Not usually what the Philharmonic's soloists get up to onstage.
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The vocal soloists, all with operatic leanings, were nevertheless varied.
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The vocal soloists are Sandrine Piau, Hugo Hymas and Alex Rosen.
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Soloists perform less often than members of the corps de ballet.
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This was very pleasant, and a great performance by the soloists.
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He's the frontman, rhythm section and instrumental soloists, all at once.
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Visiting soloists include Daniil Trifonov, Leila Josefowicz and Kirill Gerstein. gtmf.
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Soloists, generally, have down time — too much for Ms. Brandt's taste.
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"Sacred Masterwork: Felix Mendelssohn's 'Elijah,'" the Great Auditorium Choir and soloists. Aug.
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The pianist Javier Perianes and the flamenco singer Marina Heredia are soloists.
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Both leaders used small choruses of men and boys and boy soloists.
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It took the quartet of soloists a while to achieve similar balance.
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The soloists have leeway in terms of what they play, and when.
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And the quartet of vocal soloists, while committed, was not quite glamorous.
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Ryan Jackson leads the choir and soloists, with Patrick Kreeger on organ.
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The soloists are Leslie Fagan, Christopher Ainslie, Lawrence Jones and Sidney Outlaw.
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He's one of the first guitar soloists that I really got into.
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Mr. Botstein is joined by six vocal soloists and the Bard Festival Chorale.
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I heard many wonderful soloists in these performances, but two sopranos stood out.
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Lydia Teuscher, Iestyn Davies, Robin Tritschler and Matthew Brook are the vocal soloists.
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But kathak soloists are mathematicians above all, expert calculators of numbers and time.
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The different thing about this is that these guys are such brilliant soloists.
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The vocal soloists in both works are Jessica Rivera, soprano, and Nmon Ford, baritone.
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The work showed the beautiful lines and finesse of the male soloists particularly well.
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Daniel Hyde conducts; Ellie Dehn, Thomas Cooley and Craig Phillips are the vocal soloists.
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Orchestral economics would presumably collapse without a supply of celebrity soloists playing celebrity works.
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The work of the vocal soloists was not quite on the same exalted level.
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I wanted to celebrate the company and use as many soloists as I could.
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The quartet of soloists includes the soprano Jennifer France and the baritone George Humphreys.
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Those who live into old age are usually the soloists who quit climbing alone.
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Given this chorus and the soloists at hand, that may have been a mistake.
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I love what all these female soloists and artists all around the world are doing.
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He met Martin at a club in 1945 where the two were performing as soloists.
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The corps, including several splendid soloists recently seen in other lead Ratmansky roles, was exemplary.
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The jazz pianist Makoto Ozone and the orchestra's principal clarinetist, Anthony McGill, are the soloists.
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Soloists like Mr. Washington and the trombonist Ryan Porter don't have to fight for space.
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The soloists are Christiane Karg and Elisabeth Kulman, with the Prague Philharmonic Choir in tow.
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Yuja was waiting in the small room upstairs where soloists change clothes and receive visitors.
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The most important change made was the removal of the distinction between male and female soloists.
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The program's promising quartet of soloists includes the soprano Joélle Harvey and the tenor Alek Shrader.
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The three accomplished soloists and every ensemble member had a moment or more in the spotlight.
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Soloists from the opera will perform aboard Mediterranean and Adriatic cruises in August, September and October.
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" The orchestra's principal viola and cello, Cynthia Phelps and Carter Brey, act as soloists in "Quixote.
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Among the soloists is the tenor Matthew Polenzani, a smooth-voiced stalwart of the Metropolitan Opera.
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And the other vocal soloists — Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Terry Wey, countertenor; and Christian Immler, baritone — were outstanding.
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The company's leading principals and soloists will perform repertory by August Bournonville, Marius Petipa and Jules Perrot.
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It calls for a huge orchestra, offstage brass and woodwinds, three choirs, five soloists and a narrator.
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It calls for a huge orchestra, offstage brass and woodwinds, three choirs, five soloists and a narrator.
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It features eight soloists and 48 chorus members, in addition to the 70-piece Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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Unlike competitions for soloists, choir competitions feature neither large monetary prizes nor agents waiting to spot new talent.
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Slack-key guitar grew into its own instrumental tradition, with soloists picking multilayered bass lines, chords and melodies.
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The two demi-soloists exit in opposite directions — and now the 12 are a single ring, facing inward.
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But Trinity drew its soloists, more than a dozen of them, from the ranks of its own choir.
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Not all of those soloists were perfectly polished, but there was something affecting about the bits of roughness.
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While there are only three soloists, a chorus and powerful orchestra make this a very grand intimate opera.
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The chemistry between Mr. Maillot and the bright generation of soloists he found in Moscow did the rest.
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The two, less-known young male soloists sang impressively and seemed to win many new fans on Thursday.
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She will say goodbye on Saturday afternoon, dancing alongside the soloists Blaine Hoven and Arron Scott in "Mozartiana."
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All four are talented soloists, and Ms. Isaacs and Mr. Stanley are currently leaping through their repertory like champions.
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This year, Andrew Manze conducts, with the soloists Joélle Harvey, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Ben Bliss and Andrew Foster-Williams.
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But it could just as easily describe the joyous performance of its soloists, Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man.
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The soloists are strong, with Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Ferruccio Furlanetto joining the supreme house chorus.
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Performance after performance, season after season, as soloists come and go and whole shows turn over, the ushers remain.
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Mr. Freyer places the orchestra, choir, children's chorus and most of the soloists on stage behind a black scrim.
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An all-female lineup of composers, a mostly black roster of soloists, and one violinist bowing the wrong way.
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He conducts the Swedish Radio Choir, along with the soloists Malin Christensson, Kristina Hammarstrom, Michael Weinius and Josef Wagner.
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There are celebrated singers, soloists, and conductors who find satisfaction in their work without preying on those around them.
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A sampling of performances of Handel's "Messiah" and other oratorios (soloists are featured in most performances) in New York.
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Holding his coalitions together was not always easy; in opera companies, for example, soloists have different priorities from chorus members.
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Instead, he wrote mostly for smaller ensembles or soloists, slowly and with great effort—that is, when he wasn't blocked.
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Aston Magna's final season concert, An evening of Bach, with soloists Dominique Labelle, Jesse Blumberg, Frank Kelley and Ulysses Thomas.
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This September, the New York Philharmonic will give the première of Ashley Fure's "Filament," for orchestra, instrumental soloists, and singers.
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Mr. Denk's interplay with the orchestra's individual soloists, like the fine clarinets, appeared easy and equal — a joy to watch.
