Be the first to know!

For more information about how we use the information you provide to us, visit our Privacy Policy.

Menu

  • Upcoming Events

  • Accessibility

  • Getting Here

Mannes Orchestra: Mavericks
Conducted by David Hayes

Viet Cuong: Re(new)al, featuring Sandbox Percussion
John Zorn: Contes de Fées, with soloist Stefan Jackiw
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia, with eight amplified singers

Mannes Orchestra returns to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in a program that breaks orchestral and stylistic boundaries and up-ends the idea of the expected and unexpected. Featuring works by mavericks John Zorn, Viet Cuong, and Luciano Berio with Sandbox Percussion and Stefan Jackiw – it’s a radical musical journey not to be missed.

About the program:
Sandbox Percussion performs Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al, a piece dedicated to the quartet. Cuong explains, “Re(new)al is a percussion quartet concerto devoted to finding unexpected ways to breathe new life into traditional ideas, and the solo quartet, therefore, performs on several ‘found’ instruments, including crystal glasses and compressed air cans. And while the piece also features more traditional instruments, such as snare drum and vibraphone, I looked for ways to alter their sounds or find new ways to play them.”

Composed in 1999 at the turn of the millennium, Contes de Fées is one of John Zorn's classical masterworks. It is a powerful violin concerto with a virtuosic and lyrical solo part and dramatic, colorful orchestral accompaniment. Violinist Stefan Jackiw takes the helm, noted for playing with an “uncommon musical substance…striking for its intelligence and sensitivity” (Boston Globe), and hailed as "brilliantly skillful and selflessly musical" (The Financial Times).

Building on this season’s theme of exploring the radical orchestra – unusual orchestrations and non-standard symphonic structures – the program culminates with Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, which includes eight amplified singers embedded within the orchestra. The third movement includes a cut-up of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony.

Join us.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Experience at 212-875-5456 or [email protected].

Please note: this event is presented by an outside licensee and is not a production or presentation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts or a Lincoln Center constituent organization.