The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College 2015-2016 SNEAK PEEK Brochure

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2015 2016

Cell phone ringtones. Watches beeping on the hour. Notification chirps for Twitter, Instagram, and other smartphone apps. Alarm clocks. Car horns. Whether it’s a distraction we’ve lived with for decades or something completely new, life is full of distractions.

I can think of one place where there is no distraction: a performance hall.

Here at The Performing Arts Center we have three glorious theatres that are distraction-free zones. The Center’s Recital Hall, PepsiCo Theatre, and Concert Hall are fascination zones.

But you already know that. That’s why you’ve been a subscriber. And that’s why you’re receiving this Sneak Peek at our 2015-2016 season.

As a subscriber, you’re getting the first look at the afternoons and evenings of fascination we have in store for you, before we announce the season to the general public.

Thank you for being a loyal member of our audience.

I look forward to meeting you in the lobby during our upcoming 38th season and to joining you for many fascinating performances here at The Center.

—Harry J. McFadden, Director

CHAMBER MUSIC

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center © Tristan Cook

THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

Ray Chen © Julian Hargreaves

This marks the second season of residency at The Center for the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music. This year’s four extraordinary concerts continue Artistic Directors Wu Han and David Finckel’s commitment to bringing audiences the finest chamber music performances, repertoire, and artists.

HAYDN, MENDELSSOHN, & SCHUMANN Saturday, October 17 • 5pm • Recital Hall The CMS season at The Center kicks off with three jewels of the chamber music repertoire, taking listeners on a journey from the classical to the romantic era.

Michael Brown, piano; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Wu Han, piano; Chad Hoopes, violin; Ani Kavafian, violin; Matthew Lipman, viola; Paul Neubauer, viola; Dmitri Atapine, cello; Joseph Conyers, double bass HAYDN Trio in A Major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Hob. XV:18 MENDELSSOHN Sextet in D Major for Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass, Op. 110 SCHUMANN Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 44

NIGHTS IN VIENNA Saturday, November 21 • 5pm • Recital Hall Gilbert Kalish, one of the greatest pianists of our time, leads a cast of formidable CMS artists in a program spanning three centuries of music in Vienna.

Gilbert Kalish, piano; Nicolas Dautricourt, violin; Kristin Lee, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Torleif Thedéen, cello; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet HAYDN Trio in E Minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Hob. XV:12 SCHOENBERG/WEBERN Kammersymphonie, arranged for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 9 BRAHMS Quartet No. 3 in C Minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 60

PIANOS/PIANISTS Saturday, January 23 • 5pm • Recital Hall Four exceptional CMS pianists share the stage (and sometimes, piano!), performing works that range from playful to fiery.

Alessio Bax, piano; Juho Pohjonen, piano; Orion Weiss, piano; Wu Qian, piano ARENSKY Silhouettes Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 23 BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 19 LUTOSLAWSKI Variations on a Theme of Paganini for Two Pianos RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances for Two Pianos, Op. 45

HORN CALLS Saturday, May 7 • 5pm • Recital Hall Internationally renowned horn virtuoso Radovan Vlatković is featured in a program of beloved chamber works for this remarkable instrument.

Nicholas Phan, tenor; Gloria Chien, piano; Juho Pohjonen, piano; Paul Huang, violin; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Mihai Marica, cello; Radovan Vlatković, horn DVOŘÁK Selected Slavonic Dances for Piano, Four Hands SCHUBERT “Auf dem Strom” for Tenor, Horn, and Piano, D. 943, Op. 119 SCHUMANN Andante and Variations for Horn, Two Cellos, and Two Pianos, WoO 10 SCHUBERT Allegro in A Minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 947, Op. 144, “Lebensstürme” BRAHMS Trio in E-flat Major for Horn, Violin, and Piano, Op. 40

GREAT PERFORMERS THE 5 BROWNS, pianos Saturday, October 3 • 8pm • Concert Hall When one looks at five attractive, well-dressed young musicians, ages 28 to 35, one is inclined to think, “ah, a pop group.” Looks can be deceiving: these five brothers and sisters, the first family of five siblings to enroll at New York’s prestigious Juilliard School, are classical music artists of the highest caliber. They dazzled audiences when they opened our 2012-2013 season as a special event, so much so that we knew we had to bring them back on our Great Performers series. The 5 Browns: five Steinway Artists at five pianos, performing individually or together in various combinations from duos to complex five-piano arrangements, classical and contemporary piano music played flawlessly.

RAY CHEN, violin Sunday, December 6 • 3pm • Recital Hall The acclaimed young violinist Ray Chen, just 26 years of age, has been described on National Public Radio as “the finest current violinist you don’t yet know, but soon will” and has repeatedly been compared to the great Maxim Vengerov. When Vengerov himself praises him, attention must be paid: “Ray has proven himself to be a pure musician with great qualities such as a beautiful youthful tone, vitality, and lightness.” The Taiwan-born, Australiaraised musician was first-prize winner of the 2008 Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. His program will be Schubert’s Rondo in B Minor, D. 895; Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major; Arvo Pärt’s Fratres for Violin and Piano; Stravinsky’s Divertimento for Violin and Piano; and Ravel’s Tzigane.

ZUILL BAILEY, cello Sunday, February 28 • 3pm • Recital Hall The descriptive phrase “rock star” and the word “cellist” are not often uttered in the same sentence, but the two come to mind to describe the astonishingly talented (and, in the words of one critic, “easy on the eye”) Zuill Bailey. This extraordinary classical cellist is gifted with beautiful tone, fabulous technique, sensitive interpretation, and a dynamic personality. The American-born Bailey’s calling card to public attention may have been a bit unusual: for half a dozen years he played a murderous cellist, imprisoned after stabbing a violinist with the endpin of his cello, on the HBO prison series Oz. At The Center he’ll be “killing” audiences on the cello he calls “J-Lo” in honor of its deep curves.

Metropolitan Opera Rising Stars © Ron Berard

GREAT VOICES A CHANTICLEER CHRISTMAS

Munich Symphony Orchestra © Peter von Felbert

GREAT ORCHESTRAS

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Jan Vogler, cello, and Mira Wang, violin Sunday, October 11 • 3pm • Concert Hall Some musical partnerships are so powerful that the names become synonymous. Think of Lincoln Center and one thinks of the New York Philharmonic. What would Preservation Hall in New Orleans be without the jazz band of the same name? The Waldorf Astoria: for many years it was home to Guy Lombardo’s orchestra. We at The Center feel that way about Orpheus, now in their 5th decade and eternally without a conductor. Their recitals are clever, compassionate, and unabashedly creative, and they’ve been a part of us for so long that a season just wouldn’t be a season without them.

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 WOLFGANG RIHM Concerto for Violin and Cello (World Premiere)

MUNICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Philippe Entremont, honorary conductor Pepe Romero, guitar soloist | The Romeros, guitar quartet Friday, November 6 • 8pm • Concert Hall The last time the Münchner Symphoniker toured the US was 2009 and this ensemble’s return, with its signature classical-romantic repertoire, has been a highly anticipated event. Joining forces with renowned guitarist Pepe Romero, the self-proclaimed ambassador of classical guitar who has entertained audiences worldwide for six decades, and Pepe’s reallife family, The Romeros, about whom The New York Times proclaimed, “Collectively, they are the only classical guitar quartet of real stature in the world today; in fact, they virtually invented the format.”

Saturday, December 5 • 4pm & 8pm • Recital Hall Twelve guys in tuxes celebrating the season — what could be better? This orchestra of voices, all of them male (and sartorially resplendent fellows at that) is named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, will be celebrating its 37th season in 2015-2016 the way they celebrate every year: with concerts throughout the country and Europe. The voices range from soprano (yes, adult male soprano) to bass, and their vocal interpretation of holiday music, from Renaissance to traditional to contemporary pop, is always stunningly original.

APOLLO’S FIRE: ST. JOHN PASSION Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Sunday, March 13 • 3pm • Concert Hall Apollo’s Fire is dedicated to the Baroque ideal that music should evoke passions in its listeners. On our stage they’ll be presenting Bach’s celebrated oratorio Passio secundum Johannem, better known as the St. John Passion.

Also available as part of the GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES

METROPOLITAN OPERA RISING STARS Sunday, April 3 • 3pm • Recital Hall For more than 125 years New York City’s Metropolitan Opera has been the artistic home of the greatest singers in the world. The Met is also the launching pad for the opera stars of the future. Some of today’s leading artists got their first big break by winning the company’s national auditions, as members of the young artist program, or by catching the attention of Met talent scouts. This Rising Stars concert offers fans a rare opportunity to discover remarkable young singers whose names, someday, will be spoken with the same reverence and respect as the likes of Renée Fleming, Deborah Voigt, and Thomas Hampson.

