Synopsis:
With outrageous wearable art, fierce Mexico-City performance art diva Astrid Hadad mixes feminism and fabulosity in extravagant events featuring a live band. Hadad confronts politics, Mexican hypocrisy, machismo, and corruption in cabaret-style productions that prompted The New York Times to describe her as “one of the most provocative stage acts since the Weimar Republic was in bloom.”
The 2018-19 MCC season draws to a close on May 19th when the group presents its annual spring concert, “Let The Children Sing."
This celebratory event showcases the artistic excellence and diversity of all three ensembles of the MCC and honors their personal and musical growth.
Youth Symphony Concert
Share in the excitement as MTT and the NWS Fellows give a sneak peek of their upcoming Carnegie Hall performance! MTT appears as both conductor and composer in Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, his setting of Carl Sandberg’s poem about civilization and fate. Featuring dynamite soprano Measha Brueggergosman, backup vocalists, a bar band of jazz musicians and a chamber orchestra, it pays homage to MTT’s musical influences, including Igor Stravinsky, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown and more. MTT then leads the String Fellows in Mahler’s haunting take on Schubert’s famed quartet.
Join Nu Deco Ensemble back at the Arsht Center for a program exploring the Americana tradition. The program includes works by William Brittelle, Bill Withers, Aaron Copland and special collaborations with two very exciting guest artists to be announced in late October 2018. For more information, please visit nu-deco.org
The final chamber music concert of the season features Bohemian composers who relished the folk music of their homes. Joining the NWS Fellows is pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, whose virtuosic playing is praised for its elegance. After its banishment for over half a century, Béla Bartók’s Piano Quintet is a rare gem that blends his signature Hungarian folk music with nods to Liszt, Brahms and Richard Strauss.
Premieres and performances by stellar Frost artists. Frost professor and acclaimed violinist Charles Castleman leads David Amram’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, while Frost Studio Music and Jazz chair John Daversa solos on the premiere of Stephen Guerra’s Portrait in Blue.
A new work by Henry Mancini Institute Fellow Bryan Kennard rounds out the evening.
Frost faculty member Trudy Kane’s final concert before retirement features Frank Ticheli’s Silver Linings, a concerto for flute and wind ensemble commissioned by Peter Warshaw, in memory of his wife’s suicide.
Warshaw will also lead a discussion on the causes and signs of this tragic phenomenon.