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LMS Discovery Day is June 11

DISCOVERY DAY

Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Music Center
Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 4-7 pm

Children Are Invited Try Different Musical Instruments at this FREE Annual Event
at New York City’s Largest Community Arts School

At this FREE event, children ages four and up can try out a wide range of instruments under the guidance of Lucy Moses School’s dedicated and...

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Announcing the 2013-14 Tuesday Matinees!

Kaufman Music Center's Tuesday Matinees series presents some of today’s finest young classical performers who are well on their way to international renown. The 2013-14 artists include some extraordinary ensembles, including ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra), the Ariel Quartet, the Lysander Piano Trio and MultiPiano, a dazzling keyboard spectacle featuring young...

Composer Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. Talks about his Ecstatic Music Festival Premiere, “Changing Same”

"Changing Same"
by Joseph C. Phillips Jr.

1. 19
2. Behold the Only Thing Greater than Yourself
3. Miserere
4. The Most Beautiful Magic
5. Alpha Man
6. Unlimited

Premiered by Numinous
March 16, 2013
Ecstatic Music Festival
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center

Go to the event page for this concert.

"Changing Same"
by Joseph C. Phillips Jr.

“R&B...

Ecstatic Music Festival Curator Judd Greenstein Introduces the 2013 Festival PART 2

The next three concerts at the Ecstatic Music Festival each feature at least one of my favorite experimentally-minded artists from the indie rock world (I say "from" in the sense that this is where they've gotten the most traction, not to say that this is necessarily where they see themselves as belonging), all coming into dialogue with incredible composers and new...

Watch the 1/26 EMF concert with Carla Kihlstedt, ICE, Causing a Tiger & Face the Music!

Watch a video of the January 26 Ecstatic Music Festival concert with Carla Kihlstedt, ICE, Causing a Tiger and Face the Music!

http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/series/ecstatic-music-festival

You can also listen to the audio on demand on Q2 Music.

View Photos of Lucy Moses School Faculty in Concert

Members of Lucy Moses School's acclaimed faculty performed a variety of chamber music, including pieces written by our composition faculty, in Merkin Concert Hall on January 30. The concert featured Mary Barto, Roni Ben-Hur, Julia Bruskin, Sage Cole, Susan Friedlander, Valerie Holms, Mikyung Kim, Brian Krinke, Hector Martignon, Mara Milkis, Nils Neubert, Morrie Sherry,...

Ecstatic Music Festival Curator Judd Greenstein Introduces the 2013 Festival PART 1

As we head into the third season of the Ecstatic Music Festival, I'm glad to realize how much has changed since 2010, when I met with Lydia Kontos and Jenny Undercofler from Kaufman Music Center to discuss plans for a possible 2011 festival at Merkin Hall.  At that meeting, we threw around a number of ideas, revolving around a basic question that we were attempting to...

2013 Ecstatic Music Festival Lineup Announced

Kaufman Center's Ecstatic Music Festival® returns this winter with more than 120 composers and performers from diverse musical backgrounds coming together for 11 utterly unique and highly original collaborative performances. The festival's musicians – soloists, bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras and everything in between – hail from diverse musical backgrounds,...

New York Virtuoso Singers Praised in the New York Times

"Now this is the way for an ensemble to celebrate an anniversary," Writes Anthony Tommasini in a New York Times review of the first of two 25th anniversary concerts New York Virtuoso Singers will perform in Merkin Concert Hall this season.

"It takes confidence for an ensemble to put the word 'virtuoso' in its name," Tommasini concludes." The New York Virtuoso Singers...

Theater Wing Director Sean Hartley’s New Musical Reviewed in the New York Times!

Kaufman Center's Theater Wing Director Sean Hartley's new musical, "Love and Real Estate," premiered at 59E59's Summer Shorts Festival this past weekend, and the New York Times was on hand to provide a glowing review.

Of the show, Daniel M. Gold writes, "The biggest [payoff] comes in 'Love and Real Estate,' a Manhattanized 'Three Little Pigs' musical that follows the...