Classical
Screw You, Putin: Yara Arts Group's 'Captain John Smith Goes to Ukraine' Opens at La MaMa with Bob Holman, Susan Hwang and Julian Kytastyn
Simon Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic Bringing Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' to Park Avenue Armory for Lincoln Center's White Light Festival
So, Bach hated opera because of its lazy audience. And yet his most operatic work, the St. Matthew Passion, constantly engages, asking questions about the role of an audience in that very production. If only there were a Socratic maestro--and a German ensemble--who could highlight such a line of inquiry? ISSUE Project Room Presents Charlemagne Palestine's First-Ever New York Organ Concert at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights
Majorly minimal keyboard god Charlemagne Palestine returns to Brooklyn on Thursday, thanks to the good people at ISSUE Project Room. Unlike last time, though, he won't be strumming ISSUE's Bösendorfer. And he won't be up on Boerum Hill either.