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The lineup includes the premiere of "Spazio Immergente," with the soprano Tony Arnold and the trombonist Tim Albright as soloists.
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Here, especially, many of the ensemble's fine soloists had opportunities to shine, including, of all things, a bassoonist, Sophie Dartigalongue.
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The soloists evoke characters: Ms. Wu's pipa on a merry walk, matched by Mr. Ma's bouncing, buoyant down-bow strokes.
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Ms. Grimaldi, the mezzo-soprano Chiara Amarù, the tenor Michele Angelini and the bass-baritone Marko Mimica were fine soloists.
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The tenor and bass-baritone soloists sang in the second performance, on Saturday, and are expected to appear on Wednesday.
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We also rely as a society, much more deeply than we realize, on the soloists who forge their own paths.
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Malin Christensson and Bernarda Fink are the vocal soloists, with the massed forces of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus behind them.
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There are curated playlists from composers and soloists and even things like highlights from the London Symphony's 2019–2020 season.
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Soloists begin in couples but then build into larger groups, sometimes coalescing like coral formations from which individuals later break away.
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"Precarious I: Guest Solos" sent eight soloists, Eiko included, dancing in and among the church's spaces in thoughtful and mischievous ways.
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The piano, violin and cello soloists — all drawn from the Philharmonic's regular cast — carried a brisk energy throughout the demanding work.
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Monday's concert paired "Symphonie Fantastique" with its rarely performed sequel, "Lélio," a sprawling work for orchestra, narrator, vocal soloists and choir.
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It would have been nice to lift that scrim for the applause, which the ensemble musicians rightfully shared with the soloists.
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This bracing piece calls for the soloists to play all kinds of invented instruments, including wine bottles, twigs and trash cans.
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Mr. Güra's understanding of the role of the Evangelist matches that of his finest peers, and the other soloists are admirable.
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While these bands and soloists strut their stuff for producers and presenters, they put on a show for your family, too.
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That point was also reinforced by the choice of a local orchestra and choir, with an all-German quartet of soloists.
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Comfort, sadness and faith in an afterlife free of suffering are interwoven in this sprawling work for chorus, soloists and orchestra.
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On Tuesday of that week, when the full chorus came in to rehearse with the soloists, Dudamel realized that the production design had caused them to be seated too far back, all the way behind the stage, in seats normally reserved for audience members, from which hinterland they couldn't see him properly and couldn't hear the soloists.
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The strong cast of soloists includes the sopranos Sherezade Panthaki and Sarah Brailey, the tenor Owen McIntosh and the baritone Timothy McDevitt.
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Quartets perform synchronized routines but the highest respect is reserved for the soloists, who show their prowess in accelerating five-minute sprints.
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She invites soloists and ensembles from across the country—and one duo from Tokyo—to show their stuff, June 28-July 2.
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Against the swirling underlay of the rhythm section, and the color-morphing canvas of Mr. Formanek's arrangements, several soloists left lasting impressions.
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Rap songs have multiple writers and do not glorify instrumental soloists; hip-hop stars do not pretend to be uninterested in commerce.
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Still, enough of the charm was intact to make for a lovely evening, variously enhanced by the work of the vocal soloists.
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The two demi-soloists start: They dance from our right to left, with two turning jumps at the end of the phrase.
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And last Thursday, the first presentation of "The Seasons" foundered when two of the three vocal soloists fell ill just hours beforehand.
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Laurence Equilbey conducts the Insula Orchestra and the choir Accentus, with Christina Landshamer, Robin Tritschler and Thomas Tatzl as the vocal soloists.
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Another series is called "Les Concerts Sauvages" (wild concerts), with soloists from the orchestra joined by jazz, folk and world music artists.
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But the Mahler, scored for large orchestra, chorus and two vocal soloists, is a whole lot longer, lasting more than 80 minutes.
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She is keenly aware—as many soloists affect not to be—that she is being looked at as well as listened to.
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The four women soloists — notably Ashley Laracey in the first solo — beautifully caught the choreography's shining marriage of rhythmic flow and brilliant allure.
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Even as couples and soloists emerged from the work's shifting constellations — most arrestingly the steady, impassioned Zimmi Coker — the ensemble was the star.
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Marvelous soloists abound; the superbly vivid Herman Cornejo and the unstoppably assertive James Whiteside are among the few principals who dance like stars.
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The "soloists" played quietly, matching the darkness around them, and they could only catch snatches and inklings of what the others were playing.
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The 18th-century orchestra that powered Vivaldi's groundbreaking use of virtuoso soloists was composed largely of the orphaned daughters of Venice's sex industry.
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The Concert Chorale of New York is on hand, joining the soloists Jodie Devos, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Andrew Stenson and Ryan Speedo Green.
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New York Baroque Incorporated provides the orchestral accompaniment on period instruments, with the soloists Ellie Dehn, Clare McNamara, Lawrence Jones and Jesse Blumberg.
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Although the members will go their separate ways as soloists and teachers, they will continue to reunite as a group for specific projects.
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While classical music has lauded female soloists, opera singers and even composers, the podium is still very much a place dominated by men.
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Night after night, the arena fills with "promenaders," standing ticketholders who pay 903 pounds to see the orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs and soloists.
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But these conspiracies to keep the band's relevance might not even be necessary, as BTS have already proved themselves as more than capable soloists.
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Notable among the vocal soloists were the soprano Sarah Brailey, the alto Luthien Brackett and the basses Christopher Herbert, Jonathan Woody and Dashon Burton.
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The contributions by various guest soloists in these portions were also stellar — though these players were isolated from the Hespèrion musicians for long stretches.
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His World Ensemble features a strong rhythm section and soloists like Grégoire Maret on harmonica, Yosvany Terry on saxophones and Marshall Gilkes on trombone.
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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON Aston Magna's final season concert is an evening of Bach, with soloists Dominique Labelle, Jesse Blumberg, Frank Kelley and Ulysses Thomas.
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The very news of a program of four female soloists in various ways linked to, or deriving from, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia was tantalizing.
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Without ever acknowledging the transition, and later never holding for applause, characters morph into both piquant soloists and members of a celestial backup chorus.
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In these, he advocated for quarter tones and dreamed up a double concerto for two soloists playing in different keys — a century before Ives.
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Separating the athlete-soloists from the rest of the ensemble is a tall net that protects the musicians (and the audience) from wayward balls.
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The piece conjures echoes of 1970s "Ping-Pong diplomacy," with the violin part serving as an intermediary between the percussive soloists and the orchestra.
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All this in good measure, of course, and the concerto soloists and the orchestra's high brasses proved excellent models of moderation in both concerts.
