Merkin Concert Hall Announces 2010-11 Season

Welcome to Merkin Concert Hall's 2010-11 season! Check out the new Ecstatic Music Festival and your returning favorites: New Sounds Live, Broadway Close Up, Tuesday Matinees, New York Festival of Song and the family-friendly Broadway Playhouse and Poppy Seed Players!

ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL
This winter, more than 150 composers, songwriters and performers who are re-defining contemporary music will come together at Merkin Concert Hall for collaborations exploring the fertile terrain between classical and popular music. The many collaborations in the festival include composers Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson with the Chiara String Quartet, Clogs with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, electronic iconoclast Dan Deacon with So Percussion, Vijay Iyer with Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and Newspeak Ensemble, and many more!

NEW SOUNDS® LIVE

Hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer, this series returns for another adventurous season offering new ways to hear the ancient language of song. It is also a part of the new Ecstatic Music Festival, so you can include your favorite New Sounds® Live shows in your festival flex subscription!

FEB 10 Bang on a Can All-Stars 2011 People's Commissioning Fund Concert • FEB 24 Newspeak & Darcy James Argue's Secret Society with Vijay Iyer & Nicole Lizee • MAR 31 So Percussion & Bobby Previte with John Medeski & Zeena Parkins

BROADWAY CLOSE UP

For 10 years, the Broadway Close Up series has been taking audiences behind the scenes of classic musicals old and new and giving them sneak peeks at some of the best new shows in production.

OCT 25 Off-Broadway Close Up • NOV 15 All the Things You Are - Jerome Kern • DEC 06 Bound for Broadway - 10th Anniversary Celebration • SEP 20 Special Event: Ridiculously Talented! • OCT 04 Special Event: Fire and Rain - The Songs of James Taylor

TUESDAY MATINEES

Get to know some of the brightest young classical stars from around the world! Kaufman Center's longest-running series presents young classical artists in the Early Stages of what are sure to be long and successful careers.

OCT 12 Benjamin Moser, piano • NOV 02 Afiara String Quartet • DEC 07 Sebastian Baverstam, cello • JAN 11 A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra • FEB 22 Bella Hristova, violin • MAR 08 Henry Schneider Scholarship Concert • APR 05 Elena Urioste, violin • MAY 03 Nansong Huang, piano

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG

New York Festival of Song is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among performers and audiences in a spirit of shared adventure.

OCT 19 & 21 Beginner's Luck • NOV 30 & DEC 2 Manning the Canon • FEB 15 & 17 Night & Day / USA • MAR 15 & 17 Spanish Gold

POPPY SEED PLAYERS

Now in its 21st season, the popular Poppy Seed Players performs musical plays for children about the Jewish heritage.

DEC 05 Latkes & Applesauce • MAR 20 A Poppy Seed Purim • APR 10 Shlemiel Crooks

BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE

Broadway Playhouse concerts introduce children and families to classic musicals through captivating medleys, rousing sing-alongs, lively games and mini-musicals.

JAN 09 Rodgers & Hammerstein • FEB 13 Andrew Lloyd Webber • MAR 06 Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt