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Pasta
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Pasta—hands-down Italy’s most iconic food—comes in hundreds of shapes and is served in thousands of ways. Join Francine Segan, noted food historian and author of Pasta Modern, for an amusing talk on pasta’s tantalizing history, interesting regional variations, and what’s cutting edge in Italy today. Talk includes: Tastings of several pasta dishes Pasta Lover’s Tour of Italy Trivia contest with prizes
Brahms at the Piano, Part II
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Among the very last musical works composed by Johannes Brahms are exquisite pieces for piano solo. This lecture, the second of two this season in coordination with Garrick Ohlsson’s Complete Brahms series, explores examples from Brahms' late piano music, pieces that Brahms often gave non-descript names such as Intermezzo or Romance—names that reflect their accessibility, but intentionally belie their intimate beauty and deceptively complex ...
Wines Around the World
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Learn how to ID color, smell and taste wine, and learn which wines pair perfectly with select chocolates and cheeses.
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Beginning Theory
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Topics include: note reading; basic rhythm concepts interval identification triads major and minor scales parallel scales an introduction to notation and ear-training
Anyone Can Whistle: Sondheim Finding His Voice
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
To conclude the two-year lecture series, Stephen Sondheim: American Modernist, take a look back at a key work in Sondheim’s development, Anyone Can Whistle from 1964, written with his West Side Story and Gypsy collaborator, Arthur Laurents. The show closed after a run of 12 previews and 9 performances, but the songs from the score lived on through the original cast album, as well as various Sondheim compilation...
$50
Group Cello (Continuing Beginner)
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Continue learning cello playing in a fun and supportive group setting! This class is designed for adult students who have already taken the beginning cello class. Students will continue their work on the basics of cello playing, focusing on posture, a good bow hold and bow control, and intonation. Students will learn pieces together as a group, developing their understanding of note-reading and musical terms. All music will be handed out by the...
Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
A Montreal childhood, moderate early success as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s, Leonard Cohen moves to the United States in 1967 and begins his unexpected music career at the age of 33. His debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, immediately marks him as a startlingly unique, romantic, intellectual voice on the new, burgeoning singer-songwriter scene. His work explores themes of sexuality, spirituality, romance, politics, social...
$55
Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady was an immediate, momentous hit when it opened in 1956, and even today it makes a strong claim as one of the few perfectly made works of American musical theater.
$45
Louis Armstrong Sings
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
The brilliant, innovative recordings that Louis Armstrong made between 1926 and 1928 with the studio bands the Hot Five and the Hot Seven set the template for jazz as a soloist’s art. This lecture focuses on less-discussed aspects of Armstrong’s genius via selected recordings ranging from his 1920s scatting on “Heebie Jeebies” and the reimagining of standards such as “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” to the remarkably soulful and...
$45
Behind the Mix of a Hit Song
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
How does a song like Kesha’s “Woman” become the track, Kesha: “Woman?” What goes into the process of building a fully-produced pop music megahit? How does a sophisticated studio production transfer to live performance, whether in a small club or sold-out arena? Find out from Kesha’s own musical director, David Cook, as he pulls back the curtain on the production process in this all-new class in our all-new tech lab. David will bring...
A Little Night Music: Sondheim, the Romantic Classicist
No one expected this glorious, romantic-yet-modern score from Stephen Sondheim in 1973. Having just redefined the contemporary musical with scores firmly rooted in the Broadway tradition, he now offers a brilliant operetta-like “theme and variations” that reimagines and blends 18th and 19th Century classical dance forms with the warmth of late-nineteenth century Romanticism richly flavored with the irony, unexpected rhythms and expressive dissonances...
World of Music II: Chamber Music since 1950
World of Music II: Chamber Music since 1950 This is a course about all music - masterworks of the classical, jazz, theater and popular fields. We change subjects each semester and, over time, explore in depth all of these genres. Join a circle of people who share a deep love of music in an environment where familiar masterpieces are made fresh and lesser-known artists and masterworks become familiar.
Stephen Sondheim—Finishing the Hat
Beyond being on the short list of the all-time greatest American theater composers, Stephen Sondheim’s body of work as a lyricist is unparalleled in the history of the American musical theater. To put it simply, he’s the best lyricist the American theater has ever experienced, or will likely experience for some time to come. This lecture explores that particular aspect of his exceptional contribution to our culture, examining specific techniques,...
The World of Music I: Music from the 1940s, Part II
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. This semester we continue our deep look at music composed in the 1940’s—perhaps the richest musical decade in the twentieth century—spanning from the war years through...
World of Music II
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. Having introduced ourselves to Jazz in the 1950’s over the course of our recent summer semester, we’ll take a deep dive into the decade, meeting many emerging artists...
Musical Analysis I: West Side Story Concluded
This course is designed to have a revolving curriculum, where each semester we explore popular song of all genres through in-depth analysis of melody, harmony, structure and the joining of words with music. This semester we complete our comprehensive exploration of the brilliant, ground-breaking Bernstein/Sondheim score from West Side Story. Please note: This is not a Music Appreciation course. It is assumed that students have taken the...
Musical Analysis I: Popular Song
This course is designed to have a revolving curriculum, where each semester we explore popular song of all genres through in-depth analysis of melody, harmony, structure and the joining of words with music. The songs—chosen in coordination with the students—will be drawn from the Gershwins’ generation through The Beatles, Paul Simon and much more, with an ocassional smattering of Bach added in from time to time for good measure. Pre-requisite:...
Music from the 1940s, Part I: The War Years 1940-1945
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
This semester we take an in-depth look at the first half of the 1940s and the extraordinary music created during, and often in direct response to, the Second World War. Many of the major European musical figures—e.g. Stravinsky, Hindemith, Milhaud, Schoenberg, Bartok, Britten—are living in the United States at the outbreak of the Second World War. American, Russian and European composers—Copland, Barber, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Honegger,...
Musical Analysis: The Music of Maurice Ravel
This course is designed to have a revolving curriculum, where each semester we explore the work of a specific classical composer. This semester we take an in-depth look at the music of Maurice Ravel, starting with his Piano Trio. It is assumed that students have taken the 92Y fundamental four-part Music Theory program or have equivalent knowledge.
Beethoven at 250: Chamber Music & Music for Piano
Beethoven’s chamber music and symphonies compositions are universally accepted as being among the most loved and revered masterpieces in the history of music. Yet in his time, Beethoven was viewed in many quarters as a radical modernist, and even today, some of these timeless works continue to challenge and surprise even the sophisticated listener. This semester we go deep inside selected string quartets, sonatas, trios and piano sonatas, exploring...
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