| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 1-Mar-2012 Brooklyn Academy of Music: Howard Gilman Opera House | Mark Morris premieres new work in Brooklyn |
 Even Mikhail Baryshnikov was curious to stop by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Thursday March 1st to the witness the world premiere of Mark Morris’ A Choral Fantasy. The work sets movement to the score of Beethoven’s Fantasy in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80. He paired the piece along with his earlier adaptation of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts with music by Virgil Thomson and words by Gertrude Stein.Read full review... | |
| 13-Dec-2010 Trinity Church, Wall Street | Handel's Messiah - The Perennial Christmas Favourite |
 In a season over-crowded with holiday concerts, Handel’s Messiah is performed all over Manhattan. But there is no better place to hear this Christmas favorite than Trinity Church, a church dating back to 1696 with a deep history in New York and home to the work's New World premiere in 1770. Led by Julian Wachner and accompanied by the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the Trinity Choir and soloists performed an historical rendition of Messiah.Read full review... | |
| 14-Oct-2010 Trinity Church, Wall Street | Israel in Egypt at Trinity Church, New York |
| October 14th marked the highly-anticipated debut concert for Trinity Church’s new Director of Music and the Arts, conductor/composer Dr Julian Wachner, with the Trinity Choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. He chose Handel’s final 1756 version of the oratorio “Israel in Egypt,” rich in variety and text painting, but difficult to pull off due to its sectional structure and length – 28 double choruses, numerous recitatives, 5 arias and 3 duets running over two hours. An odd work for a debut, I thought.
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