Events: Music
Selected by Cathleen Schine
October 15, 2012, 7:30 pm
Celebrating Moby Dick: A Benefit Performance for the South Street Seaport Museum
New York Academy of Medicine, New York
A theatrical event to benefit the South Street Seaport Museum including music, whales (on film), and readings from Moby Dick by Matthew Broderick, Edward Herrmann, John Douglas Thompson and Matthew Rauch, and historian and author Nathaniel Philbrick.
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Selected by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
October 20, 2012, 7:30 pm
Paul Lewis Plays Schubert
Alice Tully Hall, New York
We live in an age of great Schubertians, few more remarkable than Paul Lewis. Touring internationally, at venues famous and obscure, he has worked his way through the Schubert canon, and has now reached the three great last sonatas.
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Selected by Marie d’Origny
October 26, 2012 – November 4, 2012, 8 pm
Lakmé
Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier, Montpellier
The arrival this fall of a new and elegant production of Lakmé, one of the jewels of late 19th Century French opera, is cause to visit Montpellier.
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Reviewed in the NYR
October 23, 2012 – November 17, 2012
The Tempest
The Metropolitan Opera, New York
In the December 6 issue, Geoffrey O'Brien writes, “Thomas Adès’s opera The Tempest is certainly a rare occasion—when was the last time the Met presented a contemporary opera with the composer conducting?”
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