MAR
7
Classical Interludes: Curtis Stewart
Told through video, violin, verse and electronics, Of Power is a contemporary "coming of agency" story - Grappling with themes of resilience, resistance and the nature of power, Curtis Stewart weaves a confessional narrative, through the lens of...
MAR
28
Classical Interludes: Invoke
Described as “not classical...but not not classical” (David Srebnik, SiriusXM Classical Producer), Invoke continues to successfully dodge even the most valiant attempts at genre classification. The multi-instrumental band’s other ‘not-nots’...
APR
25
Classical Interludes: Brooklyn Art Song Society: The Dichter Project: Bertolt Brecht
This program explores two essential musical partnerships with the 20th-century’s greatest literary radical. Hanns Eisler’s Holywooder Liederbuch uses Brecht’s experience as a refugee during World War II to explore the modern condition. Kurt...
MAY
2
Classical Interludes: Gabriel Martins
Cellist Gabriel Martins (b. 1998) is the winner of the 2020 Sphinx Competition and the 2020 Concert Artists Guild / Young Classical Artists Trust Grand Prize. Additionally, he has won major prizes in the 2013 David Popper International Cello...
MAY
15
Five Boroughs Music Festival Presents Terra Nova
Five Boroughs Music Festival presents Terra Nova, a new concert-length song cycle created by the members of composer-collective Oracle Hysterical and performed in collaboration with the contemporary mixed-instrument quartet...
