Kurt Masur News

California Stage of Sacramento will be presenting the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical, The Threepenny Opera, begining February 5th. This classic show tells the story of what happens when the banks get richer and the poor get poorer. The musical incorporates the tale of the doomed love affair of Mac Heath, London's reining thief, and Polly Peachum, the deceptively sweet daughter of a successful businessman who specializes in human misery and controls the city's beggars. Based loosely on John Gay's much earlier Beggars' Opera, it is filled with betrayals, schemes, revenge, reversals of fortune, and Weill's famously dissonant score.

Riccardo Muti will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1, with András Schiff as soloist, and Hindemith's Symphony in E-flat, Thursday, March 4, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 5, at 8:00 p.m., and Monday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m.

Violin superstar Sarah Chang, with pianist Andrew Von Oeyen, is making theIr only Canadian recital appearance at Markham Theatre on February 24 at 8 PM.

On Sunday, February 28th, 2010 at 8:00PM, the Zodiac Trio - an acclaimed Paris-based violin-clarinet-piano ensemble - will present a recital titled 'THE INFINITE WONDERS OF THE SOUND IMAGINARIUM' at the newly-renovated Kaufman Center's Merkin Concert Hall (129 West 67th Street in Manhattan).

Discover the rare treasures few have experienced. For one night only at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), February 2, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. The program includes three rarely performed Italian masterpieces for string orchestra in three distinctively different styles: A. Riccardo Luciani's Le Tombeau Perdu, Verdi's String Quartet in E Minor and Boccherini's Stabat Mater for Soprano and Orchestra

Alto Polis Music Management & Positive Motions Foundation in association with the Glendale Philharmonic Association and 'Positive Motions' Concert Series will present 'Ruslan Biryukov & Friends - Cello Ensembles,' A Chamber Concert Celebrating The Greatest Music Written For Cellists, including World Premieres compositions written by composers Carol Worthey and Deon Nielson Price, performed by critically acclaimed cello players: Ruslan Biryukov, Maksim Velichkin, Hope Easton, Garik Terzian, August Lee and Patricia Ryan accompanied by pianist Mary Au on Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Glendale; 209 N. Louise Street (at Wilson Avenue); Glendale, CA 91206.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Haydn's Symphony No. 49, La passione; the Orchestra's first performance of John Adams's The Wound-Dresser, with baritone Thomas Hampson, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, as soloist; Schubert's Symphony in B minor, Unfinished; and Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces, Thursday, January 14, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 15 at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, January 16, at 8:00 p.m.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Haydn's Symphony No. 49, La passione; the Orchestra's first performance of John Adams's The Wound-Dresser, with baritone Thomas Hampson, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, as soloist; Schubert's Symphony in B minor, Unfinished; and Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces, Thursday, January 14, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 15 at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, January 16, at 8:00 p.m.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in an all-Russian program, featuring Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Russian-born pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, Thursday, January 7, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 8, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, January 12, at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Gilbert will also lead the Rachmaninoff symphony on the Rush Hour Concert, Wednesday, January 6, at 6:45 p.m.

American baritone Thomas Hampson, the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic, will give the Annual Erich Leinsdorf Lecture, Monday, January 11, 2010, at 6:30 p.m., at the Walter Reade Theater, Broadway at 65th Street.

Alto Polis Music Management & Positive Motions Foundation, 'Positive Motions' Concert Series will present the Inaugural Concert of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Mikael Avetisyan, Artistic Director & Principal Conductor, with Soloists, Ruslan Biryukov, Cello; Maksim Velichkin, Cello and Marine Abrahamyan-Abdasho, Soprano on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Glendale.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in an all-Russian program, featuring Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Russian-born pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, Thursday, January 7, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 8, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, January 12, at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Gilbert will also lead the Rachmaninoff symphony on the Rush Hour Concert, Wednesday, January 6, at 6:45 p.m.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in an all-Russian program, featuring Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Russian-born pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, Thursday, January 7, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 8, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, January 12, at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Gilbert will also lead the Rachmaninoff symphony on the Rush Hour Concert, Wednesday, January 6, at 6:45 p.m.

Alto Polis Music Management & Positive Motions Foundation, 'Positive Motions' Concert Series will present the Inaugural Concert of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Mikael Avetisyan, Artistic Director & Principal Conductor, with Soloists, Ruslan Biryukov, Cello; Maksim Velichkin, Cello and Marine Abrahamyan-Abdasho, Soprano on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Glendale.

The New York Philharmonic will conduct a holiday food drive to benefit New Yorkers in need, December 12-19, 2009, as part of Food Bank For New York City's annual campaign 'NYC Goes Orange,' which refers to the color of hunger awareness. This is the sixth year that the Philharmonic is collecting food for this initiative. Concertgoers as well as members of the general public are encouraged to donate non-perishable food items in the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall. Monetary donations can also be made online at foodbanknyc.org any time during the season.

The New York Philharmonic will conduct a holiday food drive to benefit New Yorkers in need, December 12-19, 2009, as part of Food Bank For New York City's annual campaign 'NYC Goes Orange,' which refers to the color of hunger awareness. This is the sixth year that the Philharmonic is collecting food for this initiative. Concertgoers as well as members of the general public are encouraged to donate non-perishable food items in the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall. Monetary donations can also be made online at foodbanknyc.org any time during the season.

Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, with David Fray as soloist in his Philharmonic debut; and Debussy's La Mer, Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, December 4, at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 5, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m.

Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, with David Fray as soloist in his Philharmonic debut; and Debussy's La Mer, Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, December 4, at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 5, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Haydn's Symphony No. 49, La passione; the Orchestra's first performance of John Adams's The Wound-Dresser, with baritone Thomas Hampson, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, as soloist; Schubert's Symphony in B minor, Unfinished; and Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces, Thursday, January 14, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 15 at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, January 16, at 8:00 p.m.

Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, with David Fray as soloist in his Philharmonic debut; and Debussy's La Mer, Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, December 4, at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 5, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m.