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MEDIA CENTER

  • SatMay 1:

    May 1: Making its Minneapolis debut, the crowd-pleasing sextet EIGHTH BLACKBIRD performs at the Walker Art Center. The program is “The Only Moving Thing,” which features Steve Reich’s Pulitzer-winning Double Sextet, to be performed live with players from the new music ensemble Zeitgeist. [Minneapolis, MN]

  • FriMay 7:

    May 7, 8: EIGHTH BLACKBIRD performs two concerts in New York City: it returns to both the Look and Listen Festival, where the group performs the world premiere of a new piece by Carlos Sánchez Gutiérrez, and to the People’s Symphony. [May 7: venue tbc; May 8: Washington Irving High School]

  • SunMay 9:

    May 9: LEON BOTSTEIN conducts the AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in the sixth and final concert of its Lincoln Center season. “Apollo and Dionysus,” a study in contrasts between the rational and the emotional, features music by England’s Arthur Bliss, Italy’s Luigi Dallapiccola, Germany’s Hans Werner Henze, and France’s Albert Roussel. [AFH]

  • MonMay 10:

    May 10: Pianist JEREMY DENK joins Ensemble ACJW and conductor John Adams for Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. [ZH]

  • ThuMay 27:

    May 27–29: ALAN GILBERT and the New York Philharmonic perform Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s darkly comic (and only) opera, Le grand macabre, which has never before been performed in New York, despite being one of the most frequently performed contemporary operas. [May 27, 28, 29: AFH]