The New York Times
June 18, 2004

Classical Music and Dance Listings

A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy opera, classical music and dance events this weekend in the Northeast.

 

Classical Music

MANNES INSTITUTE AND FESTIVAL FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE. The challenges of playing contemporary music, not to mention the challenges, at times, of listening to it, require special skills of performers and an adventurous streak from concertgoers. This year the Mannes College of Music has inaugurated a weeklong institute and festival of contemporary music to address these needs. Since Monday young performers and interested members of the public have been attending workshops, master classes, lectures and symposiums where they have learned from champions of contemporary music like the pianists Ursula Oppens, Bruce Brubaker and Mark Ponthus and the violinists Rolf Schulte and Curtis Macomber. Several of these artists will perform in a concert on Sunday night to conclude the festival, with a program devoted to the formidable composer Charles Wuorinen. Tonight's concert offers Mr. Ponthus, the director of the institute, the brilliant young pianist and contemporary music firebrand Blair McMillen and other performers in a program of works by Albert Carbonelli, Lee Hyla, John Luther Adams, John Zorn and others. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, Mannes College of Music, 150 West 85th Street, Manhattan, (212) 580-0210. Tickets: $20; $10 for students (Anthony Tommasini).

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