This Month at Carnegie Hall: January 2018
As I recently mentioned on social media, with the resurgence in popularity that blogging seems to currently enjoy since the last time I elected to leave this corner of the Internet for more promising locales in my pursuit of the opera, classical music, and Broadway, I have decided it is time to pursue an endeavor in blogging again, and it fittingly comes with the beginning of a new year. Furthermore, it is now more commodious than it was in the past for me to keep abreast of developments in the arts with the increasing use of social media to announce performances, concerts, recitals, and even the everyday adventures of those whom such events involve. Because these things are now so readily accessible to me, if it is not too great a strain to my performing and teaching commitments, it is my hope to make such things easily accessible to either those who might not otherwise know where to look to find such developments or those who seek to visit a more streamlined place in which to discover them.
Though I shall admit that I have quite become a citizen of the modern age and embraced much of what the Internet offers under the guises of convenience and community, there yet remain many things from an older time that I still very much enjoy. One of these things is physical mail. E-mail, even after almost a decade of serving me, has yet to overshadow the proficiency or elegance of its analog equivalent, and I remain very much pleased by this. Of course, I do not receive nearly as much handwritten correspondence these days as I should like, and much of the rest of it involves "junk mail," but there are a few glimmers of joy left within it, nevertheless.
Among the usual rubbish fodder every month, there also comes to me a brochure from Carnegie Hall. For every month of the year, I receive an index of all of the performances held in the concert venue in New York, and, mind you, astute reader, I have never even entered the building, let alone witnessed a performance there. However, much to my monthly delight, the place continues to send me guides to its schedule for each month of the year. When I receive it, I read its pages from cover to cover and make mental note of which performances advertised would be most to my musical interests and tastes. Since I do this on a somewhat regular schedule, I thought this sort of information might prove both useful for visitors and residents in New York and supplemental to those who might be curious regarding my musical tastes. Of course, it also seemed like a decent form of content that I could periodically add to this blog in the event that anyone might be interested.
January 16 -- 8:00 Guildhall Artists in New York
January 17 -- 8:00 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Daniele Gatti
Wagner: Prelude to Act III and Good Friday Spell from
Parsifal
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
January 18 -- 8:00 Royal Concertebouw Orchestra; Daniele Gatti
Janine Jansen, Violin
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
January 19 -- 8:00 Denis Matsuev, Piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2,
"The Tempest"
Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37
January 19 -- 7:30 Robert Mealy and Friends
Robert Mealy, Violin
Avi Stein, Harpsichord
Charles Weaver, Theorbo
Beiliang Zhu, Cello
The Early Moderns: The Invention of the Sonata
January 20 -- 8:00 Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor; Helmut Deutsch, Piano
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin
January 21 -- 2:00 Janine Jansen, Violin; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano;
Dover Quartet
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 2
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano, and String
Orchestra
January 23 -- 8:00 The Cleveland Orchestra; Franz Welser-Möst
Johannes Maria Staud: Stromab
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
January 24-26 Marilyn Horne Masterclass; Graham Johnson
Masterclass; Renée Fleming Masterclass
January 24 -- 8:00 The Cleveland Orchestra; Franz Welser-Möst
Golda Schultz, Soprano
Maximilian Schmitt, Tenor
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus; Lisa Wong
Haydn: The Seasons
January 28 -- 3:00 Marilyn Horne Song Celebration
Nicole Cabell, Soprano
Susanna Phillips, Soprano
Beste Kalender, Mezzo-Soprano
Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-Soprano
Leonardo Capalbo, Tenor
Russell Thomas, Tenor
Lester Lynch, Baritone
Edward Parks, Baritone
Warren Jones, Piano
Martin Katz, Piano
January 28 -- 7:30 Yale in New York: Reflections from the Second Viennese
School
January 30 -- 8:00 Stephen Hough, Piano
Debussy: "Claire de lune" from Suite bergamasque:
Images, Book II
Schumann: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
Debussy: "La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune"
from Preludes: Book II; Images, Book I
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57,
"Appassionata"
I hope some of these performances cause excitement for the possibility of music performed with new vigor and wonder amongst all of you, dear readers, and I do hope this return to posting to this blog brings joy to any who return here or who read my posts for the first time. Since the year is only recently begun, allow me to leave you by saying that I hope 2018 is filled with excursions in musical excellence for all of us. If you visit one of the above performances, do leave a comment below sharing the experience with the rest of us!
