Carnegie Hall has announced its October 2017 lineup. Scroll down for details!
CARNEGIE HALL'S OPENING NIGHT GALA:
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Wednesday, October 4 at 7:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
The Philadelphia Orchestra and its celebrated music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, launch Carnegie Hall's 2017-2018 season with a concert of American classics, including a two-piano arrangement of Gershwin's jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue featuring world-renowned pianist
Lang Lang and legendary jazz artist Chick Corea. Also performing at the keyboard side-by-side with
Lang Lang is 14-year-old American pianist Maxim Lando, an accomplished alumnus of the
Lang Lang Foundation's Young Scholars Program. The festive program also features Leonard Bernstein's music for the film On the
Waterfront and his Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, performed as part of the global centenary celebration of Bernstein's birth.
L'ARPEGGIATA
Friday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m.
(Zankel Hall)
Inventive early music ensemble L'Arpeggiata returns to
Carnegie Hall with Artistic Director Christina Pluhar for two consecutive nights. The first evening features soprano Céline Scheen and mezzo-soprano Guiseppina Bridelli in an all-Luigi Rossi program titled La Lyra D'Orfeo. The second concert, entitled La Festa D'Arpeggiata, includes works by Cavalli, Cesti, Monteverdi, and Italian folk music featuring Ms. Scheen, Ms. Bridelli, and alto
Vincenzo Capezzuto.
TAKÁCS QUARTET
Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m.
(Zankel Hall)
The Takács Quartet performs two concerts at
Carnegie Hall this month. On October 12, they present the US premiere of String Quartet No. 6, "Child's Play" by Carl Vine, co-commissioned by
Carnegie Hall for its 125 Commissions Project, on a program that also includes works by Haydn and Mendelssohn. The following performance, on October 14, features works by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Brahms. Violist Erika Eckert joins the quartet on both programs, along with cellist David Requiro on the second. A pre-concert talk prior to the October 12 performance starts at 6:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall with Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takács Quartet, in conversation with Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning, Carnegie Hall.
ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S
Thursday, October 12 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
Conductor laureate Pablo Heras-Casado leads Orchestra of St. Luke's joined by the
Westminster Symphonic Choir, led by Joe Miller; sopranos Camilla Tilling and
Susanna Phillips; tenor Thomas Cooley; and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel for Mozart's "Great" Mass in C Minor. A pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 p.m. in Stern
Auditorium / Perelman Stage with Walter Frisch, Professor of Music, Columbia University.
SPHINX VIRTUOSI
Friday, October 13 at 7:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
The Sphinx Virtuosi, alumni of the renowned Sphinx Competition, celebrate their 20th anniversary with Concerti Per Venti, an all-string program that features the New York premiere of Jimmy López's Guardian of the Horizon: Concerto Grosso for Violin, Cello, and Strings (co-commissioned as part of Carnegie Hall's 125 Commissions Project), along with works by Vivaldi, Beethoven, and others.
RUBY HUGHES / JULIUS DRAKE
Friday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.
(Weill Recital Hall)
Soprano Ruby Hughes, joined by pianist Julius Drake, performs the world premiere of a new work by Huw Watkins, commissioned by
Carnegie Hall as part of its 125 Commissions Project, plus works by Purcell, Schumann, Debussy, Ravel, and Britten.
CARNEGIE HALL FAMILY CONCERT:
PETER AND THE WOLF AND OTHER STORIES
Saturday, October 14 at 2:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
Conductor
Edwin Outwater leads Orchestra of St. Luke's in three fantastic family-friendly stories for orchestra, narrated by John Lithgow. Prokofiev's classic Peter and the Wolf is performed alongside two new compositions: the world premiere of Caroline Shaw's adaptation of The Mountain That Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, and the New York premiere of Robert Xavier Rodriguez's take on a favorite children's book, The Dot and the Line by Norton Juster, co-commissioned by
Carnegie Hall and the Dallas
Symphony Orchestra.
THOMAS ADÈS AND FRIENDS
Sunday, October 15 at 3:00 p.m.
(Zankel Hall)
A quartet of stars from the cast of his newest opera, The Exterminating Angel, joins Thomas Adès for an afternoon of song, a program featuring his own works as well as music by Schubert, Britten, Purcell, and others. Vocalists include soprano Sally Matthews, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, countertenor Iestyn Davies, and tenor Joseph Kaiser.
