Upcoming Performances
- Fall Concert
- Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:00pm
The Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street
New York, NY - Winter Concert
- Sunday, February 2, 2014 2:00pm
The Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street
New York, NY - Spring Concert
- Sunday, May 4, 2014 2:00pm
The Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street
New York, NY
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20th Century Archive
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Lieutenant Kije
Posted on October 29, 2012 | No CommentsSuite from Prokofiev's film music. -
Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra
Posted on October 29, 2012 | No CommentsStravinsky's arrangement of his own piano duets. -
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major
Posted on June 22, 2012 | No CommentsMusic by Dmitri Shostakovich. -
Rodeo
Posted on June 21, 2012 | No CommentsThe suite from Aaron Copland's 1942 ballet score. -
Symphony No. 2 in D Major
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Concerto “in the Old Style” for Three Solo Violins and Orchestra
Posted on June 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe CONCERTO "in the old style" FOR THREE SOLO VIOLINS AND STRING ORCHESTRA was commissioned in 1994 by Marc Mostovoy and premiered the work on January 8, 1995 in Philadelphia. -
Symphony No. 9 in Eb Major
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe Ninth Symphony is emblematic of the high-wire act required of a Soviet composer under Communist rule. Shostakovich’s transcendent musical gifts won him status as the Soviet Union’s leading composer,... -
Songs of the Auvergne
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsCanteloube (1879-1957) was born in the Ardèche region in southern France. Early on he showed a proclivity for musical composition and eventually studied in Paris. While he composed two operas... -
Three Tone Pictures for Piano, Winds and Strings
Posted on October 25, 2009 | No CommentsA gifted and eclectic composer, Griffes was born in western New York in 1884 and died prematurely in 1920 at the age of 35. Although he studied with German pianists... -
Psalm 130 for Double Bass and Orchestra
Posted on May 3, 2009 | No CommentsVittorio Giannini (1903-1966) was an influential American composer and teacher in the first half of the 20th century. He served on the composition faculties of the Juilliard School, Manhattan School... -
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Posted on February 8, 2009 | No CommentsThis work is considered by many to be among Vaughan William’s finest compositions. Its theme is taken from a tune composed by Thomas Tallis, a 16th-century English renaissance composer. Vaughan... -
First Suite for Band
Posted on February 8, 2009 | No CommentsGustav Holst (1874-1934) was active as a composer and teacher in the first part of the 20th century. He played a number of instruments, including piano, violin and trombone, and... -
Piano Concerto No. 3
Posted on October 26, 2008 | No CommentsIf you walk along 57th Street near Broadway, you can still see it. On the side of an ordinary-looking building, a small bronze plaque: “The great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók... -
Rhapsody in Blue
Posted on May 18, 2008 | No CommentsGershwin composed the Rhapsody in just a few weeks in early 1924. It was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé (of Grand Canyon Suite fame), and premiered in New York, in February... -
Poem for Flute and Orchestra
Posted on May 18, 2008 | No CommentsA gifted and eclectic composer, Griffes was born in western New York in 1884 and died prematurely in 1920 at the age of 35. Although he studied with German pianists... -
Ben Franklin Suite
Posted on May 18, 2008 | No CommentsBenjamin Franklin, one of our country’s founding fathers, was well-known as a statesman, diplomat, writer, printer, scientist and inventor – but a composer, too? Franklin’s interest in music is well-known.... -
Lincoln Portrait
Posted on May 18, 2008 | No CommentsCopland composed Lincoln Portrait for narrator and orchestra in 1942. It was part of a series of musical portraits of great Americans commissioned by André Kostelanetz shortly after American entry... -
Concerto in D Minor for Violin and Orchestra
Posted on October 28, 2007 | No CommentsBorn in 1865, Jean Sibelius grew to be considered a national hero in his native Finland. A Romantic Nationalist, Sibelius even had his picture on the $100 Mark for a... -
When The Night Wind Howls
Posted on October 29, 2006 | No CommentsThis song is taken from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Ruddigore, or the Witch’s Curse. This delightful operetta features (among other things) a roomful of portraits of ghostly noble ancestors... -
An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
Posted on February 5, 2006 | No CommentsSir Peter Maxwell Davies (called “Max” by many of his friends) has long been one of Britain’s most respected composers. He was born in Manchester, England, and studied music at...
