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Rhymes With Opera presents a live, virtual production of Red Giant on Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 7pm ET which will be available for streaming beginning June 22, 2021 at 7pm ET. Red Giant will feature three singers performing synchronously from three different cities: soprano Bonnie Lander in Baltimore, MD; soprano Elisabeth Halliday-Quan in Rochester, NY; and baritone Robert Maril in New York, NY. They will be accompanied by the Rhymes With Orchestra, Adam Matlock's new sci-fi opera Red Giant is a compelling chamber opera that tells the story of three people who are lost in space and struggling with the aftermath of humanity as their former home planet becomes uninhabitable. Tickets for the live performance are $20 and $10 for streaming and can be purchased online at www.rhymeswithopera.org/red-giant-2021. Ticket buyers for the live performance will also have access to stream the production. "As a lifelong fan of Science Fiction and a composer enamored of opera as a medium, it only made sense to combine the two when given the opportunity to work on a piece," said Matlock. "Of course in the beginning the scenario - people trying to escape a planet's surface that has become uninhabitable due to their sun becoming the titular 'Red Giant' - was pure fantasy. But in the nearly decade since this piece was first written, we've seen governments and societies struggle to reach a consensus as to whether or not climate change is really happening in the face of readily observable evidence - and it's hard not to feel that this story has gained some resonance in the face of that. And of course, even in the face of a true existential crisis, humans will still find time to bicker." Red Giant is Rhymes With Opera's first revival. The piece was originally performed in 2014 and was slated to be revived in May 2020. It is commissioned, produced and performed by Rhymes With Opera. Run time is approx. 40 minutes. Red Giant Opera in One Act (RWO Commission) Adam Matlock, composer Brian Slattery, librettist Ashley Tata, director Eamonn Farrell, video designer Afsoon Pajoufar, set design Aislinn Curry, stage management  Elisabeth Halliday-Quan, soprano Bonnie Lander, soprano Baritone Robert Maril  George Tsz-Kwan Lam, conductor  Tia Allen, viola Zach Herchen, saxophone Chris Wilson, piano Thomas Lai, violin Maiko Hosoda, percussion Jenna Girone-Virgilio, cello David Crandall, radio announcer Artist Bio Adam Matlock is an accordionist, composer, and vocalist living and working in New Haven, CT. Matlock writes and performs songs under the name An Historic, building narratives accompanied by musical inspirations from Balkan music and Klezmer, Soul, and various strains of rock. An Historic exists as a solo project, but is reinforced live and on record with the members of Dr. Caterwauls Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps, a folk/jazz band with flexible instrumentation. Matlock also composes under his own name, most notably the opera Red Giant (2014) for 6 piece ensemble and three singers, commissioned by Rhymes With Opera; and Earthseed Songs (2012) for voice and two instrumentalists; he also composes and performs keyboard-based music under a variety of aliases. Matlock has performed original music and arrangements with Broadcloth, The Yale Klezmer Band, Orkestar BAM, and the Harris Brothers Balkan Band, in addition to the aforementioned projects. He has recorded, performed, or improvised with artists including Anthony Braxton, Mario Pavone, Ceschi, Vinny Golia, Sigh, and Clara Engel, and works as a music teacher in the New Haven area. Rhymes With Opera is a New York-based ensemble of performers and composers that expands the repertory of contemporary opera by commissioning, developing and staging new chamber works. Founded in 2007, Rhymes With Opera includes founding company members Ruby Fulton (composer); Elisabeth Halliday-Quan (soprano); George Tsz-Kwan Lam (composer); Bonnie Lander (soprano); and Robert Maril (baritone). During the 2012-2013 season, Rhymes With Opera expanded to include a house band, the Rhymes With Orchestra, a chamber ensemble comprised of some of this generation's most exciting contemporary instrumentalists. With the addition of the RWOrchestra, RWO has become a self-contained contemporary opera machine, commissioning and producing works that can be performed whole-cloth by the company. Since 2007, RWO has commissioned more than 17 new operas, ranging from one-minute "signature" pieces to evening-length productions. In addition to premiering works by founders Fulton and Lam, new operas commissioned and produced by RWO include Vid Smooke's Criminal Element, Adam Matlock's Red Giant, Anna Meadors' Manifesto on the Ledge, Daniel Thomas Davis' The Impossible She, and Erik Spangler's Cantata For A Loop Trail, an outdoor hiking opera set in Gwynn Falls Leakin Park in Baltimore and Inwood Hill Park in New York City. For more information, visit www.rhymeswithopera.org.

