Announcing the 2014-15 Performers - "What Makes It Great?"

Kaufman Music Center announces a series of exceptional performers who will join What Makes It Great? host Rob Kapilow at Merkin Concert Hall this fall.

Kapilow – conductor, composer, author and NPR music commentator – unravels and explores great musical masterpieces with audiences and performers on stage, asking what makes great music great? He takes listeners inside the music, unraveling, slowing down and recomposing key passages to hear why a piece is so extraordinary. Next, the piece is performed in its entirety, followed by a Q&A with the audience and performers.

Here's the lineup:

Oct 20, 2014 - "Spring" and "Summer" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons with chamber orchestra
With the MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, featuring NURIT PACHT, solo violin

Dec 1, 2014 - Beethoven's "Appassionata" piano sonata
Featuring IGAL KESSELMAN, piano

Feb 23, 2015 - Mendelssohn's Octet
With AEOLUS QUARTET & Friends

Apr 20, 2015 - The Songs of Stephen Sondheim
Featuring Broadway stars MICHAEL WINTHER & SALLY WILFERT

Hear what you've been missing!
Click here  or call 212 501 3330 to get tickets before they're gone!