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From our inaugural concert, Wall to Wall Bach, to our enduring association with the World Music Institute, to our new music performances where composers from Cage to Corigliano, Ligeti to León and Adams to Zorn all have a place, Symphony Space is the place to open your ears, your heart and your mind.

Our 30th anniversary music season showcases our rich legacy, propels the next generation of rising stars and embraces musical innovation. Our series, which are thematically organized as mini-festivals, are designed to appeal to your singular tastes or your cross-over sensibility.
September 2008
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unWINEd Presents Chana Rothman
A part of the series unWINEd Presents
  Chana Rothman uniquely fuses Lilith-esque singer/songwriter folk mentality with progressive worldbeat in two languages. Like an eclectic ’07 Rickie Lee/Joni, her politics, her obvious bohemianism and her delicate vocal phrasing push her sound into a delicious left-of-center mix that also incorporates reggae and hip hop.


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Tickets: No Cover

Showdate(s):
Thursday, September 4, 2008 @ 9:30 pm


unWINEd Presents Aaron Gilmartin
  Aaron Gilmartin is a singer-songwriter and guitarist of uncommon passion, commitment, and integrity. With a background full of influences ranging from Brazil and flamenco to rock and blues, he combines virtuosic, intricate guitar work with a straightforward, honest, heartfelt vocal style. Aaron writes accessible and appealing pop-folk tunes and delivers them in a voice of gentle strength and powerful conviction.


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Tickets: No Cover

Showdate(s):
Friday, May 2, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Friday, September 5, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Thursday, September 25, 2008 @ 9:30 pm


Big Apple Chorus
  Internationally acclaimed a cappella artists, the Big Apple Chorus brings Barbershop harmony into the 21st century with an exuberant mix of Broadway, gospel, swing and ragtime. Joining them is the award-winning barbershop quartet Reveille and special guests.

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Tickets: $35 / $25; Member, Student, Child, Group $30 / $20

Showdate: Saturday, September 13, 2008

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Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
A part of the series Opera on Film
A part of the series Opera on Film (Film)
Symphony Space and Emerging Pictures present Rossini’s The Barber of Seville from Teatro la Fenice, Venice.

Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
Director: Bepi Morassi
Artists: Francesco Meli, Bruno De Simone, Rinat Shaham, Roberto Frontali, Giovanni Furlanetto




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Tickets: $21; Members $19
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Showdates: Sunday, September 14, 2008 - Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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Sidney Bechet Society - Evan Christopher
  Evan Christopher is a refreshingly bright new light on the national and international jazz scene. He combines virtuosity, immaculate taste and the youthful resources of energy and enthusiasm with a deep commitment to capturing the full range of musical possibilities that come from having strong roots in the idioms of early Jazz and the Creole clarinet style.


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Tickets: $35

Showdate: Monday, September 15, 2008

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Joan Tower Celebration Concert No. 1
A part of the series Inside the Masterpieces
The Cassatt Quartet celebrates Tower’s 70th birthday with three concerts, each featuring a Tower quartet, a masterpiece that has inspired her, and a world premiere by a contemporary composer.

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Tickets: Day of Show $30; Advance $25; Members $20
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Showdate: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 7:30 pm

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King of Congolese Soukous – Kanda Bongo Man
A part of the series World Music Institute
  Vocalist and bandleader Kanda Bongo Man, one of the giants in modern African pop, is a pioneer and superstar of modern Congolese soukous - joyful and uplifting dance music that combines African traditional melodies and African-rooted rhythms. He has been at the heart of the Parisian soukous scene since the 1980s, and popularized Kwassa Kwassa, the infectious Congolese dance style, throughout the world. His ensemble includes two dancers.

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Tickets: $30; Members $25; Students $18

Showdate: Friday, September 19, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Rajasthan – Music and Dance of the Desert: Rupayan
A part of the series World Music Institute
  From the windswept Great Thar Desert in Rajasthan (“the land of kings”) in northwestern India comes the famed Rupayan ensemble with its mesmerizing music. Composed of members of the Langa (”song giver”) and Manghaniyar hereditary groups of itinerant entertainers, Rupayan performs a program of vibrant folk music encompassing driving percussion, ecstatic Sufi songs, and hypnotic sarangi (bowed lute) and algoza (double flute). The ensemble is joined by the Kalapriya Dancers under the direction of Pranita Jain, the “Dance Jewel of Rajasthan.” Rupayan has performed worldwide, and toured for three years with the Zingaro equestrian show.


