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    North America

    Apr 14, 2022 9 minutes

    Gilmore Piano Festival

    Kalamazoo, MI, 24 April – 15 May

    Tel. +2 269 342 1166

    Web: www.thegilmore.org

    Biennial Gilmore sees things in black and white – the keys of the piano, that is! No one could accuse it of narrowmindedness, though. Igor Levit, Daniil Trifonov and Beatrice Rana might be soaking up Michigan’s hospitality, but the opening night goes to jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Chopin stalks recitals by Rana, Jan Lisiecki and Emanuel Ax; concertos enlist four guest orchestras; and the finale stages a 3:2:1 countdown: Bach’s Triple Concerto BWV1063, Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 performed by Ingrid Fliter.

    Long Play Festival

    Brooklyn, NYC, 29 April – 1 May

    Tel. +1 718 852 7755

    Web: www.bangonacan.org

    From Loud Weekend to summer’s twoweek festival at MASS MoCA, there’s no stopping the irrepressible Bang on a Can – they introduced themselves back in 1987 with an epic day-long Marathon, after all. Long Play promises ‘more kinds of musicians playing more kinds of music’. The music straddles John Luther Adams and Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Captain Beefheart and Ornette Coleman. Performers include the Attacca Quartet, Noise Saxophone Quartet and, of course, the Bang on a Can All Stars.

    May Festival

    Cincinnati, OH, 20-28 May

    Tel. +1 513 381 3300

    Web: www.mayfestival.com

    Next year notches up the 150th anniversary of the very first May Festival, and the Festival Chorus remains key to what is styled as the longest continuously running choral festival in the, and Juanjo Mena heads south to conduct Ginastera, Villa-Lobos and Estévez. To open, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas as John Adams spearheads his Nativity oratorio .

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