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2018/19 Season at Baruch Performing Arts Center in NYC

2018/19 Season at Baruch Performing Arts Center in NYC

Baruch Performing Arts Center announces its 2018-2019 season of opera, chamber music and jazz performances in the heart of Manhattan.

Fall 2018 at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Fall 2018 at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

October 1-4: Moving Sounds Festival 2018 - The Mahler Question
November 29-30: Ensemble Signal and Wolfgang Mitterer

October 13-19: Announcing the 2018 Momenta Festival

October 13-19: Announcing the 2018 Momenta Festival

October 13-19: Announcing the 2018 Momenta Festival

The Classical Post interviews Christopher Houlihan

The Classical Post interviews Christopher Houlihan

The organ is louder and more impressive than a piano, thought a young Christopher Houlihan. Now, the musician and professor sets out to teach the next generation of organists while also showing the world how colorful and exciting organ music can be.

Cinemusical reviews pianist Michael Adcock's "Keyboard Transcriptions"

Cinemusical reviews pianist Michael Adcock's "Keyboard Transcriptions"

This recording "demonstrates different aspects of Adcock’s technical skill, virtuosic flair, and interpretive ability."

Wall Street Journal: The Concentration Camp Choir

Wall Street Journal: The Concentration Camp Choir

Its performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ left Nazi officials speechless.

Fanfare Magazine reviews "Soul of a Nation"

Fanfare Magazine reviews "Soul of a Nation"

This CD is outstanding in every parameter, and I believe the great majority of Fanfare’s readership would find this disc a worthwhile, and even essential acquisition.

Winnipeg Free Press reviews"Ragtime in Washington"

Winnipeg Free Press reviews"Ragtime in Washington"

The album features 17 tracks that resurrect such favourites as Scott Joplin’s Bethena, and The Easy Winners, as well as lesser-known nuggets culled from ragtime’s golden age of 1905-1917, including Henry Lodge’s Red Pepper Rag.

Joel Flegler reviews "Soul of a Nation"

Joel Flegler reviews "Soul of a Nation"

Remarkable Depth and Versatility.

TransCentury Communications reviews two Michael Adcock CDs

TransCentury Communications reviews two Michael Adcock CDs

Sheer delight is also the primary reason to hear two new Centaur discs featuring pianist Michael Adcock.

Classical Music Sentinel reviews "Ragtime in Washington"

Classical Music Sentinel reviews "Ragtime in Washington"

"I strongly recommend this CD for any and all piano music fans, but mostly to those wistful to hear some good old ragtime played with the respect it deserves."

Baby Got Bach engages executive consulting services

Baby Got Bach engages executive consulting services

Baby Got Bach Artistic Director Orli Shaham and Executive Director Gail Wein are pleased to announce the engagement of Gene Sobczak and PROTEA Success Navigation in the advancement and continuing development of the organization.

Christian Carey previewsDemi Broxa at ACFNY

Christian Carey previewsDemi Broxa at ACFNY

Austrian Cultural Forum prides itself on an eclectic array of offerings, with regular programs presenting excellent composers and ensembles on the cusp of new music making. Pop has been among past proceedings, but an event like the one this Friday treads new ground for the venue.

WQXR: Roads Not Taken

WQXR: Roads Not Taken

From a very young age, pianists invest themselves fully in practice and performance. Their commitment is so deep and their talent so inspiring that it’s difficult to imagine them doing anything else.

WQXR: 12 Pianists Chose the Piece of a Lifetime

WQXR: 12 Pianists Chose the Piece of a Lifetime

But what if this impossible decision was made more impossible still? What if today’s great pianists could play one piece — and one piece only — for the rest of their lives? What would they choose, and why? Here’s what they told us.

TransCentury Communications reviews "Soul of a Nation"

TransCentury Communications reviews "Soul of a Nation"

The four presidential-focused concertos by Victoria Bond (born 1945) on a new Albany Records CD quite clearly have Copland’s Lincoln Portrait as a model – Bond herself says so – but they also, and rather more interestingly, adapt Charles Ives’ approach of including familiar, even homespun music within the newly composed material.

Victoria Bond releases new CD on Albany Records

Victoria Bond releases new CD on Albany Records

Soul of a Nation: Portraits of Presidential Character

Schmopera - TALKING WITH SINGERS: NELSON EBO

Schmopera - TALKING WITH SINGERS: NELSON EBO

Angolan tenor Nelson Ebo's upcoming role is one that hits particularly close to home. Next month in Heartbeat Opera's new adaptation of Beethoven's Fidelio (May 3-13), Ebo sings Stan - or Florestan, in the original libretto - the black activist who is wrongfully incarcerated.

Lucid Culture writes "Trio Vitruvi Make a Rapturously Vivid North American Debut at Carnegie Hall"

Lucid Culture writes "Trio Vitruvi Make a Rapturously Vivid North American Debut at Carnegie Hall"

Trio Vitruvi Make a Rapturously Vivid North American Debut at Carnegie Hall

Art Music Lounge Reviews Trio Vitruvi CD

Art Music Lounge Reviews Trio Vitruvi CD

Listening to this CD, I was consistently struck by the tautness of Trio Vitruvi’s approach. The running piano figures up and down the keyboard have the crispness of the Beaux Arts Trio’s Menahem Pressler.