Elegy: Snow in June. View here.
Friday, April 30
12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents
Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s
Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s
Reverie, and Kreisler’s
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneider, Olga Bezsmertna, Hila Fahima, Thomas Tatzl, and René Pape. Production from December 2017. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents
Daniel Harding Conducts. Daniel Harding conducts the Concertgebouworkest in Stravinsky’s
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Poetry and music collaborations from Katie Ford strike a chord with audiences
The poet looks back on her collaborations with composers and the debut of her newest project through Brooklyn Song Art Society on April 10 Author: Jessica Weber
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With four published collections and appearances in numerous outlets, Katie Ford’s poetry has found a wide audience. But over the last decade, the professor of creative writing at UC Riverside has embarked on a series of collaborations that have allowed audiences a unique way to experience her work through music.
The first, with composer David Serkin Ludwig in 2011, came about after a mutual friend suggested Ludwig set text from Ford’s poetry to one of his compositions. A new experience for Ford at the time, the two would go on to collaborate on three projects involving Ford’s poetry and Ludwig’s music over the next several years. Their first collaboration, “Our Long War,” premiered at the
Shriver Hall Concert Series Presents Violinist Jennifer Koh in Bach and Selections from her Alone Together Project
Tickets include concert access and on-demand streaming of the concert for one week following, plus access to a post-concert artist conversation. by BWW News Desk
Shriver Hall Concert Series will present acclaimed violinist Jennifer Koh in a world premiere virtual recital on Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 5:30pm ET. Koh juxtaposes two of Bach s landmark works for solo violin - Bach s Partita No. 3 E Major, BWV 1006 and Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 - with 12 micro-works that she commissioned in 2020 as part of her Alone Together project, a response to the pandemic and the financial hardship it has placed on many in the arts community. Composers who contributed to Alone Together include Katherine Balch, Vijay Iyer, Patrick Castillo, Hanna Benn, Ellen Reid, Andrew Norman, Kati Agócs, Angelica Negrón, Darian Donovan Thomas with electronics by Ian Chang, George Lewis, Ca
EnsembleNEWSRQ served as our guide once again in the adventures with new music in Monday’s program “Solitude and Suffrage,” performed live online from the First Congregational Church and available for an extended period on the group’s website ensrq.org.
While I miss the live performance and communal experience of concerts, there are some surprise benefits to video performances, chief among them the opportunity to listen a second time to catch what you might have missed. That is invaluable for the brash new music in enSRQ programs. Instead of hearing familiar favorites and cozy sounds, at times we are confronted by uncomfortable dissonances and strange noises.