**Get your tickets before sales close Saturday 12/1 @ 11am** Alaria Chamber Ensemble is one of New York’s premiere chamber ensembles. Their December 2nd program at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall includes several off-the-beaten-path pieces: Mozart’s Horn Quintet, Contrasts, by Bela Bartok (composed for jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman), and Dohnanyi’s Piano Sextet. This is a great (more…)

  An event this momentous comes only once. We’re celebrating our 60th Anniversary with our biggest season yet, centered on premieres by some of the most acclaimed choreographers in Ailey’s history. *Rennie Harris (Home and Exodus) has created the Company’s first two-act work, Lazarus, which is inspired by the life and legacy of the late Alvin Ailey. *Ronald K. Brown (Grace and Open Door) (more…)

**Get your tickets before sales close Friday 12/7 @ 11am** Handel’s traditional classic in a suspenseful and luminous interpretation. The Cecilia Chorus of New York will perform Messiah with orchestra and four outstanding soloists, bringing fresh sparkle and tenderness to this electrifyingly timeless narrative. Two soloists in their Carnegie Hall main-stage debuts: soprano Shakèd Bar (more…)

  **Get your tickets before sales close Friday 1/11 @ 11am** Jeremy Rhizor, director and violin Three singers and seven instrumentalists Mosé: La creatione de’ magistrati Director Jeremy Rhizor’s mission is to create an enriching and totally original experience for listeners. He combines a 17th-century oratorio, Giovanni Antonio Gianettini’s La creatione de’ magistrati in a modern-day premiere, an (more…)

  **Get your tickets before sales close Friday 12/14 @ 11am** Christmas Pastorale Music Before 1800 offers a refreshingly different December program: the Christmas Pastorale by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The work tells the nativity story, blending the shepherds’ naïveté with the gravity of Jesus’ birth. It is performed by the superb Ensemble Correspondances, a relatively young group begun (more…)