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AndyHat
I am AndyHat.
I read, I play games and do crosswords, and I go to shows. I post about some of it.
Tonight is a fun program with the Toomai String Quintet in the House of the Redeemer's beautiful library
This afternoon was an excellent new one-act play at Summerworks inspired by current events, Titans by Jesse Jae Hoon
Tonight is Heartbeat Opera's turbo-charged version of Vanessa
And now, the BlackBox Ensemble closes out the MATA Festival with more new music and Morton Feldman
Night 1 of the MATA Festival, with some Morton Feldman. some NY premieres, Steve Reich performed in tap, and more wild and weird music
This afternoon is another anniversary gala concert, this time for the Naumburg Foundation's 100th. An amazing selection of their competition winners, including the Brentano Quartet premiering a piece by Steven Mackey, and the Emerson taking a break from retirement to play the Mendelssohn Octet with newest chamber winners Terra String Quartet.
Tonight is more choral music, the Queens College choirs and orchestra with Fauré's Requiem and the world premiere of a piece by David Stern setting selections from Leaves of Grass
Tonight OSL and Orli Shaham play piano quintets by Beach and Dvořák
Elgar - Nimrod (from "Enigma Variations")
Tonight is a great but more somber program with the Queer Urban Orchestra
Tonight is an exciting set of choral premieres with The Crossing
I am hoping that tonight's performance of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time will not prove prescient
This afternoon is the talented students of Juilliard Dance, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra with their spring dances
Wow, a mayor can just fire a bad cop? Mamdani's innovations continue to amaze.
Tonight is some New York Etudes with Jeff Beal down in the spooky but acoustically fantastic crypt of the Church of the Intercession
Finishing up the weekend with some nice piano trios with the Trio Chimera
Back at DiMenna this afternoon for more newish music, with the always fabulous Ekmeles
I already have a ticket for Bruckner 8 with Bychkov/NYPhil. Should I go to hear it again a week later with Yannick/Met Opera Orch? Or is that too much of a good thing? (And how did we get two orchestras doing Bruckner 8 in the same week?)
MATA continues tonight with some three new longer form works and then Bunita Marcus's Two Pianos and Violin
Escaping the heat in a nice chilly theater for Schmigadoon!
Tonight is another great line-up of soloists for the Sejong Soloists gala concert
Tonight is a nice selection of piano music with Clara Yang accompanied by some cool visuals by Xuan
Tonight is a fun program of Latin American music with the NYPhil and Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Tonight is a fun assortment of American music with Yarn/Wire and Golda Schultz (and the NYPhil)
And now the Philadelphia Orchestra under Marin Alsop
This afternoon is another recital by young artists in the Met's Lindemann Development Program, with a nice mix of familiar and unfamiliar repertoire.
Today is a Wild Party at Encores
And tonight is all sorts of chamber music for winds and percussion with the Queer Big Apple Corps
Tonight is choral music from Byrd to Muhly with the Choir of New College Oxford
Tonight is an entertaining celebration of Commedia dell'Arte at Mannes, with a program rangong from Mozart and Donizetti to Bohemian Rhapsody
Tonight is a program of French songs with Liv Redpath and Harry Rylance
First time I've ever managed to snag a ticket to a Morgan Library concert. Should be a fun ghostly program with the Junction Trio.