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The chorus, with its annual crop of new faces, sounded as good as it ever has in my memory, though the soloists were uneven.
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S.C.W. "Contemporary Chaos Practices: Two Works for Orchestra with Soloists" (Intakt) This composer and saxophonist has been a regular in Anthony Braxton's recent groups.
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Sure enough, Balanchine gives us six pairs, three quartets, two sextets and four trios, with those two demi-soloists often adding a further layer.
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They were joined by the aptly named Clarion Choir (Steven Fox, artistic director) and six splendid soloists, all led by the conductor Harry Bicket.
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Two soprano soloists, Sarah Brailey and Sonja DuToit Tengblad stood out in a raft of rapidly shifting characterizations, as did the countertenor Robin Blaze.
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"In Honor of NASA and the Planetary Soloists," for string quartet and oboe, featured violins and viola engaged in gently dissonant, softly sinking harmonies.
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Including these three soloists, Young Concert Artists has fostered the careers of 293 musicians over the course of almost six decades: an admirable achievement.
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In line with much current practice, the conductor, Simon Carrington, benched the chorus for several earlier passages, allotting them instead to the vocal soloists.
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On the periphery were six soloists—a harpist, a cimbalomist, two pianists, and two percussionists—who make a dramatic entrance in the work's second section.
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The concerts include works by Verdi, Respighi, Prokofiev, Mahler and Salvatore Sciarrino, and feature as soloists the pianist Martha Argerich and the soprano Barbara Hannigan.
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And there will be a trio of amplified soloists, including a double bassist who plays at times with a credit card instead of a bow.
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At the U.S. Pole Dance Championship, soloists are judged in five areas: performance; flexibility and extension; difficulty of tricks; smooth and unique transitions; and technique.
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On Saturday, there's the Boston Symphony's main centennial celebration of Leonard Bernstein, involving five conductors, an array of soloists and players from six other ensembles.
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Throughout, soloists wade into movement, but never push the momentum very far; Mr. ElSaffar's solo, almost stationary, circling a single note, has a particular beauty.
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These roles are not only sung by vocalists but also acted out by instrumental soloists, who must memorize their parts and execute precisely choreographed movements.
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Sincerity also made for an engrossing song recital given by a cast of stellar soloists at the National Gallery of Art earlier on Thursday evening.
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These are long, meditative and largely plotless works that test the endurance and excellence of soloists and chorus singers, as well as the conductor and orchestra.
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The soloists at times play with a credit card, a metal sheet or, in Ms. Heller's case, the slap of a tongue against the bassoon's bocal.
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At the concert, Laurie Anderson reprised her role as one of the opera's soloists, delivering Beckett-like lines over Mr. Glass's signature arpeggios and pulsating rhythms.
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Mr. Petrenko's Carnegie debut comes the night before, though, in Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony and Brahms's Double Concerto, with the soloists Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott.
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The quartet of soloists includes the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, fresh from a series of ambitious staged performances juxtaposing works by Philip Glass and, happily, Handel.
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This experience inspired "Where We Lost Our Shadows," a multimedia work for orchestra, video and three soloists that Mr. Jarrar created with the composer Du Yun.
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Heavier fare comes from the Philadelphia Orchestra, led this year by Stéphane Denève and Donald Runnicles and featuring soloists Nikolaj Znaider, Augustin Hadelich and Daniil Trifonov.
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But once a year, for its annual gala, the organization taps a few recent winners of its competitions and presents them as soloists with an orchestra.
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Schlosberg has edited and arranged "Lucia" as a one-act, ninety-minute piece, employing six soloists and a quintet of clarinet, cello, piano, guitar, and percussion.
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At times the jagged vocal lines seem lacerated by furiously driven strings; at others, soft winds and strings support sustained notes by the soloists or chorus.
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And the ambitious monthlong Hong Kong Arts Festival, which would have assembled leading orchestras, opera companies, soloists and dance companies from all over the world, was canceled.
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She has the most songs to hit No. 1 among soloists, with 18 reaching the top, according to the outlet, just behind the Beatles, who have 20.
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This was an ambitious evening of concert opera, the 80-minute "Friedenstag" in particular demanding a chorus (the Bard Festival Chorale), large orchestra and multiple vocal soloists.
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Eastern time (and later available on demand), Raphaël Pichon conducts the oratorio at the Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles, with vocal soloists and the Ensemble Pygmalion.
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We've learned to find different interests—whether it's production, recording techniques, writing, exploring totally different genres of music—instead of progressing our instruments per se as soloists.
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The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys sings accompanied by New York Baroque Incorporated, with the soloists Elizabeth Weisberg, Meg Bragle, Thomas Cooley and Alexander Dobson.
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Mr. Williams found time to record more than a dozen albums of his own and write 30 works for combinations of orchestras, big bands and jazz soloists.
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Even so, Masaaki Suzuki leads his deeply experienced forces in four of the cantatas, with Sherezade Panthaki, Jay Carter, Zachary Wilder and Dominik Wörner as the soloists.
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SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE Jazz Standard, April 15 For all the woven elegance and keen synthesis of its arrangements, the reason to hear the SFJazz Collective is its soloists.
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It's not every day that a young superstar like Daniil Trifonov, the sensational Russian pianist, agrees to be just one of five soloists in a marathon concerto concert.
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Dancers, separated into two age groups - seniors and juniors, participated in the competition rounds on the floor at the Open-Air Theatre either in couples or as soloists.
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For the Atlanta program, Mr. Leshnoff, 42, wrote a 30-minute choral work, "Zohar," scored, as with the Brahms requiem, for soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra.
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In the event, Toscanini demanded, and got, complete control over repertory and soloists, and the right to approve or veto any recordings that came out of the broadcasts.
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I prefer to think of it as an elaborate choral symphony, with the street vendors as its soloists, providing the soundtrack for a restless city that's going places.
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Sound emerges from the pit perfectly balanced with the chorus and soloists, as if the performance were being edited in a recording studio and broadcast in real time.
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The Berlin Philharmonic remains a magnificent musical beast, from its precisely churning double-bass section to its silken-toned woodwind soloists and on to its darkly shining brass.
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Most takes on "Messiah" have settled into a pattern: A chorus is joined by a quartet of soloists — often fancy opera singers — who trade off Handel's gorgeous arias.
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This summer's concert lineup will feature soloists including the violinists Joshua Bell, Vilde Frang and Pekka Kuusisto and the pianists Martin Helmchen, Pierre Laurent-Aimard and Steven Osborne.
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As the season continues, there will be three premieres by company members, the principal Lauren Lovette and the soloists Troy Schumacher and Justin Peck, City Ballet's resident choreographer.
