Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene. Performers Paint A New Picture On Classical Music. An upcomming classical music concert may suprise fans of Bach or Beethoven, but the many artists involved are daring to create a new concept of the modern classical genre. To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how . install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Then come back here and refresh the page. Many performers get made up before a big show. "Doing body paint and music together, this has never happened in the world of classical music," Stavreva said. The Bulgarian born Stavreva likes to do things differently.
The concert will also showcase the artistry of body painter Danny Setiawan "I'd been showing my work in local art shows and a lot of the time people look at it and then are like, 'well, I saw something similar at IKEA," or something like that," said Setiawan. Incorporating body painting into the performance requires a lot of preparation and for Tania it also means having lots of backless outfits. As for the music, it's also different. MATA. One Day, Who Knows How Many Performers: Make Music 2011 : Deceptive Cadence. Hide caption Gregory Evans, Sarah Baird Knight, and Nathan Koci perform 'Swelter,' a new ambient piece written to be played on the Central Park Lake, as part of Make Music New York on June 21. All photos credit: Anastasia Tsioulcas/NPR Hide caption Park passers-by find three brass players springing out of the greenery along Central Park Lake during 'Swelter.' Hide caption Japanese pianist Taka Kigawa at the guerilla piano near the bandstand in the middle of Central Park.
Hide caption One of the 88 pianos scattered around the city during Sing for Hope's "pop-up piano" installation. Hide caption Players from the group Yarn/Wire play Louis Andriessen's 'Hoketus' from the balconies of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. Hide caption Performers and audience commingled freely in John Luther Adams' 'Inuksuit,' performed in Morningside Park by 99 percussionists. While only in its fifth edition in New York, Make Music is a longstanding global affair. ColumbiaNews/YouTube. Fitz and The Tantrums. James Levine and Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review. John Adams to Preview "Nixon in China" Met Opera Production on WQXR with Director Peter Sellars, Cast Members.
Brother of Juilliard Quartet Founder Endows Two Chairs in His Name. New York Philharmonic. The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review. Because Last Summer, 60 Pianos Magically Appeared - Reasons to Love New York 2010. From the Grand Concourse in the Bronx to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, from the Coney Island boardwalk to the Jackson Heights post office came the rumbling of the bass and the plaintive trilling of the melodies.
The notes were not always in perfect time or perfectly tuned; they issued from battered old instruments painted in loud colors. But they expressed, with perfect fidelity, a city’s collective delight at the start of summer. Sixty pianos appeared throughout the city on June 21, emblazoned with an invitation: PLAY ME, I’M YOURS. An enterprising nonprofit called Sing for Hope conceived of the plan (taking its cue from London but vastly enlarging the scale); a wealthy benefactor covered all the costs; an army of volunteers toiled to get the pianos ready for the public. Aron Magner, a keyboardist with the Philadelphia-based jam band the Disco Biscuits, told his girlfriend, Angelika Bekerman, to meet him at the public piano in the middle of Herald Square on June 24.