The premiere performance of this oratorio for the chamber choir and piano trio will be preceded by a reading of the featured poems by poet Tracy K. Smith.

Composer Aaron Siegel and poet Tracy K. Smith share the world premiere of their oratorio, I Will Tell You The Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It. This fifty-minute work for eight singers, piano, cello and violin will be performed by top soloists led by soprano Michele Kennedy and the piano trio Longleash for one night only. The premiere performance...

Sometimes, art precedes life. The word “landscape,” for instance, originally meant a painting, and only later also the land itself. In a similar way, “tragedy” originated onstage, as a dramatic form, before acquiring the more general meaning of a devastating or unfortunate situation. What we now think of as Greek tragedy is a relatively small corpus from the fifth century B.C., fewer than three dozen plays from the hundreds that were produced over the course of that century. Among the tragedians, there are extant works from only three: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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For the twenty-fourth year, the pages of The New Yorker will come to life for three days in New York City. The 2023 New Yorker Festival, hosted by the magazine’s writers and editors, will take place October 6th through 8th, featuring onstage interviews, musical performances, live cartooning, and panels on topics ranging from artificial intelligence to the craft of investigative journalism. Guests will include authors, artists, filmmakers, actors, comedians, and musicians, all sharing the distinction of being at the forefront of their fields. 

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David Levine’s Dissolution will be on display at the Museum of the Moving Image from October 27 - March 1. The installation is a jewel-box sculpture that conjures the past and future of the moving image. This hypnotic volumetric projection—a hologram viewable from any angle—functions as a kind of digital zoetrope, beaming colorful pixels at 30 frames per second onto an oscillating glass plate that clatters like a 16mm film projector.

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