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Stealthy and subtle, its central threesome of soloists — piano, violin and cello, as in Beethoven's Triple Concerto — finds oases of calm amid flares of intensity from the orchestra.
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The soloists are excellent, particularly the radiant soprano Latonia Moore and Rodrick Dixon, fervent as Moses, here imagined not as a patriarchal bass but as a youthful tenor.
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Not one of Mr. Balanchine's soloists had feet this articulate, the long bones explicitly spread, then retracted, even more finely detailed than Leonardo's plans for his flying machines.
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Ms. Woodward and Mr. Suozzi are soloists, and Ms. Kretzschmar and Ms. Miller are corps dancers, but all have made vivid impacts in a number of lead roles.
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Even "Der Rosenkavalier", Richard Strauss's much-loved magnum opus (which stars a mezzo-soprano as the leading lady's young male lover) features 18 male soloists versus nine female ones.
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In this work, Cuong uses four percussion soloists to explore the intriguing possibilities of rhythm as much as Stravinsky did: He even has them simulate a wind turbine onstage.
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Mahler called "Das Lied von der Erde" a symphony for two vocal soloists and orchestra, structured as a cycle of six songs, settings of Tang dynasty poems in German.
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The many who stayed were treated to an excellent performance, achingly sustained in the opening Andante, vibrantly taut and energetic in the Allegros, featuring virtuoso soloists from the orchestra.
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Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church (Roman Catholic) The Sacred Music Society Choir and soloists perform Théodore Dubois's "The Seven Last Words of Christ" as part of a service.
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As staged in New York, the concerto will showcase two soloists — a violinist, Elizabeth Zeltser of the Philharmonic, and a percussionist, David Cossin — at the front of the stage.
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With these performances of the Glass concerto, featuring the splendid pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque as soloists, Mr. van Zweden has filled a gaping hole in the Philharmonic's history.
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Honnold has plainly given the questions serious thought — appropriately, since by his own count he's climbed rope-free more than 1,000 times and free soloists have notoriously short lifespans.
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" Marc Satterwhite, the award's director, said in a statement that the work "is not a virtuoso showcase, but rather integrates the soloists smoothly into an ever-evolving orchestral texture.
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And the performance had a strong quartet of vocal soloists: the soprano Camilla Tilling, the mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, the tenor Joseph Kaiser and the bass-baritone Eric Owens.
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The excerpts included in the version of this article online are from a 2014 performance at Versailles by John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.
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Incredibly active as soloists, these artists channel their more esoteric skills into this project, which attracts alternative rock and electronic music audiences as well as aficionados of contemporary composition.
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The excellent soloists were the mezzo Jazimina MacNeil and the soprano Sarah Shafer, who proved beautifully adept at allowing their voices to barely float above the choral and orchestra texture.
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Instead, nearly every ensemble member becomes part of a choir, with soloists, that is as persuasive a latter-day equivalent of the Greek chorus as we're ever likely to see.
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But first is a selection of unassailable ballets by George Balanchine, including "Concerto Barocco," from 1941 in which two women embody the instrumental soloists in a Bach double violin concerto.
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The wind soloists shape-shift their instruments' sounds in such a way that the melody appears to pour itself into a single river meandering through pockets of light and shade.
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" To end Mr. Langrée conducted the orchestra, the Concert Chorale of New York, the Young People's Chorus, six vocal soloists and a brilliant pianist, Kit Armstrong, in Beethoven's "Choral Fantasy.
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The Orchestra of St. Luke's displayed its usual versatility throughout, conducted by Michael Stern, the music director of the Kansas City Symphony, who had also obviously worked fruitfully with the soloists.
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It is understandable that this work, "Lélio," is rarely heard, given that it requires an additional chorus and vocal soloists, who are hidden behind a curtain for most of the piece.
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In the process he played a pivotal role in establishing the saxophone — before the electric guitar supplanted it — as the featured instrument among soloists at the dawn of rock 'n' roll.
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It preserves intricate interplay between the two soloists in a number of places but generally shares the wealth of virtuosity and abandon with the group's other gifted violinists to thrilling effect.
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The audience must assemble a mental picture as the agile vocal soloists—Theo Hoffman and Siena Licht Miller—sing and speak the fragmentary testimonies of friends, teachers, neighbors, medics, and journalists.
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There's the usual roster of guest conductors — including Christoph von Dohnanyi and Thomas Adès — and a starry array of soloists like Daniil Trifonov, Yo-Yo Ma, Nikolaj Znaider and Kristine Opolais.
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On Friday at Carnegie Hall, the conductor Leon Botstein leads a rare American performance of "The Apostles," with the American Symphony Orchestra and a massed array of soloists and choral singers.
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Pierre Audi, the new artistic director of the Armory, handled the production, encouraging the soloists—the clarinettist Kari Kriikku and the soprano Jennifer Zetlan—to wander through the Armory's open space.
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Over 45 action-packed minutes (the work has grown since its humbler beginnings at Fall for Dance in 2015), soloists emerge from the ensemble with improvisations ranging from euphoric to dystopic.
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The intimate choral work will be performed at Synod House at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, with the soprano Marlis Petersen and the baritone Konrad Jarnot as the soloists.
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Mr. Leshnoff, knowing that his work would be paired with the Brahms at its premiere, used the same forces: chorus, orchestra, and soprano and baritone soloists (here, Jessica Rivera and Nmon Ford).
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A loose confederation of 21 of the Continent's premier performance spaces, ECHO has been boosting the careers of young soloists and chamber groups since 1995 by sponsoring tours through its constituent halls.
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Mr. van Zweden began with a boldly unconventional piece by a young American: Ashley's Fure's dark, strange, exploratory "Filament" for orchestra, three instrumental soloists and a chorus that moves around the space.
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Brooklyn's floating barge does not always attract soloists of the international caliber of Mr. Helmchen, so this is a good reason to take in one of the city's most endearing concert halls.
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And if they are soloists, like Syria's star pianist Riyad Nicolas, they can give recitals; he is now championing the music of Syrian composers in America, and performing on behalf of refugee charities.
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On Thursday he leads the orchestra in a sumptuous program featuring excerpts from Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen," with two superb singers, the soprano Christine Goerke and the tenor Stefan Vinke, as soloists.
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Following a diva, two conductors, two virtuoso soloists, and three bandleaders into, variously, military deployment, forced retirement, and the bottom of a bottle, Bomberger interrogates the national character of American art and artists.
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But the musicologists Joseph Auner and Anne C. Shreffler, among the organizers, thought to invite influential, talented soloists to workshop and perform Nono's late electroacoustic chamber pieces in three concerts over the weekend.
