Three pieces by Pärt and Schnittke, composed within two years, transcend time in Harlem

A piano duo sets Julius Eastman and Steve Martland as celebration, demonstration, protest march, and parade on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. 

On Sunday evening the JACK Quartet, seemingly ubiquitous in new music circles, performed an enlightening array of musical styles at (Le) Poisson Rouge, joined by rising young cellist Joshua Roman. The thoughtful programming was almost as chronologically diverse as it could have been.

If there was any sense that the Marin Alsop was at the end of a particularly harried week for her, she displayed no signs of it at her “Casual Friday” concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Friday 2 November. The Baltimore-based conductor found herself at the center of the headlines last week – albeit for reasons she probably would have preferred to have passed up on.

Chamber Music International kicked off its 27th concert season on Saturday evening at Southern Methodist University. The centerpiece of the program was John Williams’ Quartet La Jolla, and the other works all used various combinations of these instruments.

La Staatskapelle Dresden presentó con Ibermúsica, el Réquiem de Verdi, junto al Orfeó Català y un cuarteto solista de excepción, quienes bajo la atenta batuta de Danielle Gatti ofrecieron una versión pulida y delicada, alejada del dramatismo que en ocasiones permea la obra.

Un recorrido por el posromanticismo germánico, donde la orquesta invitada logró evocar musicalmente el paisaje emocional y la arquitectura sinfónica de los protagonistas del programa.