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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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Opera in NYC: Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Met Opera

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Opera in NYC: Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Met Opera

The most Romantic Mozart masterpiece fills the Met Opera house with delightful music and incredible singing; performances run thru April 18, 2019

Luca Pisaroni as Don Giovanni and Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Donna Anna in Mozart's "Don Giovanni."
Luca Pisaroni as Don Giovanni and Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Donna Anna in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

Delicious music, dynamic staging, and incredible singing are all on view in the Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Bringing much-needed theatricality and energy to the centuries-old genre of dark comedy, the vibrant arias of the sopranos that vie for and suffer from the frivolity and ferocity of the Don are contrasted with the lower register voices of the male cast, who are well-meaning but helpless. The built-up tensions can only be resolved by a divine intervention, stressing the intransigent nature of philanderers and seducers. And Mozart’s music rescues the improbable plot!

This year Don Giovanni cast features bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni and baritone Peter Mattei alternating in the title role, bass Ildar Abdrazakov and bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Don’s servants, and an exciting line-up of sopranos Rachel Willis-Sorensen, Federica Lombardi, Aida Garifullina, Guanqun Yu, and Susanna Philips in the roles of Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina.

On the first 3 nights of the performances the tender and soaring lines by grieving Donna Anna (Rachel Willis-Sorensen) and the wordy and artistically rich roles of Leporello (Ildar Abdrazakov) and the Don (Luca Pisaroni) were rightfully rewarded by the audience. Thanks to the tactful casting the old tale looks fresh and engaging. But the strongest round of applause still belongs to Mozart for his unbeatable musical fete.

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Music in NYC: “Archduke Rudolph: Beethoven’s Pupil and Patron” Program Presented by Aspect Foundation

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Music in NYC: “Archduke Rudolph: Beethoven’s Pupil and Patron” Program Presented by Aspect Foundation

A program of works by Beethoven dedicated to the composer’s student and patron Archduke Rudolf is presented by Aspect Foundation on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 7:30 pm at Bohemian National Hall 

Archduke Rudolf, Ludwig van Beethoven; Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Violinist Korbinian Altenberger, Cellist Na-Young Baek
Archduke Rudolph, Ludwig van Beethoven; Ignat Solzhenitsyn: photo by Yuri Klekovkin; Violinist Korbinian Altenberger, Cellist Na-Young Baek : images courtesy of the artists

The Aspect Foundation’s April event will be an aspiring night of Beethoven’s music and an illuminating lecture by Ignat Solzhenitsyn about the relationship between the composer with his talented student and patron Archduke Rudolph. Ignat Solzhenitsyn, an acclaimed Russian-American pianist, and conductor, is joined by violinist Korbinian Altenberger and cellist Na-Young Baek for an all Beethoven program of “Archduke” Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97 and the Violin Sonata No.10 in G major, Op.96.

The youngest son of Emperor Leopold II, Rudolph, destined by the canons of the early 19th century to lead the clergy, was appointed Archbishop of Olomouc and Cardinal in 1819. From 1803 Rudolph began taking piano and composition lessons from Beethoven. They became friends and continued their relationship until the end of their lives. Beethoven dedicated 14 of his compositions to his friend including the Archduke Piano Trio.

The superb program, top-notch musicians, and an engaging atmosphere created by the Aspect Foundation will surely make it a night to remember.

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