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Any dance with so many soloists lasting less than half an hour is more than welcome; the company is heading for a period when it has more talent than it can comfortably present.
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They include "The Magic Flute" (for ages 9 to 13), Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades" (ages 10 to 15) and Hans Werner Wenze's "Bassarids" (14 to 313) — which actually does require a few soloists.
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This absorbing work — for orchestra, a trio of bassoon, trumpet and bass soloists, and a 15-member chorus of "moving voices" — came across again like an immersive, yet kinetic and atmospheric sound environment.
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Front Row Center Until 2015, most world-class orchestras and soloists invited to Paris performed at the Salle Pleyel, an Art Deco concert hall near the Champs-Élysées in the upscale Eighth Arrondissement.
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Mr. Christie led an ebullient yet purposeful account of this Haydn masterpiece and had an exceptionally fine trio of soloists: the soprano Sandrine Piau, the tenor Hugo Hymas, and the bass Alex Rosen.
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In advance of the Bard Music Festival, titled "Chopin and His World," the college hosts a performance by Moves, a group of New York City Ballet principals, soloists and corps de ballet members.
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The piece, which had its world premiere in Berlin in 1895, entails an orchestra of more than 19953, a vast choir, choral soloists, multiple harps, a pipe organ and additional offstage percussion and brass.
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The London Symphony recording, featuring the London Symphony Chorus and the vocal soloists Benita Valente and Maureen Forrester, was named by The New York Times as one of the best classical records of 1988.
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In 2014 he began the Soluna International Music & Arts Festival, an annual event held in spaces around the city that pairs guest soloists, visual artists and other performers with Dallas-based companies and ensembles.
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The distinction between sonata and concerto was by no means firm at this point in history, as soloists, often in a small group (concertino), began to separate themselves from the main body of instruments.
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Taking its place are these four performances of the composer's crushing choral work, conducted by James Levine and featuring a fine quartet of soloists in Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Ferruccio Furlanetto.
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But those in the know seek out one in particular: Trinity Wall Street's, led by Julian Wachner at Trinity Church with a sure sense of drama, and soloists drawn from its riveting chorus. Dec.
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Three soloists perform from platforms: Rebekah Heller, bassoon (from the middle of an aisle in the hall); Brandon Lopez, bass (on the left side of the stage); and Nate Wooley, trumpet (behind the orchestra).
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The final Four Simultaneous Soloists performance takes place on Friday, featuring Jules Gimbrone playing objects and electronics, Okkyung Lee on cello, Chris McIntyre on trombone and synthesizer, and Yoshi Wada on bagpipes and sirens.
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Three choruses, jazz band, a small symphony orchestra, two speakers, soprano and baritone soloists and eight loudspeakers are positioned around the hall — the ensemble's shape approaching Zimmermann's utopian idea of a spherical performing space.
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They all sing with operatic grandeur and lyrical finesse — especially the soloists Jill Paice, Tiffany Mann, Justin Keyes and Luke Grooms — without ever for a second condescending to or trivializing the people they play.
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Such a small scale may sound nothing like "El Niño," a sweeping, nearly two-hour Nativity oratorio written for vocal soloists, a trio of countertenors, a full orchestra and choir, and a children's chorus.
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Houston Airport System created a performance series, Harmony in the Air, with rotating soloists, including classical music and jazz, at William P. Hobby Airport beginning in 2015 and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in 2016.
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The soloists moved to the bottles on the tables to deliver animated volleys that alternately suggested East Asian gamelan music, or scat-singing; in response, the orchestra seemed to search for the deeper implications.
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When the founders of this troupe left their former jobs — as soloists with the established Danza Contemporánea de Cuba — to start a project of their own, their colleagues said it was a risky move.
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That was framed by two pieces by City Ballet's ballet master in chief, Peter Martins, "Ash" (1991) and "The Infernal Machine" (2002), each led by a different pair of company soloists at the two performances.
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More enticing by far is Thursday's concert, which sees the reliably superb Christoph von Dohnányi lead Brahms's "A German Requiem," with the New York Choral Artists and two top soloists, Camilla Tilling and Matthias Goerne.
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"The music will be under the direction of James Vivian, director of music, St. George's Chapel, including the Choir of St. George's Chapel, and a selection of choral groups, soloists and musicians," Kensington Palace announced.
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Mr. Palmieri's 12-piece group is at its core a dance band, but it's also an improviser's paradise — expert at cutting open swaths of terrain in support of brilliant, idiosyncratic soloists, like the bandleader himself.
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In the intervening period, she transformed from a brilliant teenage prodigy into one of the most celebrated soloists of our time, maintaining a singular presence in the traditional repertory while continuing to explore new terrain.
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Its music director, Kirill Petrenko, soon off to the Berlin Philharmonic, leads both concerts, the first of which includes Brahms's Double Concerto, with the soloists Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott, and Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony.
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On the bill are two brief sinfonias, the first two of the four Orchestral Suites and the Concerto for Three Violins in D, performed by the soloists Krista Bennion Feeney, Mitsuru Tsubota and Naoko Tanaka.
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AT 250 MINUTES 25 SECONDS Appreciative audiences packed Alice Tully Hall for all three nights of John Eliot Gardiner's magnificent survey of Monteverdi's three surviving operas with his Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists.
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He leads a matinee of Mozart, featuring three of the earlier symphonies as well as the Concerto for Flute and Harp, with Elizabeth Mann and Emmanuel Ceysson, principal harp of the Met Orchestra, as soloists.
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YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS GALA, MAY 16 Young Concert Artists, which has long fostered the careers of emerging talents, ended its 56th season with three exceptional performers as concerto soloists with the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
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And it was hard to fully discern the qualities of the four admirable soloists: The soprano Zarina Abaeva sang with focused, radiant tone that sometimes seemed thin, or was that impression enhanced by the amplification?
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Guest soloists this year include Yuja Wang, Daniil Trifonov, Sarah Chang, Jonathan Biss and James Ehnes; and the conductors David Robertson and Ludovic Morlot, among others, are on hand to help with podium duties. aspenmusicfestival.
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Take that "Ode to Joy," in which the orchestra was joined by the Monteverdi Choir and soloists including Ms. Crowe and the bass Matthew Rose, a late replacement borrowed from "Agrippina" at the Metropolitan Opera.
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His mother, who works in Collingswood, N.J., is the director of development, responsible for fund-raising, at Symphony in C, an orchestra based in Camden, N.J., that provides training for music directors, musicians and soloists.
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The performers and soloists, too, strutted up and down an illuminated multistage array that stretched the length of the Garden floor, splashing in boxes filled with water and otherwise dramatically interpreting moments from the series.