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The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, announces its spring classical concert season. With 18 concerts, the spring season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt; two performances by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the eagerly anticipated New York City main stage debut of pianist Eric Lu; the Grammy Award-nominated Israeli mandolin wizard Avi Avital; two co-presentations with the New York Philharmonic; and the return of guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts. The season will feature one of the first NYC performances of the Gateways Music Festival, co-presented by 92Y, presenting works reflecting on the theme of enslavement; the New York premiere of 92Y co-commission, Dido Reimagined by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner, performed by the Brentano String Quartet and soprano Dawn Upshaw; the world premieres of Cazon's Revenge by Gonzalo Grau and Arum der Fayer by Osvaldo Golijov, both for mandolin and string quartet, performed by Brooklyn Rider; the New York premiere of A Shattered Vessel by Richard Danielpour, performed by an ensemble from the Curtis Institute of Music; the New York premiere of Acabris! Acabras! Acabram! written and performed by Stewart Goodyear; and award-winning composer Joel Thompson's In Response to the Madness, performed by the New York Philharmonic String Quartet.  The Tisch Spring 2022 Classical Concert Season: THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor AARON DIEHL, piano Wednesday, January 19, 2021, 7:30 PM Pianist Aaron Diehl joins The Knights for a pair of works probing the interconnectivity of jazz and classical music: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite. The program also features The Knights' coupling of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 with selections from Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin. Stravinsky's Firebird Suite closes this program. Eric Jacobsen, conductor Aaron Diehl, piano BACH: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 RAVEL: Selections from Le Tombeau de Couperin  GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Atkinson) Mary Lou WILLIAMS: Selections from Zodiac Suite  STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite (arr. Atkinson) STEVEN ISSERLIS, cello CONNIE SHIH, piano Thursday, January 27, 2022, 7:30 PM World-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis and award-winning pianist Connie Shih perform a rich program of Russian jewels including two of the great works for cello – Shostakovich's D-minor Sonata, and the sonata by Rachmaninoff. Opening the concert is Kabalevsky's 1962 sonata, written for Mstislav Rostropovich. KABALEVSKY: Cello Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 71 SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 RACHMANINOFF: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19 CURTIS INSTITUTE AT 92Y IDA KAVAFIAN, violin LUN LI, violin CARA POGOSSIAN, viola PETER WILEY, cello FRANCIS CARR, cello Friday, February 18, 2022, 7:30 PM In this first concert in a new alliance between 92Y and the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music, an ensemble comprising esteemed faculty – including Ida Kavafian on violin and Peter Wiley on cello – and recent alumni of Curtis perform Schubert's C-Major Quintet. The quintet is followed by the New York premiere of a new work by another member of Curtis' faculty, with Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour's A Shattered Vessel. Written 190 years after the Schubert work for the same instrumentation of two violins, viola and two cellos, A Shattered Vessel contemplates crisis and struggle, loss and healing, renewal and gratitude. Curtis on Tour is the Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music. RICHARD DANIELPOUR: A Shattered Vessel (NY Premiere) SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 KIRILL GERSTEIN, piano GARRICK OHLSSON, piano Friday, February 25, 2022, 7:30 PM World-renowned piano virtuosos Kirill Gerstein and Garrick Ohlsson combine forces for a two-piano concert featuring great showpieces of the duo-piano repertoire. Their program includes Busoni's transcription of the finale of Mozart's F-Major Piano Concerto, the two-piano version of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Busoni's Fantasia Contrappuntistica – conjuring Bach with a 20th century sensibility – and Ravel's La Valse in its two-piano version. THOMAS ADÈS: Powder Her Face Suite RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances BUSONI: Fantasia Contrappuntistica  RAVEL: La Valse ANGELA HEWITT, piano BACH ODYSSEY XI Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 7:30 PM World-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt returns to 92Y's stage for the final two concerts in her acclaimed – and pandemic-interrupted – four-year Bach Odyssey, performing all of the composer's keyboard works. For this penultimate concert, Hewitt performs two of Bach's best-known keyboard works, his monumental French Overture and the iconic Italian Concerto, homages to the musical style of each country, along with several of his small works, including the "little" preludes. BACH: Four Duets, BWV 