During the school year, I see a lot of concerts. Two in a day is not uncommon for me; a couple times, I’ve even managed to cram three into a day. And I don’t see why that should change just because it’s summer and most professional musicians have fled to festivals in the wilderness.
To use up all the extra time I’d usually spend studying in the library, I’m embarking on a daring and ill-advised mission. There are almost exactly three months between when my summer starts and ends. In those three months, I’m determined to see fifty concerts and chronicle them on this blog.
A couple things you may be wondering:
Where are you going to see these concerts? I’ll be in NYC for the majority of the summer, with occasional excursions elsewhere. Venue-wise, I’m willing to go anywhere for a good concert, from thousand-seat symphony halls to jazz clubs to Central Park.
What kinds of concerts are you going to see? In short, I’ll be picking what I think I’m most likely to enjoy. That means mostly classical, some jazz, maybe a popular artist here or there. No real rhyme or reason to it, sort of whatever I feel like.
That’s a lot of concerts, isn’t it? Yes. I’m crazy, I know. But I’m not going to get student ticket prices forever, so I might as well take advantage while I can :)
Join me as I take the will call lines of New York by storm. This is 1 Summer, 50 Concerts.
Preview: What I'm Looking Forward To This Summer
Concert #1: S.E.M. Ensemble at Bohemian National Hall
Concert #2: Uri Caine Trio at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #3: NY Philharmonic plays Mozart, Brahms, and Corigliano at David Geffen Hall
Concert #4: Abendmusik plays Lawes and Jenkins at St. Luke in the Fields
Concert #5: Sonnambula and Piffaro play Praetorius at The Met Cloisters
Concert #6: Experiments in Opera presents Chunky in Heat at The Flea
Concert #7: Baroque in the Fields presents Telemann at St. Luke in the Fields
Concert #8: The MET Orchestra and Isabel Leonard perform Debussy, Dutilleux, and Ravel at Carnegie Hall
Concert #9: Laura Kaminsky's As One at Merkin Hall @ The Kaufman Center
Concert #10: Renee Rosnes Quartet at The Village Vanguard
Concert #11: NY Philharmonic premieres David Lang's prisoner of the state
Concert #12: Stefan Jackiw, Yoonah Kim, Zlatomir Fung, and Conrad Tao play Quartet for the End of Time at Bargemusic
Concert #13: Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo at Saint Peter's Church
Concert #14: Roomful of Teeth performs Bryce Dessner's Triptych at BAM
To use up all the extra time I’d usually spend studying in the library, I’m embarking on a daring and ill-advised mission. There are almost exactly three months between when my summer starts and ends. In those three months, I’m determined to see fifty concerts and chronicle them on this blog.
A couple things you may be wondering:
Where are you going to see these concerts? I’ll be in NYC for the majority of the summer, with occasional excursions elsewhere. Venue-wise, I’m willing to go anywhere for a good concert, from thousand-seat symphony halls to jazz clubs to Central Park.
What kinds of concerts are you going to see? In short, I’ll be picking what I think I’m most likely to enjoy. That means mostly classical, some jazz, maybe a popular artist here or there. No real rhyme or reason to it, sort of whatever I feel like.
That’s a lot of concerts, isn’t it? Yes. I’m crazy, I know. But I’m not going to get student ticket prices forever, so I might as well take advantage while I can :)
Join me as I take the will call lines of New York by storm. This is 1 Summer, 50 Concerts.
Preview: What I'm Looking Forward To This Summer
Concert #1: S.E.M. Ensemble at Bohemian National Hall
Concert #2: Uri Caine Trio at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #3: NY Philharmonic plays Mozart, Brahms, and Corigliano at David Geffen Hall
Concert #4: Abendmusik plays Lawes and Jenkins at St. Luke in the Fields
Concert #5: Sonnambula and Piffaro play Praetorius at The Met Cloisters
Concert #6: Experiments in Opera presents Chunky in Heat at The Flea
Concert #7: Baroque in the Fields presents Telemann at St. Luke in the Fields
Concert #8: The MET Orchestra and Isabel Leonard perform Debussy, Dutilleux, and Ravel at Carnegie Hall
Concert #9: Laura Kaminsky's As One at Merkin Hall @ The Kaufman Center
Concert #10: Renee Rosnes Quartet at The Village Vanguard
Concert #11: NY Philharmonic premieres David Lang's prisoner of the state
Concert #12: Stefan Jackiw, Yoonah Kim, Zlatomir Fung, and Conrad Tao play Quartet for the End of Time at Bargemusic
Concert #13: Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo at Saint Peter's Church
Concert #14: Roomful of Teeth performs Bryce Dessner's Triptych at BAM
Concert #15: Talea Ensemble presents Lacunae at the Flea
Concert #16: Camille Bertault and Friends at Birdland
Concert #17: confluss and Spark Duo at Saint John's in the Village
Concert #18: The MET Orchestra and Elīna Garanča perform Mahler and Bruckner at Carnegie Hall
Concert #19: Downtown Voices and NOVUS NY perform Bartók and Orff at St. Paul's Chapel
Concert #20: Dalit Hadass Warshaw's The Letters of Mademoiselle C. at National Opera Center
Concert #21: The Knights play Jacobsen, Sanna, Britten, Bielawa, and Mendelssohn at Temple Emanu-El
Concert #22: Pierre Hantaï plays the Goldberg Variations and more at the DiMenna Center
Concert #23: ChamberQUEER Opening Concert at Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Concert #24: NY City Opera premieres Stonewall at the Rose Theater @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Concert #25: ChamberQUEER Closing Concert at Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Concert #26: The Bad Plus at Jazz Standard
