Here is a running list of events we are attending as a class this semester.
August 25 – Three plays by Barefoot Theater Company, Hunter College
Sept. – Big Bambu at Metropolitan Museum – self directed trip
Sept. 16 – LeFrak Hall, QC – Michael Gordon – Meet the composer and Concert
Sept. 19 – Bryant Park – Parson’s Dance company
Sept. 27 – Le Poisson Rouge – Evan Ziporyn and todd Reynolds
Sept. 29 – LeFrak Hall – QC Orchestra with Bright Sheng
Oct. 4 – MOMA – Matisse Exhibition
Oct. 5 – LeFrak Hall – Year of China/ School of Music Faculty Concert
Oct. 6 – City Center – Fall For Dance.
Oct. 11 – Snapshot day
Oct. 13 – Long Island Composers Alliance – 2 Piano Concert
Oct. 18 – 6 -8 PM. MHC, West 67th St. – Langston Hughes Event (Meet the Artist)
Oct. 24 – 3 PM Brigadoon at LeFrak Hall (optional dates, Friday and Saturday), plot summary
Oct. 31 – The NY Classical Players – Music of Mozart, Piazolla and Smadone (optional/ extra credit) LeFrak Hall, 3 PM.
Nov. 3 – 92nd St. Y 8 PM – Music and Brain – Daniel J. Levitin with Victor Wooten
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Nov. 18 – 8 PM 92nd St. Y, Assad Brothers (guitars) sample and another sample
Nov. 21 – 2 PM Iolanthe, by Gilbert and Sullivan. The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street, New York, NY 10038. plot summary 1 and… plot summary 2
Dec. 2 – 8 PM Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center – Cosi fan tutte, plot summary
Dec. 7 – Rosenthal 230 at 5:00 PM – Paul Muldoon, poet. You can find poems and recordings of the poet reading his poems here.
Suggested small group venues:
Gatz link
Joe’s Pub/Public Theater link
Live at NY Pub. Lib. link
Paul Hall at Juilliard link
NY Philharmonic Rehearsal link
Carnegie Hall link
Blue Note Jazz Club link
Guggenheim Museum link
Neue Galerie link
Frick Museum link
Harlem Jazz Museum link
Whitney Museum link
Louis Armstrong House and Museum link
Kupferberg Center for the Arts link, Faculty Dance concert
Metropolitan Museum of Art Big Bambu, Kubilai Khan
Chelsea Galleries (particulary Gagosian, Andrea Rosen and Barbara Gladstone on 24th Street) see map here