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Tickets: $30; Members $25; Students $18

Showdate: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Classics Declassified – Strauss/Four Last Songs
A part of the series ClassicsDeclassified
  The American Symphony Orchestra’s acclaimed ClassicsDeclassified series offers informal, three-part Sunday matinee concerts, each an interactive exploration of a masterpiece with Leon Botstein as your guide!


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Tickets: $25; Members, Students, Seniors $20

Showdate: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 4:00 pm

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Electric Ganesha Land: Prasanna
A part of the series World Music Institute
  Prasanna is the world’s best-known performer of traditional Carnatic (South Indian) music on the electric guitar. This program will feature traditional South Indian music, as well as selections from Electric Ganesha Land, Prasanna’s tribute album to Jim Hendrix. Accompaniment by three leading percussionists on mrdangam (barrel drum), ghatam (clay pot) and kanjira (tambourine).


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Tickets: $28; Members $24; Students $18

Showdate: Friday, September 26, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Sephardic Song Festival: Savina Yannatou
A part of the series World Music Institute
  Savina Yannatou, the evocative Greek singer known for her mastery and explorations of various traditions throughout the Mediterranean, performs deeply moving and haunting renditions of songs from the once thriving Greek-Jewish community of Salonica (now known as Thessaloniki). Accompaniment will be provided by Primavera en Salonico, the ensemble with which she has toured and recorded for over ten years. The program will also include selections from her new ECM recording Songs of An Other that features songs from different cultures interpreted in Ms. Yannatou’s distinctive style.


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Tickets: $30; Members $25; Students $18

Showdate: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Classical Persian Music by Omoumi Ensemble
  Persian classical music


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Tickets: $60 / $40 / $30

Showdate: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 7:00 pm

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Joan Tower Celebration Concert No. 2
A part of the series Inside the Masterpieces
The Cassatt Quartet celebrates Tower’s 70th birthday with three concerts, each featuring a Tower quartet, a masterpiece that has inspired her, and a world premiere by a contemporary composer.

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Tickets: Day of Show $30; Advance $25; Members $20
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Showdate: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:30 pm

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Piedmont String Band Music: Carolina Chocolate Drops
A part of the series World Music Institute
  The Carolina Chocolate Drops are leaders in the revival of the old-time black string band music of the Piedmont region of the Carolinas – a rich banjo and fiddle tradition that was the antecedent of Appalachian old-time music, bluegrass, ragtime and blues. The group’s members – Justin Robinson, Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons – have been acclaimed for their spirited interpretations of this back porch foot-stomping music that reached its height of popularity in the 1920s and ‘30s.


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Tickets: $28; Members $24; Students $18

Showdate: Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:00 pm

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New York Tango Festival – Tango Noir
A part of the series World Music Institute
  This evening marks the New York premiere of Tango Noir, a new show conceived and directed by Mariela Franganillo that combines humor with the dark side of tango. The cast features four breathtaking dancers: Los Hermanos Macanas (the brothers Enrique and Guillermo Di Fazio), who comprise one of the hottest acts in the international tango scene and are making their NY theatrical debut; Robert Reis, of Forever Tango fame; and Mariana Parma of Swango. The musical ensemble is led by Gustavo Casenave.


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Tickets: $45 / $35; Members $40 / $30; Student $18

Showdate: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Bellini’s Norma
A part of the series Opera on Film
A part of the series Opera on Film (Film)
Symphony Space and Emerging Pictures present Bellini’s Norma from Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Conductor: Evelino Pido
Director: Federico Tiezzi
Artists: Daniela Dessi, Fabio Armiliato




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Tickets: $21; Members $19
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Showdates: Sunday, October 5, 2008 - Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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Broadway In South Africa: The Concert
Broadway in South Africa: The Concert is a benefit for an exciting new project that brings Broadway performers as teaching artists to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. This inspiring evening will feature original songs by some of the most well known composers for the contemporary music theatre written exclusively for this concert, performed by Broadway's brightest stars. Expect performances by Eden Espinosa, Norm Lewis, Julia Murney, Billy Porter, and many more special guests! Also featured this evening will be the award-winning Charles Anderson Dance Theatre X from Philadelphia.

