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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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 ...
In 1981, a young radio host from Brooklyn came to WNYC. John Schaefer was hired to read newscasts and introduce classical music, but soon found himself hosting a new music show that quickly became the on-air hub of the fertile downtown music scene.
Thoughout December, WNYC will celebrate Schaefer’s inimitable ...
The Greene Space has partnered with Theatre Communications Group to present TCG Playwrights in Conversation.
The Greene Space hosted a very special sneak preview of The Enchanted Island, the Met's world-premiere production which debuts on New Year's Eve. Met stars David Daniels, Danielle de Niese, Lisette Oropesa and Luca Pisaroni performed, and the creative team - the work’s creator and writer Jeremy Sams and director-designer ...
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 ...
Gather 'round The Greene Space for a performance of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring F. Murray Abraham as Scrooge with other characters being played by WNYC and WQXR radio hosts.
Gather 'round The Greene Space for a performance of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, starring F. Murray Abraham as Scrooge with other characters being played by WNYC and WQXR radio hosts.
It’s time for New York City students to choose their middle schools and high schools. Parents universally complain that the system is hard to navigate. Join the conversation on how to make the best choices, December 8th, 6:00pm - 7:30pm.
The Global Salon: BRAZIL examines the country's astounding transformation in economic prosperity and global infrastructure.
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 ...
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 ...
Be in the audience when Garrison Keillor brings “A Prairie Home Companion” to New York for four live broadcasts.
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 ...
