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This week: concerts in New York (August 4 – August 10, 2014)

Prague Symphony | Mostly Mozart Festival

Composer Alfred Schnittke (photo credit: KEYSTONE)

Composer Alfred Schnittke (photo credit: KEYSTONE)

Christian Tetzlaff joins the Festival Orchestra to perform Mozart’s First Violin Concerto, written when the composer was still a teenager. Louis Langrée conducts the program, which also includes Mozart’s “Prague” Symphony, a Haydn overture, and Alfred Schnittke’s contemporary mash-up of the two masters.
Wednesday, August 5 & Thursday, August 6 at 8 PM
Tickets $35-$85
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
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Karl Larson plays piano music of Alex Weiser and Scott Wollschleger

Pianist Karl Larson plays the piano music of composers Alex Weiser and Scott Wollschleger.
Friday, August 8 at 8 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students
Scholes Street Studio, 46 Scholes St Brooklyn, NY
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Pam Goldberg, Esther Noh, Caitlin Sullivan and Allison Charney | Rite of Summer Music Festival

Rite of Summer’s very own, pianist and ROS co-director Pam Goldberg, will collaborate with Esther Noh, Caitlin Sullivan and Allison Charney in a program titled American and Argentine Sounds from Bolcom to Piazzolla.
Saturday, August 9 at 1 PM & 3 PM
Free
Governor’s Island, New York, NY
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ICN International Music Festival

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The program features music by Franz Liszt, George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel, Jules Massenet, Lukas Foss, Georges Bizet, Zheng Qiu Feng, Li Ying hai, Wang Jian Zhong, and Frederic Chopin.
Saturday, August 9 at 6 PM
Tickets $35-$85
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
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Artists at Noguchi | Bang on a Can Music Series with JACK Quartet

JACK Quartet - Photo by Henrik Olund

JACK Quartet – Photo by Henrik Olund

JACK Quartet will perform works from Ken Thomson’s new CD from Cantaloupe Music, THAW.
Sunday, August 10 at 3 PM
Free with museum admission
The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Road, Long Island City, NY
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Eco-Music Big Ban

Join the Eco-Music Big Band in a tribute to its founder, Fred Ho, who passed away earlier this year. This tribute program will honor Fred’s legacy, including his last big band work, The Grace of the Guerilla, My Love, the music of Cal Massey, and new works by 21st century big band composers Zack O’Farrill, Livio Almeida, Albert Marques and Marie Incontrera.
Sunday, August 10 at 7 PM
Tickets $20
Shapeshifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place Brooklyn, NY
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