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.)