802-805  Eighteen "Little" Preludes Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 944  Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971  French Overture in B Minor, BWV 831 ANGELA HEWITT, piano BACH ODYSSEY XII The Art of Fugue Saturday, March 5, 2022, 8 PM The long-awaited finale in the four-year Bach Odyssey that Angela Hewitt began in 2016 presents the composer's ultimate and final masterpiece, The Art of Fugue. Hewitt brings new revelations to Bach at his most complex in this culminating presentation in the odyssey of the Bach pianist of our time. BACH: Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 MUSICIANS FROM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC GILLES VONSATTEL, piano SHERYL STAPLES, violin REBECCA YOUNG, viola EILEEN MOON-MYERS, cello Sunday, March 6, 2022, 3 PM 92Y continues its collaboration with the New York Philharmonic with an extension of the orchestra's new Schumann Connection series centered on the music of Robert Schumann and new works reflecting on the Robert-Clara relationship. This intimate chamber music concert, featuring musicians from the New York Philharmonic and award-winning pianist Gilles Vonsattel, explores the intimacy of the Clara Schumann/Brahms connection. Featuring a selection of Clara Schumann's solo piano works and her Three Romances, Op. 22, juxtaposed with Brahms' C-Minor Piano Quartet, which magnificently captures his unrequited love for Clara in music. Also on the program, an early Beethoven work, the composer's G-Major String Trio.  C. SCHUMANN Notturno, Op. 6, No. 2 C. SCHUMANN Scherzo No. 2, Op. 14 BEETHOVEN: String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1  C. SCHUMANN: Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 22  BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60  BROOKLYN RIDER AVI AVITAL, mandolin Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 7:30 PM Grammy-nominated Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital teams up with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider (two of its four members are also with The Knights) for a program that traverses late 18th century Spanish-inflected Boccherini, a powerful contemporary statement about the US-Mexico border crisis by Matan Roberts, selections by Bach, a world premiere by internationally renowned Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov and more, concluding with a tarantella by Lev "Lyova" Zhurbin, BOCCHERINI: La Musica Notturna Ritratta di Madrid  SOLLIMA: Prelude for solo mandolin MATANA ROBERTS: borderlands...  COLIN JACOBSEN: Time and Again BACH: selected Sinfonias and Inventions GONZALO GRAU: Cazon's Revenge, world premiere for mandolin and string quartet  OSVALDO GOLIJOV: Arum der Fayer, world premiere for mandolin and string quartet LEV ZHURBIN: Love Potion, Expired RAFAŁ BLECHACZ, piano Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 7:30 pm Young Polish pianist and International Chopin Competition winner Rafał Blechacz returns to the 92Y stage with a program of works moving from Bach to early and middle Beethoven, chronicling a musical evolution of works composed in C minor before an exploration of B-minor works, with Bach-inspired Franck building to one of Chopin's all-time great piano compositions, his Third Sonata. BACH: Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826 BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1 BEETHOVEN: 32 Variations on an original theme in C Minor, WoO.80 FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue and Variations in B Minor, Op. 18 (trans. Bauer) CHOPIN: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 PABLO SAINZ-VILLEGAS, guitar Saturday, April 2, 2022, 8 PM Pablo Sainz-Villegas returns to the stage that launched his US career. Performing selections by Granados, Rodrigo, Tárrega, Albéniz and more, this program showcases the brilliant technique, deep musicality and passionate intensity that define the Spanish guitar artform. ALBÉNIZ: Sevilla GRANADOS: Danza Española No. 10, "Danza Melancólica"       Danza Española No. 5, "Andaluza" RODRIGO: Invocación y Danza    Homage to Manuel de Falla – TÁRREGA: Capricho Árabe      Lágrima    Adelita  ALBÉNIZ: Torre Bermeja - Piezas Características    Mallorca, "Barcarola"    Asturias, "Leyenda"    Suite Española  GIMENEZ: La boda de Luis Alonso BRENTANO STRING QUARTET DAWN UPSHAW, soprano DIDO REIMAGINED  Sunday, April 3, 2022, 3 PM Dido – the proud, heroic mythological figure brought down by love – is the inspiration behind this musical exploration of her story and character by the Brentano Quartet and soprano Dawn Upshaw. The program begins with songs by Purcell and his Baroque contemporaries, including "Dido's Lament," interspersed with string quartet iterations of early English works for consort of viols. The program then leaps forward nearly 350 years to the New York premiere of a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner. Dido Reimagined is Wagner's new consideration of Dido, looking anew at her psyche, her vulnerability, her strength, and her choices. The concert continues the Brentano Quartet's artistic collaboration with Dawn Upshaw and the unusual pairing of soprano and string quartet. PURCELL: Oh let me weep PURCELL: Fantasia No. 5 LOCKE: Suite No. 2 for four viols: