(1937, arr. Alan Kay)
Windscape, Artists in Residence
A wind quintet arrangement of Ginastera’s Argentine dances, which draw on the folk tradition of música criolla
7:30 PM Greenfield Hall
Carla Maxwell, Artistic Director MSM Chamber Jazz Ensemble Justin DiCioccio, Conductor
A brilliant revival by the Limón Dance Company of Anna Sokolow’s 1955 choreographic masterpiece Rooms, with original jazz score by Kenyon Hopkins
7:30 PM Borden Auditorium $20 adults, $12 seniors and students
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MSM Philharmonia David Gilbert, Conductor
The famous symphonic poem Ravel imagined as a courtly Viennese waltz turning into “a fatal sort of dervish’s dance”
7:30 PM Borden Auditorium $10 adults, $5 seniors and students
MSM Philharmonia George Manahan, Conductor
A celebrated work originally written as a ballet—one of many presented this season—that left its mark on Western film scores and choreography
Originally choreographed by Balanchine for 50 elephants and 50 ballerinas
MSM Symphony Philippe Entremont, Conductor 7:30 PM Borden Auditorium $10 adults, $5 seniors and students
A divertimento based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ice Maiden
Chamber Sinfonia George Manahan, Conductor 7:30 PM Borden Auditorium $20 adults, $12 seniors and students
Composed for Diaghilev, the comic-poignant story of puppets coming to life
MSM Philharmonia George Manahan, Conductor 7:30 PM Borden Auditorium $10 adults, $5 seniors and students
MSM Chamber Choir Kent Tritle, Conductor
A work for choral ensemble and orchestra modeled on a 16th-century madrigal comedy, originally intended as a ballet
7:30 PM Borden Auditorium
MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Bobby Sanabria, Conductor
Latin Grammy nominated Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria - incredible music with a Latin beat and jazz from a variety of acclaimed films like The French Connection, West Side Story, The Odd Couple, The Wizard of Oz, Austin Powers and more!
7:30 PM Borden Auditorium All seats $5
MSM Jazz Orchestra Justin DiCioccio, Conductor
Jazz arrangements by acclaimed composers/arrangers Dave Grusin, Michael Abene, and Don Sebesky
A collaboration between sound and image that has had a lasting influence in the film world: Eisenstein’s depiction of the 13th-century defeat of Teutonic knights by Russia’s Prince Alexander 4:45 PM Borden Auditorium
MSM Symphony and Symphonic Chorus Philippe Entremont, Conductor
Some of Prokofiev’s most atmospheric, dramatically paced music, reworked from his film score
MSM Chamber Sinfonia George Manahan, Conductor
A screening and live performance of the score of Pare Lorentz’s memorable 1936 film depicting devastation in the Great Plains
American String Quartet, Artists in Residence Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney, Violin Daniel Avshalomov, Viola Wolfram Koessel, Cello
A work with an adagio Beethoven described in a sketch as “A weeping willow on my brother’s grave”
3 PM Borden Auditorium $15 adults, $10 seniors and students
MSM Symphony Kurt Masur, Conductor One of the most famous examples of the musical depiction of scenes, with movement titles such as “Storm,” “Merry Gathering of Country Folk,” and “Scene by the Brook”
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Israel Gursky, Conductor Dona D. Vaughn, Director MSM Opera Theater Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director
The story of two soldiers who disguise themselves to test their lovers’ fidelity (in which appearances are not only deceiving, but seductive)
12/7 and 12/9 7:30 PM Borden Auditorium 12/11 2:30 PM Borden Auditorium $20 adults, $12 seniors and students
MSM Percussion Ensemble and MSM Brass Orchestra Jeffrey Milarsky and Mark Gould, Music Directors Brian McWhorter, Trumpet, as Gepopo
A solo trumpet arrangement of three pyrotechnic soprano arias from Ligeti’s opera Le grand macabre, in which Gepopo, chief of the secret police, frantically tries to warn Prince Go-Go that a comet is about to destroy their planet
Libretto by William M. Hoffman after Beaumarchais’s play La Mère coupable (1792) Steven Osgood, Conductor Jay Lesenger, Director MSM Opera Theater Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director
An opera-within-an-opera—described by the composer as “grand opera buffa”—about the afterlife of the Court of Louis XVI
4/25 and 4/27 7:30 PM Borden Auditorium 4/29 7:30 PM Borden Auditorium $20 adults, $12 seniors and students
Tactus Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor 7:30 PM Greenfield Hall
MSM Percussion Ensemble Jeffrey Milarsky, Music Director and Conductor 7:30 PM Borden Auditorium
The Ravel orchestration of Mussorgsky’s tribute to Russian artist Viktor Hartmann memorializing an exhibit of his work
Lives of the Piano A piece inspired by Watteau’s painting L’embarquement pour Cythère, featured on Lisa Yui’s birthday tribute to Debussy Featuring Students, Faculty and Friends of Manhattan School of Music