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Merkin Concert Hall

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About Me

Merkin Concert Hall offers one of New York’s most exciting concert experiences with something to offer for every audience and every taste, spanning genres from jazz to new music and from classical to Broadway. With an intimate setting, Merkin offers the opportunity to experience music in a whole new way. The concert hall comprises one section of the Kaufman Center, a non-profit organization determined to enhance appreciation of the arts. We invite all of you to come and join us! Check out all that Merkin Hall has to offer at www.merkinconcerthall.org.Check out this video: Poeme Symphonique for 100 Metronomes

Add to My Profile | More VideosKaufman Center Goodman House 129 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023 Tel: 1 (212) 501 3303 Fax: 1 (212) 874 7865 email: [email protected]

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Member Since: 11/27/2007
Band Website: merkinconcerthall.org
Influences: Classical, jazz, musical theater, pop, rock, country, dance, new music, world music, opera, vocal, chamber, family music, piano, strings, and more
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Musically Speaking

Musically Speaking is the beginning of many sentences in my day to day. Very often musicians find themselves having to explain what it is they do. In general, people are so busy that music exists on t...
Posted by Merkin Concert Hall on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:30:00 PST

Jazz Without the Club Scene

The obvious answer to "why should I come uptown to hear jazz" is to point to its ubiquitous nature and many advocates of all ages. No longer the music of the night it has long since migrated from the ...
Posted by Merkin Concert Hall on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:14:00 PST

Sylvie Courvoisier and Margaret Leng Tan

The Kaufman Center presents the first concert of the inaugural series, PIANOPLY, featuring MARGARET LENG TAN and SYLVIE COURVOISIER. Margaret Leng Tan will be joined by composer Stephen Montague in hi...
Posted by Merkin Concert Hall on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST

Der Schall In New York 3/18/2008

Join us for the only American performance of Mauricio Kagel's Der Schall in history. The title means "The Work" in German and as you will see, it's quite a bit of work as five musicians make their way...
Posted by Merkin Concert Hall on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:29:00 PST

Anthony Coleman meets counter)induction

Anthony Coleman has written a piece this year for Merkin entitled Flat Narrative that will receive its world premiere on March 18, 2008 on a program based on the idea of reinvention. The music either ...
Posted by Merkin Concert Hall on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:01:00 PST

Mauricio Kagel

While sitting down last evening with Anthony Coleman and my friend Karin to translate directions in the score of Mauricio Kagel's Der Schall I realized the beauty of details and how sometimes they ar...
Posted by Merkin Concert Hall on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:56:00 PST

Music Coverage

Hat's Off New York New York Magazine has been writing profiles of "serious" music composers with a slant toward the popular side of the musical coin. Two of the most recent ones are Sufjan Stevens...
Posted by Merkin Concert Hall on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:28:00 PST