ALISA WEILERSTEIN / INON BARNATAN
Tuesday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m.
(Zankel Hall)
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist
Inon Barnatan perform the world premiere of Through Your Fingers by Steven Mackey, co-commissioned by
Carnegie Hall as part of its 125 Commissions Project, plus music by Mendelssohn, Britten, and Rachmaninoff.
BORROMEO STRING QUARTET
Friday, October 20 at 7:30 p.m.
(Weill Recital Hall)
The Borromeo String Quartet gives the world premiere of Etude 6, "Velocities," and Lullaby 2, "Dreaming," from
Sebastian Currier's Etudes and Lullabies, co-commissioned by
Carnegie Hall for its 125 Commissions Project, and the New York premiere of Nicholas Kitchen's arrangement of selections from Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I; also on the program are works by Mendelssohn and Schumann.
ORCHESTRA DELL'ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA
Friday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 21 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia makes its first
Carnegie Hall appearance in nearly 50 years with two performances led by Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano, who makes his
Carnegie Hall debut with these concerts. The first performance features Verdi's rarely heard Sinfonia from Aida, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Martha Argerich, and music by Respighi.
Soprano Barbara Hannigan opens the orchestra's concert the following evening as soloist in the New York premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's La nuova Euridice secondo Rilke, followed by Mahler's
Symphony No. 6. A pre-concert talk for the October 20 performance starts at 7:00 p.m. in Stern
Auditorium / Perelman Stage with Alain Frogley, Professor of Music History, University of Connecticut.
ENSEMBLE CONNECT
Friday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m.
(Arthur Zankel Music Center, Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall)
Monday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m.
(Weill Recital Hall)
Ensemble Connect kicks off its 2017-2018 season performing music by Leonard Bernstein, Missy Mazzoli, Aaron Copland, and Steve Reich- seminal twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers with deep New York roots.
RENÉE FLEMING / INON BARNATAN
Monday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
Soprano Renée Fleming collaborates with pianist
Inon Barnatan on a program that includes songs by Brahms, Previn, R. Strauss, and Egon Kornauth. Also featured on the program is the world premiere of a new work by Caroline Shaw, commissioned by
Carnegie Hall for its 125 Commissions Project.
STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
Wednesday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m.
(Zankel Hall)
Special guest cabaret star Ali McGregor and tap-dancing songstresses The Honey Taps perform alongside pianist Tedd Firth, bassist Phil Palombi, and drummer Mark McLean, joining five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer, pianist, and renowned interpreter of the Great American Songbook Michael Feinstein, in a program entitled Harold Arlen:
The World on a String, launching his annual
Carnegie Hall series, Standard Time with Michael Feinstein.
GEORGE LI
Friday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m.
(Weill Recital Hall)
The 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition's silver medalist, George Li, makes his debut in Weill Recital Hall with an eagerly anticipated performance featuring works by Haydn, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt.
THE NEW YORK POPS
Friday, October 27 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
Commemorating the orchestra's 35th season and the centennial of founder Skitch Henderson's birth, Music Director and Conductor
Steven Reineke returns with The New York Pops along with guest artists Matt Doyle and Ali Ewoldt for a celebration of the greatest hits of popular song, from
Tin Pan Alley to today.
AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH RICKIE LEE JONES
Friday, October 27 at 10:00 p.m.
(Zankel Hall)
The legendary Grammy Award-winning musician
Rickie Lee Jones - an artist who exploded onto the pop scene in 1979 and defies convention with her intricate mix of jazz, rock - takes the stage of Zankel Hall for a late night concert.
DANIIL TRIFONOV
Saturday, October 28 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
To launch his season-long Perspectives series, pianist
Daniil Trifonov pays homage to Chopin in a solo recital that includes music by the Polish composer alongside works that he inspired, written by Tchaikovsky, Barber, Rachmaninoff, and others.
CHINA NCPA ORCHESTRA
Monday, October 30 at 8:00 p.m.
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
The China NCPA Orchestra under the baton of Chief Conductor Lü Jia makes its
Carnegie Hall debut in a program that features the US premiere of Itinéraire d'une illusion commissioned for the occasion by Qigang Chen (music director of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing), along with Sibelius's heroic
Symphony No. 2.
Lang Lang is the soloist in the legendary Yellow River Concerto, a work by Yin Chengzong/Chu Wanghua that is beloved for its blend of Chinese themes.
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