pianist Claire Huangci, whose technical brilliance and stylistic certainty illuminate works by John Corigliano, Minako Tokuyama, and George Rochberg alongside two pieces by Grammy-nominated composer Zhou Tian, including the world premiere of an NLM commission.
For the Birds explores two of composer Olivier Messiaen’s works most deeply influenced by birdsong: Quartet for the End of Time, where birds symbolize nature free and unfettered, and selections from the Catalogue d'oiseaux, where they evoke rich non-human ecologies within their natural habitats.
For the Birds explores two of composer Olivier Messiaen’s works most deeply influenced by birdsong: Quartet for the End of Time, where birds symbolize nature free and unfettered, and selections from the Catalogue d'oiseaux, where they evoke rich non-human ecologies within their natural habitats.
