Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29.
7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents
Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here.
8 pm ET: EnsembleNEWSRQ presents
Nightfall! The ensemble performs Gerard Grisey’s
Stelé for two percussionists, David Maric’s
Nascent Forms for mallet quartet, and David T. Little’s
Haunt of Last Nightfall for percussion quartet and electronics. View here.
10 Classical Concerts to Stream in January
A Verdi opera from the Met and composers on the border of classical and pop are among the highlights.
Luciano Pavarotti and Aprile Millo in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera,” which will be streamed by the Metropolitan Opera.Credit.Met Opera Archives
Dec. 31, 2020
As the live performing arts still reel from the coronavirus pandemic, here are 10 highlights from the flood of online music content coming in January. (Times listed are Eastern.)
‘Lonely House’
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This winter, Katharine Merhling was scheduled to reprise her Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady” at the Komische Oper in Berlin. The pandemic got in the way, but the company’s devoted audience need not spend the season without this singer’s gifts. This performance (first streamed live late in December) offers a fresh look at Kurt Weill, focusing on that composer’s years in Paris and New York. Devotees know many of these songs. But Ms. Mehrling’s energy aided by Bar