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Venue: Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, New York City

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Address129 West 67th Street
New York City
NY NY 10023
United States
Google maps40° 46' 30.921" N 73° 58' 58.728" W
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A violin sensation tests his mettle as a re-composer

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Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with Stewart as soloist, is transformed into a call for climate action at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, the strongest moments coming in the musical quotations. 

***11
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Resilience, if not resolution: piano dialogues with Tendler and Hanick

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A piano duo sets Julius Eastman and Steve Martland as celebration, demonstration, protest march, and parade on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. 
*****
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Israeli Chamber Project reframes time itself in uneven concert

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The Israeli Chamber Project gave Milhaud's La Création du monde a warm and easy stride, a tactic that didn’t sit well in the second half with the ever-austere Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time.

**111
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Kronos Quartet sets a course for the future with a night of new works

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The program, drawn from Kronos’s 50 for the Future commissions, ranged from the exotic to the complex, with students joining in for a Philip Glass string orchestra finale. 

****1
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Ecstatic Music Festival: Electroacoustic trio take a flying leap at Kaufman Center

A genre-bending performance by Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, and Daniel Wohl’s TRANSIT ensemble was the latest instalment in the 2013 Ecstatic Music Festival at the Kaufman Center in Lincoln Square. The EMF, an annual incubator for new and adventurous music in New York City, once again achieved its aim to provide a space for the new and surprising.
**111
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Ecstatic Music for the Indie-Rock Crowd at Merkin Concert Hall

Bluish lights mottled the stage at Merkin Concert Hall. The space was set for what appeared to be an orchestral concert, but for the table, drum set, and microphones. At the 7:30 start time the vintage-clad crowd was still in the lobby sipping wine, or ambling into the hall as if going to a rock concert.
***11
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