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Khatia Buniatishvili, piano Sunday, January 31 • 3pm • Concert Hall HAYDN Symphony No. 1 in D Major MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky RACHMANINOFF Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos

APOLLO’S FIRE: ST. JOHN PASSION Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Sunday, March 13 • 3pm • Concert Hall Apollo. Son of Zeus and Leto. The god of light and sun. The patron of music and poetry. Apollo’s Fire embraces the spirit of the Greek and Roman god and is dedicated to the Baroque ideal that music should evoke passions in its listeners. On our stage they’ll be presenting a “passion”: Bach’s celebrated oratorio Passio secundum Johannem, better known as the St. John Passion. First performed on a Good Friday nearly 300 years ago, the Passion arrives at The Center just two weeks before Easter of 2016.

Also available as part of the GREAT VOICES SERIES

CENTER FAMILY BLACK VIOLIN

Sunday, November 15 • 3pm • PepsiCo Theatre Wil B and Kev Marcus, the two brilliant performers on violin and viola who made their debut at The Center last year, return for another celebration of somethingfor-everyone music, encompassing classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass.

The guys started playing together in high school, received the best classical training, and for the past decade have been traveling the world, averaging 200 shows each year in 49 states and 36 countries, with music they describe as “something everyone can enjoy, whether you’re an 80-year-old grandmother or a kid in kindergarten.” Recommended for ages 6 and up.

THE INTERGALACTIC NEMESIS Saturday, February 27 • 3pm • PepsiCo Theatre Three actors voice dozens of characters, a Foley sound artist creates all the audio effects, and a pianist plays a cinematic score while more than 1,250 individual full-color hi-res comic book panels tell a hilarious sci-fi adventure story visually on a movie screen. And, in this family-friendly performance, it all happens live before your very eyes. The Intergalactic Nemesis has been featured on television, including Conan O’Brien, and on stage in New York where the New York Post called it “Great fun! A happily retro multimedia extravaganza.”

Recommended for ages 7 and up.

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG LIVE! Saturday, April 16 • 3pm • Concert Hall For more than 40 years Clifford has charmed and amazed children with his adventures and “big ideas” and he’s coming to The Center to emBARK on his latest adventure live on stage! Clifford fans will love every minute of this musical tail (sorry, that should be tale). Perhaps this performance will answer the question that’s been asked for many years: how did he get to be so big? With hummable songs and lovable characters, Clifford the Big Red Dog LIVE! is certain to be a pup-ular hit. Recommended for ages 3 and up.

Jessica Lang Dance © Takao Komaru

Arturo Sandoval © Manny Iriarte

CENTER DANCE CENTER JAZZ VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY

Saturday, October 10 • 8pm • PepsiCo Theatre

Hailing from some of Israel’s most respected dance companies, Noa Wertheim and Adi Sha’al’s first professional collaboration was a short duet called “Vertigo.” Soon after, in 1992, they established their own company of the same name. Based in an Eco Art Village midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, an environment in which the arts are fostered in an ecologically and socially responsible manner, Vertigo explores through movement the powerful connections that exist among society, art, and the environment and seeks to bring audiences closer through a universal language: movement.

JESSICA LANG DANCE: THE WANDERER Sunday, November 22 • 3pm • PepsiCo Theatre

The New York Times was rhapsodic when Jessica Lang’s new choreographic work had its premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this past December: “If a Romantic poet were moved to praise the virtues of Jessica Lang’s The Wanderer, he would have many to list. The production, which translates Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin into dance, is a work of high craftsmanship. With great ingenuity, Ms. Lang’s fine dancers shape it into myriad forms as they tell the story.” Lang, formerly a dancer with Twyla Tharp, and her young company, only a handful of years old, have truly taken the dance world by storm. Also on the program will be The Calling: one dancer and a 20-foot-long white skirt, a striking image in motion.

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY Saturday, February 20 • 8pm • Concert Hall The word “legend” is overused in brochures like this. True legends are few and far between and at The Center we avoid the word. However, sometimes no other word suffices. Such is the case with the legendary (there, we said it) Martha Graham. More than 20 years after her death, the company she founded continues to carry on her legacy, not only with regular performances selected from among the 181 choreographic works she created, but by continuing to foster her spirit of ingenuity by embracing works by artists inspired by Graham’s vision.

