Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance presents Favorites & First Drafts, an evening featuring works from the company’s repertory alongside new material in development. The program includes Facets (2008), a sculptural dance marked by precision and clarity, and RU (2014), an ensemble work known for its emotional intensity and ensemble interplay. Excerpts from The Folk Rock Studies translate […]
A composer of “uncompromising brilliance” (The Washington Post) whose work has been described by The New York Times as “viscerally gripping and emotionally transformative music ... claustrophobic and exhilarating at once, with moments of sublime beauty nestled inside thickets of dark virtuosity,” Michael Hersch appears as both composer and pianist in NYC for the first […]
Join us on December 10 for this Special Presentation of new works from Bulgaria, commissioned by the Off the Beaten Path Festival, featuring three U.S. premieres of new works by Dobrinka Tabakova, Kenji Bunch and Peter Kerkelov. To close the program, we will perform the Dohnanyi's Piano Quintet No. 1. Artists: Georgy Valtchev, Alexandrina Boyanova, […]
This program pairs two masterworks linked by the idea of "ricercata," or "sought music." The concert opens with György Ligeti’s Musica ricercata (1951-53) in a new arrangement. The title is literal: Ligeti’s goal was to "build a new music from nothing," with each of the eleven movements systematically adding new pitches. You may recognize parts […]