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James was one of the featured soloists for the all-star choir that gathered to record the smash charity song, "We Are the World" in 1985 -- singing parts between Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner and Ray Charles.
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The Zankel performance featured the same fine vocal soloists heard on the recording: Diana Moore as Spring, Suzana Ograjensek as Summer, Clint van der Linde as Autumn, Nicholas Phan as Winter and Douglas Williams as Jove.
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After the intermission came Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony, an hour-and-a-half-long meditation on life, death and redemption for a mammoth orchestra with an additional offstage brass section, two vocal soloists and a large choir.
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The soloists here were the busy Wagnerian tenor Stefan Vinke and the distinguished baritone Thomas Hampson, an eminent Mahler singer who was also part of a team of scholars that produced a critical edition Mahler's songs.
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In 1997, the Bernstein and Lerner estates put together a concert piece for voices and orchestra called "A White House Cantata," which has been recorded by soloists and the London Symphony Orchestra, with Kent Nagano conducting.
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The group opened with a dark and somber account of Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture, followed by a crisp performance of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins featuring stellar soloists: Pamela Frank, Jinjoo Cho, Bella Hristova and Kyoko Takezawa.
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Evelin Seppar: Psalm 129 For a concert called "Pilgrimage of Life," Ms. Seppar, an Estonian composer, has been asked to set the so-called "song of ascents," which will be sung by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir.
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Her final performance will be on Saturday afternoon alongside the soloists Blaine Hoven and Arron Scott in George Balanchine's "Mozartiana," part of Ballet Theater's "Tchaikovsky Spectacular," which is closing its spring season at the Metropolitan Opera.
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On Wednesday, for the orchestra's first program at Carnegie, Mr. Petrenko led a stirring account of Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, with the brilliant violinist Julia Fischer and the commanding cellist Daniel Müller-Schott as soloists.
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Mr. Barenboim said that a strong house ensemble, including talented young singers, has been core to the Staatsoper's identity since his arrival in 1992, when he brought in the now-international soloists René Pape and Dorothea Röschmann.
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Gustavo Dudamel concludes his two-week stint at the helm of the Philharmonic with performances of Schubert's Symphony No. 292 and Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde," with Michelle DeYoung and Simon O'Neill as the vocal soloists.
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The only losers in this are the poor young soloists often invited to the field to warble their way through a song that was written by a British composer that is too damn hard to sing anyhow.
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Instead of the "Forza," the Met will give four concert performances of Verdi's Requiem featuring its orchestra and chorus conducted by Mr. Levine, and with Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ferruccio Furlanetto as the soloists.
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The piece has indelible moments: a lonesome upward arpeggio in a horn; the soloists emerging out of threatening orchestral mists; the bayan echoing a thin, high solo violin line, but with a coppery crown around the sound.
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The revival of the duet (or double solo) "You Can See Us" commemorates the death of Trisha Brown, who often used to dance with her company on this stage, and who was one of nature's superlative soloists.
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Between BoA's first album and BTS' historic one, 20 additional Korean records, including five others by BTS, have appeared on the Billboard 200 — all by boy bands or girl groups, or from soloists who grew out of them.
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But the reigning deity of White Light will be Claudio Monteverdi, whose three extant operas will be presented, in matchless style, by the conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists (Oct. 18-21).
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And Cohen was in full flight, kneeling reverentially before his instrumental soloists, bounding away from and back to the stage as the multiple encores carried on, and, of course, he was possibly the funniest frontman of all time.
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In tones that oscillate between solemnity and fierce ecstasy, the baritone Prisoner and his soprano interlocutor (sung here by the able soloists Tobias Greenhalgh and Chelsea Shephard) discuss, along with the chorus, the inextinguishable nature of human passions.
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But there are also three amplified soloists on elevated platforms: a trumpet (Nate Wooley) at the back of the stage, a bass (Brandon Lopez) to one side of the front and a bassoon (Rebekah Heller) in the audience.
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Other hymns are delivered by actors, soloists, the Legendary Soul Stirrers and members of the Voices of the Flame Choir, appareled in Jesse Harris's jubilant costumes (quoting Ghretta Hynd's originals) and led by the marvelous J. D. Steele.
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It exemplifies the dramatic skill Mr. Neenan — who makes dances for small companies all over the States — has in highlighting soloists within the group, and the felicitous American naturalness he so often shows when using popular American song.
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The show, which is to have its premiere Tuesday, May 30, on NBC, features 47 acts from around the world battling in divisions based on age (the youngest is 9) and group size (from soloists to large troupes).
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That title could also describe the experience of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, whose participation in an accelerated training program with first-rate conductors and soloists leads to often thrillingly vivacious performances in famous halls.
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It modeled a productive style of coed collegiality, with Ms. Moore teasing out the various ironies known to any smart woman trying to keep from cracking up in a world of scowling male bosses and preening male soloists.
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Particular highlights include Monday's concert, of Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26, and Tuesday's program, of Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for woodwind, with four of the Staatskapelle's principals as soloists.
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The eminent conductor John Eliot Gardiner leads the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir in this exciting trilogy, which has been on an international tour in conjunction with the 19993th anniversary of the composer's birth in 1567.
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For this enticing program, titled "Folk, Form and Fire," the conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra offer all five in order, with five different virtuoso soloists, respectively: George Li, Alexander Toradze, Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Redkin and Sergei Babayan.
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And while a couple of the soloists — particularly Ms. Paulin and the bright-voiced soprano Sophie Junker — could hold the stage in these spare surroundings, the chorus (sounding shining) seemed uncomfortable whipping around light bulbs on cords, circus style.
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Her compositions have been performed by some of the world's leading soloists, orchestras and chamber ensembles, among them the oboist Heinz Holliger, the pianist Garrick Ohlsson, the San Francisco Symphony, the Daedalus Quartet and the Da Capo Chamber Players.
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Mr. Marsalis, who as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center has always drawn parallels between jazz and other forms of human expression, designed "Spaces" as a kinetic work: Its star soloists were dancers, Lil Buck and Jared Grimes.
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The most gifted coaches, like Popovich—or, in their time, Red Auerbach, of the Celtics; Red Holzman, of the Knicks; and Phil Jackson, of the Lakers and the Bulls—can make even the greatest soloists harmonize with their teammates.
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On Wednesday, the music director Alan Gilbert takes the helm for a program featuring more Mahler — "Das Lied von der Erde" with the tenor Stefan Vinke and the baritone Thomas Hampson as soloists — and Sibelius's seething Symphony No. 264.
