Israel in Egypt at Trinity Church, New York

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.

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.

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.

Employing khoomei, a style of singing that remains “a mystery to Western science”, each of the four performers was capable of producing up to four notes at once.

The English Concert and Harry Bicket bring Theodora to Carnegie Hall, with Dorothea Röschmann, David Daniels and Sarah Connolly.

Part of the Next Wave Festival, 21c Liderabend achieved a delicate balance that, more times than not, New York’s larger performing arts venues fail to accomplish: an intimate experience in an extravagant, larger-scale setting.