Fantazie DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love doth now invite LOCKE: Suite No. 2: Courante DOWLAND: Can she excuse my wrongs LOCKE: Suite No. 2: Ayre DOWLAND: Weep you no more, sad fountains LOCKE: Suite No. 2: Saraband TOMKINS: Aleman  BYRD: Though Amaryllis dance in green JOHNSON: The Witty Wanton PURCELL: Fantasia No. 7 PURCELL: Dido's Lament MELINDA WAGNER: Dido Reimagined (NY Premiere; 92Y co-commission) STEWART GOODYEAR, piano Saturday, April 9, 2022, 8 PM Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear returns to the 92Y stage to perform the New York premiere of his own composition, Acabris! Acabras! Acabram!, modeled on a French-Canadian folktale; Beethoven's Diabelli Variations; Bach's French Suite in G Major; and Joseph Bologne's Adagio in F minor. STEWART GOODYEAR: Acabris! Acabras! Acabram! (NY Premiere) BOLOGNE: Adagio in F minor BACH: French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816 BEETHOVEN: 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 TAKÁCS QUARTET JULIEN LABRO, bandoneon  Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 7:30 PM Bandoneon player Julien Labro joins the Takács Quartet for a program blending new works with a Ravel masterpiece. Labro joins the quartet for new works by contemporary composers Bryce Dessner and Clarice Assad, and performs a short solo set displaying the heartbeat of tango. The Takács is featured in Ravel's String Quartet. BRYCE DESSNER: Circles for bandoneon and string quartet (NY Premiere) JULIEN LABRO: Meditation #1 for bandoneon and string quartet (NY Premiere) SELECTED SOLO WORKS for bandoneon and accordina RAVEL: String Quartet in F Major CLARICE ASSAD: Clash for bandoneon and string quartet (NY Premiere) THE MARIAN ANDERSON STRING QUARTET Co-presented with the GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL  Friday, April 22, 2022, 7:30 PM In collaboration with the renowned Eastman School of Music's Gateways Music Festival's "Around the Town" Series, the award-winning Marian Anderson String Quartet presents a concert in the intimate Buttenwieser Hall. The critically-acclaimed all-female ensemble has performed at presidential inaugurations, the Library of Congress and more, making history in 1991 when they won the International Cleveland Quartet Competition – the first African American ensemble to win a classical music competition. "On Being Enslaved" RHIANNON GIDDENS: At the Purchaser's Option with Variations (arr. J. Garchik)      JONATHAN MCNAIR: Follow the Drinking Gourd                                      SAMUEL ADLER: In Memoriam: Marian Anderson     DAVID WALLACE: In Honor of Marian Anderson                                                         ANTONIN DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 "American"     JOHN ROSAMON JOHNSON: Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing (arr. J.W. Johnson) THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor EDGAR MEYER, double bass  Saturday, April 30, 2022, 8 PM Double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer earned a MacArthur "Genius" Award for his work fusing classical and bluegrass forms and styles into his own uniquely American music. He joins The Knights for the New York premiere of his second concerto. The concert opens with a performance of Jamaican-born British composer Eleanor Alberga's Shining Gates of Morpheus. Closing it and continuing the American character of Meyer's work is Copland's Appalachian Spring. Eric Jacobsen, conductor Edgar Meyer, bass David Byrd-Marrow, French horn ELEANOR ALBERGA: Shining Gates of Morpheus EDGAR MEYER: Concerto No. 3 in E Major for Double Bass and Orchestra  COPLAND: Appalachian Spring DOVER STRING QUARTET (Curtis) Friday, May 6, 2022, 7:30 PM Works of Mozart, Tania León, and more. ERIC LU, piano Friday, May 20, 2022, 7:30 PM Twenty-four-year-old Leeds Competition first prize winner and Chopin Competition prizewinning pianist Eric Lu makes his eagerly anticipated New York City main stage debut with this recital. The centerpiece of his program is Schubert's A-Major Sonata. CHOPIN: Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1 SCHUMANN: Waldszenen, Op. 82 BRAHMS: Theme with Variations in D Minor, Op. 18b SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC STRING QUARTET BEATRICE RANA, piano Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 7:30 PM 92Y's second co-presentation with the New York Philharmonic this season features the New York Philharmonic String Quartet joined by Beatrice Rana. Their program spans nearly 250 years and focuses on music written in response to dark times and ideas. The concert opens with award-winning contemporary composer Joel Thompson's In Response to the Madness, his quartet capturing the angst of our early 21st century universe. Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet follows. The program's final work features Rana in her first appearance on the 92Y stage, following her pre-pandemic Carnegie Hall debut. JOEL THOMPSON: In Response to the Madness  MOZART: String Quartet in C Major, K. 465 "Dissonance"  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57  About 92nd Street Y:  The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org. 

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