Concert #27: Miho Hazama's Jazz Mass at Saint Peter's Church
Concert #28: Ethan Iverson and Mark Turner at The Village Vanguard
Concert #29: Teatro Nuovo performs Donizetti and Rossini at Church of the Heavenly Rest
Concert #30: Wadada Leo Smith and friends at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #31: Elissa Cassini and Ashley Bathgate at National Sawdust
Concert #32: Vivica Genaux and New York Baroque Incorporated at Caramoor
Concert #33: Jordan/DelGiudice: Collaborative Compositions & Improvisations at Scholes Street Studio
Concert #34: shadows of love at Bethesda Lutheran Church, New Haven
Concert #35: Pauline Kim Harris and friends play John Zorn at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #36: Pauline Kim Harris and Spencer Topel perform original compositions at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #37: Davóne Tines and the Dover Quartet play Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Barber, and Caroline Shaw at Caramoor
Concert #38: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays Mozart, Brahms, and Arensky at Alice Tully Hall
Concert #39: George Li plays Beethoven and Schumann at Merkin Hall
Concert #40: Teatro Nuovo presents Bellini's La straniera at Rose Theater @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Concert #41: Teatro Nuovo presents Rossini's La gazza ladra at Rose Theater @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Concert #42: Vijay Iyer Sextet at The Village Vanguard
Concert #43: Mostly Mozart Festival presents The Magic Flute at David H. Koch Theater
Concert #44: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra plays Beethoven at David Geffen Hall
Concert #45: Mostly Mozart presents The Black Clown starring Davóne Tines at Gerald W. Lynch Theater @ John Jay College
Concert #46: American Modern Opera Company presents Veils for Desire at Caramoor
Concert #47: Final Faculty Concert at Kinhaven Music School, Weston, VT
Concert #48: Faculty Concert at Chamber Music Conference of the East, Bennington, VT
Concert #49: Faculty Concert at Chamber Music Conference of the East, Bennington, VT
Concert #50: Mostly Mozart presents Takács Quartet at Alice Tully Hall
Finale Part 1: The Serious Post
Finale Part 2: The Emery Awards
Finale Part 3: The Blooper Reel
Concert #16: Camille Bertault and Friends at Birdland
Concert #17: confluss and Spark Duo at Saint John's in the Village
Concert #18: The MET Orchestra and Elīna Garanča perform Mahler and Bruckner at Carnegie Hall
Concert #19: Downtown Voices and NOVUS NY perform Bartók and Orff at St. Paul's Chapel
Concert #20: Dalit Hadass Warshaw's The Letters of Mademoiselle C. at National Opera Center
Concert #21: The Knights play Jacobsen, Sanna, Britten, Bielawa, and Mendelssohn at Temple Emanu-El
Concert #22: Pierre Hantaï plays the Goldberg Variations and more at the DiMenna Center
Concert #23: ChamberQUEER Opening Concert at Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Concert #24: NY City Opera premieres Stonewall at the Rose Theater @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Concert #25: ChamberQUEER Closing Concert at Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Concert #26: The Bad Plus at Jazz Standard
Concert #27: Miho Hazama's Jazz Mass at Saint Peter's Church
Concert #28: Ethan Iverson and Mark Turner at The Village Vanguard
Concert #29: Teatro Nuovo performs Donizetti and Rossini at Church of the Heavenly Rest
Concert #30: Wadada Leo Smith and friends at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #31: Elissa Cassini and Ashley Bathgate at National Sawdust
Concert #32: Vivica Genaux and New York Baroque Incorporated at Caramoor
Concert #33: Jordan/DelGiudice: Collaborative Compositions & Improvisations at Scholes Street Studio
Concert #34: shadows of love at Bethesda Lutheran Church, New Haven
Concert #35: Pauline Kim Harris and friends play John Zorn at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #36: Pauline Kim Harris and Spencer Topel perform original compositions at The Stone @ Mannes
Concert #37: Davóne Tines and the Dover Quartet play Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Barber, and Caroline Shaw at Caramoor
Concert #38: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays Mozart, Brahms, and Arensky at Alice Tully Hall
Concert #39: George Li plays Beethoven and Schumann at Merkin Hall
Concert #40: Teatro Nuovo presents Bellini's La straniera at Rose Theater @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Concert #41: Teatro Nuovo presents Rossini's La gazza ladra at Rose Theater @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
Concert #42: Vijay Iyer Sextet at The Village Vanguard
Concert #43: Mostly Mozart Festival presents The Magic Flute at David H. Koch Theater
Concert #44: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra plays Beethoven at David Geffen Hall
Concert #45: Mostly Mozart presents The Black Clown starring Davóne Tines at Gerald W. Lynch Theater @ John Jay College
Concert #46: American Modern Opera Company presents Veils for Desire at Caramoor
Concert #47: Final Faculty Concert at Kinhaven Music School, Weston, VT
Concert #48: Faculty Concert at Chamber Music Conference of the East, Bennington, VT
Concert #49: Faculty Concert at Chamber Music Conference of the East, Bennington, VT
Concert #50: Mostly Mozart presents Takács Quartet at Alice Tully Hall
Finale Part 1: The Serious Post
Finale Part 2: The Emery Awards
Finale Part 3: The Blooper Reel
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