Contributors:

Brian Taylor

is a pianist, conductor, composer, writer, and piano teacher in New York City.

David Wolfson

holds a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, and has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Hunter College. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera, musical theatre, touring children’s musicals, and incidental music for plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed-costumed-character show. You can find more information here.

PREVIEW: September in NYC's Classical Music Highlights

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

Fri Sep 13 at 6pm

Thomas Mesa, cello, and Ilya Yakushev, piano, play Boulanger, Massenet, Kapustin, and Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata.

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Carnegie Hall

Sat Sep 28 at 8pm

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.

Mon Sep 23 at 2 & 7:30pm

Crème de la Crème. Yost, Chaminade, Poulenc, and Faurè’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor.

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Merkin Concert Hall

Tue Sep 24 at 7:30pm

Ethel, Grammy winning string quartet, in a New Sounds Live co-presentation hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer.

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Metropolitan Opera

Mon Sep 23 at 6:30pm

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

Learning, Fast and Slow: mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert and soprano Britt Hewitt perform contemporary art song for voice and bassoon by Kamala Sankaram and LJ White, with bassoonist Steven Palacio.

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New York Philharmonic

Sep 12 - 15

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Mahler’s Fifth, joined by Emanuel Ax for Mozart’s 14th Piano Concerto.

Sep 19 & 21

Ken-David Masur conducts a program “curated by NY Phil Musicians:” Mahler’s transcriptions of Bach, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, and the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’s tribute to Duke Ellington.

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Trinity Church

Thu Sep 19 at 5:30 & 6:30

Three Parts Upon a Ground, a “Tiny Concert” featuring Gabrielo, Purcell, and the original iteration of Pachelbel’s infamous and ubiquitous Canon.

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REVIEW: Imagining a World Without Humans

REVIEW: Imagining a World Without Humans

REVIEW: The Sylvan Winds Among Friends

REVIEW: The Sylvan Winds Among Friends