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MEDIA CENTER

  • WedMarch 3:

    March 3 – April 10: Slide, EIGHTH BLACKBIRD’s newest performance-piece, was first presented at the Ojai Music Festival in June. Sliding on that triumph, the sextet performs the piece in three of its 2009-10 season residency cities. The first is in Richmond, VA, at the University of Richmond; the second in Chicago, the ensemble’s hometown, where Slide forms the second of two concerts at the Harris Theater. The provocative music-theater work was conceived by experienced collaborators STEVEN MACKEY (composer/guitarist) and Rinde Eckert (author/director/actor), who perform alongside eighth blackbird. Impossible to categorize, the multi-media, multi-form Slide is about the seduction and manipulation of the American psyche, and, withal, a poignant tale of human frailty. The University of Maryland, where eighth blackbird has another residency, witnesses Slide last, but twice! [March 3: Richmond, VA; March 24: Chicago, IL; April 9, 10: College Park, MD]

  • SunMarch 7:

    March 7–9: CURTIS INSTITUTE’s Contemporary Music Ensemble marks the 100th anniversary of one of the school’s most celebrated alumni, Samuel Barber (‘34). The centennial program will be given in West Chester, PA, Barber’s birthplace, before its Philadelphia performance two days later. [March 7: West Chester, PA; March 9: Philadelphia, PA]

  • ThuMarch 11:

    March 11: Pianist JEREMY DENK plays Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Adams at London’s Barbican Hall. [London]

  • FriMarch 12:

    March 12–14: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs the world premiere of STEVEN STUCKY’s new Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. [March 12, 13, 14: St. Paul, MN]

  • WedMarch 17:

    March 17–21: The CURTIS OPERA THEATRE performs Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, presented by the Kimmel Center and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. [March 17, 19, 21: Philadelphia, PA]

  • ThuMarch 18:

    March 18 – April 3: DANIEL HOPE gives multiple performances at the Savannah Music Festival, where he has been Associate Artistic Director since 2004. Highlights of the festival include performances by GABRIELA MONTERO on March 24 and 25. [March 18 – April 3: Savannah, GA]

  • SatMarch 20:

    March 20–21: DANIEL HOPE debuts with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, joining conductor/pianist Jeffrey Kahane to perform Schulhoff’s Double Concerto for Violin and Piano (arranged by Hope from the original for flute and piano) and the original 1844 version of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, which Hope recorded for his solo debut album with Deutsche Grammophon. [March 20, 21: Los Angeles, CA]

  • ThuMarch 25:

    March 25: A new work by STEVEN MACKEY receives its world premiere at Zankel Hall, performed by So Percussion, which commissioned the new piece jointly with Carnegie Hall. [ZH]

  • ThuMarch 25:

    March 25–28: “Beethoven Then and Now: The Complete Symphonies” at Lincoln Center will be a first: in four consecutive concerts, acclaimed Hungarian conductor IVAN FISCHER conducts all nine Beethoven symphonies, divided between the period-instrument-playing Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, & 8) and his own superb Budapest Festival Orchestra (Nos. 4, 6, 7, & 9). This unusual approach gives listeners an unprecedented opportunity to hear Beethoven two ways: on instruments of his time and on instruments of today. [March 25, 26, 27, 28: AFH]

  • FriMarch 26:

    Mar 26–29: CHANTICLEER will invite as many as a dozen choirs of young people from the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the nation to take part in a three-day version of the Chanticleer Youth Choral Festival for high school choruses. It all begins with a private performance by Chanticleer for the participants [March 26] and culminates in a performance by the massed, combined choruses in Davies Symphony Hall [March 29]. [San Francisco, CA]

  • MonMarch 29:

    March 29: ANNA NETREBKO makes a rare recital appearance with Daniel Barenboim at Berlin State Opera. [Berlin]

  • MonMarch 29:

    March 29 – April 24: THOMAS HAMPSON returns to the Metropolitan Opera, repeating his star-turn as Germont in Verdi’s La traviata, opposite Angela Gheorghiu. [March 29, April 3, 7, 10, 13, 17, 21, 24: Met]