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Pablo Heras-Casado, now this orchestra's conductor laureate, leads Beethoven's Symphony No. 153 and Mozart's C minor Mass, the "Great," with the soloists Camilla Tilling, Susanna Phillips, Thomas Cooley and Michael Sumuel, as well as the Westminster Symphonic Choir.
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You can become absorbed, for example, by how Petipa frames soloists with other dancers; the balance of symmetry and asymmetry, of motion and stasis are all intriguingly different, in small ways, from 19th-century conventions as they're usually presented.
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With Devony Smith and Joseph Beutel as fine vocal soloists in the Brahms, and Shabnam Abedi in the Bernstein, this was indeed a stirring concert, though what difference it might make in the larger world was far from apparent.
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We're having acts from all over the world come and perform, and there's going to be groups, there's going to be soloists, there's going to be duets and trios, but also, every form of dance you can possibly think of.
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Believing that music's development since 1945 had been frustrated by a lack of research into electronic possibilities, Mr. Boulez set to work at Ircam on "Répons," for a small orchestra with six percussion soloists whose sounds are digitally transformed and regenerated.
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You should check out the technical skills of the brilliant soloists who will be featured in performances of Gyorgy Ligeti's daunting concertos for piano, cello and violin on, respectively, June 3, 4 and 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The role of Ernesto, the duke's minister and foster father to Ugo, was sung by the bass Sava Vemic with a booming, rugged tone that held great charisma but could also be hard to balance in ensemble with other soloists.
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The soloists include widely known artists (William Forsythe, Crystal Pite) and less familiar faces, but whether or not you know their names, it's a pleasure to learn more about them through a few minutes of gesture paired judiciously with words. (52portraits.co.uk.)
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Julian Wachner, the music director of Trinity Wall Street, climbed on a table and began conducting an impromptu concert of choristers in street clothes — drawn from his choir, the Tallis Scholars, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the Norwegian Soloists Choir.
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City Ballet's annual monthlong presentation of "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" is well underway, and the coming week brings another parade of the company's talented principals and soloists trading off in myriad roles, including the regal Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier.
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Sung with keening clarity by the evening's two vocal soloists — the soprano María Valdés and the baritone Efraín Solís — the songs gained tension and mystery from the interplay between repetitive riffs on the piano (Michael Barrett) and softly insistent percussion (Jeremy Smith).
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, LeBron James — as well as images of church soloists and choirs, alternate with video of acts of police harassment and brutality against black men, women and children, including a fatal shooting.
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NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA This underrated ensemble fields a particularly fine roster of piano soloists this season, opening with Jeremy Denk (and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto) and also including Conrad Tao, Stephen Hough, George Li, Terrence Wilson, Sara Daneshpour and Robert Levin. Oct.
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Throwing together just one night of it — and bringing in soloists on the level of the star pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the ondes master Cynthia Millar — is a little like building a five-star French restaurant for a single dinner service.
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Michael Landers and Ariel Hsing, table tennis champions in their early 20s, are featured as the Ping-Pong-playing soloists in Andy Akiho's energetic concerto "Ricochet," which will have its American premiere on Tuesday as part of the Philharmonic's Lunar New Year gala.
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The slate of performers that included, in 2012, a Latino conductor and a black tenor had become, in 2017, a group of white soloists in front of an orchestra (representing, in this case, a fully half-black city) with only two black members.
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An Akan flute, which proclaims mourning through its melodies, played alongside the tributes from family and friends and the thunderous voices of the soloists and choirs, including the Winneba Youth Choir, which converted a non-descript theatre-like setting, into a holy Cathedral.
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One might have thought that the singers of the Monteverdi Choir and the players of the English Baroque Soloists, who recently arrived at Alice Tully Hall to perform the three existing operas by Claudio Monteverdi on three nights, would have been exhausted.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra announced Wednesday that its next season at Carnegie Hall would include a mix of classical works and new pieces, and feature performances with soloists including the pianists Christian Zacharias and Fazıl Say, the violinist Vadim Gluzman and the cellist Alisa Weilerstein.
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Keeping a hand in his hometown jazz scene, he helped organize the Jazz Workshop, a musician-run organization in Montreal that set up out-of-town soloists with local rhythm sections; in February 1953 he booked Charlie Parker for a concert and accompanied him.
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As described in a press release: "The album will begin with just one sound and then add layer upon layer, adding musicians, singers, choirs, soloists and big bands until it reaches upwards of 1,000 people performing at once," including people singing in different languages.
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Remarkable soloists and a large, talented ensemble execute rapid-fire footwork in tight formation and glittery costumes to rousing music, sometimes tinged with melancholy as the story follows heroes of Ireland's past, the country's relationship to nature and hardships like the famine of the 26s.
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And Riccardo Muti, the current music director of the Chicago Symphony, leading the orchestra in a rehearsal of Verdi's Requiem (and singing all the parts himself, in the absence of the soloists and chorus), in what was effectively a master class by a great Verdian.
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A star team of soloists — Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ferruccio Furlanetto — will join Levine and the Met orchestra and chorus in bringing to life the composer's hyper-dramatic funeral mass, written to honor the death of the patriotic Italian novelist Alessandro Manzoni.
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The company has of late sometimes had to resort to extraordinary measures when Mr. Levine conducted — with the orchestra looking to the concertmaster for guidance, soloists looking at the prompter's box, and the chorus being led by Donald Palumbo, the chorus master, from the wings.
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As the executive director of the American Guild of Musical Artists, Mr. Gordon represented chorus members, soloists, dancers, choreographers and production personnel at major companies across the country, from the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Ballet to the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet.
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Using dancers like a set, he created sculptures with their bodies, both in the opening pose in which they clustered closely, cascading like a waterfall, and at the end, when they stood frozen in different positions while soloists performed — and could be seen clearly — in the front.
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Conceived as simultaneous solos, rather than an ensemble, the performances will unfold throughout Pioneer Works's soaring main hall, with four soloists — in Friday's event, a DJ, an electric guitar player, a vibraphone player, and a singer-violinist — each playing alongside one of McCall's glowing, dynamic light works.
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The solid professionalism of the cast was unfortunately not reflected in the pit: Daniele Tirilli worked hard to marshal his forces and kept the pace flowing, but the scrappiness of the frequently out-of-tune orchestra proved a jarring contrast with the elegance of the vocal soloists.
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In recent decades Mr. Gardiner has been best known for his consuming immersion in Bach, including a yearlong international Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in 2000 and a thoroughgoing biography, "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven," published in 2013.
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As for the performers, Mr. Gardiner, by virtue of rank no doubt, commanded prime time with his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, performing in Bach's second church, the grander St. Nicholas Church (the Nikolaikirche), several blocks from the Thomaskirche, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.
