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New Moon Sitar + Restorative Yoga
Sacred Arts Research Foundation @ 107 Green St, Brooklyn, NY
Celebrate and honor the new moon time with a deep restorative yoga practice accompanied by the healing vibrations of live sitar. A restorative yoga practice during the New Moon and Vata phase of the lunar cycle is best for balancing an overworked mind, hormones, emotions and energy. Once a month surrounding the new moon time at SARF we host a deep restorative practice as part of our Community Yoga series. A restorative practice is truly meant for...
$25
A Little Night Music: Sondheim, the Romantic Classicist
No one expected this glorious, romantic-yet-modern score from Stephen Sondheim in 1973. Having just redefined the contemporary musical with scores firmly rooted in the Broadway tradition, he now offers a brilliant operetta-like “theme and variations” that reimagines and blends 18th and 19th Century classical dance forms with the warmth of late-nineteenth century Romanticism richly flavored with the irony, unexpected rhythms and expressive dissonances...
World of Music II: Chamber Music since 1950
World of Music II: Chamber Music since 1950 This is a course about all music - masterworks of the classical, jazz, theater and popular fields. We change subjects each semester and, over time, explore in depth all of these genres. Join a circle of people who share a deep love of music in an environment where familiar masterpieces are made fresh and lesser-known artists and masterworks become familiar.
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Stephen Sondheim—Finishing the Hat
Beyond being on the short list of the all-time greatest American theater composers, Stephen Sondheim’s body of work as a lyricist is unparalleled in the history of the American musical theater. To put it simply, he’s the best lyricist the American theater has ever experienced, or will likely experience for some time to come. This lecture explores that particular aspect of his exceptional contribution to our culture, examining specific techniques,...
Music in the 1930s: A Decade of Crisis
The stock market crashed. The “Jazz Age” was over. The wild, sometimes giddy “anything goes” experimentation of the ‘20s gives way to a more introspective period of consolidation. Neo-classicism dominates the musical scene. Nationalism (in politics and in music) emerges as a prominent force as the decade proceeds and the world moves once again into crisis. Established modern composers such as Stravinsky, Ravel, Hindemith, Bartok, Copland,...
Musical Analysis I: West Side Story Concluded
This course is designed to have a revolving curriculum, where each semester we explore popular song of all genres through in-depth analysis of melody, harmony, structure and the joining of words with music. This semester we complete our comprehensive exploration of the brilliant, ground-breaking Bernstein/Sondheim score from West Side Story. Please note: This is not a Music Appreciation course. It is assumed that students have taken the...
Singer-Songwriters: Mid-Stream and Renewal
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. Having established themselves in the first phase of their career, the most successful singer-songwriters, each in their own moment, faced the same challenge: How to sustain the high level of their work, renew themselves, stretch themselves, all while remaining viable in the commercial marketplace. For those fortunate...
SCHOOL OF MUSIC World of Music II: Jazz in the 1960s
SCHOOL OF MUSIC World of Music II: Jazz in the 1960s, Part II We continue our exploration of Jazz’s continued evolution during the 1960s, a terrifically vibrant, remarkably rich and expressively wide-ranging decade. Composers who were new on the scene at the beginning of the ‘60s such as Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and Ornette Coleman, become major figures; artists such as Horace Silver and Charles Mingus are in their prime;...
Just Don't Call it Minimalism
Just Don't Call it Minimalism: Musical Beauty in the Music of Philip Glass, John Adams, and Steve Reich There was a sea change in contemporary musical style in the last three decades of the 20th century that was characterized by a return to essential tonal harmonies, a thrilling motoric rhythmic drive, and the slow, but always evolving transformations of musical ideas. This new style, dubbed “Minimalism”, was brought to the large audience via...
Beethoven at 250: A Symphony Celebration
Beethoven’s nine symphonies are universally acknowledged as the summit of orchestral music, the peak against which all subsequent symphonies are measured. Yet in his time, Beethoven was viewed in many quarters as a radical modernist, and even today these timeless works continue to challenge and surprise the sophisticated listener. Mr. Rosen will take his students deep inside selected symphonies, exploring their musical secrets, their innovations,...
Musical Analysis II: Classical Masters
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Musical Analysis II: Classical Masters — Satie and His Colleagues This course is designed to have a revolving curriculum, where each semester we take on the work of one composer and explore it through in-depth melodic, harmonic and formal analysis. This semester we continue our exploration of early twentieth-century French music of, or influenced by, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Please note: This is not a Music Appreciation...
On Wagner with Alex Ross
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
How did Wagner’s art become a proving ground where the Western world has wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence? For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Artist like Woolf, Mann, Duncan and Buñuel saw him as a kindred spirit. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers did as well. Then with the rise of Nazi Germany, the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism....
$35
George and Ira: The Last Songs
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
The last year of George’s life found the Gershwin team in Hollywood. They would write the songs for three films: the Astaire/Rogers Shall We Dance; Damsel in Distress, which teamed Astaire with Joan Bennett; and Goldwyn Follies. These last songs reveal a deeper, more relaxed sophistication, maturity, and brilliance in the writing, and proved to the many doubters of the time that after the “highbrow” Porgy and Bess, they...
$50
Mozart: The 40th Symphony in G Minor—An In-Depth Look
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. __________________ Mozart’s 40th is one of the monumental works of the orchestral literature, but is familiar enough to the concert going audience to be taken for granted. We burrow deeply inside the music and the context within which it was written with the goal of making this brilliant, but familiar work feel fresh...
Bob Dylan: Oh, Mercy
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. ______________ This 1989 album is one of Dylan’s greatest albums (one of my absolute favorite albums) and among his least appreciated. These were songs born of personal crisis, not the least of which was Dylan’s own feeling that he was written out. The story of the writing of these songs and the making of this album...
Irving Berlin, America’s Songwriter
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. ________________ Composer George Gershwin called him "the greatest songwriter that has ever lived," and according to composer Jerome Kern, "Irving Berlin has no place in American music — he is American music.” His journey is the quintessential immigrant’s journey from rags to riches, from Russia to the Lower...
Gershwin: Concerto in F
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. __________________ The excitement surrounding the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue in February 1924 made George Gershwin the most visible—and marketable—American composer of his generation, and immediately led to a commission for a new piano concerto from the NY Philharmonic. Gershwin told his first biographer,...
Harold Arlen and the Blues
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. __________________ This is immediately apparent when we consider the character of only a handful of his greatest, most enduring songs: “Stormy Weather,” “Blues in the Night,” “One For My Baby (and One More for the Road),” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “I’ve Got the World on a String,” “Accentuate...
Court and Spark: Joni Mitchell & Art in the Marketplace
By 1973, Joni Mitchell was ready for a change. In an interview at that time she said, “I just couldn’t stay in that lonely Blue place very long.” And she wanted a band. Enter Tom Scott and the L.A. Express. The table was now set for another artistic breakthrough, this one unexpectedly accompanied by stunning commercial success. Her 1974 release, Court and Spark, offers a song cycle-like narrative clothed in a jazz-rock sound fusion that reflects...
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”: Transcendent Perfection This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. Mozart experienced broad adulation in his early years in Vienna, but within five years was experiencing...
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