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Marking Manhattan School of Music’s 90th Anniversary, we pay tribute this season to the style and sophistication of the great music born in our magnificent city, from Irving Berlin to Miles Davis to Leonard Bernstein and beyond.

A sampling of highlights:

• A significant orchestral series with works by Bernstein, Barber, Copland, Gershwin, and Danielpour
• Songs from “The Manhattan Songbook,” sung by the peerless baritone Thomas Hampson
• A performance by the Opera Theater of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, where Broadway meets Grand Opera
• And, to take us to the present moment, a series of premiere performances of newly commissioned works by MSM faculty and alumni.

A vibrant jazz series is planned with repertoire by Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and John Lewis, as well as works reflecting the monumental legacy of Afro-Cuban composers working in Manhattan. In February, we salute the inimitable Miles Davis with a three-day Jazz Summit. Several community events and family concerts are planned to celebrate the music written in MSM’s immediate neighborhood of Morningside Heights and Harlem.

All of Manhattan will be our stage as we place performance groups in major museums and cultural institutions, grand public spaces, public schools, and corporate headquarters. In February we will make our mark with three celebratory concerts in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Manhattan’s new venue for adventurous music. A February 14 concert will feature Zero Gravity, the new ensemble of the Contemporary Music Performance Program launched this season at MSM. On February 16th, violinist Pinchas Zukerman will perform with some of his most talented students, who have been chosen for the Performance Program that bears his name. And finally, on February 20, the Miles Davis Jazz Summit will culminate with a concert in Zankel Hall.

Manhattan School of Music's 90th Anniversary Season is supported in part by the following:

• Steinway & Sons
• Christie's
• Panasonic
• NewsCorp
• 96.3 WQXR
• Harlem Arts Alliance
• Boosey & Hawkes
  

90th Anniversary Season
2007-2008 Performance Highlights

Please visit our Event Calendar for complete information about these and other concerts by clicking here.

*alumnus/alumna

PREVIEW OF NEW YORK CITY OPERA'S PRODUCTION OF
MARGARET GARNER
Sunday, September 9, 3:00 p.m.
Music by Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour
Libretto by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
Featuring students from Manhattan School of Music's Opera Theater
This event precedes the New York City Opera's
New York premiere of Margaret Garner on
Tuesday, September 11.
George Manahan conducts and Tazewell Thompson is stage director.
Preview followed by a panel discussion with
Richard Danielpour, George Manahan*, and Tazewell Thompson.
John C. Borden Auditorium
Free

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONCERT JAZZ BAND
Wednesday, October 3, 7:30 p.m.
MSM Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Bernstein's West Side Story
Justin DiCioccio, Conductor
Arrangements by Dave Grusin* and Michael Abene*
John C. Borden Auditorium
Free

THOMAS HAMPSON SINGS FROM THE MANHATTAN SONGBOOK
Wednesday, October 10, 8:00 p.m.
The American String Quartet, Guest Artists
Samuel Barber, Dover Beach
The Manhattan Songbook
John C. Borden Auditorium
Free

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC OPERA THEATER
Wednesday, December 5, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 7, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 9, 2:30 p.m.
Lukas Foss, Griffelkin
Steven Osgood, Conductor
Linda Brovsky, Director
Libretto by Alastair Reed
John C. Borden Auditorium
Tickets: $20; $10 for seniors and students

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SYMPHONY
Thursday, January 31, 7:30 p.m.
Kenneth Kiesler, Conductor
Samuel Barber, Second Essay
Robert Sirota, 212, World premiere
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D Major ("Titan")
John C. Borden Auditorium
Tickets: $10; $5 for seniors and students

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A 3-CONCERT SERIES AT ZANKEL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL
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ZERO GRAVITY
Thursday, February 14, 7:30 p.m.
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
Featuring students and faculty from the Contemporary Performance Program
JULIA WOLFE: Believing (amplified sextet) (1997)
REIKO FUETING: “…und ich bin Dein Spiegel” (2000)
NILS VIGELAND: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry after a poem by Walt Whitman (2008, World premiere) MSM 90th Anniversary Commission
SUSAN BOTTI: un bacio (2008, World premiere) MSM 90th Anniversary Commission
JACOB DRUCKMAN: Come Round (1992)
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN: Workers Union (1975)

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHAMBER SINFONIA
Saturday, February 16, 7:30 p.m.
Pinchas Zukerman, Conductor and Viola
Vivian Hagner*, Violin
Additional soloists: Bela Horvath, Daniel Khalikov, and Amaury Coeytaux
Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Four Violins in B Minor, op. 3
W. A. Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364
W. A. Mozart, Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425 ("Linz")

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 p.m.
Porgy and Bess and Miles Ahead
Justin DiCioccio*, Conductor
Dave Liebman, Saxophone, Guest Artist
The Miles Davis/Gil Evans Collaborations

Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue.
Call CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800 for tickets:
$20; $10 for seniors and students

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KURT MASUR CONDUCTING SEMINAR
Friday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar Orchestra Kurt Masur, Conductor
Student conductors tba
Siegfried Matthus, Manhattan Concerto, An MSM 75th Anniversary Commission
Antonín Dvorák, Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88
Johannes Brahms, Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor
John C. Borden Auditorium
Tickets: $10; $5 for seniors and students

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Tuesday, April 1
Bobby Sanabria, Director
A Celebration of Afro-Cuban Music in New York City
Afternoon Panel Discussion led by Bobby Sanabria, location tba
7:30 p.m. Machito and the Afro-Cubans:
A recreation of the 1957 historical recording of "Kenya"
John C. Borden Auditorium
Free

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC OPERA THEATER
Wednesday, April 30, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 4, 2:30 p.m.
Kurt Weill, Street Scene
Hal France, Conductor
Jay Lesenger, Director
Libretto by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice
John C. Borden Auditorium
Tickets: $20; $10 for seniors and students
The MSM performances of Street Scene are funded in part by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., 7 East 20th Street, New York NY 10003.