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The NYPO presents Music of the African Diaspora, Sun 3/2 @ 3pm

Celebrate the work of Black creators and explore how the arts and cultures of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora have profoundly influenced modern arts movements.

modern graphic image of African patterns, instruments, in purple, green, gold, orange
Jon Key
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3/2 Afromodernism: Music of the African Diaspora Simon: Four Black American Dances Joachim: Had To Be D. Baker: Kosbro Still: Symphony No. 4, Autochthonou (Seth Parker Woods, c; Thomas Wilkins, cond)

3/9 Haydn: Cello Concerto Mozart: Mass, Great (Carter Brey, c; Miah Persson & Amanda Majeski, s; Nicholas Phan, t; Andrew Foster-Williams, bs-bar; Concert Chorale of New York, James Bagwell, dir; Jaap van Zweden, cond)

3/16 Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Serena Benedetti, s; Emalie Savoy, s; Devon Guthrie, s; Isabel Bayrakdarian, s; Marie Lenormand, ms; Melissa Parks, ms; Kelley O'Connor, ms; Lacey Benter, ms; Keith Jameson, t; Wilbur Pauley, bs; Joshua Bloom, bar; Alan Opie, bar; New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, dir; Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus; Alan Gilbert, cond)

3/23 Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves Debussy: La Mer Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 Copland: Appalachian Spring Berlioz: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath from Symphonie fantastique Brahms: Adagio from Violin Concerto Traditional/Berio: From Folk Songs: Loosin yelav Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 Ravel: Tzigane (David Nadien, Pinchas Zuckerman, Itzhak Perlman, v; Dawn Upshaw, s; Leonard Bernstein, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lorin Maazel, Semyon Bychkov, Zubin Mehta, Alan Gilbert, cond)

3/30 Brahms: A German Requiem (Ying Fang, s; Matthias Goerne, bar; Concert Chorale of NY; Jaap van Zweden, cond)