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Manhattan School of Music

120 Claremont Avenue, New York, New York
For reservations and information: 
www.msmnyc.edu
phone 917.493.4428

February text:

Student Recital:
Keyboard Debut Series
Date: Fri Feb 6, 2015
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Brechemin Auditorium
Ticket Prices: $5 all tickets

Jean-Louis Dulcken, Fortepiano; Marra Thompson, piano

Ensemble Concert:
Brahms By The Dozen: The Two Great String Sextets 
Date: Fri Feb 6th 2015
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Meany Theater
Ticket Prices: $10 all tickets

An Orchestral Performance Program benefit concert with Glenn Dicterow, Lisa Kim, Karen Dreyfus, Irene Breslaw, David Geber, and Julia Lichten.

Ensemble Concert:
Contemporary Group
Date: Wed Feb 11 2015
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Meany Theater
Ticket Prices: $10 all tickets. 

Works by Steve Reich and Louis Andriessen are featured in a concert of minimal music from the U.S. and Europe.

Guest Artist Recital:
Douglas Cleveland, organ
Date: Sun Feb 15, 2015
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Walker-Ames Room
Ticket Prices: $15 general admission, $10 students/seniors

Douglas Cleveland, director of music at Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, and former Northwestern University faculty member, has performed in 48 states, as well as such international venues as Westminster Abbey, Notre-Dame Cathedral, and The Moscow Conservatory.

Ensemble Concert:
University Symphony
Date: Wed Feb 18 2015
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Meany Theater
Ticket Prices: $10 all tickets

Maestro Peter Erös conducts Hindemith’s "Nobilissima Visione," based upon the life of St. Francis of Assisi; Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Natalya Kalendarev, soloist; and Stravinsky’s "Firebird Suite," 1919 version.

The Manhattan Percussion Project:
Date: Fri Feb 27
A series of discussions and collaborative performances by New York percussionists
The Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Performance Space — 7:30 PM
Ticket Prices: There is no charge for this event.
Concert of works with world premier by Aguilar, and performances by Lang and Ginastera
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor

March text:

Ensemble Concert:
Jazz Innovations, Part 1
Date: Thursday Mar 5, 2015
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Brechemin Auditorium
Ticket Prices: $5 all tickets

A survey of jazz innovations from 1800 to 1930.

Ensemble Concert:
Jazz Innovations, Part 2
Date: Fri Mar 6
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Brechemin Auditorium
Ticket Prices: $5 all tickets

Jazz innovations continue from 1930 to the present.

Ensemble Concert:
Wind Ensemble, Concert, Symphonic & Campus Bands
Date: Wed Mar 11
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Meany Theater
Ticket Prices: $10 all tickets

"Continental Divide" Highlights include Ivan Tcherepnin’s "Concerto for Two Continents" for synthesizer and wind symphony, David Stanhope’s "Australian Fantasia," and "Rhapsodie for Viola" by Jean Françaix, with faculty soloist Melia Watras.

Student Recital:
Keyboard Debut Series
Date: Fri Mar 13
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Brechemin Auditorium
Ticket Prices: $5 all tickets

Eric Cline, piano; Dina Shilleh, piano

Ensemble Concert:
Combined Choruses & Symphony
Date: Sat Mar 14
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Meany Theater
Ticket Prices: $10 all tickets

Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor Mozart’s monumental unfinished work comes to life with the combined voices of the Chamber Singers, University Chorale, and University Singers, and the University Symphony, all under the direction of Geoffrey Boers.

Opera:
Tartuffe
Date: Friday Mar 20
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Meany Studio
Ticket Prices: $20 general admission, $15 students/seniors. 

Additional Info: A Northwest premiere! Kirke Mechem’s 1980 comic opera, "Tartuffe," is a fresh look at Molière’s 1660s comedy, "Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur," in which a con artist trying to pass for a holy man is exposed. Performed in English; David McDade, conductor; Claudia Zahn, director.

Ensemble Concert:
Student Chamber Ensembles
Date: Sat Mar 21
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Brechemin Auditorium
Ticket Prices: $5 all tickets

A program of string quartets including Dmitri Shostakovich's complex but sprightly String Quartet No. 7.

Ensemble Concert:
Mallet Head Series: Hammer Jazz
Date: Tues March 24
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Brechemin Auditorium
Ticket Prices: $10 all tickets.

Music made with hammers on bars and strings is featured in this jazz concert by faculty members Tom Collier, vibraphone, and Marc Seales, piano.