An Outburst of Improvisors: 17th Century Music for Violin and Harpsichord In 1600s Italy, the performer and the composer were the same person, and nobody was playing it safe. Opera...
Music made to heal people, played by a string band that improvises its way there. Gnawa musicians in Morocco play through the night to move a room from one state...
The woodwind quintet has a reputation for good manners. This program ruins it. Valerie Coleman, Paquito D'Rivera, and Oscar Navarro hand five well-behaved instruments Cuban dance rhythms, Roma-inflected fire, and...
Everything leaves a mark. This concert is about the marks. A relationship after it ends. The thirteenth century surfacing in music written last year. A culture legible in the graffiti...
This is the room where the record gets figured out. Matt Savage takes pop hits from the last fifty years and rebuilds them in acoustic jazz: straight-ahead one minute, fusion...
Stones wired with motion sensors. Vintage radios feeding back into acoustic instruments. Cassette tape that has been physically mangled and put back in the machine. Ensemble Decipher builds instruments out...
For International Women's Month, Vanessa Mulvey and Na'ama Lion perform music written and performed by women, including composers with Longy ties. Main Stage Series Main Stage events are where the...
Vienna, 1900. The city has never been more brilliant, and everyone can feel it coming apart. Three song cycles from that moment, sung in a single evening. Wolf's Michelangelo-Lieder, his...
Every age an age of glass. Anna Maria Hong's poem receives its first musical setting from Alexandra du Bois, chair of Longy's composition department, in a world premiere written for...
All six. One pianist. One night. Most pianists program one English Suite, maybe two. Andrius Zlabys plays the complete set in a single evening, which turns six separate works into...
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