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Tonight at 8 (prelude at 7 30), Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, Manhattan, (212) 415-9049.
The musicians of the Metropolitan Opera, performing the Prelude at the outset of a concert on May 19th at Carnegie Hall, had no trouble meeting those requirements.
As Peter Conrad observes, in his recent book "Verdi and/or Wagner," the Meister once entertained his guests by playing the "Parsifal" Prelude at the piano and then reciting from the Falstaff scenes in "Henry IV, Part 2".
He took the Allegro of the opening Prelude at a breathless tempo, producing a rushing current of fast notes while hammering out the idiosyncratic bass line with the left hand.
Instead of opening the show with the famous dance prelude at the fairground, Hytner brought the curtain up on the claustrophobic, shadowy New England textile mill where Julie Jordan and her friend Carrie Pipperidge work.
"Here's a current example of the challenge we face," he writes in the book's prelude: "At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 14,000 people and was worth $28 billion.
PRELUDE '07; AT THE FOREFRONT OF CONTEMPORARY NEW YORK THEATER, Friday andSaturday, 2 to 10 p.m. at the City University of New York Graduate Center,365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street.
In February, Ms. Altamura, a pianist, and Mr. Sliwinski, a percussionist, performed works including Gershwin's "Three Preludes" at Teatro Annibal Caro in Civitanova, Italy, in February.
As for Bach himself, the organist John King plays three of his Chorale Preludes at his recital on Wednesday at 12 35 P.M. at Grace Episcopal Church in White Plains.
Mr. Aimard, who will play Book II of the preludes at Carnegie Hall in November, captures the sly, wistful, fiery and fantastical qualities in these ingeniously diverse pieces while treating them as the audacious contemporary works they are.
Their latest musical fantasia, "Preludes," at LCT3's Claire Tow, is set in the febrile mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who visits a hypnotist after the disastrous première of his first symphony.
