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The dictionary definitions of SNEAKinclude “to go in a stealthy or furtivemanner” and “to act in a furtive or un-derhand way.” A definition of PEEK is “a quick or furtive look or glance.” Well, there’s nothing stealthy or underhanded about this SNEAK PEEK of the 2013-2014 season. We’re shouting it out loud…in writing, anyway, and only to you…we are excited about what we have in store for you during our upcoming 36th season at The Performing Arts Center.

As a subscriber, the most loyal among our audience, you are learning about the upcoming season before anyone else. I hope you will give this SNEAK PEEK more than just a quick glance. When you do look, you’ll see that our season is growing: more orchestras, more dance, more chamber music, more variety. This growth could not have happened without your support…and we thank you!

See you at The Center!

– Harry McFadden, Director

DANCE

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANYSaturday, October 19 • 8pm Concert Hall

First Purchase Appearance Since Their Triumphal

2012 Performance

The word “legend” is so over-used in brochures and promotional copy that it has become a cliché. We promise to use it only once, and most appropriately, for Martha Graham. Her influence on dance has been compared to Picasso’s influence on art, Stravinsky’s on music, Frank Lloyd Wright’s on architecture. The dance company shefounded continues to foster her spirit of ingenuity more than 20 years after her death. Yes, the repertory includes classic Graham masterpieces, but the company continues to bring fresh perspective to dance through commissions. Miss Graham, the legend, would be proud.

My dancers never fall to simply fall, they fall to rise –Martha Graham

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET Sunday, May 4 • 3pm PepsiCo Theatre

Matinee Idol Beauty, Olympian Athleticism,

Nobel Laureate Inventiveness

This is one of the great up-and-coming touring companies, and chances are you will be treated to choreography you have never seen before. They are known for innovation and new works, and their performances are rooted in the athleticism of con-temporary dance. Based in two homes, Aspen and Santa Fe, this troupe has no in-house choreographer and instead relies on the work of often little-known dance-makers. The result? Well, the proof is in the applause — spontaneous, enthusiastic, and thunder-ous — and inevitable return engagements.

A breath of fresh air –The New York Times

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLOSaturday, April 12 • 8pmConcert Hall

Proving Once Again That Classical Ballet Can

Be Downright Hilarious

Would the season be complete without men in tutus? This all-male corps de ballet strikes at the heart of conventions and clichés of classical ballet and proves that men can dance en pointe without landing on their keesters. The Trocks – if you’re in the know, that’s what you call them – are among the finest, classically trained dancers who may have you exclaiming, “Hey, that swan’s a dude!” An evening in their company promises two things: unbridled artistry and unabashed fun. Keep on Trockin’!

By now their shtick has become classic–Newark Star-Ledger

DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS Saturday, November 9 • 8pm PepsiCo Theatre

Dance Series Debut of Award-Winning

Purchase College Alumnus

Purchase College alum Doug Varone is no stranger to our stage, but this marks the first time he and the company he founded have been an official part of The PAC’s dance series. As we expand our dance programming we say it’s about time! Since establishing the company more than a quarter century ago Varone and his dancers have been cheered for work that is, quite simply, contemporary dance at its most compelling, artistry of magnificent versatility, springing from the imagination of Doug Varone, whose choreography has transcended genres from dance to theater to opera.

Mr. Varone’s superb dancers are always worth seeing–The New York Times

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SEPTEMBER CASSANDRA WILSONSaturday, September 28, 2013 • 8pm

AN ILIADSunday, September 29, 2013 • 5pm

OCTOBERMARIINSKY ORCHESTRAIgnat Solzhenitsyn, Conductor Saturday, October 12, 2013 • 8pm

GABRIELA MONTERO, pianoSunday, October 13, 2013 • 3pm

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANYSaturday, October 19, 2013 • 8pm

SAVION GLOVER STePzSaturday, October 26, 2013 • 8pm

IMANI WINDS Sunday, October 27, 2013 • 3pm

IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRAJoAnn Falletta, Music Director Sir James Galway, flute, and Lady Jeanne Galway, fluteTuesday, October 29, 2013 • 8pm

NOVEMBER DOUG VARONE AND DANCERSSaturday, November 9, 2013 • 8pm

JOSHUA BELL, violinSaturday, November 16, 2013 • 8pm

YAMATO: THE DRUMMERS OF JAPANFriday, November 22, 2013 • 8pm

DECEMBERVIENNA BOYS’ CHOIRSaturday, December 7, 2013 • 8pm

CHRISTOPHER O’RILEY & MATT HAIMOVITZ,piano/celloSunday, December 8, 2013 • 3pm

JANUARYORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRANobuyuki Tsujii, pianoSunday, January 26, 2014 • 3pm

FEBRUARYGARRICK OHLSSON, pianoFriday, February 7, 2014 • 8pm

THE CROSSROADS PROJECTSunday, February 9 , 2014 • 3pm

DR. JOHN Saturday, February 15, 2014 • 8pm

UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE TOURING COMPANYSaturday, February 22, 2014 • 8pm