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Tickets: $100 / $60; Members $40; Under Age 25 $20

Showdate: Monday, October 6, 2008, 7:30 pm

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The Mannes Orchestra - Haydn, Strauss, Beethoven
  Under the direction of David Hayes, The Mannes Orchestra performs seven programs each season, this year at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Halls, Lincoln Center, and Symphony Space. This concert will include a performance of Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, “Drum Roll”; Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, op. 28; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67.


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Tickets: FREE

Showdate(s):
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 @ 8:00 pm


Kathy Mattea / Les Charbonniers de l’ Enfer
A part of the series World Music Institute
  Kathy Mattea, Grammy and Country Music Association award-winning vocalist, carries on the Appalachian tradition of “songcatcher” with her acclaimed new album Coal, which pays tribute to her West Virginian family heritage in the region’s coal mining culture. Canada’s Les Charbonniers De L’Enfer (“little coal miners from Hell”), comprised of five superb singers including two who performed with La Bouttine Souriante, perform inspired a cappella interpretations of Quebecois folk music.


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Tickets: $28; Members $24; Students $18

Showdate: Friday, October 10, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Voices Only: An Evening of A Cappella Music with Award-Winning Quartets 'Round Midnight and the New Yorkettes
  Join in song as 'Round Midnight (2008 NY Harmony Sweepstakes Audience Favorite) and the Newyorkettes (recently featured at Shea Stadium) present an eclectic mix of American music spanning eight decades.


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Tickets: $25, Advance $20

Showdate: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 7:30 pm

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Songs of Venezuela – Serenata Guayanesa
  Serenata Guayanesa, originally from the southern region of Guayana in Venezuela, is a vocal quartet dedicated to exploring Venezuela's diverse and extensive musical traditions. One of Venezuela's most beloved bands, it has made successful and critically acclaimed albums for more than 30 years. Its repertoire, performed masterfully with four voices, cuatro (small guitar) and traditional percussion, includes brilliant and sophisticated arrangements of original songs, children's music, and a vast selection of Venezuelan folklore. Rare New York appearance.


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Tickets: $28; Members $24; Students $18

Showdate: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Irish Musicians for the Mercy Center
Please join us for a spectacular concert that will benefit a wonderful cause. The Mercy Center was founded in the slums of Bangkok by Father Joseph Maier 35 years ago. Beginning as a one-room pre-school classroom, it now runs over 30 neighborhood schools, four orphanages, a hospice for adults with HIV/AIDS and a 500-pupil kindergarten. It is a loving home to over 180 abused, abandoned and orphaned children – one third of them born with HIV. Its anti-trafficking program protects the most vulnerable children living on the streets. Since 1973 the foundation has built over 10,000 houses in the slums. Everything they accomplish is in partnership with the poor.

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Tickets: $50 / $35 / $25; Students $45 / $30 / $20

Showdate: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Joan Tower Celebration Concert No. 3
A part of the series Inside the Masterpieces
The Cassatt Quartet celebrates Tower’s 70th birthday with three concerts, each featuring a Tower quartet, a masterpiece that has inspired her, and a world premiere by a contemporary composer.


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Tickets: Day of Show $30; Advance $25; Members $20
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Showdate: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 7:30 pm

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William Cepeda's Puerto Rican Explosion
A part of the series World Music Institute
  This exhilarating program featuring 17 musicians, singers, and dancers is under the direction of the incomparable trombonist/composer William Cepeda. The program ranges from the traditional to the contemporary, encompassing the dynamic African-derived bomba and plena – the island’s two most distinctive folkloric traditions – and innovative “Afrorican jazz,” which melds jazz harmonies with popular Caribbean rhythms.


