PREVIEW: September in NYC's Classical Music Highlights
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American Classical Orchestra
Wed Sep 18 at 7:30 at Alice Tully Hall
Thomas Crawford and the ACO open their 40th Season with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Fourth Piano Concerto with Petra Somlai on fortepiano.
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Bargemusic
Thomas Mesa, cello, and Ilya Yakushev, piano, play Boulanger, Massenet, Kapustin, and Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata.
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Carnegie Hall
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” Concerto and a new work by Billy Childs.
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Chelsea Symphony
Fri Sep 20 & Sat 21 at 8pm at DiMenna Center
Aspiration.William Grant Still Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American,” Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, and Aidan Gold Swallowtail.
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Death of Classical’s The Angel’s Share
Sep 5 - 7 Two performances each evening in the Catacombs of Greenwood Cemetery.
Fourth Wall Ensemble performs Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices.
Sep 12 - 14. Two performances each evening.
“Brooklyn-based songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and scholar” Gelsey Bell in mɔɹnɪŋ, her own opera.
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Harlem Chamber Players
Fri Sep 27 at 7pm at Broadway Presbyterian Church
Iconic Classics. Brahms String Quintet in G Major, Mahler Piano Quartet in A Minor, Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, and Arvo Pärt Fratres for Violin and Piano.
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Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players
Mon Sep 9 at 2 and 7:30pm at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church
Mad About Schumann. Chamber music by Huber, Reinecke, Jadassohn, and Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat major.
Crème de la Crème. Yost, Chaminade, Poulenc, and Faurè’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor.
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Merkin Concert Hall
Ethel, Grammy winning string quartet, in a New Sounds Live co-presentation hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer.
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Metropolitan Opera
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the season opener, Grounded, a new commission from Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori (based on librettist George Brant’s play). Featuring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.
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New York Festival of Song
Sun Sep 29 at 3pm at (the soon to close) Rubin Museum of Art