STATE STREET BALLET: CARMEN Saturday, April 9 • 8pm • Concert Hall

FILM

A red dress. It hints of passion, jealousy, desire. That one red dress, clinging to a beautiful dancer, embodies all of the elements of Carmen, the classic tragic tale of the Gypsy and her obsessive lover. State Street Ballet’s full-length production is told through contemporary ballet, with both classical and modern influences, choreographed by William Soleau to the rich score by Georges Bizet.

State Street, a vibrant and innovative dance company based in Santa Barbara, has become known for melding familiar story lines with exciting movement to give familiar tales a modern, passionate, and unique twist.

ARTURO SANDOVAL Saturday, November 7 • 8pm • Concert Hall What better pedigree could there be in the jazz world than to be known as the protégé of the one and only Dizzy Gillespie? It’s a claim that can be made by the singular master of the jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, Arturo Sandoval.

If you haven’t seen him on stage, you may have seen him performing on the Oscars, the Grammys, or the Superbowl halftime show. Bottom line: if you haven’t seen him on stage you haven’t truly experienced one of the most dynamic and vivacious jazz artists of our time, one who is also a renowned composer and classical musician, performing regularly with the world’s leading symphony orchestras. The real bottom line: whether it’s straight-ahead jazz, Latin jazz, or classical, this is one of the music scene’s most brilliant, multifaceted, and dynamic musicians.

MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR Saturday, February 13 • 8pm • Concert Hall

Patti Austin, vocals Terence Blanchard, trumpet Ravi Coltrane, tenor & soprano saxophone Gerald Clayton, piano & music director Joe Sanders, bass Justin Brown, drums One unofficial holiday truly matters to jazz lovers. Every third weekend in September since 1958, thousands upon thousands make the pilgrimage to the fairgrounds in Monterey, California, for a three-day celebration of the best in jazz. In 2016 it’s the Monterey Jazz Festival itself that will be traveling to audiences, bringing with it the Festival’s hallmark “traditionalist-untraditionalist” attitude and jazz-with-a-purpose exuberance exemplified from the beginning by what founder Jimmy Lyons called “the best jazz people in the whole world….”

JOHN PIZZARELLI & RAMSEY LEWIS Saturday, April 30 • 8pm • Concert Hall “Mona Lisa.” “Unforgettable.” “Straighten Up and Fly Right.” And oh so many more, one solid gold hit after another. Nat King Cole, the titan of 50s song stylists, is celebrated by two of the jazz world’s best: three-time Grammy winner and master of jazz piano Ramsey Lewis and singer-guitarist John Pizzarelli, about whom a local paper in the Northwest quipped, “John Pizzarelli is so impossibly cool he shouldn’t be legally allowed to enter Oregon.” Bring these two together and it’s an explosion of smooth jazz, an evening with a nightclub ambience minus the martinis.

OPERA AT THE CINEMA

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE

Sundays at 2pm • PepsiCo Theatre

PepsiCo Theatre

Introduced during the 2014-2015 season, these high definition film screenings of classic operas have taken our audiences to the opera houses of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.

Continuing in 2015-2016, Opera at the Cinema, a program of Rising Alternatives, proves that the big screen isn’t just about films any more but about the world’s richest cultural spectacles, all within a short drive from home.

New to The Center: you’ll have the best seats in the house for the finest theatre from London. National Theatre Live launched in 2009 and its high definition broadcasts have now been experienced by over 3.5 million people around the world. NT Live audiences in the U.S. saw Helen Mirren starring in The Audience long before it arrived on Broadway, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night a full year before it became a surprise smash hit. Other NT Live events have been Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch as well as productions from the Donmar Warehouse and the Young Vic, both part of London’s equivalent of off-Broadway.

September 27 • November 8 • March 20 • May 8

The series will include nine screenings. Dates, times, and titles TBA.

CENTERSINGLES NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE USA

NATIONAL BALLET OF CHINA

Eileen Ivers © Mel DiGiacomo

Friday, July 10 • 8pm • Concert Hall Be the first to meet and applaud America’s newest National Youth Orchestra. After a two-week residency at Purchase College these 122 extraordinary young musicians will give their first performance right here at The Center, before embarking on a seven-city tour of China. They will perform under the baton of the great conductor Charles Dutoit and will be joined by China’s superstar pianist YUNDI. On the program, a new work by Tan Dun commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, “Emperor,” and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. NYO-USA is a project of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.

