For his Kaplan Penthouse program Mr. Greilsammer will begin with "Cradle Music," by the German modernist composer Helmut Lachenmann, then leap all over the place to Mozart, Couperin, Ligeti, Schubert, Feldman, Froberger, and more Mozart, concluding with the American premiere of Matan Porat's "Whaam!" It would be easy for such mix-and-match programs to become gimmicky.
It was in Amaya's era that the center's penthouse programming was conceived; indeed, it was his close friendship with Andy Warhol that generated all those dazzling, drag diva appearances.
Last summer, the adventurous and excellent Israeli pianist David Greilsammer enthralled an audience at the penthouse with a program that juxtaposed Baroque works, two pensive and episodic Mozart scores and several audacious contemporary pieces, played without pause.
After these two warmly received performances, tickets may be hard to get for Mr. Pohjonen's late-night appearance on Friday as part of the informal Little Night Music series at the Kaplan Penthouse, a 60-minute program of Haydn and Mozart.
But the soprano Renee Fleming seemed perfectly at ease on Thursday night at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse for a 90-minute program of arias, songs and breezy talk, broadcast live on public television.
The exciting Takacs Quartet plays works by Shubert and Beethoven at a Saturday "Little Night Music" concert, the popular series of late-evening, informal concerts at the Kaplan Penthouse, and then plays a program with the pianist Andreas Haefliger at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday afternoon.
Broadcasting in his later years from "the east wing of the Art Deco penthouse" — he actually did his programs at studios in Lower Manhattan — Mr. Stiles waxed on about the musicians and singers he had known.
After the concert, the Little Night Music program at the Kaplan Penthouse featured the probing Israeli-born pianist Shai Wosner.
JAMES R. OESTREICH The late-night piano recitals in the Kaplan Penthouse end tonight with a Bach program by Sergey Schepkin; (212) 72126500.
| Oct. 21 at 9: Hespèrion XXI returns to offer a "Little Night Music" program at the Kaplan Penthouse that features consort music from the period by Dowland, Gibbons, Antonio de Cabezón, and others.
A Little Night Music is the apt title for the Mostly Mozart Festival's popular series of late-night programs in the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center.
