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Carnegie Hall 125th Anniversary: Ensemble ACJW Hosts Concert for Second Graders [WATCH]

In honor of Carnegie Hall's 125th Anniversary, the iconic performance hall has been assembling an eclectic series of events, some celebrating not just the venue's past, but its future as well. In the interests of spreading the joy of classical music to a new generation (and ensuring a full house for decades to come), Carnegie Hall invited forty second graders from Hamilton Heights School for a surprise classical concert performed by members of the Ensemble ACJW.
By Steve Nagel

  • Tod Machover and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Premiere New Motor City Piece: 'Symphony in D'

    Professor of music and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tod Machover, recently premiered his soundscape composition, "Symphony in D," with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    By Ian Holubiak

  • Carnegie Hall 125th Anniversary: Weill Institute's Music Connections - Lullaby Project

    Commissioned for the birth of Bertha Faber's second son, with Clara Schumann at the piano, Brahms' "Lullaby" was first heard some 150 years ago. Absent that night in Vienna, you'll still recall its gentle, E-flat waltz from your own childhood. Likewise, you weren't there last April for the world premiere of "Sweet Like Honey Buns." But that's just because its funky, electric guitar-led hook, care of composer Daniel Levy and a young mother named Vetaya, was first performed at Rikers Island. The end result of Carnegie Hall's Lullaby Project, songs like "Honey Buns," LaToria's "Mommy's Boys, Mommy's Blessing" and "Sleep Under the Willow" by Sarah (institutions like prisons and hospitals prefer first names only) are all part of a precious process, intent on helping at-risk women, and often their partners, bond with their babies.
    By Logan K. Young