Close Encounters with Music – Cafe Vienna, Nervous Splendor

Vienna, the imperial “City of Song,” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry and intellectual thought, from the 16th to 20th centuries. This program takes a cross-section of Viennese musical modes—from operetta to waltz, Beethoven’s Piano Trio which spins on a popular song by Weigl, to Schubert’s sublime testament to his beloved métier, “An die Musik.”

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Close Encounters With Music – Great Piano Quintets Gala Concert

Dvorák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 are both majestic, symphonic in scope, and invite the listener into a lost world of powerful beauty, profundity, and nobility of sentiments, peppered with folk tunes and polkas. An all-star ensemble that shares the stage with artistic director Yehuda Hanani includes Max Levinson and violist Jordan Bak.

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Close Encounters with Music – Manhattan Chamber Players

Bringing a “mellifluous blend of vigorous intensity and dramatic import, performed with enthusiasm, technical facility and impressive balance,” the 13-strong Manhattan Chamber Players make their Close Encounters With Music debut this season.

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