Events for July 2010

Summer Music Festivals

Grand Teton Music Festival

Friday, July 2, 2010

(Jackson Hole, WY) June 30 - Aug 14

Don't Miss: Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, July 2 & 3

Summer Music Festivals

Maverick Concerts

Sunday, July 4, 2010

(Woodstock, NY) June 27 - September 5

Don't Miss: Shanghai Quartet, July 4

 

WNYC Giveaways

The Dan Zanes Jam and Jubilee

Sunday, July 4, 2010

2:00 PM

The River to River Festival presents Dan Zanes in concert at The Family Festival. Special guests include Tony nominee Stew of Passing Strange, spoken word poet Caridad De La Luz aka La Bruja and Joan Osborn.

Summer Music Festivals

City of London Festival

Thursday, July 8, 2010

(London, England) June 21 – July 9

Don’t Miss: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, July 8

WNYC Giveaways

Madeleine Peyroux

Thursday, July 8, 2010

8:00 PM

With a repertoire that extends from personal, original songs to a breadth of rare classics from a bygone era, Madeleine Peyroux's standards are anything but standard. She performs as part of the River to River Festival at Castle Clinton.

Summer Music Festivals

Tanglewood

Friday, July 9, 2010

(Lenox, MA) June 26 – September 5

Don’t Miss: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection," July 9

Summer Music Festivals

Oregon Bach Festival

Sunday, July 11, 2010

(Eugene and Portland, Oregon) June 25 - July 11

Don’t Miss: Mendelssohn’s Elijah, July 11 (Eugene)

The Greene Space

New York, New Jersey, and the World

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

10:00 AM

Be in the audience for “New York, New Jersey and the World,” a special Brian Lehrer Show, live in The Greene Space. Guests include Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, and Seth Pinsky of the Economic Development Corporation.

Summer Music Festivals

Verbier Festival

Friday, July 16, 2010

(Verbier, Switzerland) July 16 – August 1

Don’t Miss: Verbier Festival Orchestra with pianist Yuja Wang, July 16

Summer Music Festivals

Marlboro Festival

Saturday, July 17, 2010

(Marlboro, Vermont) July 17 – August 15

Don’t Miss: Opening Night, July 17

Summer Music Festivals

Glimmerglass Opera

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Cooperstown, NY) July 9 – August 24

Don’t Miss: Handel’s Tolomeo, July 18 – August 23

Summer Music Festivals

Festival Del Sole

Sunday, July 18, 2010

(Napa Valley, CA) July 16 – 25

Don’t Miss: Russian National Orchestra with Joshua Bell & Jean-Yves Thibaudet, July 18

Summer Music Festivals

Lincoln Center Festival

Monday, July 19, 2010

(New York, NY) July 7-25

Don’t Miss: Varèse: (R)evolution July 19-20

The Greene Space

Caramoor International Jazz Festival Hits Manhattan

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

7:00 PM

The Greene Space and the Caramoor International Jazz Festival turn up the heat in New York City, as we bring you a sneak-peek into the full three-day Caramoor International Jazz Festival with today’s jazz greats: Elio Villafranca, Clarice Assad, and Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra.

WNYC Events

Census and Sensibilities: 40 & Under Singles Event

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

7:00 PM

Join Brian Lehrer for Census and Sensibilities: 40 & Under Singles Event. Meet other WNYC listeners, enjoy drinks and snacks, and take part in a fun census quiz.

Summer Music Festivals

Celebrate Brooklyn

Thursday, July 22, 2010

(Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY) June 9-August 8

Don’t Miss: The Chaplin Mutuals: Carl Davis, July 22

The Greene Space

Soundcheck Live from The Greene Space: The cast of “Fela!” plus Dean & Britta

Thursday, July 22, 2010

2:00 PM

See Dean & Britta's accompaniment written for short Andy Warhol films and join the cast and band from the hit Broadway musical Fela! for a live performance on Soundcheck from The Greene Space.

WNYC Giveaways

Antibalas

Thursday, July 22, 2010

7:00 PM

Antibalas - Spanish for “bulletproof” - is a high-energy and highly celebrated Afrobeat orchestra from Brooklyn.  The band anchors this year’s Broadway hit FELA! with their musical direction and energetic instrumentalists, arranging and performing the music of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and originals alike.

The Greene Space

Making Visible the Invisible

Friday, July 23, 2010

Submit your artwork by Friday, July 23, 2010 at 11:59 pm and your work will become a part of the digital photographic exhibition that will run the entire month of August 2010, projected in the store front windows of The Greene Space; seen by up to 3 million people en route to the Holland Tunnel each month.

Summer Music Festivals

Santa Fe Opera

Saturday, July 24, 2010

(Santa Fe, NM) July 2-August 28

Don’t Miss: Life is a Dream, July 24, 28; August 6, 12, 19

The Greene Space

DanceTalks: Dancing Identity

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

11:00 AM

To celebrate SummerStage's 25 years, they team up with The Greene Space to explore the question "What is black dance?" through a live performance and chat moderated by Guggenheim Fellow Dr. Kariamu Welsh, contemporary dance choreographer and scholar.

The Greene Space

SummerStage Concert with Olu Dara

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

7:00 PM

Joe Thompson, winner of the Battle of the Boroughs, is opening for the SummerStage Concert with Olu Dara, veteran avant-garde player combines jazz, simple blues and Caribbean dance rhythms with his unique cornet and trumpet playing to depict stories about life’s simple joys.

Summer Music Festivals

Caramoor Festival

Friday, July 30, 2010

11:49 AM

(Katonah, NY) June 25 - August 11

Don't Miss: Christopher O'Riley's Out of My Hands, July 30

The Greene Space

The Ultimate Concert: Joe Thompson and the Comfortable Catastrophe

Friday, July 30, 2010

7:00 PM

Joe Thompson and the Comfortable Catastrophe, winners of the Battle of the Boroughs, perform their prize-winning concert in The Greene Space.