October 2024: Oops, All Listings!
I ran out of time
Hey friends, hope you’re well!
I couldn’t get words on the page quite fast enough for this month’s deadline. Forgive me, it’s been a crazy couple weeks. More musings coming soon, schedule permitting — I can’t wait to tell you all the phenomenal things my friends accomplished this month.
For now, though, I couldn’t stiff you on a month of listings, especially as the season approaches peak momentum. I hope they’re useful!
What’s On
(note: all performances are in the evening unless otherwise noted)
Gabriel Kahane: Book of Travelers/Magnificent Bird
Tue-Sun until Oct 14 | Playwrights Horizons
Met Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann
Tue Oct 1, Sat Oct 5 (matinee), Thu Oct 10, Sun Oct 13 (matinee), Fri Oct 18
Metropolitan Opera House
The Stone Residencies: Matt Mitchell
Wed Oct 2-Sat Oct 5 | The Stone at The New School
Composers Concordance: ETHEL
Sun Oct 6 (early eve) | Church Street School
Marcos Balter: Three Enigmas
Tue Oct 8 | Merkin Hall, Kaufman Center
Karim Sulayman, tenor & Sean Shibe, guitar
Tue Oct 8 & Thu Oct 10 | Park Avenue Armory
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Tue Oct 8 (gala), Wed Oct 9, & Thu Oct 10 | Carnegie Hall (Stern)
“Breathing of the Sound Itself”: An Evening with Morton Feldman
Wed Oct 9 (early eve) | New York Studio School
NY Phil x Juilliard — A Musical Lineage: Schoenberg and Boulez
Wed Oct 9 | Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Juilliard
Thumbscrew
Wed Oct 9 (two sets) | The Jazz Gallery
David Lang & Bill Morrison: darker
Wed Oct 9 | National Sawdust (Brooklyn)
The Sebastians: Fireworks & Flourishes
Thu Oct 10 | Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
John Zorn’s Cobra @ 40
Fri Oct 11 | Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn)
Heartbeat Opera’s 9th Drag Opera Extravaganza — Slaylem: The Witch Trials
Thu Oct 10 (gala), Fri Oct 11, Sat Oct 12 (two performances) | Judson Memorial Church
Philadelphia Orchestra (Mahler 3)
Tue Oct 15 | Carnegie Hall (Stern)
Met Opera: Ainadamar
Tue Oct 15, Sat Oct 19, Tue Oct 22, Fri Oct 25, Sun Oct 27 (matinee), Tue Oct 30
Metropolitan Opera House
Sphinx Virtuosi: American Form/s
Wed Oct 16 | Carnegie Hall (Stern)
Five Boroughs Music Festival — Ivalas Quartet: Fate and Yearning (FREE but maybe sold out?)
Thu Oct 17 (early evening) | Sugar Hill Museum of Art and Storytelling
NY Phil — Afromodernism: Music of the African Diaspora
Thu Oct 17 & Fri Oct 18 | David Geffen Hall
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Choir — Unclouded Day: Sacred Songs of America
Fri Oct 18 | Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Invite remains open to come hear me sing — reach out for a discount code.
The Crossing et al.: Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness
Fri Oct 18 | Carnegie Hall (Zankel)
Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez
Fri Oct 18 | Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sat Oct 19 | Carnegie Hall (Stern)
SydeBoob Duo: Translucent Landscapes
Sat Oct 19 | Scholes Street Studio (Brooklyn)
Maria Dueñas, violin & Alexander Malofeev, piano
Tue Oct 22 | Carnegie Hall (Weill)
Twelfth Night
Wed Oct 23 | United Palace Theatre
Lisette Oropesa, soprano & Ken Noda, piano
Wed Oct 23 | Carnegie Hall (Zankel)
Sylvie Courvoisier: Poppy Seeds
Wed Oct 23 | Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn)
NOVUS Renewal: emergency shelter intake form
Thu Oct 24 | Trinity Church, Wall Street
NY Phil x International Contemporary Ensemble — Sound On: Composing While Black Volume II
Fri Oct 25 | Museum of Modern Art
Miller Theatre — The Sixteen: The Deer’s Cry
Sat Oct 26 | Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Abel Selaocoe and Bantu Ensemble
Sat Oct 26 | Carnegie Hall (Zankel)
Music Before 1800 — Vox Luminis: A German Baroque Requiem (PAY WHAT YOU WISH)
Sun Oct 27 (matinee) | Corpus Christi Church
People’s Symphony Concerts — Paul Lewis, piano: Schubert Cycle III
Sun Oct 27 (matinee) | The Town Hall
Ensemble Connect
Sun Oct 27 (matinee) | Carnegie Hall (Weill)
Qubit Music — Mivos Quartet
Mon Oct 28 | The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
Mon Oct 28 | Carnegie Hall (Weill)
Music for Three Strings: In Memoriam — Wolfgang Rihm (FREE + free drinks)
Tue Oct 29 (early eve) | Miller Theatre (Columbia University)
MasterVoices: Strike Up the Band
Tue Oct 29 | Carnegie Hall (Stern)
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Wed Oct 30 | Carnegie Hall (Weill)