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Learn about the rich history of music, explore various genres and styles, and develop a deeper appreciation for music in NYC's vibrant music scene with music appreciation classes.

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Intermediate Mandolin

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music @ 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY

Intermediate Mandolin is for someone with a basic grasp of the instrument but wants to dive deeper. We’ll cover more chord shapes, basic theory and how it applies to mandolin and look deeper into musical styles. Students should expect to be introduced to scales, arpeggios and how they fit into chords. By the end of four week you should be comfortable playing progressions in several keys and be ready to do some improvising. Some participants will...

(41) Intermediate 15 and older
$275

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Mosaic Art

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Artist Grace Baley will guide you through the steps in design, fabrication and the multiple techniques and approaches to mosaic making. The course covers different methods of application and is scaffolded to build on skills with each lesson. Beginning with cutting and nipping precut tiles into simple shapes, we progress over the weeks to developing the skills to score and shape sheets of glass with precision and intent. You will discover how to choose...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$400

6 sessions

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Haydn, Mozart, and Vienna in the Age of Enlightenment

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

As early as 1812, the superb music critic E.T.A. Hoffmann wrote, “Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven developed a new art, whose origins first appear in the middle of the eighteenth century.” This new art, centered in Vienna, is now called the Classical Style. Our journey, designed for both new and experienced listeners, will explore the emergence and evolution of this style as embodied in the works of its two most extraordinary foundational proponents,...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

11 sessions

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Masterworks of Chamber Music: In Classroom & In Concert

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

This unique course explores specific masterworks in preparation for hearing those same works performed by world-class artists in the 92Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall this season. We look at the works at a broad range of composers—Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Poulenc, Kurt Weill, Thomas Ades—through an in-depth musical, biographical and historical lens. The class sessions are complete unto themselves, so the student...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$388

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Finding Puccini's Music Box

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Scholars have long sought the source for two major themes in Madama Butterfly. One is associated with Butterfly herself and the second with her patrimony. The assumption has been that Puccini, attempting to achieve exotic authenticity, based these themes on Japanese melodies. But Professor W. Anthony Sheppard has discovered a different theory: Puccini's source for these themes was a Swiss-made music box playing Chinese tunes. Evidence indicates...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$228

6 sessions

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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...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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S. Sondheim: Songs That Didn’t Make It to Opening Night

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Full Course Name Stephen Sondheim: Songs That Didn’t Make It to Opening Night Songs from Sondheim musicals that didn’t make it to opening night finally began to see the light of day with the 1973 Carnegie Hall tribute to the composer; more emerged with the moving 1981 theater piece, Marry Me a Little; and over time these once-orphaned songs from musicals such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Beethoven’s “Archduke” Piano Trio, Op. 97

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Come explore Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, one of the most beloved trios ever composed! It is usually referred to as the Archduke Trio, because it was dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the youngest child of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. Rudolf was an avid amateur pianist, as well as a loyal patron, friend, and student of Beethoven. Come explore this timeless, brilliant work, and then hear it performed live...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Beethoven's Grosse Fuge in B-flat Major, Op. 133

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Originally composed as the last movement of his String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130, Beethoven agreed to his publisher’s request to write a new finale for the quartet and publish the “great fuge” separately. Upon publication, the Grosse Fuge was initially panned by critics as “incomprehensible,” but gradually over time has been embraced as one Beethoven’s most extraordinary creations. Join us as we explore this work...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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After Mahler: Music of the 1910's

92nd Street Y @ Broadway & W. 116th St., New York, NY

The decade of the 1910’s was the most excitingly explosive musical decade of the 20th century. Modernism fully emerges in the work of a new generation of composers—Ravel, Stravinsky, Ives, Debussy, Vaughn-Williams, Bartok, Schoenberg, Satie, Milhaud—and then concludes in the shocked aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution with a new found return and embrace by the same artists of the classical forms of the 18th Century.  ...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Ella Fitzgerald: Duets

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Will Friedwald’s Clip Joint: Scenes from the American Songbook Ella Fitzgerald: Duets Will Friedwald, feature writer for The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair and the author of nine books on popular music, presents curated video clips from his extensive vintage collection to illustrate the great artistry of the performers and composers of the American Songbook. The presentations will be driven both by a profundity of rare and fascinating video...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Jazz it Up

