Sunday Arts

Great Performances: Beverly Sills - Made in America

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:20:08 +0000

For this week’s SundayArts feature presentations tune in to watch Great Performances: Beverly Sills - Made in America and Note by Note.

SundayArts News for 11/1/09

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:51:03 +0000

This week in SundayArts News: Voces y Visiones and Nexus New York at El Museo del Barrio, Rebel Waltz: Underground Music from Behind the Iron Curtain Nov 6-7, Wishful Drinking at Studio 54, 60×60 Dance at World Financial Winter Garden Nov. 13th , Performa ‘09: The 3rd Biennial of New Visual Art Performance through 11/22, New York’s Indian Film Festival presented by MIAAC (11/11-11/15).

SundayArts Primetime Special

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:23:51 +0000

Catch SundayArts at a special time on Thursday to see a full half hour special featuring the best in New York’s performance, art exhibits, theater, and dance.

Preview of Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2009

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:44:55 +0000

Under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, one of the world’s most acclaimed conductors, the internationally-renowned Vienna Philharmonic performs an open-air summertime concert in the historic Baroque Park overlooking the breathtaking Schönbrunn Palace, one of Austria’s most important cultural monuments. Recorded in glorious high definition and pristine 5.1 surround sound.

Read My Pins

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:52:16 +0000

Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts & Design David McFadden explains the new exhibit, the first of its kind, a gathering of over 200 of Madeline Albright’s personal pins and brooches that she has worn throughout her career as a diplomat titled “Read My Pins.” See the highlights and hear Madeline Albright explain the stories and significance behind the different pieces in her collection.

George Steel

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:43:33 +0000

George Steel is the founder and conductor of the Gotham City Orchestra and Vox Vocal Ensemble. For more than 11 years, he transformed Columbia University’s Miller Theater into an acclaimed showcase for both early and modern music. In February of 2009 after just a few months running the Dallas Opera, he was tapped to head the New York City Opera, an institution with a very rich history.

Last February, George Steel began his tenure as New York City Opera’s new General Manager and Artistic Director. Building on the company’s core mission of artistic excellence and accessibility, Steel’s plans include broadening the company’s adventurous approach to repertory, supporting the careers of promising artists and continuing to develop the company’s education and outreach programs. November 5th will see City Opera’s return to the stage of the renovated David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center. The repertory will be all-American music entitled American Voices.

SundayArts News for 10/25/09

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:35:14 +0000

This week in SundayArts News: Poets House, “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History” at the Brooklyn Museum (10/30-1/31), Bye Bye Birdie, 4th Annual Wave Rising Series (through 11/8), Jung at the Rubin Museum of Art, and BAMCinematek: 1962: New York Film Critics Circle.

Preview of Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:12:40 +0000

Named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World for 2009” and frequently described as the most dynamic young conductor to arrive on the classical music scene since the legendary Leonard Bernstein, 28-year-old Gustavo Dudamel begins his tenure as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in fall 2009. Making his American television debut on the Great Performances telecast of Carnegie Hall Celebrates Berlin in January 2008, Dudamel’s infectious energy and exceptional artistry will be on display once again as he conducts his inaugural concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded for national telecast from Disney Concert Hall on October 8.

John Adams

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:51:51 +0000

John Adams is one of America’s most admired and respected composers today. He’s also a conductor eagerly sought after by America’s major orchestras, a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, a chamber conductor, and a Pulitzer prize and multi-Grammy-winning composer of enormous range and technical command.

Adams’ work stands out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of their themes. Because of his ability to integrate different styles, including American popular forms, his standing today has been of compared in importance to American musical expression to that of Aaron Copland in the forties and Leonard Bernstein in the fifties.

In this SundayArts Profile, Paula Zahn interviews the famous composer about his piano works and his artistic struggles.

SundayArts News for 10/18/09

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:52:49 +0000

This week in SundayArts News: Poets House, Ancient Paths, Modern Voices at Carnegie Hall (10/21-11/10), “Where the Wild Things Are” at the Morgan and Animazing Gallery, Cedar Lake’s Orbo Novo at the Joyce Theater (10/20-10/25), Kandinsky at the Guggenheim and free day Oct 21st, National Design Week/Design USA at Cooper Hewitt.