Sunday, July 23: The program features Haydn’s String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1, Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2, and one new work: String Quartet No. 3, “River” (2015) by Aaron Jay Kernis.
Saturday, July 22: BSP continues its swanky, stylish and monthly series with a beginners’ swing dance lesson, included in the cost of admission.
Friday, July 28: Think of Dweezil Zappa not as someone riding on his father’s coattails, but rather as an apologist for and curator of his father’s formidable legacy.
Jazz at Lincoln Center comes up the river to run a rigorous training institute for 42 of the world’s most advanced and dedicated high school jazz students. This two-week program is taught by Wynton Marsalis and a select faculty of musical heavyweights, and if you act fast, you can hear them play.
July 13-16: Every summer, the venerable festival showcases the full spectrum of American bluegrass and folk: the old and the new, the traditional and the progressive, unknowns and certified national treasures with last names that strike awe.
Sunday, July 16: This ensemble is widely considered to be one of the best in contemporary Latin music.
July 10-28: Now tuition-free, PianoSummer brings top emerging pianists from all over the world to SUNY-New Paltz. This year the Flier Competition carries a new first prize: a solo debut recital at Carnegie Hall.
Sunday, July 9: Bring a folding chair and a light jacket, sweater or sweatshirt, even if it’s a 95-degree day up top, it will be refreshingly cool in the cave.
Saturday, July 8: Tepfer alternates between performances of Bach’s famous variations (at one time the quarry of Glenn Gould and a few others with the technical facility to handle them) and modern improvisations on Bach’s themes by a truly liberated improvisor.
Saturday, July 8: The visionary novelist and cyberpunk William Gibson famously wrote, “I have always maintained that Steely Dan’s music was, has been and remains among the most genuinely subversive oeuvres in late-20th-century pop.”