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Pianist, Chris Coogan and singer/musicologist, Carla Innerfeld trace a broad history of America's own classical music — jazz — from Louis Armstrong and Dixieland through the big band era, boogie woogie, Bebop and beyond. We will explore various standards like “Hello Dolly” and “Bye Bye Blackbird” and demonstrate how each song can be played in various styles. Learn about the elements of each style and how one 'jazzes up' a standard.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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The Making of an Album, Part III

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Phenomenal Woman: The Maya Angelou Songs and Songs Without Word. Our “Making of an Album” series continues with an inside look at the art of setting words to music, in this case the words of the iconic American poet, Maya Angelou and my song cycle and new album with vocalist Capathia Jenkins, Phenomenal Woman: The Maya Angelou Songs. The October 2018 release of this new album affords us the opportunity to explore the many stages of making of...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Introducing Beethoven's Late Quartets

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Full Course Name: Introducing Beethoven's Late Quartets: String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, one of his last compositions, is a high-water mark in the history of chamber music. Having just recovered from a serious illness, Beethoven’s personal inscriptions in the musical score as well as the deep expression conveyed through the music itself tells us that the subject matter expressed in this...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Schubert, Barber, and the String Quartet

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Full Course Name: Schubert, Barber, and the String Quartet: Death and the Maiden and the Adagio for Strings Schubert’s greatest and most popular string quartet is one of the essential works of the string quartet repertory. Named for the main theme of the second movement, which Schubert based on a song he had written in 1817, the quartet was composed in 1824, not long after Schubert was diagnosed with an illness that would eventually prove fatal. ...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Sunday in the Park with George — Sondheim, Lapine

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Sunday in the Park with George — Sondheim, Lapine, and the Off-Broadway Experiment, or The End of Broadway Amidst the aftermath of the initial 1981 Broadway failure Merrily We Roll Along, Sondheim felt alienated from the overtly commercial world of Broadway.   He meets a young playwright/director, James Lapine, who leads him into the world of Off-Broadway and a remarkable creative renewal. What emerges from their collaboration is an...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Assassins — Sondheim, Weidman, and a Modern Masterpiece

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

If there is an underappreciated masterwork in Stephen Sondheim’s oeuvre, it’s Assassins, the 1991 work that reunites him with his Pacific Overtures collaborator, John Weidman. Assassins brilliantly explores the manifestation of violence in America among those who feel disenfranchised, aggrieved, and ignored. Sondheim accompanies this journey with a musical score that thrillingly takes us across two centuries of the American...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Songs from The American Anthology of Folk Music Vol 1-A

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music @ 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY

In this workshop, open to singers and guitarists (or other strumming instruments), we will learn songs from Volume 1, Disc 1 of Harry Smith's famous Anthology of American Folk Music, the collection of blues, country and folk music recordings from the 1920s and 30s that was an integral part of the folk revival of the 50s and 60s, and has inspired generations of musicians. Students can expect to learn a collection of songs that will enable them to...

(41) All levels 15 and older
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Unitribe Presents Cosmic Renaissance

Sacred Arts Research Foundation @ 107 Green St, Brooklyn, NY

On Saturday, Oct 18th we offer you a transformational journey through the senses, inviting you into the blissful container of community to journey together through tastes, sounds, touch and visions. We begin the night with movement and vocal improvisation workshops to build the container for our co-creation, lean into the energetic support of The Ark, deepen our sense of belonging, and release into our embodied hearts. Please come early and join...

(9) All levels 8 and older
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Ancestral Spanish Music With Rosalia Trio @ Golden Drum

Sacred Arts Research Foundation @ 97 Green St, Brooklyn, NY

The show presented would not be considered simple entertainment but a medicinal treatment close to Shamanism. Guitarist, composer, vocalist, percussionist, arranger, songwriter Rosalía Mowgli, she is overall a very original musician. She unearths the ancestral traditional music from Spain and other Latin-American countries. Her music can be described as a fascinating encounter of guts and beauty. Original songs and brave arrangements of unknown...

(9) All levels 8 and older
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