DECODA

Saturday, July 18 • 8pm • Concert Hall

Sunday, February 21 • 3pm • Recital Hall

Direct from the 2015 Lincoln Center Festival, China’s national ballet fuses classic western ballet with traditional Chinese dance, creating a style of ballet that is uniquely their own. Their program will juxtapose the familiar, including the pas de deux from Don Quixote and Act Two of Giselle , with works that encapsulate the Chinese spirit and experience, including the contemporary works Gungling Verse and Close Your Eyes When It Is Getting Dark , as well as selections from two of their signature ballets: Yellow River and The Red Detachment of Women .

When a bunch of young musicians first collaborated with one another in a fellowship program overseen by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, they may not have imagined that the collaboration would evolve into Decoda, an ensemble that in less than four years would travel throughout the United States as well as Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

They were first at The Center in 2012, when they were just starting out, and our audiences embraced them. We are thrilled that they’re back for their fourth consecutive season; audiences can anticipate an afternoon of matchless musical fervor.

UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN Sunday, October 4 • 3pm • Recital Hall No drums. No pianos. No banjos. No electronic trickery. Just ukes…and singing…and a bit of whistling. A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a virtuosic, funny, awesome, foot-stomping event, a collision of rock-n-roll, light entertainment, post-punk, and toe-tapping oldies. Formed in 1985 just for fun, their first gig was a sell-out, and they’ve been at it ever since with sold-out concerts around the globe. They’re happily taking, or embracing, the blame for the current ukulele revival. Don’t let the formal wear fool you. You may never think about music in the same way once you’ve been exposed to these first-rate artists who slide easily from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana, maybe with a touch of Otis Redding. Or, as one critic suggested, it’s just one plucking thing after another.

ANA GASTEYER: I’M HIP! Saturday, October 24 • 8pm • PepsiCo Theatre You know she’s funny (6 years on Saturday Night Live ). You may know that she sings (she was on Broadway in Wicked and The Threepenny Opera , and even belted occasionally on SNL ). But did you know that she swings? Really swings? When she steps up to a microphone she evokes the swagger of an era when a lady ruled a nightclub and an audience knew they were in for a good time. The patter is real, the themes adult, the lyrics are timeless, and the music swings like crazy! Her vibe recalls that of a time when entertainers truly entertained with sultry standards and saucy stories. Ana Gasteyer and her high-octane back-up band — they’ll have you swinging here at The Center.

ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE: SGT. PEPPER Friday, November 20 • 8pm • PepsiCo Theatre

With Stephen Page of Barenaked Ladies & Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket The Art of Time Ensemble, featuring pop icons from contemporary groups, reimagines and re-invents the Beatles classic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band through newly commissioned arrangements from pop, jazz, and classical composers. This fresh and vibrant look at such classic Paul McCartney/John Lennon songs as “With a Little Help from My Friends,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” and, of course, the title track, channels the Beatles, but with a decidedly 2015 twist.

THE ROB MATHES HOLIDAY CONCERT Friday, December 18 • 8pm • PepsiCo Theatre Saturday, December 19 • 8pm • PepsiCo Theatre Now in his third decade of holiday performances at The Center, Rob and his band of New York City All-Star musicians are truly a tradition. Their annual celebration is a heart-warming evening of original tunes, holiday classics, and Mathes favorites to put you in the spirit of the season. Rob has worked with virtually every big name in the music industry, arranging, producing, directing, recording, and performing with the likes of Bono, Bennett, Sting, and Springsteen. Despite his busy schedule, it’s good to have him “home” for the holidays.

FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA Friday, February 26 • 8pm • Concert Hall Flamenco: shimmering, seductive, and steeped in tradition and storytelling.

When Carlota Santana brought Flamenco Vivo to The Center two seasons ago, audience enthusiasm was such that we wanted them on our stage again as soon as possible. They return with Poema de Andalucía, a choreographic journey through the alluring cultures and traditions of the Andalusian provinces that form the cradle of Flamenco. This special “poem” celebrates the region’s unique and rich heritage through the language of music, song, and dance.

MONTANA REP: ALL MY SONS Thursday, March 10 • 8pm • PepsiCo Theatre Arthur Miller’s first great play may not be his best-known work, but its explosiveness certainly foreshadowed such plays as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible still to come. It’s post-World War II and Joe Keller, the patriarch of a seemingly all-American family, has a secret, one that will slowly unravel during the course of two acts and change the lives of all the characters forever.

Originally produced on Broadway in 1947 and revived several times, this production is from Montana Rep, the theater-in-residence at the University of Montana and one of the most respected touring companies in the U.S.