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Tickets: $30; Members $25; Students $18

Showdate: Friday, October 17, 2008, 8:00 pm

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The Trial of Mr. Wolf (AKA Peter and the Wolf)
  The Astoria Music Society presents The Trial of Mr. Wolf, based on the Prokofiev’s musical masterpiece Peter and the Wolf. In The Trial of Mr. Wolf, each of the characters takes the witness stand and faces intense cross-examination in order to determine what exactly happened to the duck. You’ll be surprised! Written and directed by Jeff LaGreca, and featuring musicians from the Astoria Symphony and an outrageous cast of stand-up and improve comedians, this show is a sure-fire family hit.


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Tickets: $20; Members/Students/Seniors $15

Showdate: Saturday, October 18, 2008, 2:00 pm

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Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association 14th Annual Performance featuring Oh, Jung Hae
  KTPAA is proud to present its 14th annual performance showcase featuring the renowned pansori singer and international award-winning actress, Oh Jung-Hae, who was the star of the popular film, Seopyeonje, the first movie about pansori and its importance in Korean culture. She will perform with Heo Yoon-Jung, celebrated composer and geomungo player. The concert will also feature the “Sound of Korea” which will present a spectacular array of songs and dances. Leading this ensemble will be Sue Yeon Park, President of KTPAA and a recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship for 2008 from the National Endowment for the Arts for her traditional Korean dance preservation and performance in the United States.


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Tickets: $70 / $50 / $30

Showdate: Saturday, October 18, 2008

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RAM Slam: featuring Iktus Percussion Quartet
  The Astoria Music Society presents RAM Slam!, featuring the Iktus Percussion Quartet, a dynamic young ensemble committed to expanding the boundaries of the percussion genre, in a performance of all-new works written by R.A.M. (Random Access Music), a consortium of six New York City composers.


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Tickets: $20; Members/Students/Seniors $15

Showdate: Saturday, October 18, 2008, 8:30 pm

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Sidney Bechet Society: Vince Giordano
  Vince Giordano has long been the premier authority on performing 1920s and '30s jazz and popular music. Woody Allen, Madonna, Terry Zweigoff, Garrison Keillor and the New York Philharmonic have all used Giordano and his eleven-piece big band, the Nighthawks, to summon up the days of Busby Berkeley and bathtub gin. The Nighthawks recently recorded 22 note-perfect recreations of vintage hits for the soundtrack of The Aviator, Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic. Giordano appears in the film in the center of a vocal trio singing “Happy Feet” ala Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys.


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Tickets: $35

Showdate: Monday, October 20, 2008

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Thalia Follies: At Last - An Election!
A part of the series The Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret
Ten days before the endless election process of 2008 finally comes to a climax, the Follies reviews the candidates, the issues, and the prospects for America.


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Tickets: Day of Show $30; Advance $25; Members $20
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Showdates: Thursday, October 23, 2008 - Saturday, October 25, 2008

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Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Opera for Humanity Presents: Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” (3 Acts, Concert Version)

Starring: Amy Shoremount-Obra (Lucia); Jon-Michael Ball (Edgardo); Charles Sanford (Enrico); Jorge Ocasio (Raimondo); Gregory Spock (Arturo); Kevin Courtemanche (Normanno); Halley Gilbert (Alisa)

Opera for Humanity Chorus and Orchestra

Christina Henson, Artistic Director Donato Cabrera, Conductor Performance will benefit The Food Bank For New York City and World Vision Child Sponsorship in Malawi and Cambodia.


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Tickets: $65 / $55 / $45

Showdate: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:30 pm

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Creative Music Studio Celebration
A part of the series Jazz Spectrum
Featuring John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Bill Laswell, Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger, Graham Haynes, Steven Bernstein’s “Millennial Territory Orchestra” and other leading jazz artists.

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Tickets: Day of Show $35; Advance $30; Members $25
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Showdate: Friday, October 24, 2008, 7:30 pm

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The Unheard Voices Tour – Arnob and Friends
"Timeless", "The most talented musician from Bangladesh", "Spell binding live performance" are some of the phrases used to describe Arnob's combination of poetic lyrics and sophisticated melodies. One most talented and ground-breaking musicians in Bangladesh, Arnob has three widely acclaimed albums (Chaina Bhabish 2005, Hok Kolorob 2006, Doob 2008). He is without doubt the most creative and accomplished musician on the Bangladeshi contemporary scene. His repertoire features an eclectic mix of his own contemporary compositions and Bengali folk songs interpreted through modern eyes. Arnob has helped revitalize the music scene in Bangladesh, fusing folk songs with blues and classical for an East-meets-West feel to his music.

