PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope

In Episode 7, series host, Allison Charney recaps and celebrates the Season of Hope series! Join us as we celebrate 10,000 views! MUSICAL SELECTIONS: Allison Charney and Benjamin Loeb Over the Rainbow/Harold Arlen Allison Charney, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, and Craig Ketter Morgen/Richard Strauss The ARK Trio DIE Forelle/Michael Ching Prairie Dawn/Kim D. Sherman Allison Charney, Peter Seidenberg, and Craig Ketter Kaddish/Marianna Rosett Allison Charney, Eriko Sato, and David Oei Wiegenlied/Johan...

In Episode 6, series host, soprano Allison Charney will be joined by pianist Donna Weng Friedman who will discuss and perform works by Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Chopin, and living composer Beata Moon. In conjunction with HER/MUSIC;HER/STORY, co-founded by Weng Friedman and Charney, they will also pre-form Ethel Smyth‘s anthem of the Suffrage movement – The March of the Women – in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment and the 55th anniversar...

The husband-wife duo of violinist Eriko Sato and pianist David Oei join series host, soprano Allison Charney in Episode 5 of Season of Hope, discussing and performing works by Dvorak, Brahms, Korngold and living composer Ionel Petroi, while exploring the theme of hope. MUSICAL SELECTIONS: Eriko Sato and David Oei: March & Garden Scene – both from Much Ado About Nothing for violin and piano/Erich Wolfgang Korngold Eriko Sato and David Oei with Allison Charney: Songs My Mother Taught Me/...

Cellist Peter Seidenberg joins series host, soprano Allison Charney, in this special hour-long fourth episode of the series, discussing and performing – with pianist Craig Ketter – classics by Bach, Bloch, Verdi, Strauss, living composer Marianna Rosett’s haunting “Kaddish” and a highlight from Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, while exploring the series’ central theme of hope. MUSICAL SELECTIONS: Peter Seidenberg: Sonata in C-Major, 3rd Mvt./J.S. Bach Peter Seidenberg with Allison Charney an...

Cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida join series host, and fellow ARK Trio member, soprano Allison Charney, in this third episode of the series, discussing and performing works composed for them by living composer Kim D. Sherman- and exploring the theme of hope – a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world. Musical Selections written by Kim D. Sherman Recipe Prairie Dawn Evening Song Transformation Song (from Prairie Diary) Zueignung/R. Strauss Su...

Cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida join series host, and fellow ARK Trio member, soprano Allison Charney, in part one of this third episode of the series, discussing and performing works composed for them by living composer Michael Ching – and exploring the theme of hope – a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world. Musical Selections: From Arrangements and Derangements: Interpretations of Schubert by Michael Ching Sei mir gegrüsst DIE Forelle! Rastlose Lie...

Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins joins series host, soprano Allison Charney, in the second episode of the series, discussing and performing classical works by Bach, Shostakovich and Strauss along with an original adaptation of “Miracle of Miracles” from Fiddler on the Roof, sharing their un-Google-able insights and exploring the theme of hope – a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world. MUSICAL SELECTIONS: C Major Sonata, 4th movement/ JS Bach – preforme...

Pianist Benjamin Loeb, joins series host, soprano Allison Charney in this premiere episode of the series, discussing and performing works by Scott Joplin, Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill and Ernesto Nazareth and exploring the theme of hope - a commodity that feels hard to come by in our current world. Episode 1: Allison Charney and Benjamin Loeb Musical Selections: Gladiolus Rag/Joplin - preformed by Benjamin Loeb, piano Over the Rainbow/Arlen- preformed by Allison Charney, soprano; Benjamin Loeb,...

In its pre-pandemic live incarnation - the innovative classical concert series PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney invited audiences to experience celebrated classical musicians in anticipation of their upcoming engagements on the world’s most prestigious stages. Now that live classical music has all but stopped, thus curtailing any upcoming engagements, acclaimed opera singer and series founder and host, Allison Charney, aks the existential question: If classical musicians are playing music but there's no one there to hear it, have they really made music? Her answer:  Not without an audience. Enter PREFORMANCES: Season of Hope - the podcast! In these half-an-hour long episodes, Charney blurs the traditional barriers which exist between classical musicians and their audiences by providing an intimate and personal glimpse into top-level artists' practices along with the series' signature "un-Google-able" insights.  In addition, Charney and her guests perform multiple musical selections on each episode. Throughout its previous eleven seasons, PREFORMANCES With Allison Charney has presented over 100 of the preeminent musicians of our time. Notable appearances include those by New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, Metropolitan Opera stars William Burden and Maria Zifchak, “Queen of the Flute,” Carol Wincenc, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins of Broadway’s “Fiddler on the Roof” fame, and concert pianists Joel Fan and Navah Perlman, just to name a few. In addition, the series has presented new classical works by composers such as Michael Ching, Moshe Knoll, Mary Ellen Childs, Russell Platt and Kim D. Sherman. Live concerts typically run an hour and a half, with no intermission.