EILEEN IVERS Friday, March 11 • 8pm • PepsiCo Theatre Long-time audience members will remember Eileen Ivers, hailed by The New York Times as “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin,” for her frequent appearances at The Center about a dozen years ago. Welcome back, Eileen! We’re looking forward to your Beyond the Bog Road tour, celebrating your newest CD. Adding to the excitement, Eileen will not be alone. Her dazzling and virtuoso fiddle playing will be accompanied by a four-piece back-up band and dancers, all exploring Americana sounds and the growth from Celtic beginnings of Bluegrass, Appalachian, Quebecois, and Cajun music.

COLIN MOCHRIE & BRAD SHERWOOD: TWO MAN GROUP Friday, April 1 • 8pm • Concert Hall The pairing of these two stars of TV’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” raises the question: “Who’s live anyway?” Answer: they are. The imaginative mammal Colin Mochrie (Latin name: Hilaritycus Smoothius) and the savant of self-amusement Brad Sherwood (Latin name: Cranius Giganticum) are alive and kicking with 90 minutes of hilarious improvised comedy and song. Is it any wonder that this performance will take place on April Fool’s Day? Come to the performance with your own improvisation suggestions and you may just be asked to join the cast on stage.

ROBIN SPIELBERG Saturday, April 16 • 8pm • Recital Hall The numbers add up. She’s releasing her 17th CD this spring. She has recorded over 16 of her own compositions and those have been covered by more than 40 other artists. With tours encompassing hundreds of dates, tens of thousands of audiences entertained, and hundreds of thousands of recordings sold, Robin Spielberg, named to the prestigious Steinway Artists roster, has truly become one of America’s most beloved pianist/composers. She is mesmerizing in her live performances, whether sharing her extraordinary arrangements of such classics as “Moon River” and “Love Theme from The Godfather,” or her own original compositions, and her in-between-the-songs storytelling sets her apart.

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain © Nigel Barklie

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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain • Sunday, October 4 • 3pm Vertigo Dance Company • Saturday, October 10 • 8pm

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Pianos / Pianists • Saturday, January 23 • 5pm Orpheus Chamber Orchestra • Sunday, January 31• 3pm Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour • Saturday, February 13 • 8pm Martha Graham Dance Company • Saturday, February 20 • 8pm Decoda • Sunday, February 21 • 3pm

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Haydn-Mendelssohn-Schumann • Saturday, October 17 • 5pm

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana • Friday, February 26 • 8pm

Ana Gasteyer: I’m Hip! • Saturday, October 24 • 8pm

Zuill Bailey • Sunday, February 28 • 3pm

Munich Symphony Orchestra • Friday, November 6 • 8pm

Montana Rep: All My Sons • Thursday, March 10 • 8pm

Arturo Sandoval • Saturday, November 7 • 8pm

The Intergalactic Nemesis • Saturday, February 27 • 3pm

MARCH

NOVEMBER

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra • Sunday, October 11 • 3pm

JANUARY

The 5 Browns • Saturday, October 3 • 8pm

National Ballet of China • Saturday, July 18 • 8pm

FEBRUARY

JULY

National Youth Orchestra of the USA • Friday, July 10 • 8pm

OCTOBER

2015- 2016 AT A GLANCE

Black Violin • Sunday, November 15 • 3pm

Apollo’s Fire: Saint John Passion • Sunday, March 13 • 3pm APRIL

The Art of Time Ensemble: Sgt Pepper • Friday, November 20 • 8pm The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Nights in Vienna • Saturday, November 21 • 5pm

Eileen Ivers • Friday, March 11 • 8pm

Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood • Friday, April 1 • 8pm Metropolitan Opera Rising Stars • Sunday, April 3 • 3pm State Street Ballet: Carmen • Saturday, April 9 • 8pm

Jessica Lang Dance • Sunday, November 22 • 3pm Chanticleer • Saturday, December 5 • 4pm & 8pm

Robin Spielberg • Saturday, April 16 • 8pm

Ray Chen • Sunday, December 6 • 3pm

John Pizzarelli & Ramsey Lewis • Saturday, April 30 • 8pm

Rob Mathes Holiday Concert • Friday, December 18 & Saturday, December 19 • 8pm

MAY

DECEMBER

Clifford the Big Red Dog LIVE!• Saturday, April 16 • 3pm

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Horn Calls • Saturday, May 7 • 5pm

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On the cover: Top left: Zuill Bailey © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Top right: Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood © Mills Entertainment Bottom: Ying Xin in Martha Graham’s “Diversion of Angels” © Hibbard Nash Photography.