Tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon brings a program of three piano trios by Beethoven, performed by the violinist Paul Rosenthal, the cellist Yehuda Hanani and the pianist Doris Stevenson.
At Skirball for her New York début, she brings a program of dances illustrating the origins of raqs sharqi, accompanied by a seven-member ensemble of musicians on traditional instruments.
These days for a foreign company to bring a program of ballets by the Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky to New York is to invoke the cliché about hauling coals to Newcastle.
For orchestras visiting New York standard operating procedure is to bring a program of blockbusters meant to show off the players' power and agility, and the firmness of the conductor's control.
The current lineup — Paul O'Dette, lutenist; Ellen Hargis, soprano; William Hite, tenor; and David Douglass violinist — brings a program of music from Shakespeare's plays, as well as improvisations by Mr. Douglass and Mr. O'Dette, to the Music Before 1800 series.
Before implementing programs based on the new study, Farah says, "we need to invest in replication, fine-tuning, and all the hard work of bringing a program to scale".
MARLIS PETERSEN For her New York recital debut this coolly intelligent soprano, best known to New York audiences for stepping in for Natalie Dessay in a new production of Ambroise Thomas's "Hamlet" in 2010, brings a program focused on Goethe's concept of the eternal feminine.
Here, they bring a hearty program of Handel, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Jennifer Higdon.
(Steve Smith) ★ Ensemble ACJW (Thursday) This excellent group of young musicians — organized through Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School — brings to Juilliard a program of Martinu's Nonet, Ravel's "Chansons Madécasses" and Schoenberg's seminal "Pierrot Lunaire".
All this will be brought to life in a program of dramatic readings on Thursday at 7 in the Carriage House of Samuel and Olivia Langdon Clemens' Hartford home, now a museum, at 351 Farmington Avenue.
