Concerts
The Romantic Heart
Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Queens, NY, United StatesWagner wrote the piece for his wife’s birthday. Cosima woke up in the morning to the sounds of this music being played under her bedroom window. The ultimate romantic gift! With Mendelssohn, we will visit the Romantic era before Romanticism got dense with mystical and philosophical connotations. The early Romantic music was more like a … Continue reading "The Romantic Heart"
Family Concert: Heroes’ Adventures
LeFrak Concert Hall, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY, United StatesThree heroes, three different journeys. Candide is travelling the world, learning bitter lessons about life through the series of increasingly bizarre adventures until he starts seeing the world as it truly is. Leonore, disguised as a man, undertakes a perilous journey to save her husband from an impending death. For good measure, she helps to … Continue reading "Family Concert: Heroes’ Adventures"
Masterworks Concert: Wrestling with Destiny
LeFrak Concert Hall, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY, United StatesSometimes you fight against the odds and change the story of your life. Other times, fate cannot be escaped. Contemplating the unforeseen forces of the universe, three composers on the program offer their unique answers. Each work starts with a powerful “fate” motive that governs the narrative, shaping and bending the music to its will. … Continue reading "Masterworks Concert: Wrestling with Destiny"
Masterworks Concert: The Sun Takes Reign
Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Queens, NY, United StatesThe QSO will send you off to your summer adventures with the program celebrating all that is good about the season. We will visit, through music, a historic estate in Washington, D.C., as well as a sunlit French countryside. The cheerful concerto for oboe – the perfect pastoral instrument – will prepare us for the … Continue reading "Masterworks Concert: The Sun Takes Reign"
“Weird Al” Yankovic With the QSO!
Forest Hills Stadium 1 Tennis Place, Forest Hills, NY, United States"Weird Al" Yankovic brings his "Strings Attached" tour to Forest Hills Stadium with the Queens Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, July 20, 2019! Weird Al will be playing the hits and classics for a high-energy, rock and comedy show featuring costumes, props, a video wall, and - for the first time - an entire symphony orchestra. … Continue reading "“Weird Al” Yankovic With the QSO!"
Gershwin Got Rhythm
lefrak concert hall 153-49 Reeves Ave, Flushing, NY, United StatesWe invite you to celebrate the music of George Gershwin! Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F featuring Micah McLaurin, piano Spivack: Double Concertino for Timpani and Percussion, “When Professor Rhianini met Lorenzo Spuccini” Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Picture MARTIN MAJKUT, CONDUCTOR The concert is free to the public. Reservations are recommended Those with reservation will … Continue reading "Gershwin Got Rhythm"
Seuffert Band Shell at Forest Park
Forest Park Myrtle Ave, Woodhaven, NY, United States#ArtsAlFresco, #PowerToTheArts, @conedison
REDISCOVERED STARS
Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Lefrak Hall, Queens College 65-30 Kissena BoulevardFlushing.NY 11367, New York, NY, United StatesJoin conductor Martin Majkut and the Queens Symphony Orchestra for an afternoon of expressive and unusual works featuring violinist Melissa White Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture Saint-Georges: Symphony No. 1 Price: Violin Concerto No. 1 Melissa White, Violin TICKETS FREE WITH ONLINE RSVP - Click on the website below to reserve.
WIND SERENADES
Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Queens, NY, United StatesJoin Maestro Martin Majkut and the Queens Symphony in an unusual chamber concert featuring the following works: Dvořák: Serenade Mozart: Gran partita Admission is Free with Online RSVP PLEASE CLICK ON THE WEBSITE BELOW TO RESERVE
THE MYSTERY OF MUSIC – A CONCERT FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES!
Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Lefrak Hall, Queens College 65-30 Kissena BoulevardFlushing.NY 11367, New York, NY, United StatesJoin Maestro Martin Majkut and the Queens Symphony Orchestra as together with our audience we explore and experience "THE MYSTERY OF MUSIC" Join Maestro Martin Majkut and the Queens Symphony Orchestra for “The Mystery of Music”, a highly interactive concert for young people and their families that explores the fundamental elements of the orchestra through Lemony Snicket’s “The Composer … Continue reading "THE MYSTERY OF MUSIC – A CONCERT FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES!"