Events

IN-PERSON Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in partnership with Carnegie Hall Citywide presents the aja monet. Experience the musical artistry of Brooklyn-born surrealist blues poet, vocalist, and composer aja monet. Critically acclaimed for her powerful linguistic gifts, celebrated for her community organizing and insight, and a frequent collaborator with many of today’s leading voices in jazz and soul music, aja monet offers multi-disciplinary performances of urgency and honesty.…

Register Experience the New York Classical Players Chamber Music Series featuring two landmark string quartets. New York Classical Players performs Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 1, written during Britten's time in New York at the beginning of World War II. The program pairs this with recitations of poetry and correspondence from the New York Public Library's W. H. Auden archive and concludes with a performance of Dimitri Shostakovitch's tragic war memorial, String Quartet No. 8. The Ne…

Register The Marshall Opera Oral History Project's mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate the stories of seasoned and distinguished living composers as well as introduce these composers to a new generation of performers. For this program, ten young artists interviewed ten participating composers, and the young artists will perform a selection from one of the composer's operas. SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line forms 45…

Join us for an enchanting afternoon with the Young Staten Island violinists, The Mighty String Demons, as they present "Poems in Our Pockets" in celebration of National Poetry Month and Poem in Your Pocket Day. Directed by Sanchie Bobrow the concert intertwines music and poetry. Showcasing how emotions expressed in poetry resonate through music. Each musician will reveal a poem from their pocket, complementing musical selections that herald the arrival of spring. Special guest artists, includi…

"Kids Music that Rocks and Inspires" performed by mr RAY! Join us for a live, energetic, musical interactive show for kids featuring original songs addressing Kindness, Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Creative, and Staying Healthy & Active. We'll have FUN as we also mix in classic tunes for the whole family. For children ages 3-12 years. Registration is not required. First come, first served. This program is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Register Hildegard, Reborn, a new show by Rocky Duval, is a unique look at the life and work of the extraordinary personality, Hildegard von Bingen. Despite the immense challenges of life in the 12th century, von Bingen made her mark as a musical composer, writer, spiritual leader, the first German naturalist scientist, and is today considered a pioneer of feminism and holistic healing. Using personal and professional correspondence as a primary source of inspiration, Hildegard, Reborn elevate…

Register Culminating an intense semester of research and creative experimentation, students from the New School's College of the Performing Arts, led by acclaimed saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom, present new music collaborative works inspired by and incorporating the Library's archives. The concert will be followed by a Q&A with the four composers to discuss their process from research to performance. Photo Credit: Rebecca Littman SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to…

Join us for live music in the lobby, Wednesday, May 15 at 6pm with Mary Edwards: Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place Mary Edwards is a composer and sound artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia and the natural world that recur throughout her work. Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place is her "ode rather than an elegy” to the transforming Arctic landscape, climate vulnerability, elemental sensuality and terrestrial connectivi…

Before his untimely passing, Talib Rasul Hakim (1940-88) was already becoming a widely influential composer, one who suffused his music for chamber and orchestral forces with intense deliberation, considered improvisations, dynamic rhythmic profiles, and purposeful silences. Hakim saw his compositions as more than just music: he saw music performance as the equivalent to an almost religious awakening. In the 1978 book The Black Composer Speaks, Hakim maintained, “It is hoped that whenever [my] m…

Join the TRANScend Ambassadors & Community Chorale as they present "Hear My Voice," a concert celebrating shared human experiences with music from composers new and old. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. Join SNFL for a special choral concert with the TRANScend Ambassadors & Community Chorale. TRANScend is a New York-based trans / gender-expansive vocal ensemble whose focus is on creating inclusive, supportive perform…