KIM KASHKASHIAN, violaSunday, February 23, 2014 • 3pm

MARCHTHE DECLASSIFIEDSunday, March 2, 2014 • 3pm

DERVISH Friday, March 7, 2014 • 8pm

FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANASunday, March 16, 2014 • 3pm

APRILCHANTICLEERSaturday, April 5, 2014 • 8pm

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLARand Other Eric Carle FavouritesSunday, April 6, 2014 • 3pm

AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRALeon Botstein, Music DirectorThursday, April 10, 2014 • 8pm

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO Saturday, April 12, 2014 • 8pm

eighth blackbirdSunday, April 13, 2014 • 3pm

MAYMICHAEL FEINSTEIN’S THE GERSHWINS AND MESaturday, May 3, 2014 • 8pm

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLETSunday, May 4, 2014 • 3pm

* Artists, dates, and times subject to change

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WITH BILL MCGLAUGHLIN

CHRISTOPHER O’RILEY & MATT HAIMOVITZ Sunday, December 8 • 3 pm Recital Hall

Piano and Cello Collaboration Bringing the

Coffeehouse to the Recital Hall

Download music for the piano and cello, create a playlist for your iPod, put it on shuffle, and enjoy. Not that technologically savvy? Prefer to hear music being played live and watching it in non-virtual reality? Pianist Christopher O’Riley, the host of NPR’s “From the Top” making his debut at The PAC, and cellist Matt Haimovitz, no stranger to our audiences, break down musical barriers in their concerts, playing to-gether like a couple of old friends jamming. Host Bill McGlaughlin will be curating the afternoon’s repertoire with the performers, promising an eclectic program of good music, fabulously played.

If any artists were destined to collaborate it was surely this pair –The New York Times

KIM KASHKASHIANSunday, February 23 • 3 pm Recital Hall

Grammy Award-Winning Violist

We know what you may have thought you read, but the name is Kashkashian. Even major news outlets mis-identified her when she took home the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo earlier this year. Unlike that other Kim, this fellow Armenian doesn’t spend her time shopping for shoes. She spends it on the road, performing as string soloist with blue-chip symphonies throughout the world. With an extensive and eclectic viola repertoire, and accolade upon accolade for her performances, this is a Kim whose name you’ll be hearing long after that other Kim has been forgotten.

Distinguished by her lyricism: the way her songlike music flows easily with emotion –NPR

eighth blackbird Sunday, April 13 • 3 pm Recital Hall

The Finesse of a String Quartet and the Energy of a Rock Band

Don’t let the lower-case name fool you. There is nothing subdued about this Grammy-winning sextet’s bracing virtuosity and irreverence. The lower case is a tribute to the words that inspired their name, words from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens’ seminal poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird:

“…noble accents…lucid, inescapable rhythms…” eighth blackbird is an ensemble for all ages: classical, provocative, cool.

The blackbirds are examples of a new-breed of super musicians–Los Angeles Times

IMANI WINDS Sunday, October 27 • 3 pm Recital Hall

North America’s Premier Wind Quintet

Visualize a chamber music ensemble. The image conjured usually involves violins and pianos and cellos. Erase that image and visualize a flute and an oboe, a clarinet, a French horn, and a bassoon, and you have Imani Winds, America’s leading wind quintet. This ensemble, all of African and Latin ancestry, enriches the traditional classical repertoire with jazz, Afro-Caribbean, Central and South American sounds. Imani means “faith” in Swahili. Have faith that an Imani Winds recital, featuring traditional as well as new works written expressly for them, will be an experience to be savored.

The group echoes the fresh ‘plein-air’ sound of cool breezes and incisive energy –Washington Post

These recitals hosted for the past several

seasons by NPR’s Bill McGlaughlin have

quickly become a new performance-and-

discussion tradition, welcoming audiences

and artists to connect at a deeper level.

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DERVISH Friday, March 7 • 8pm PepsiCo Theatre

Irish-Celtic Songs to Warm the Heart

and Celebrate the Season

We followed the rainbow to its end and found not a pot o’ gold, nor the leprechaun, but this troupe from County Sligo. Musical magic is what Dervish cooks up, all rooted in the heart of Ireland: jigs and ballads, with more than a bit of blarney in between. So start your evening with a swig of green beer (it should be “in season” by then) and treat yourself to this performance of Irish music, just as good as it gets and better, blending new compositions and traditional songs into a powerful, joyous sound.

From exquisitely wrought traditional ballads to outstanding originals –The Scotsman

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLARand Other Eric Carle Favourites Sunday, April 6 • 3pm Recital Hall

Tales for the Family

The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia has been here before with this enchanting family entertainment, whimsically designed and a feast for the eyes and ears of all ages. This is truly a back-by-popular-demand program featuring a triple bill of The Very Hungry Caterpillar who evolves into a beautiful butterfly, Little Cloud‘s travels through the sky, and the Mixed-Up Chameleon’s discovery of his own unique nature.

