Theater in NY: About Alice at TFANA in Brooklyn, NY

January 21, 2019April 24, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Theater in NY: About Alice at TFANA in Brooklyn, NY

Theatre For a New Audience presents a play by Calvin Trillin “About Alice” on January 8 – February 3, 2019

Carrie Paff as Alice, Jeffrey Bean as Calvin in "About Alice" at TFANA — Carrie Paff as Alice, Jeffrey Bean as Calvin in “About Alice” at TFANA; photo by Henry Grossman

Shortly after Calvin Trillin’s memoir “About Alice” was published in 2007, it was adapted by the author for a two-character play. Trillin, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, wrote movingly about his late wife Alice in several books and essays. At the suggestion of TFANA artistic director Jeffrey Horowitz who knew Alice when she was making an educational series on PBS, the work on the play “About Alice” continued for some time culminating in this theatrical run at TFANA.

The genuine performance by Jeffrey Bean as Calvin Trillin and Carrie Paff as Alice tell a touching story of how they met at a party, fell in love, and kept the precious light of their love burning for many years. It is telling that when a shorter version of the memoir “Alice, Off the Page” appeared in The New Yorker, people who did not know Alice personally kept writing to Mr. Trillin about their fascination with his wife’s cheerful nature, happiness with the world around her, and a sense of wholeness. With humor and utmost love the play tactfully lets the audience into the family life with all of its ups and downs. Get tickets at 56% off with TodayTIX

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Music in NYC: Classical Vienna Chamber Music Presented by Aspect Foundation

January 15, 2019April 24, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com

Music in NYC: Classical Vienna Chamber Music Presented by Aspect Foundation

The spirit of Classical Vienna gets recreated by The Orion String Quartet and clarinetist Alexander Bedenko at Bohemian National Hall in New York City on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 7.30 pm

Members of The Orion String Quartet — The Orion String Quartet / Photo Credit: Andreas Hafenscher

Chamber music with its air of intimacy and personal touch is elevated to the new heights in the programs presented by Aspect Foundation. Music and literature of a particular epoch, composers, musicians, writers, and their circles all have a place in its programs. Multi-layered scholarly presentations about the time, place and people who left lasting marks on world cultural history are vividly delivered by the leading experts in the arts.

On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 The Orion String Quartet will be joined by clarinetist Alexander Bedenko and WQXR radio host Elliott Forrest for an evening of music by Haydn and Mozart and an illustrated talk about the transformational time in Vienna between Classical and Romantic periods. Courage, change, pre-revolutionary ideas were the subjects of debate in Vienna at the time and you will hear them and about them at the concert. Expect more than just a musical performance and be ready for a deep yet entertaining dive into history and behind the scenes tales.

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Opera in NYC: Verdi’s Aida at the Met Opera

September 11, 2018November 4, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Opera in NYC: Verdi’s Aida at the Met Opera

Monumental Met Opera production of a timeless masterpiece by Verdi with star-studded cast returns to the Met Opera stage in January, 2019

Opera Verdi Aida New York Metropolitan Opera — A scene from Verdi’s Aida at MetOpera; Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

Grand Opera in its ultimate sense, Verdi’s Aida in Sonja Frisell’s production from 1988 is a highlight of the 2018-2019 Metropolitan Opera season. The grandeur of the staging calls for an equally magnificent cast. In the winter and early spring a talented duo of Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role and Dolora Zajick as Amneris with Aleksandr Antonenko and Yonghoon Lee alternating as Radomes will take the stage.

The stage design by Gianni Quaranta recreates the pompous style of the Old Kingdom architecture in all its sumptuousness. The director Stephen Pickover is matching the decor with hundreds of performers including four horses, two brass choirs, ballet dancers and supernumeraries trooping the stage. It all aims to convey the might and power of Egypt’s Pharaoh. And it surely fulfills the intent. That state omnipotence is skillfully contrasted against the lonely and touching scenes of soul-searching and love despair. This is the theater in all its might with its tricks finely brought together for the joy of the opera fans. Get tickets at 21% off with TodayTIX.

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Art in NYC: Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich at the Jewish Museum

September 20, 2018April 24, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Art in NYC: Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich at the Jewish Museum

Russian Avant-garde art from the turbulent post-revolution years by the founders of People’s Art School in Vitebsk in 1918-1922 is open on September 14, 2018 – January 6, 2019

Art Jewish Museum New York City Chagall — Marc Chagall, Double Portrait with Wine Glass, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; image provided by CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York

Marking a centennial from its opening, the history of People’s Art School in Vitebsk and the artworks by its world-famous founder, prominent teachers and students make an excellent tribute to the new art, new teachings and the stormy winds of the revolutionary time. The exhibition is collaboratively organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris where it was shown through July 16, 2018 and the Jewish Museum in New York where it will be on view until January 6, 2019. The works included in the exhibition are from the major museums and private collections with some of the paintings, drawings and sketches traveling abroad for the first time from the regional museums in Vitebsk and Minsk, Belarus.

Marc Chagall’s brainchild inspired by the spirit of revolution and its promise of access and opportunity for all, the art school in provincial Vitebsk, a town with under a hundred thousand residents half of them Jewish at the time, brought together world-class artists and talented students from humbled backgrounds. Chagall’s vision was to combine various artistic movements and to design the curriculum stretching from the classical elements all the way to the contemporary approaches. El Lissitzky and Kazemir Malevich were invited to join the faculty together with other artists representing a range of art movements. Soon supremacists led by Malevich won the hearts of the students leading to Chagall’s leaving Vitebsk and embarking on other projects in Moscow.

The dynamic Russian Avant-garde artworks on view at the Jewish Museum tell a touching story of historical changes and disappearance of the old ways of life and old ways of thinking about art. While the school didn’t last long and was reorganized into a technical college after 1922, its short history tells a remarkable story of the excitement of the experiment and the power of creative expression.

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