Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 8:00 PM

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn, Music Director and Conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Previn: Violin Concerto
Strauss:  Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
Tickets: $24, $28, $38, $55, $75, $82

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Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 8:00 PM

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn, Music Director, Conductor, and Pianist
Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Gershwin:  Piano Concerto in F Major
Previn:  Honey and Rue
Ravel:  Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

 Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
Tickets: $24, $28, $38, $55, $75, $82

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Friday, March 11, 2005 at 7:30 PM
 
Keller Quartet

Debussy:  String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Ligeti:  String Quartet No. 1
Brahms:  String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
Tickets: $42

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Friday, March 11, 2005 at 7:30 PM
 
Fred Hersch:  Leaves of Grass
Fred Hersch Ensemble
Kurt Elling, Voice
Kate McGarry, Voice
Ralph Alessi, Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Mike Christianson, Trombone
Bruce Williamson, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Alto Saxophone
Tony Malaby, Tenor Saxophone
Greg Heffernan, Cello
Drew Gress, Bass
John Hollenbeck, Drums/Percussion
Fred Hersch, Piano

Hersch: Leaves of Grass
Words by Walt Whitman

Zankel Hall
Tickets: $35

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Saturday, March 12, 2005 at 8:30 PM
 
ANA MOURA, Vocalist

Ana Moura stands out among the new generation of fado singers as heir to the legendary Amalia Rodrigues.

Zankel Hall
Tickets: $28, $35

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Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 1:00 PM
 
Carnegie Hall Family Concert:  Meet the Brass Family!
Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Brass
Jamie Bernstein, Host
Nikki James, Narrator

Bernstein:  Fanfare for Bima
Des Prez: De tous bien playne (arr. Richard Powell)
Trad.: "We Are Good Musicians" (arr. Chris Washburne)
DuBois:  Le Cinéma muet
Trad.:  When the Saints Go Marching In (arr. SYOTOS Brass)

Zankel Hall
Tickets: $8

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Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 3 PM

 New Chamber Orchestra Music by American Composers
The North/South Chamber Orchestra
Max Lifchitz, conductor

Christopher James : Sinfonia Concertante for ten instruments
James Yannatos :  Here-There-This and That
Larry Thomas Bell:  Spirituals

Christ and St. Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th Street, NYC
Free Admission!

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Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 4 PM

Music in Chelsea
Mary Rowell, electric & acoustic violin
Geoffrey Burleson, piano & keyboards

Jacob Ter Veldhuis:  Grab It!
Riad Abdel-Gawad:  Funeral Ceremony at the Pyramid of Mankara  
John King: Cantos
Cecil Taylor:  Unit Structures
Lenny Tristano:   Requiem
McCoy Tyner:  Passion Dance
Skip Stahly:  Chin Music
George Antheil:  Airplane Sonata
Messiaen:  Praise to the Immortality of Jesus
(from Quartet For the End of Time)

St. Peter’s Church in Chelsea
346 W. 20 St.
Suggested Donation: $10 (half price discounts for seniors/students)

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Monday, March 14, 2005 at 8:00 PM

The Lady With The Torch
 
Patti Lupone, Vocalist
Conceived and Directed by Scott Wittman
Musical Director: Chris Fenwick
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Isaac Stern Auditorium
Tickets: $24, $28, $38, $58, $77, $85

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Monday, March 14, 2005 at 8 PM

Spring Counterpoint
Vocal and Instrumental Music by American Composers
National Association of Composers, USA East Coast Chapter
Constance Beavon, mezzo-soprano   
Lauren Weiss, flute
Lucia Bova, harp   
Mioi Takeda, violin
    David Ward-Steinman, piano
Max Lifchitz, piano
Douglas Ovens, percussion/electronics

    Douglas Ovens:   Improvisation No. 8 (Three Worlds)
    Bruce Saylor:  Diptych
    Max Lifchitz:  Yellow Ribbons Nos. 1 & 39
        Lifchitz:  Transformations No. 2
    David Ward-Steinman:  Prisms and Reflections

Christ and St. Stephen's Church
120 West 69th St.
Admission Free

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 7:30 PM

Gotham Glory
 
Anthony De Mare, Piano

Meredith Monk: Gotham Lullaby
Paul Moravec:  Isle of the Manhattoes (World Premiere)
Jason Robert Brown:  Mr. Broadway (World Premiere)
David Del Tredici:  Gotham Glory (World Premiere, Video by Anney Bonney)
Fred Hersch:  Saloon Songs (World Premiere)
Frederic Rzewski:  De Profundis

Zankel Hall
Tickets: $18, $28

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 7:30 PM

Sounds of the Americas
 The Sylvan Winds
Svjetlana Kabalin, flute; Erin Gustafson, oboe; Amy Zoloto, clarinet;
Thomas Sefcovic, bassoon; Angela Cordell, horn

A. Louis Scarmolin: Nonchalance
William Grant Still:  Adolorido, Yarávi, El Monigote
Felix Astol:  La Boriqueña (arr.W. Scribner)
Ernesto Lecuona:  La Comparsa (arr.A. Lesnick)
Paquito D’Rivera:  Wapango
Max Lifchitz:  Vignettes (World première)
Eduardo Alemann:  Tres Micropoemas
Heitor Villa-Lobos:  Quintette en forme de Habanera
Astor Piazzolla:  Milonga sin palabras & Libertango (arr.J. Scott)

The Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue (at 68th Street)
Tickets:  $25 for adults and $15 for students and seniors

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 8:00 PM

Perspectives: Michael Tilson Thomas
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
Barbara Bonney, Soprano

Michael Tilson Thomas:  Poems of Emily Dickinson
Mahler:  Symphony No. 7 in E Minor

