Beginning Sunday, led by the conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, the orchestra will perform in the "Prague Festival," a Great Performers presentation at Avery Fisher Hall.
Other installments in this Great Performers presentation follow next Thursday at Alice Tully Hall and on Feb. 9 at Avery Fisher Hall.
This Great Performers presentation consists of 11 film and video programs, linking Bach's music with 30 of the 20th century's foremost Bach interpreters.
"The dances themselves are entertaining, and the cameras occasionally catch that electrifying moment just before a performer heads onstage," David DeWitt wrote in The New York Times about this film, now a "Great Performances" presentation.
But this is no conventional performer-interpreter presentation (even if it were clear who is interpreting for whom).
On May 26 to 29, the Northwest Folklife Festival, at Seattle Center, (206) 684-7300, features over 5,000 participants with a range of arts and crafts, wandering performers, and stage presentations, not to mention the food, all intended to show off Seattle's world connections.
Any presentation requires performers steeped in the musical traditions from which Mr. Golijov draws.
At this seventh annual presentation, the performers are to include Lillias White, Vivian Cherry, Thomas Young, the Morgan State University Choir and the Concordia Orchestra, led by Marin Alsop.
An entire generation of composers and performers are taking the presentation of their works into their own hands.
An "upfront" presentation by MTV in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday is to feature presenters and performers like the singers Justin Bieber, age 16, and Bruno Mars, 25, along with cast members of the hit series "Jersey Shore".
