Musica Bella Orchestra Future Concerts

Future Concert Schedule

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THE 2011-2012 MUSICA BELLA ORCHESTRA SEASON:
OUR ELEVENTH SEASON

Please scroll to the bottom of this page for directions to our concert locations.

Sorry, we don’t currently have any orchestra concerts planned for this season, but we have just announced two piano recitals (see immediately below).

MUSICA BELLA CHAMBER MUSIC/SOLO RECITAL SERIES

Musica Bella sponsors chamber music concerts, solo recitals, master classes, and similar events featuring members (or former members) of the orchestra. These events are held at various locations, which, along with the dates and times, are always mentioned right here.

Events that are scheduled:

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
   St. Thomas Aquinas Church
   249 Ninth Street, Brooklyn

AND

Friday, February 3, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
   St. John’s Lutheran Church
   81 Christopher Street, Manhattan

A VIRTUOSO PIANO RECITAL (two performances)
SOFYA MELIKYAN, piano

Sofya Melikyan (click here for her bio) has previously performed with the Musica Bella Orchestra in our January 2008 presentation of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, where she played the organ; and she performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with us last June. She has also performed several times on our chamber music/solo recital series; these are her second and third full-length solo recitals on this series. Please click above to read her bio for much more information about her performance history.

The Program:
• Faure: Nocturne, Op. 33, Nos. 1 and 2
• Faure: Impromptu No. 3 in A-flat, Op. 34
• Debussy: Ordine No. 8 from Preludes, Book II
• Debussy: Etude No. 7 Pour les degrés chromatiques
• Dutilleux: Choral with Variations
• Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82:
     2. Jäger auf der Lauer; 3. Einsame Blumen; 4. Verrufene Stelle;
     5. Freundliche Landschaft; 7. Vogel als Prophet; 8. Jagdlied; 9. Abschied
• Wagner-Liszt: Isolde’s Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
• Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10

HOW TO GET TO OUR CONCERT LOCATIONS:

To verify whether any of the public transportation you want to use is actually running on the date in question, you’d be very prudent to check at http://mta.info. We try to mention transit difficulties here, at least the ones we know about in advance, but we can’t always catch every potential problem, sorry. Plus, they’re often not posted at mta.info far enough in advance for us to get the information here in a timely manner.

St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 249 9th Street (corner of 4th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn, is right across the street from the 4th Avenue elevated station on the F and G trains. On the lower level (below street level) of the same station, you’ll find the R train, which is a train you can use to get here from the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street station, a major transfer point in Brooklyn that also serves the N,Q,W,2,3,4,5 trains. (When you’re on the R train, this station at 4th Avenue and 9th Street is called “9th Street.”) Click here for a Mapquest map, and here for the MTA subway map.

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 81 Christopher Street, Manhattan, in the West Village just west of 7th Avenue (it’s technically 7th Avenue South, but nobody calls it that), is a very short distance from the Christopher Street #1 train station. (Please note that the #2 and #3 express trains do NOT stop at this station; change to the #1 train at 14th Street if you’re coming on the 2 or 3 from the north, or at Chambers if you’re coming from the south.) St. John’s is also close (essentially one crosstown block) to the West 4th Street station serving the A,B,C,D,E,F,V trains; just walk along West 4th Street from 6th Avenue to 7th Avenue. Click here for a Mapquest map, and here for the MTA subway map.

This page was last modified Tuesday, January 17, 2012.

The Musica Bella Orchestra of New York, Inc., a New York State Not For Profit Corporation, was incorporated in 2004 and became a 501(c)(3) organization the same year. For further information about becoming a donor, please visit our Donations/Support page.