Isaac Stern Auditorium
Tickets: $25, $32, $50, $63, $85, $97

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Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 7:30 PM
 
Zehetmair Quartet

Schubert:  Overture in C Minor, D.8a
Karl Amadeus Hartmann:  String Quartet No. 2
Grieg:  String Quartet in F Minor, Op. Posth.
Schumann:  String Quartet in F Major, Op. 41, No. 2

Zankel Hall
Tickets: $30, $42

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Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 8:00 PM

Forecast Music Presents the Sirius Quartet

James Barry: Displace
Eric Schwartz:  Thunk...A Ghost Story
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet (arr.)
Randy Woolf:  Franz Schubert.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue
$10 at the door
$5 student & senior

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Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 2:00 PM

Carnegie Hall Family Concert
Green Eggs and Ham
 Orchestra of St. Luke's
John Morris Russell, Conductor
Vera Mariner, Guest Vocalist
Mackenzie Duan, Guest Vocalist
Baritone to be announced

Ives: (orch. William Schuman) Variations on "America"
Copland:  I Bought Me a Cat
Trad.  (arr. Burleigh) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Stephen Foster:  (arr. Dvořák) Old Folks at Home
Bernstein:  (arr. Peress) Overture to West Side Story
Robert Kapilow:  Green Eggs and Ham
Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever

 Isaac Stern Auditorium
Tickets: $8

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Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 4:00 PM

The Creative Process:  Russell Banks and John Adams
Author Russell Banks in conversation with composer John Adams

Zankel Hall
Tickets: $15

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Monday, March 21, 2005 at 7:30 PM

 Making Music:  John Adams
John Adams, Conductor
Leila Josefowicz, Violin        Nicolas Hodges, Piano
Rolf Hind, Piano        John Novacek, Piano
The Road Runners
Ebonee Thomas, Flute/Piccolo
Nicholas Stovall, Oboe
Nick Homenda, Clarinet
Alicia N. Lee, Clarinet
Andrew Cuneo, Bassoon
Damian Primis, Bassoon
Jonas VanDyke, French Horn
Jason Price, Trumpet
Eric Starr, Trombone
Timothy Feeney, Percussion
Isabelle O'Connell, Keyboard Sampler 
Benjamin Sung, Violin
Leah Ilem, Viola
Jonathan Lewis, Cello
Ted Botsford, Double Bass
Ara Guzelimian, Series Moderator

ALL-ADAMS PROGRAM
Hallelujah Junction
Road Movies
American Berserk
Chamber Symphony

Zankel Hall
Tickets: $20

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8 PM

Premieres and Reintroductions of Benjamin Lees
Piercy & Olson and Guests
Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Judith Olson, piano
Mirian Conti, piano
Barbara Ann Martin, soprano
The Intrepid Quintet:
Maureen Keenan, flute
Sarah Loveland, oboe
Thomas Piercy, clarinet
Daniel Liao, bassoon
Kristin Mozeiko, horn

Two Miniatures for Woodwind Quintet (World premiere)
Sonata for clarinet and piano (arr. by Thomas Piercy)
Paumanok for soprano and piano
Three Variables for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and piano
Tableau for two pianos (New York premiere)

Concert Hall of Faust Harrison Pianos
205 W. 58th St., NYC

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8 PM

Lois Brandwynne, Pianist
Bonnie Hampton, Cellist

Schubert: Impromptu in Gb Op. 90
Schubert:  Sonata in A minor, Op. 142
Chopin:  24 Preludes, Op. 28
Andrew Imbrie:  Duo
Milhaud:  Le Candélabre à Sept Branhces 
Milhaud: Elégie
Thérèse Brenet:  Tout l’Or des Nuits
Elinor Armer:  Promptu
Armer: Interior Range 
Bolcom:  Butterflies and Hummingbirds

Merkin Concert Hall
Tickets: $15 general and $10 for students, seniors and UC Davis alumni.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:00 PM

John Corigliano, Distinguished Visiting Composer
Black Box Theater,  New York University

35 W. 4th St., Suite 777

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Friday, March 25 2005, at 8 PM

Composer Portraits: Steve Reich
 So Percussion Ensemble

Reich: Drumming
Reich: Sextet
7 p.m. pre-concert discussion with Steve Reich

Miller Theatre of Columbia University
Tickets: Adults, $20; Students, $12 with valid ID

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Monday, March 28, 2005 at 8:00 PM
 
Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Peter Serkin, Piano

John Harbison:  Darkbloom, Overture for an Imagined Opera (New York Premiere)
Stravinsky: Movements for piano and orchestra
Charles Wuorinen:  Piano Concerto No. 4 (New York Premiere)
Brahms:  Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 PM in Isaac Stern Auditorium with Ara Guzelimian

Isaac Stern Auditorium
Tickets: $29, $38, $55, $75, $99, $116

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 8:00 PM
 
Martha Argerich, Piano
Nelson Freire, Piano

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B-flat Major, Op. 56b
 Rachmaninoff:  Suite for Two Pianos No. 2, Op. 17
Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
Schubert:  Rondo in A Major for Piano Four Hands, D.951
Ravel:  La Valse

Isaac Stern Auditorium
Tickets: $28, $38, $55, $75, $99, $109

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 8:00 PM

Postcards From Prague
 Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Donald Runnicles, Principal Conductor
Ivan Moravec, Piano

Janacek: Idylla (Selections)
Mozart:  Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K.503
Martinu:  La Revue de cuisine
Mozart:  Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K.504, "Prague"

Isaac Stern Auditorium
Tickets: $23, $27, $36, $44, $67, $74