PREVIEW: December's Classical Music Highlights in NYC
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Pianist Jeremy Denk marks Charles Ives’s 150th, with Ives Concord Sonata and Beethoven Sonatas Op. 90 and Op. 110, Joplin, Gottschalk, and Bolcom.
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Carnegie Hall
The Czech Philharmonic in multiple concerts featuring soloists Yo-Yo Ma and Daniil Trifonov, and lots of Czech music.
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, siblings, take the stage of Stern Auditorium with Mendelssohn, Fauré, Poulenc, and Natalie Klouda.
New York String Orchestra’s annual Christmas Eve concert of Mozart, featuring Ricardo Morales in the Clarinet Concerto.
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine
American Modern Opera Company performs John Adams opera El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered featuring soprano Julia Bullock.
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Chelsea Symphony
Celebrating the Holiday with Glinka, Glazunov, Ellington, Anderson, and Aaron Dai The Night Before Christmas with Will Swenson, narrator.
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
A rare opportunity to hear Alice Tully Hall’s pipe organ, Baroque Organ features Paolo Bordignon at the organ, plus strings, and winds, in music of Bach, Biber, Torelli, and more.
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Death of Classical
Dec 4 - 6 at Church of the Intercession
The Crypt Sessions and Ekmeles’s annual rendition of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion.
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Jupiter Symphony
A celebration of arrangements, Tinkerers presents Beethoven Symphony No. 2, Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale, and Hummel Piano Quintet in D minor.
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Kaufman Music Center
Israeli Chamber Project celebrates Schoenberg’s 150th with Pierrot Lunaire (soprano Hila Baggio), Stravinsky Petrushka and Ravel La Valse.
Parlando, Ian Niederhoffer’s chamber orchestra, presents Sidewalk Tango. Music by Erwin Schulhoff, Unsuk Chin, and Piazzolla Suite Punta del Este, with JP Jofre on bandeneon.
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Music Before 1800
Sun Dec 15 at 4pm at NY Society for Ethical Culture
Letters to a Young Poet, featuring Diderot String Quartet and actors Bill Barclay and David Joseph, extends the period treatment to a piece about Rilke and Ravel.
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National Sawdust
Bang on a Can All-Stars play music by their founder Julia Wolfe.
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New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier hosts NYFOS’s traditional A Goyische Christmas to You! from the piano at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.
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New York Philharmonic
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 accompanies William Kentridge’s stop-motion film Oh To Believe in Another World, and concertmaster Frank Huang in Prokofiev Second Violin Concerto.
Sounds of the Season, festive matinees for the family feature a mixture of classical and popular holiday music.
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Saint Thomas Church
Dec 10 - 12 at 7:30
