

2 alongside works by Bernstein, Valerie Coleman and Iman Habibi. 6 with the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the star of New York’s musical fall, and his Philadelphia Orchestra, with Yuja Wang playing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 17 at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan) OctoberĬARNEGIE HALL The season at America’s pre-eminent concert hall opens on Oct. ‘BORIS GODUNOV’ The velvet-toned bass René Pape, who took the crushing title role when the Met’s production of this Mussorgsky opera had its premiere back in 2010, returns to it, conducted by Sebastian Weigle. Brown direct and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director, conducts.

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Blow’s memoir about his traumatic upbringing. Vastly belated, it will still be a celebratory occasion when the composer and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, best known for his wry and powerful scores for Spike Lee films, takes a bow for his adaptation of the New York Times columnist Charles M. ‘FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES’ For its reopening after the long pandemic closure, the Metropolitan Opera has made a historic choice: its first work ever by a Black composer. 8, Olga Vinokur runs through a slew of piano études both modern and classic. 25 and 26, the pianist Dan Tepfer, equally adept at jazz and classical styles, offers his own piano quintet and a Mozart concerto with the Semplice Players and Oct. 24, Ljova plays the fadolin, a six-string violin Sept. 22 at Le Poisson Rouge, Manhattan)īARGEMUSIC Perhaps New York’s most idiosyncratic concert hall, this floating performance space docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park provides intimate, occasionally bobbing, encounters with music. TAKA KIGAWA This thoughtful pianist returns to one of his signatures, mid-20th-century modernism, with a program including études by Ligeti and sonatas by Boulez: the epochal, fiendishly difficult Second and a version of the unfinished Third.