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She was, however, the star of the sedate Triple Concerto, effortless and authoritative among her fellow soloists: Yefim Bronfman, making the most of an unremarkable piano part, and the veteran cellist Lynn Harrell, whose technique repeatedly slipped with crunching bow strokes, imprecise intonation and a tired legato.
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The quartet of soloists consisted of the honey-toned Christina Landshamer, a rising German soprano; the mezzo Sasha Cooke, with her stunning deep register; the clarion tenor Matthew Polenzani, a stalwart of the Metropolitan Opera; and the bass-baritone John Relyea, who delivered Wagnerian amplitude and gravitas.
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On Friday, it's the Symphony No. 7; on Sunday, "Das Lied von der Erde," with the vocal soloists Stuart Skelton and Christian Gerhaher; and on Monday, Deryck Cooke's completion of the Symphony No. 2212, a piece that has been associated with Mr. Rattle throughout his career.
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In 1981, the musician and scholar Joshua Rifkin offered the provocative hypothesis that the Passions should be sung not by a lineup of soloists and a chorus of dozens but by a central group of only eight voices, with a few extra voices for smaller parts.
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When Mr. van Zweden's appointment was announced, it was questioned whether he would prioritize cultivating living composers, commissioning major works, bringing in a new generation of conductors and soloists, and reaching out to the New York community to try and become a leading cultural figure here.
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On Friday at Carnegie, with Kelley O'Connor, Michaela Martens and Jay Hunter Morris a less luxurious, more direct trio of soloists than in Los Angeles, the piece came off as more lithe and stark, somehow more austere, its tones less Technicolor-candied but its drama more focused.
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" Mr. Jabri — like Brahms, using soprano and baritone soloists — sets a libretto by the South African-born poet Yvette Christiansë, based on the ancient Arabi text, ending "I profess the religion of Love;/Wherever its caravan turns along the way,/That is my belief,/My faith.
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The four soloists each had distinctive qualities — standouts were the tenor Ben Bliss, who brought the dramatic textures you might hear in his Mozart over at the Metropolitan Opera, and Megan Mikailovna Samarin, making her Philharmonic debut with a penetrating mezzo-soprano — yet they blended with impressive grace.
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Then on Wednesday, when the singers were joined by the full orchestra, it became clear that the location of the soloists' elevated platform, which was positioned above and behind the instrumentalists, would make it hard for the Peri and others to be heard over the strings and winds.
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The Musical, Danny Burstein, Tam Mutu, Sahr Ngaujah, Karen Olivo & Aaron Tveit, principal soloists; Justin Levine, Baz Luhrmann, Matt Stine & Alex Timbers, producers (Original Broadway Cast) The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – In Four Contemporary Suites, Imogen Heap, producer; Imogen Heap, composer (Imogen Heap) Oklahoma!
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With two fine vocal soloists, the tenor Andrew Fuchs and the mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Mr. Sachs led the ensemble in the premiere of "Vanishing Word," a compelling 35-minute work by the English composer Alexander Goehr, consisting of settings of poems by Rilke and others, interspersed with instrumental preludes.
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If you are looking for Beethoven with a bit more grandeur this week, Bernard Labadie conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie in works including the "Choral Fantasy" and the Mass in C, with Jeremy Denk as the pianist and Karina Gauvin among the vocal soloists (March 5, 8 p.m.).
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The next year, Mr. de Leeuw led a small cast of soloists, as well as members of the Dutch National Opera and the players of the Asko and Schönberg Ensembles, in the United States premiere of Mr. Andriessen's opera "Writing to Vermeer," co-directed by Peter Greenaway, who wrote the libretto.
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But compression can also crush subtleties like timbre, the auditory minutiae that let listeners tell the sound of a trumpet from that of a trombone, and tempo rubato ("stolen time"), which is the slight speed-up or slow-down of notes used by soloists or conductors taking liberties with a composition.
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Through idiosyncratic staging, placing three soloists and 15 singers around the hall, and a mixture of acoustic and amplified sound, "Filament" draws attention to the roles everyone plays in a concert: the players working always to remain together, the group of strangers in the audience gathering for a shared experience.
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Four excellent vocal soloists — the soprano Sarah Brailey, the mezzo-soprano Melissa Attebury, the tenor Vale Rideout and the bass-baritone Dashon Burton — sat in the first pew of the church until their moment came in the last movement, when they rose to face the audience, seated right before them, and sang splendidly.
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Also squarely in that tradition are the newly promoted soloists, who came from far and near to dance at City Ballet: Mr. Applebaum was born in Maryland; Mr. Coll in Manhattan; Ms. Kretzschmar in Arizona; Mr. Sanz in Madrid; Mr. Villarini-Velez in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Mr. Walker in Florida.
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After Mr. Levine's suspension, two important unions at the Met — Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents its orchestra, and the American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents its choristers, soloists, stage managers, directors and dancers – issued statements that pointedly noted the Met's obligation to provide a safe workplace.
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The performers — members of the Schiller Institute NYC Community Chorus, vocal soloists and a sizable orchestra — will already have done the Requiem in concert in the Bronx (Friday, at Lehman College) and Manhattan (Saturday evening, at St. Bartholomew's Church in Midtown), and will repeat it in Morristown, N.J., at the Presbyterian Church on Monday evening.
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Whatever the processes of recruitment and selection, Carnegie turned up a remarkable array of young talent for NYO2's first outing, with fine string players galore and superb soloists, including Kara Poling, 14, of Reisterstown, Md., on oboe and English horn; Javier Morales-Martinez, 15, of Los Angeles, on clarinet; and Angelica Lorenzo, 14, of Chicago, on percussion.
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The vocal soloists were also excellent: the baritone Konrad Jarnot, acting as a sort of prophet, addressing the assembled throng of audience and chorus; and the soprano Marlis Petersen, in the role generally assumed to represent Brahms's lost mother (making it all the odder that she should hold forth swinging in relaxed fashion, as if in a park).
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Along with music by Morton Feldman, another highlight of the program is the premiere of "Where We Lost Our Shadows," a multidisciplinary work by the composer Du Yun and the artist Khaled Jarrar inspired by the refugee crisis, which brings together soloists across genres including the Qawwali vocalist Ali Seth, the singer Helga Davis and the percussionist Shayna Dunkelman.
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Seated under Japanese cherry trees near the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, squinting slightly against the bright sunshine, a quintet of wind soloists was playing a breezy minuet by Haydn while periodic gusts of wind shook loose hundreds of petals, sprinkling the players and their audience of tourists and stroller-pushing parents in a gentle swirl of pink.
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