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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.

Imagine waiting for a long time. You can’t see anything, so you can’t entirely trust your unfamiliar surroundings. Imagine heightened senses: sounds with sharper edges, drafts of air crawling across goosebumped skin, scents stretching out to you in the darkness. Imagine an opera in which the performers can watch the audience rather than the other way around.

When death takes away everyone you ever loved, acting cool and staying amiable might not be the easiest things to do. You start having thoughts you never dared think before. You start questioning the unquestionable. Chances are you will turn into an agnostic. Giuseppe Verdi did.

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.

October 14th marked the highly-anticipated debut concert for Trinity Church’s new Director of Music and the Arts, conductor/composer Dr Julian Wachner, with the Trinity Choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra.