This intimate program features a broad range of works, including the "Flute Variations" (1971) and "Ziji" (1987).
Even over 90 intermissionless minutes of dense solo violin music, there were few yawns from the attentive and enthusiastic audience, and — just as in Lincoln Center's series A Little Night Music — the late hour added more coziness to what was already an intimate program and space.
The academy also has its own sleek new room to show off in its recently opened Fisher Building: the Fishman Space, a flexible black box with comfortable seats (and spacious bathrooms!) that offers the potential for more intimate programming, like Marc Bamuthi Joseph's charming dance-theater piece "red, black & GREEN: a blues".
High points of the first and more intimate program included Ms. Haran's truly far-sighted "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," which invested the song with a calm, prayerful spirituality, and the unabashedly romantic, almost tearful renditions by Christine Andreas (a former Eliza Doolittle) of songs from "My Fair Lady" and "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue".
After Wednesday's concert he crossed 65th Street to the airy, inviting Kaplan Penthouse for a solo recital as part of the popular Little Night Music series: intimate and informal programs that begin at 10 30, last 60 minutes or so and include complimentary wine.
There were fresh brownies on offer, and first-rate live music, as Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet Company presented an intimate, homey program in City Center Studio 4 on Friday.
"By providing an immersive live-work space alongside intimate cultural programming, we foster a spirit of innovative support".
President Clinton is a legendary policy wonk who set his administration's goals and knew the intimate details of programs.
The cafe's basement performance space is intimate, and the program had an intimate, familial feel too.
The intimate arts of programming and playing a festival can often get lost amid the heaving crowds and hedonistic hullaballoo.
