Summer Music Festivals
Music at Menlo
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 through Thursday, August 5, 2010
(Atherton, CA) July 23 - August 14
Don’t Miss: "Aftermath: 1945,” Aug. 4-5
Events for August 2010
Summer Music Festivals
Bayreuth Festival
Sunday, August 1, 2010
(Bayreuth, Germany) July 25 – August 28
Don’t miss: Götterdämmerung, August 1, 13, 25
Summer Music Festivals
Naumburg Orchestral Concerts
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Central Park, NY, NY (June 22 - August 3)
Don't Miss: The Knights, August 3
Summer Music Festivals
Bard Music Festival and Bard Summerscape
Thursday, August 5, 2010 through Sunday, August 15, 2010
(Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) July 8 - Aug. 22
Don’t Miss: The Chocolate Soldier, August 5-15
Summer Music Festivals
Ravinia Festival
Thursday, August 5, 2010 through Sunday, August 8, 2010
8:49 PM
(Highland Park, IL) June 3 -Sept. 7
Don’t Miss: Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte and Marriage of Figaro, August 5-8
The Greene Space
Making Visible the Invisible
Thursday, August 5, 2010
8:00 PM
New York City is a raw, unbridled and unique symphonic and polyrhythmic sonic landscape, but what does the New York City soundscape look like? Come to The Greene Space to find out, as we display a city-wide collaboration, displaying the unique perspectives of local photographers.
The Greene Space
Making Visible the Invisible
Friday, August 6, 2010 through Tuesday, August 31, 2010
5:00 PM
New York City is a raw, unbridled and unique symphonic and polyrhythmic sonic landscape, but what does its soundscape look like? Come to The Greene Space to find out! View our city-wide collaboration, displaying the unique perspectives of New York City photographers.
WNYC Giveaways
Yacht with Black Devil Disco Club
Friday, August 6, 2010
6:00 PM
Yacht, formed in 2002 by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, who claim Portland and Marfa, Texas as home, is best known for combining music with live visual shamanistic, video, audio and PowerPoint performance.
Summer Music Festivals
Music Mountain
Saturday, August 7, 2010 through Sunday, August 8, 2010
(Lakeville, CT) June 13 - September 5
Don't Miss: Anermet String Quartet
Summer Music Festivals
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
Saturday, August 7, 2010
(Norfolk, CT) July 9 - August 21
Don't Miss: Mahler's Symphony No. 4
Summer Music Festivals
Salzburg Festival
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 through Monday, August 30, 2010
(Salzburg, Austria) July 25 to August 30
Don’t Miss: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, August 10-30
WNYC Giveaways
Movies on the Elevated Acre: The Country Girl
Thursday, August 12, 2010
8:00 PM
Adapted from the Clifford Odets play and starring Grace Kelly, William Holden and Bing Crosby, this 1954 Oscar-winning drama tells the story of an alcoholic has-been Broadway actor struggling with the one last chance he's been given to resurrect his career. Featuring short films by Alexandra Lerman.
Q2
Kronos and Gamelan Galak Tika
Friday, August 13, 2010
7:30 PM
On Friday, August 13th at 7:30 p.m., Q2 encourages New York's New Music enthusiasts, gamelan junkies and seekers of free summer concerts to help document the Kronos Quartet's performance at Lincoln Center Out of Doors in Damrosch Park. This eclectic program presented by the world-famous quartet includes music by Steve Reich, Café Tacuba and Christine Southworth, and it presents diverse opportunities for picture-taking, text-Tweeting and video-filiming.
Q2
Elliott Sharp and Dither in Chalk
Friday, August 13, 2010
7:00 PM
The ever-provocative guitarist/saxophonist/composer Elliott Sharp teams up with the New York-based Dither guitar quartet to perform at the Whitney Museum on Friday night August 13 at 7pm. They will be performing Christian Marclay’s Chalk Board, a piece that invites museum visitors to write on a giant chalk board and those musical notations/drawings/words/scribbles are then interpreted as a musical score by performers in the gallery.
Summer Music Festivals
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
Saturday, August 14, 2010
(Bridgehampton, NY) July 28 - August 22
Don't Miss: Family Concert - Sounds of Nature, August 14
Summer Music Festivals
Tannery Pond Concerts
Saturday, August 14, 2010
(New Lebanon, NY) May 29 - September 25
Don't Miss: Soprano Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano; Craig Rutenberg, piano
Summer Music Festivals
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
(Cape Cod, MA) August 2 - 20
Don't Miss: The Borromeo Quartet, August 17
WNYC Giveaways
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
8:00 PM
Frank Oz directs this 1984 ode to Broadway, in which the Muppets travel to New York intent on finding a producer for their musical, Manhattan Melodies. Featuring a short film by Jay Hufford.
WNYC Giveaways
“Mao’s Last Dancer”
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
7:00 PM
“Mao’s Last Dancer,” from the director of “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Tender Mercies,” tells the story of one man’s journey from rural China to international stardom as a world-class ballet dancer. The film portrays the struggles, sacrifices and triumphs that come with chasing a dream. Based on the autobiography by ...
Summer Music Festivals
Aspen Music Festival
Sunday, August 22, 2010
(Aspen, CO) July 1- August 22
Don’t Miss: Marin Alsop leading the Aspen Festival Orchestra, August 22
WNYC Giveaways
Free Tickets to Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land"
Sunday, August 22, 2010
7:30 PM
A dark masterpiece from Harold Pinter, one of the world's most important playwrights and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. This disturbing and provocative piece offers up Pinter's biting wit and brilliant use of language.
The play contains adult content and is not appropriate for children.
