WNYC Giveaways: Events for December 2011

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Avanti

Thursday, December 1, 2011

8:00 PM

The Avanti! Chamber Orchestra travels from its hometown of Helsinki to New York City, beginning its two-night stay at Carnegie Hall with a focus on Finnish composers. This exemplary group sheds a particularly bright spotlight on Carnegie Hall’s composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho with her 1987 work Nymphéa and the world premiere ...

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Mahler's Symphony No. 10 Conducted by Daniel Harding

Thursday, December 1, 2011

7:30 PM

Born in Oxford, England, Daniel Harding began his career assisting Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with that orchestra at the 1996 ...

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More Than Money

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

7:30 PM

After 25 years as the founding financial editor and economic commentator for CNN, Myron Kandel brings his expertise to you in this series dedicated to the momentous happenings in the financial world. Myron’s past guests include Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Chairman and CEO of Forbes Media, Steve Forbes, Nobel ...

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Warhorse

Thursday, December 15, 2011

7:00 PM

Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent ...

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Vidas Perfectas

Thursday, December 15, 2011

8:00 PM

A comic opera about reincarnation, Vidas Perfectas challenges the ways in which we perceive the relationship between language and music. This unique presentation, sung entirely in Spanish, mixes chanting and storytelling, creating a common language where both English and Spanish are mutually understood. Three of the seven episodes of this ...

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The Enchanted Island

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

10:30 AM

In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest. Inspired ...