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Upcoming Concerts 

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Saturday, May 25th 8:00

The Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium

417 East 61st Street


JS Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Book I


Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord

Please join us for a reception directly following the performance.


Tickets $50 Prime Seating (tax deductible), $35 General

$25 Seniors/ Students/ EMA/ Columbia U./ FIAF SOLD OUT

Monday, June 3rd 7:00
The Liederkranz Club Concert Hall
6 East 87th Street

Jared Angle 
and Megan LeCrone 
of New York City Ballet

On Point: From Duel to Pas de Deux
A Special Benefit Performance

NYCB dancers Jared Angle and Megan LeCrone, members of the Sebastians Chamber Orchestra, and several masters of the blade premiere a new work drawn from the shared origins of sword fighting and classical ballet.

Program
Heinrich Biber, 

Battaglia à 10 in D Major

Johann Schmelzer, 

Balletto for Strings and Continuo in GDie Fechtschule”


Selected works of GF Handel

All seating will be on risers.  Premium tickets include admission to post-concert dinner with the artists in the Liederkranz Ballroom.

$25 seniors, students, EMA, NYCB, Columbia U., NYU (SOLD OUT)
$35 general admission rear area seating
$50 general admission middle area seating
$100 Patron front area seating (tax-deductible)
$250 Premium front row assigned seats and post-performance dinner (tax-deductible)

 


Past Events This Season

Friday, September 28th 2012, 7:00pm

The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South


Anthony Roth Costanzo

Metropolitan Opera Countertenor


Jared Angle

New York City Ballet Principal Dancer


Bradley Brookshire

Met Assistant Conductor & Harpsichordist


Handel, Purcell, & Vivaldi

The three renowned artists collaborate on a unique interdisciplinary program to open the season at the historic Players Club. 

Choreography by Troy Schumacher, co-founder of Satellite Ballet.


Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840) Sunset (Brothers) ca. 1835

Saturday, October 20th 2012, 8:00pm
The Liederkranz Club
6 East 87th Street

Classical Portraits
The Sebastians

The award-winning young ensemble performs beloved orchestral repertoire in the opulent ballroom of The Liederkranz Club.
            

CPE Bach, Symphony in E minor  Wq 178

Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major K 622

J. Haydn Symphony No. 79 in F

Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV. 550


Paul Wonjin Cho, Clarinet Soloist


Title Page of The Songs of Solomon, Venice, 1623

Sunday, November 4th 2012
3:00pm Lecture  4:00pm Concert

The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 West 68th Street

From Ghetto to Palazzo
Vocal Works of Salamone Rossi Hebreo

The Western Wind
with Charles Weaver, lute & Gabe Shuford, harpsichord
and Daniel Singer, guest cantor

Please join us for our third annual presentation of works by the Jewish-Italian composer Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630).

Featuring liturgical works in Hebrew composed for the synagogue and secular Italian madrigals penned for the Gonzaga court, the program also includes compositions for the theatrical troupe of the Ghetto, enjoyed by Jews and Gentiles alike at the height of Counter-Reformation segregation.

Don't miss the pre-concert lecture by scholar Francesco Spagnolo, PhD, Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life at the University of California, Berkeley, and a host for RAI Radiotre in Rome.

This concert is co-presented with the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and Centro Primo Levi.  
The Western Wind’s participation in this program is made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 4:00pm
L'Eglise Française du Saint-Esprit, 1o9 E. 60th St.
Psalm Settings for the Sun King

A program of French settings of Old Testament texts composed for the Royal Chapel of Versailles, including recently discovered motets by André Campra and selected Versets of François Couperin, along with instrumental works of Hottetere, Marais and Couperin.  

Repertoire once performed by relatives of the composers for the Sun King himself will be heard in the intimate sanctuary of the Huguenot Church.

Jessica Gould, soprano
Daniel Lee, violin
Christopher Matthews, traverso

with

Aula Harmoniae
Sang Joon Park, traverso
Martha McGaughey, viola da gamba
Arthur Haas, harpsichord



Friday, February 22nd 8:00pm
The Broad Street Ballroom
41 Broad Street

The Heirs of Tantalus
From the House of Atreus to the Palace of Nero

Jessica Gould, soprano & José Lemos, countertenor 
Jory Vinikour, harpsichord
members of The Sebastians Chamber Orchestra
Guest Actors Judith Hawking and Steven Rattazzi
Erica Gould, Stage Director

The third in a series of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary events, Heirs of Tantalus refracts Greek myth and Roman history through the prism of the baroque, incorporating material from the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides, biting commentary of the Roman historian Suetonius, and excerpts from operas and cantatas of Monteverdi, Scarlatti and Handel.

Intertwining mythic characters with notorious historical figures, two actors and two singers perform multiple roles in this site-specific event, staged at a repurposed bank originally designed to replicate a Roman villa. 

Music includes selections from the operas L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Agrippina, and the cantatas Io Son Nerone and Agrippina Condotta a Morire.




Saturday, March 9th 7:00pm
The Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium
417 East 61st Street

Grand Harmonie

The young period instrument ensemble performs orchestral repertoire, with informative discussions of instruments and music between selections. Linger after the performance to meet these gifted young artists at a post-concert reception.

Weber, Overture to Der Freischütz
Mozart Divertimento K131
Mozart, Sinfonie Concertante K297B, reconstructed by Robert Levin
Schubert, Symphonie No. 8

Soloists are Andrea LeBlanc, flute, Kristin Olson, oboe, Elizabeth Hardy, bassoon, and Yoni Kahn, horn, Andrew Altenbach, Conductor


Saturday, March 23rd 8:00pm

The Fraunces Tavern Museum Flag Gallery

54 Pearl Street

Exodus 

Dreams of the Promised Land in Antebellum America


The Western Wind 

with Guest Actors 

Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Jennifer Rau, and Robert McKay

Erica Gould, Stage Director

The enduring power of liberation imagery in the early American consciousness comes to life through works by William Billings (1746 – 1800), Stephen Jenks (1772 – 1856), early spirituals and Shaker hymns performed with historical texts selected from abolitionist writings and slave narratives. The first site of the American government will set the stage for starkly beautiful American repertoire.

This program commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Sunday, April 21st 

6:00pm


The Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium

417 E. 61st St.


Plum Blossom and Fleur-de-Lys

War and Peace in the Forbidden City and Versailles


The Four Nations Ensemble & Music from China

Music from China joins forces with Four Nations to present a panorama of War and Peace from history’s two great court societies. 

From the gentle rocking of lullabies to the clangor of arms and armor, see how these musics contradict and complement each other in one of Four Nations’ most fascinating programs, which has been presented by The Smithsonian Institution at the Sackler Gallery, The Boston Early Music Festival, and on UK tour by the BBC. 
The Four Nations Ensemble

Charles Brink, flute 
Aaron Brown, violin
John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba
Loretta O’Sullivan, cello
Andrew Appel, harpsichord

Music from China

Wang Guowei, erhu
Sun Li, pipa
Wang Junling, zheng
Susan Cheng, daruan