Drishtipat is a non-profit, non-partisan volunteer organization committed to safeguarding human rights in Bangladesh through action-oriented projects that provide direct assistance to those individuals whose voices remain unheard today. Drishtipat is partnering with Arnob to raise funds to support our ongoing human rights and development projects.


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Tickets: $25; Students $20

Showdate: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Mozart’s Don Giovanni
A part of the series Opera on Film
A part of the series Opera on Film (Film)
Symphony Space and Emerging Pictures present Mozart’s Don Giovanni from the Salzburg Festspielhaus.

Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Director: Claus Guth
Artists: Christopher Maltman, Matthew Polenzani, and Erwin Schrott


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Tickets: $21; Members $19
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Showdates: Sunday, October 26, 2008 - Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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Moving Sounds Festival Preview Concert
The Argento Chamber Ensemble previews of the Moving Sounds Festival, 2009 in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum. Concert includes music by Austria's leading composers: Georg Friedrich Haas's Trio ex Uno, a micro-tonal orchestration of music by Josquin Des Prez, and Bernhard Lang's Differenz/Wiederholung 1 as well as 5.2, a world premiere arrangement by Michel Galante for spatialized ensemble.

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Tickets: $15; Members $12

Showdate: Monday, October 27, 2008, 7:30 pm

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Carducci String Quartet
A part of the series Inside the Masterpieces
The acclaimed U.K. quartet, winner of the Kuymo, London, and Bordeaux International Chamber Music Competitions, makes its U.S. debut at Symphony Space.

Featuring:
Franz Joseph Haydn / Quartet in D Major, Op. 20 No. 4
Philip Glass / String Quartet No. 2
Antonin Dvořák / Quartet, Op. 96 “American”

Presented in cooperation with Concert Artists Guild.

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Tickets: Day of Show $30; Advance $25; Members $20
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Showdate: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 7:30 pm

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TechnoSonics 2008
  The 2008 Technosonics Festival features improvised and composed works for humans, computers and robots performing music for squeaky toys, strings, sensor-based interactive dance, improvising ensemble, guitars, voice, computer-generated sound and interactive audience-driven sound sculpture. Produced by the VCCM Computer Music Center and the University of Virginia Department of Music.


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Tickets: $10; Members $5

Showdate: Friday, October 31, 2008, 7:30 pm

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Dia de los Muertos, A Latin Jazz Halloween
A part of the series Jazz Spectrum
A part of the series Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Arturo O'Farrill brings world-class artists and the ground-breaking music of contemporary big band Afro-Latin jazz to Symphony Space for the second year in a row. Pre-performance Underscore event with Laura Kaminsky on 10/31.


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Tickets: $30; Members, Students, Seniors, Children $25
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Showdates: Friday, October 31, 2008 - Saturday, November 1, 2008

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Olivier Messiaen at 100
A part of the series Inside the Masterpieces
In this centennial celebration, the New Millennium Ensemble performs The Blackbird–one of the many pieces that the composer (pictured) created in his unique musical language that captured birdsong–and the monumental Quartet for the End of Time, composed in a Silesian labor camp in 1941. Award-winning pianists Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal perform Visions de l’Amen, inspired by the Revelation of St. John the Divine.

Pre-performance Underscore event with Laura Kaminsky.

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Tickets: Day of Show $35; Advance $30; Members $25
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Showdate: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:00 pm

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New York Flamenco: Espiritu Gitano & Friends
A part of the series World Music Institute
  Guitarist/composer Arturo Martinez (“Espiritu Gitano”) has been a noted figure in the New York flamenco scene since the 1980s. His program is rooted in the Andalusian Gypsy tradition and is inspired by various traditions, including North African, Hispanic-American, and jazz. The evening features Gazpacho Andalu, the flamenco fusion ensemble led by Spanish flamenco singer/composer Alfonso Cid; the colorful flamenco duo Los Cintron, from Spain; and dancer/vocalists Barbara Martinez and Sol Koeraus.


