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Music in NYC: Rodrigo y Gabriela on Mettavolution Tour at the Beacon Theater in NYC on May 18, 2019

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Music in NYC: Rodrigo y Gabriela on Mettavolution Tour at the Beacon Theater in NYC on May 18, 2019

An acoustic guitar duo from Mexico, Rodrigo Y Gabriela is coming to New York City on its Mettavolution Tour with the most ambitious new music; only one concert at the Beacon Theater on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 8 pm

Acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rodrigo y Gabriela; Photo Credit Ebru Yildiz

Guitar virtuosos Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, known internationally as Rodrigo Y Gabriela, are embarking on a North America Mettavolution tour with a stop in New York City at the Beacon Theater. The duo’s deep sound and maddening technique is admired by fans and highly praised by critics.

The Mettavolution tour coincides with a release of the new album with the same title which is scheduled to be out on April 26, 2019. The group spentMettavolution five years preparing for the album release. Over this five-year period their style evolved and allowed them to make, what they call, “the most ambitious” music. It now combines duo’s long-standing love for the classic rock style with the newly acquired interest in Buddhism, so that the Buddhist chant rhythm and philosophy are now added into the compositions.

Delight yourself with a night of great music in the cheerful company of eager fans and guitar aficionados.

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela will also perform in Philadelphia, PA on May 17, 2019 , and in Boston, MA on May 15, 2019.

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Music in NYC: String Trio Time for Three at The Sheen Center on Bleecker Street

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Music in NYC: String Trio Time for Three at The Sheen Center on Bleecker Street

The genre-defying dynamic trio, two violins and a double-bass, will perform at The Sheen Center on Bleecker Street in New York City on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 8 pm

Time for Three trio: violinist Nicolas (Nick) Kendall, violinist Charles Yang, and double-bassist Canaan Meyer
Time for Three trio: violinist Nicolas (Nick) Kendall, violinist Charles Yang, and double-bassist Canaan Meyer / Image courtesy of the Sheen Center

With youthful burst of energy and enthusiasm, the performances by the Time for Three (Tf3) trio of classically trained violinists Nicolas (Nick) Kendall and Charles Yang, and double-bassist Ranaan Meyer are irresistibly joyous and virtuosic.

They are known to feature a wide range of music from Bach to the Beatles, to the latest pop hits. In addition to giving world-premieres by Pulitzer Prize-winners William Bolcom and Jennifer Higdon, the American trio plays originals and their own arrangements of everything from bluegrass and folk tunes to ingenious mash-ups of pop hits.

The concert at the Sheen Center on Bleecker Street in the heart of New York’s vibrant and jolly Greenwich Village will surely be a delicious treat for the consummate music lovers!

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Opera in NYC: Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera from February 2019

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Opera in NYC: Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera from February 2019

Verdi’s masterpiece about a court jester Rigoletto returns to the Metropolitan Opera in February with more performances in March and May 2019

George Gagnidze in the title role of Verdi's Rigoletto at the MetOpera
George Gagnidze in the title role of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Photo by Richard Termine/ Metropolitan Opera.

Rigoletto in Las-Vegas? Verdi’s extremely popular opera set to a powerful play by Victor Hugo seems to be destined for any epoch and impervious to the time and place transformations. With an ever-relevant fable and beloved arias widely familiar to opera fans and recognizable to those new to the genre, this opera is a time-tested favorite of every opera house.

Shifted to Las Vegas in the 1960s, Michael Mayer’s 2013 production of Rigoletto gets a modern look while telling the same centuries-old story of corruption, evil and love. While the power of the old man curse put at the center of the tale seems less believable in the 20th century, the dirty intrigues and the ruthlessness of the lonely figures doing shady business look rather plausible.

For the last four performances of Rigoletto in this season production at the MetOpera, the cast includes the highly-acclaimed baritone George Gagnidze as a tragic jester with Matthew Polenzanni taking on the role of amoral Duke. Rosa Feola sings innocent Gilda.

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Art in NYC: Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim Museum

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Art in NYC: Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim Museum

The Guggenheim Museum presents Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future; on view until April 23, 2019

Hilma af Klint, Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907
Hilma af Klint, Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907 from untitled series; tempera on paper mounted on canvas, 315 x 235 cm The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm / Photo: Albin Dahlström, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City presents an extensive expose of works by Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. Stunning and mysterious, af Klint’s large and small paintings of abstract forms and shapes were created years before Abstract art took its place in the hearts and minds of artists and the public.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, af Klint started developing her own expressive language from 1906. Stripped bare from imagery, her works were way ahead of the established giants of Abstractionism like Kandinsky, Mondrian or Malevich. Yet af Klint’s art remained unknown to the public partly due to her belief that the world was not ready for her art and in accordance with her wish to show her works 20 years after her death.

Many of af Klint’s paintings were inspired by and served as a medium to express the spiritual beliefs which emerged from occult teachings and Theosophy. The cycle of the large bright-colored canvases at the entrance of the exhibition was conceived as The Paintings for the Temple. The lively palette of pastel colors with pink symbolizing femininity, yellow for masculinity, and gentle blue for the universal unity express the unseen world channeled through the art. Walk up the spiraling hall of the museum to absorb the art created a century ago in all its untouched novelty.

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Beyond NYC: Piano Recital by Vassily Primakov and Oxana Mikhailoff at Bronxville Women’s Club

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Beyond NYC: Piano Recital by Vassily Primakov and Oxana Mikhailoff at Bronxville Women’s Club

An all-Schumann program of the Complete Piano Sonatas, preceded by Dr. Liza Yui lecture “Schumann – The Complicated Genius”, is on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm at the Bronxville Women’s Club

Composer Robert Schumann, pianist Oxana Mikhailoff, pianist Vassily Primakov, musicoligist Dr. Lisa Yui
Robert Schumann; lithograph by Josef Kriehuber [Public domain]; pianist Oxana Mikhailoff, pianist Vassily Primakov, musicologist Dr. Lisa Yui / images courtesy of the artists
Robert Schumann, the most intimate yet the least understood of the Romantic composers of the mid-19th century, has an air of mystery about his music. Oxana Mikhailoff’s and Vassily Primakov’s performance of the Complete Sonatas at the Bronxville Women’s Club will lift the veil of mystery from Schumann’s music. The lecture “Schumann – The Complicated Genius” by musicologist Dr. Lisa Yui is preceding the program.

The pianists of high-acclaim, Mikhailoff and Primakov are well regarded by the critics and the public. American Record Guide compares Primakov’s playing to Gilels’ noting that since “Gilels, how many pianists have the right touch?” Mikhailoff is well-known for her poetic and sensitive style, essential for bringing Schumann’s music to the audience.

The concert promises to be an unforgettable night of music and fun! Join the musicians in the charming setting of the Bronxville Women’s Club. Bring your friends and family for the joy of music!

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