Though I shall admit that I have quite become a citizen of the modern age and embraced much of what the Internet offers under the guises of convenience and community, there yet remain many things from an older time that I still very much enjoy. One of these things is physical mail. E-mail, even after almost a decade of serving me, has yet to overshadow the proficiency or elegance of its analog equivalent, and I remain very much pleased by this. Of course, I do not receive nearly as much handwritten correspondence these days as I should like, and much of the rest of it involves "junk mail," but there are a few glimmers of joy left within it, nevertheless.
Among the usual rubbish fodder every month, there also comes to me a brochure from Carnegie Hall. For every month of the year, I receive an index of all of the performances held in the concert venue in New York, and, mind you, astute reader, I have never even entered the building, let alone witnessed a performance there. However, much to my monthly delight, the place continues to send me guides to its schedule for each month of the year. When I receive it, I read its pages from cover to cover and make mental note of which performances advertised would be most to my musical interests and tastes. Since I do this on a somewhat regular schedule, I thought this sort of information might prove both useful for visitors and residents in New York and supplemental to those who might be curious regarding my musical tastes. Of course, it also seemed like a decent form of content that I could periodically add to this blog in the event that anyone might be interested.
January 16 -- 8:00 Guildhall Artists in New York
January 17 -- 8:00 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Daniele Gatti
Wagner: Prelude to Act III and Good Friday Spell from
Parsifal
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
January 18 -- 8:00 Royal Concertebouw Orchestra; Daniele Gatti
Janine Jansen, Violin
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
January 19 -- 8:00 Denis Matsuev, Piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2,
"The Tempest"
Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37
January 19 -- 7:30 Robert Mealy and Friends
Robert Mealy, Violin
Avi Stein, Harpsichord
Charles Weaver, Theorbo
Beiliang Zhu, Cello
The Early Moderns: The Invention of the Sonata
January 20 -- 8:00 Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor; Helmut Deutsch, Piano
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin
January 21 -- 2:00 Janine Jansen, Violin; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano;
Dover Quartet
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 2
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano, and String
Orchestra
January 23 -- 8:00 The Cleveland Orchestra; Franz Welser-Möst
Johannes Maria Staud: Stromab
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
January 24-26 Marilyn Horne Masterclass; Graham Johnson
Masterclass; Renée Fleming Masterclass
January 24 -- 8:00 The Cleveland Orchestra; Franz Welser-Möst
Golda Schultz, Soprano
Maximilian Schmitt, Tenor
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus; Lisa Wong
Haydn: The Seasons
January 28 -- 3:00 Marilyn Horne Song Celebration
Nicole Cabell, Soprano
Susanna Phillips, Soprano
Beste Kalender, Mezzo-Soprano
Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-Soprano
Leonardo Capalbo, Tenor
Russell Thomas, Tenor
Lester Lynch, Baritone
Edward Parks, Baritone
Warren Jones, Piano
Martin Katz, Piano
January 28 -- 7:30 Yale in New York: Reflections from the Second Viennese
School
January 30 -- 8:00 Stephen Hough, Piano
Debussy: "Claire de lune" from Suite bergamasque:
Images, Book II
Schumann: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
Debussy: "La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune"
from Preludes: Book II; Images, Book I
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57,
"Appassionata"
I hope some of these performances cause excitement for the possibility of music performed with new vigor and wonder amongst all of you, dear readers, and I do hope this return to posting to this blog brings joy to any who return here or who read my posts for the first time. Since the year is only recently begun, allow me to leave you by saying that I hope 2018 is filled with excursions in musical excellence for all of us. If you visit one of the above performances, do leave a comment below sharing the experience with the rest of us!
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