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Tickets: $28; Members, Children, Groups $24; Students $18

Showdate(s):
Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 7:30 pm


Premiere Works XVIII
  New compositions for Chinese and Western instruments


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Tickets: $18; Members $16; Group $15; Student, Teacher, Child $10; Day of Show $20

Showdate: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet
A part of the series Opera on Film
A part of the series Opera on Film (Film)
Symphony Space and Emerging Pictures present Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet from the Salzburg Festspielhaus.

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Director: Bartlett Sher
Artists: Nino Surguladze, Rolando Villazón


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Tickets: $21; Members $19
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Showdates: Sunday, November 9, 2008 - Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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Highlights of the After Dinner Opera Co. First 60 Years (Laughter and Tears)
  Happy 60th anniversary celebration of After Dinner Opera highlights of past productions from Bernstein to Barab.


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Tickets: $15; Day of Show $20

Showdate: Monday, November 10, 2008, 7:30 pm

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New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra: Ankush Bahl, Conductor
  Ankush Bahl conducts a program featuring Smetana The Moldau, Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with pianist Gabriela Martinez, and Dvorak Symphony No. 7


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Tickets: $15; Members $10

Showdate: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Gospel! Sacred Brass: McCollough Sons of Thunder
A part of the series World Music Institute
  New York’s own hard-driving Pentecostal brass band, McCollough Sons of Thunder, has rocked audiences with its ecstatic renditions of inspirational pieces arranged for trombones, trumpets, sousaphones, and drums. The group, consisting of members of Harlem’s United House of Prayer for All People Church, is under the direction of the extraordinary trombonist Elder Edward Babb, winner of the National Heritage Fellowship. Emerging from the Holiness/Pentecostal movement that took literally the Psalm’s commandment to “praise the Lord with song and trumpet,” this brass shout band melds the sounds of early blues and jazz with the driving rhythms of southern sanctified music.

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Tickets: $28; Members $24; Students $18

Showdate: Friday, November 14, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Polish American Folk Dance Company 70th Anniversary Concert
For 70 years, the Polish American Folk Dance Company has graced the stage performing Polish songs and dances with their energy and enthusiasm. In celebrating all 70 years, the dance group will showcase 3 generations of dancers including their children's group, junior's group, adult group, singers, and their folk band. This milestone of an event is for everyone's enjoyment and will take you on a tour through Poland with their representations of many colorful and festive regions. Dances varying from slow and graceful Mazurkas, to competitive highlander steps- such as Goralski, to upbeat obereks who's beat can be felt pulsing from the stage to your seat!

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Tickets: $20; Members $15

Showdate: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 7:00 pm

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Verdi’s Otello
A part of the series Opera on Film
A part of the series Opera on Film (Film)
Symphony Space and Emerging Pictures present Verdi’s Otello from the Salzburg Festspielhaus.

Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Director: Stephen Langridge
Artists: Aleksandrs Antonenko and Carlos Álvarez


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Tickets: $21; Members $19
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Showdates: Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Pipa Music of China: Liu Fang
A part of the series World Music Institute
  Liu Fang, a foremost representative of the younger generation of pipa (lute) soloists, is regarded as one of the leading pipa players outside China. Born in China, she studied at the Shanghai Conservatory for Music. Since moving to Canada in 1996, she has had an impressive international career and received many honors including the prestigious New Millennium Prize and the French Academie Charles Cros Award (French equivalent of the Grammy).


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Tickets: $28; Members $24; Students $18

Showdate: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7:30 pm

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Cosi Fan Tutte (W.A. Mozart Opera)
  Classical comic opera “Cosí Fan Tutte” by W.A. Mozart – Music Director, Joonbum Park


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Tickets: $20; Members $15; Day of Show $30

Showdate: Friday, November 21, 2008

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Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains
A part of the series The Adventurers
“Hitchcock evokes much of the same benign insanity that marked John Lennon’s whimsicality.” — Rolling Stone

The British singer/songwriter/guitarist offers a live re-cut of his seminal 1984 album. Hitchcock says, “The record mutates into a concept performance rather like a sofa can become a mattress.”

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Tickets: Day of Show $35; Advance $30; Members $25
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Showdate: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 8:00 pm

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Taikoza
  Experience the thunderous rhythms of the ancestral Japanese Taiko drums and the magical sounds of the bamboo f