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On the February 3 WBGO Journal, a preview of the NJPAC tribute concert to Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra and the best of Sundance 2024

On this episode of The Art of the Story, the late NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri chats with Bobby Sanabria about his favorite pianists

On the December 21 WBGO Journal, Blues People music, remembering Olympian Peter Westbrook and reviews of The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown

On this episode of The Art of the Story, bassist and bandleader Christian McBride talks about his latest big band album

On this episode of The Art of the Story, we preview the October 10 event at Newark Symphony Hall as part of its 100th anniversary celebration

On this episode of The Art of the Story, Grammy-nominated saxophonist Gerald Albright talks about his big break with 2026 NEA Jazz Master Patrice Rushen

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The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Jeremy Denk, piano, playing Bach on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 8pm ET as part of its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets are $20-$45 and are available at 92y.org/event/jeremy-denk. MacArthur "Genius" Award winner Jeremy Denk is heralded for artistry that combines pianistic mastery with probing intellect. He returns to our stage perform a work that has become a personal passion, Bach's ingenious collection of preludes and fugues in all 24 keys, Book I of his Well-Tempered Clavier. Denk is acclaimed for the color, sensitivity, wit and splendor of his Bach performances and for his related lectures including "Think Like Bach," and there is simply no artist better poised to bring new revelations to this monumental work. The program includes: Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more. A full list of performances and dates are listed below. 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 Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season continues with: ANA VIDOVIC, guitar  Sunday, December 5, 2021, 3 PM   Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (trans. Despalj) Sor: Introduction and Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op. 9 Castelnuevo-Tedesco: Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85 "Omaggio a Paganini" Albéniz: Granada Albéniz: Asturias Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra Barrios: La Catedral Scarlatti: selected sonatas Leo Brouwer: Un Dia de Noviembre Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  RANDALL GOOSBY, violin  ZHU WANG, piano   Thu, December 9, 2021, 7:30 PM Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454  Price: Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor  Price: Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor  Price: Adoration   Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major  THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo"  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  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. 

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Randall Goosby, violin, and Zhu Wang, piano, playing Mozart, Franck, and Price on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 7:30pm ET as part of its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options are $20-$45 and are available at 92y.org/event/randall-goosby-and-zhu-wang. The stunning talents of 24-year-old Sphinx Competition-winning violinist Goosby were first discovered by Itzhak Perlman, with whom Goosby studied at Juilliard, and chronicled recently in a major feature in The New York Times. His playing is sumptuously in the Perlman vein — an incredibly rich and lush tone, and tremendous color, depth and expressivity. Goosby's musical partner is the tremendously talented Young Concert Artist-winning pianist Zhu Wang, who makes his solo Carnegie Hall debut later this year. Their program features a Mozart sonata perfect for showcasing their artistry; three gorgeous, melodic works of Florence Price, arguably the first major female African American composer; and Franck's A-Major Sonata — filled with sheer Romantic excess in the finest sense, bravura passages and beautiful interplay, and a fabulous showpiece for both violinist and pianist. The program includes: Mozart, Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454 Price, Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor Price, Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor Price, Adoration Franck, Violin Sonata in A Major Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more.  A full list of performances and dates are listed below. 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 Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season continues with: THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo"  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  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. 

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park – Sonja Kostich, Chief Executive and Artistic Officer – announces the full programming for the 2022 Summer Festival, with a host of stars and premieres in the scenic Hudson Valley location. Continuing its mission to be a home for artists across disciplines with the annual Summer Festival, Kaatsbaan continues with:

June 18 at 6:00pm: An Evening of New Songs by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray
Taylor Mac and friends pay homage to queer icons of the past and present in this work-in-progress concert, slated for a 2023 NYC premiere. Featuring a selection of all-new original songs co-written with composer/music director Matt Ray. Taylor Mac is reunited with longtime collaborators co-director Niegel Smith, choreographer Faye Driscoll and costume designer Machine Dazzle and creative producers Pomegranate Arts. Mac, who is a 2017 MacArthur "genius grant" recipient, and collaborators will create the work during a month-long Kaatsbaan residency, culminating in this performance celebrating Pride month in the Hudson Valley.

The Summer Festival runs over consecutive weekends, from June 4 to 19, opening with three new works from Live Arts Global, the dance/music project from Joanna DeFelice and Melanie Hamrick; rising stars from ABT JKO School, TheJuilliard School, School of American Ballet, with the acclaimed Neave Trio in classic repertoire as well as a new Kaatsbaan commissioned work from rising Juilliard choreographic talent Haley Winegarden, recipient of the first Kaatsbaan Playing Field Choreography Award; New York darling Taylor Mac previews a special evening of all new work; and closing the Summer Festival, a day of music and dance with Tyrone Birkett and his ensemble Emancipation in collaboration with New York City choreographer/dancer Robert Rubama, joined by dancer Kar'mel Antonyo Wade Small, and poetry featuring multi-award-winning poet Patricia Smith joined by poet laureate of Los Angeles Lynne Thompson, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess.

Throughout the 2022 Festival season, Kaatsbaan will exhibit the work of dynamic Hudson Valley based artists across its beautiful 153-acres. The list includes Emil Alzamora, Stuart Farmery, Tristan Fitch, Jared Handelsman, Kenichi Hiratsuka, Lowell Miller, Portia Munson, Shelley Parriott, Eileen M. Power, Gregory Steel, Christina Tenaglia, andMillicent Young.

"Kaatsbaan's 2022 Summer Festival represents our commitment to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence as a cultural park and to presenting multidisciplinary works." said Sonja Kostich, Chief Executive & Artistic Officer "As such, we are proud to continue contributing to the Hudson Valley's vast cultural landscape as well as the economic health of our Dutchess County community. Through innovative partnerships, we continue to present unparalleled artists from dance, music, culinary, poetry, and visual art, providing our audiences opportunities to engage with today's leading artists." 

"We are thrilled to once again convene such notable artists for our upcoming 2022 Summer Festival," said Stella Abrera, Artistic Director. "Staying true to our mission of being a year-round dance sanctuary, we also look to support a diverse range of artists both as performers and creators and we strive to ensure that our programming accurately reflects today's society by supporting performers who advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts."

*All programming subject to change

Summer Festival general tickets are now on sale. Details for the Fall Festival are available at kaatsbaan.org. Kaatsbaan Summer and Fall Festivals are sponsored by Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Migliorelli Farm, and Tivoli Bakery. Kaatsbaan Summer Festival take place at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (120 Broadway, Tivoli, NY 12583). Tickets can be purchased at kaatsbaan.org. For questions boxoffice@kaatsbaan.org.

About Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
Under new leadership, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park deepens its mission to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence. As both an incubator for creativity and presenter for diverse world-class artists in dance, theater, music, film, poetry, culinary, media, and visual arts, Kaatsbaan provides artists with state-of-the-art dance studios, accommodations, an indoor theater, and two outdoor stages. Sitting on 153 Hudson River-adjacent acres, Kaatsbaan is free of urban facilities' space and time constraints, allowing for exciting levels of artistic exploration, creative action, and achievement – just two hours north of New York City. Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is committed to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts as we aim to present, promote, and embrace programming that accurately reflects our society. We encourage a broadly diverse group of individuals to participate in our programs and join our Board and Staff and insist on being inclusive of all peoples regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic background, physical or mental ability. For more information, please visit www.kaatsbaan.org.