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April 09, 2013
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The 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival is unveiled! This summer’s Festival, running July 27 - August 24 in New York features more than 50 events spanning concerts, opera productions, pre-concert lectures and recitals, late-night performances, a film screening and premieres of new work. The Festival kicks off with a free performance led by Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra on July 27 at Avery Fisher Hall.

A major highlight of the 2013 Festival is the thematic focus on the rich musical lineage between Mozart and Beethoven, with several concerts throughout the Festival pairing music by both composers. In addition, the Budapest Festival Orchestra returns with a staged concert of Le nozze di Figaro, the first time Mozart’s great opera is presented in full at the Festival. International Contemporary Ensemble also returns with 10 concerts featuring 10 world premieres by 10 established and emerging composers, ranging from David Land Pauline Oliveros to Tyshawn Sorey and Phyllis Chen. Debuts this season include conductors Gianandrea Noseda, David Afkham and Steven Schick, among others. Chamber music features prominently, with performances by the Emerson, Calder and Leipzig quartets.

Single tickets go on sale April 29.

Click here to read the full press release about the Festival

Click here to visit the new Mostly Mozart website

 

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November 01, 2012
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Here, pianist Emanuel Ax talks about Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (“The Song of the Earth”), the work that he and others will perform on November 4, at 5pm, during Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. Ax will be joined by conductor Matthias Pintscher, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Russell Thomas, and musicians of the New York Philharmonic. Be sure to save the date!

 

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October 18, 2012
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The New York Philharmonic’s 2012-13 artist-in-residence Emanuel Ax discusses Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde,” which he will perform as a chamber work on Nov. 4, as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.

 

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June 12, 2012
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JUST RELEASED: White Light Festival 2012 has been announced! Highlights of the festival, which runs from October 18 to November 18, include:- U.S. premiere of Rian, performed by Ireland’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre- Virtuoso Wang Li plays jaw harps and calabash flute- N.Y. premiere of choreographer Akram Khan’s Vertical Road- Cameron Carpenter plays Bach on the Alice Tully Hall organ- Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, arranged for chamber orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, and performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, members of the New York Philharmonic, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Russell Thomas- Cosmic Pulses, all–Stockhausen program, performed by percussionist Stuart Gerber and sound projectionist Joe Drew- U.S. debut of the Latvian Radio Choir- Mary Chapin Carpenter sings from her new album, Ashes and Roses- Heiner Goebbels’ music/theater work I went to the house but did not enter featuring the Hilliard Ensemble- Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 (Read the entire press release here.)  

JUST RELEASED: White Light Festival 2012 has been announced!

Highlights of the festival, which runs from October 18 to November 18, include:

- U.S. premiere of Rian, performed by Ireland’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
- Virtuoso Wang Li plays jaw harps and calabash flute
- N.Y. premiere of choreographer Akram Khan’s Vertical Road
- Cameron Carpenter plays Bach on the Alice Tully Hall organ
- Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, arranged for chamber orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, and performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, members of the New York Philharmonic, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Russell Thomas
- Cosmic Pulses, all–Stockhausen program, performed by percussionist Stuart Gerber and sound projectionist Joe Drew
- U.S. debut of the Latvian Radio Choir
- Mary Chapin Carpenter sings from her new album, Ashes and Roses
- Heiner Goebbels’ music/theater work I went to the house but did not enter featuring the Hilliard Ensemble
- Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 9

(Read the entire press release here.)

 

Tags: White Light Festival Rian Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre Wang Li Akram Khan Vertical Road Cameron Carpenter Alice Tully Hall Matthias Pintscher Emanuel Ax New York Philharmonic Tamara Mumford Russell Thomas Cosmic Pulses Stuart Gerber Joe Drew Latvian Radio Choir Mary Chapin Carpenter Heiner Goebbels I went to the house but did not enter Hilliard Ensemble Esa-Pekka Salonen Philharmonia Orchestra

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March 12, 2011
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"Mr. Ax’s signature style — a shifting balance of poetry, earthiness and analytical clarity — suits [Schubert’s] music, not least because his fluid changes of focus seem to mirror Schubert’s impulses so precisely. That is an illusion of course. Other pianists make entirely different interpretive emphases sound just as convincing, and that is where the magic of great performance lies: in the ability to make a specific sequence of choices sound inevitable and fresh even for listeners who think they know the music inside out."

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Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

Emanuel Ax’s first Schubert concert for Tully Scope was fantastic—I’d say there’s an excellent chance his second all-Schubert recital, this time with baritone Simon Keenlyside tomorrow night, will be even better.

 

(Source: The New York Times)

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