A quiet delight…brought to memorable life –Los Angeles Times

FAMILY BROADWAY + JAZZ

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN’S THE GERSHWINS AND ME Saturday, May 3 • 8pm Concert Hall

S’Wonderful. S’Marvelous. S’Feinstein. No one knows the Gershwins as well as Michael Feinstein does. He wrote the book, literally and figuratively. In his club acts in New York City and throughout the world this most celebrated of male cabaret artists has been acclaimed for his explorations of songs popularized by Sinatra as well as the great composers of the American Songbook. But his per-formance explorations of the Gershwins have not been equaled by any other artist performing today, or yesterday, or quite likely tomorrow.

Mr. Feinstein glides through lyrics like a champion figure skater –The New York Times

CASSANDRA WILSONSaturday, September 28 • 8pm Concert Hall

Opening the 36th Season with an American Original

We wouldn’t open the season with an ordinary artist when extra-ordinary is available. Extraor-dinary is, indeed, a singular word to describe the singular talent of Cassandra Wilson. She doesn’t merely sing, she wraps her talent around every note and nurtures and gives birth to magnificent jazzy, bluesy sounds while incorporating a touch of country and folk adding up to peerless, one-of-a-kind music.

A singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack who has expanded the playing field–Village Voice

YAMATO Friday, November 22 • 8pm Concert Hall

The Drummers of Japan

Start the Thanksgiving season with a bang. Not just a bang. Bang, bang, BANG! The group’s motto: “go anywhere if invited and make the world a little more happy.” We invited them back, they said yes, and audiences will not only be happier but they will be treated to a never-to-be-forgotten experience. Take a few moments to look at their videos on YouTube and you won’t want to miss them. Your family won’t let you miss them!

Pure energy meets spiritual high –The Scotsman

HOLIDAYVIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR Saturday, December 7 • 8pm Concert Hall

Christmas in Vienna

Before there was a Beethoven or a Mozart or a Bach there was the Vienna Boys’ Choir singing before the Austrian Court. In recent years this centuries-old choir of young men, ages 10 to 14, has become almost synonymous with the Christmas season through their recordings of classical, popular, and international holiday music. CDs are good, but in-person is better. The voices of these young people, pure and beautiful, mesh and meld into an overwhelming and unforgettable musical experience. This is not the world’s only boys’ choir, but it is the best-known…and for good reason.

Cherubic grace and polished blend –The New York Times

HARLAN JACOBSON’S TALK CINEMA

THEATREAN ILIADBy Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare

Sunday, September 29 • 5pm PepsiCo Theatre

One Classic Story, One Actor,

a Stage Full of Characters

Homer’s Trojan War classic, as envisioned by two visionaries, co-writer and director Lisa Peterson and co-writer and actor Denis O’Hare, is a sprawling yarn of gods and god-desses, undying love, and endless battles. Only a truly brilliant actor, and Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare fills the bill, can be the solo embodiment of multiple characters. Not ordinary characters either…O’Hare becomes Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon, Helen, Hecuba, Apollo, Hermes, Athena, and all the rest. This sweeping account of humanity’s unshake-able attraction to violence, destruction, and chaos raises one question: Has anything really changed since the Trojan War?

Smartly conceived and impressively executed, ‘An Iliad’ relates an age-old story that resonates with tragic meaning today–The New York Times

FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA Sunday, March 16 • 3 pm Recital Hall

The Hottest of Hot Dances…Sizzles

Flamenco. The word itself conjures notions of fiery passion and jaw-dropping power, neither of which will be in short supply when Carlota Santana’s company, heading into their 30th anniversary season, takes the stage. But there will also be form and subtlety, integral to the dance synonymous with Spain. Watching these art-ists — arched backs, rolling hips, lightning-fast feet — you’ll feel it coming, you may try to suppress it, but you may be overcome and simply have to shout out: “Ole! Ole!”

A handsome night of dance…moving crisply through multiple traditions and styles –The New York Times

THE CROSSROADS PROJECT Sunday, February 9 • 3pm Recital Hall

FRY STREET QUARTET ROBERT DAVIES Educator & PhysicistLAURA KAMINSKY ComposerREBECCA ALLAN PainterLYMAN WHITAKER SculptorGARTH LENZ Environmental PhotographerCAMILLE LITALIEN Dance Educator

Science, visual arts, dance, music, and the environment connect, collide, and intersect in this dynamic performance piece developed as part of a campus-wide initiative at Purchase College. The Cross-roads Project explores Earth’s rapidly changing climate, the impacts of society’s unsustainable systems, and humanity’s opportunity for a new direction. Spearheaded by Professor of Music Composition and Symphony Space Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky, the perfor-mance weaves together a chorus of artistic and scientific voices responding to one of the world’s greatest challenges.

CHANTICLEER Saturday, April 5 • 8pm Recital Hall

Twelve Guys in Tuxes

They’re back. Their holiday concert last season sold out so quickly that we had to ask them to return, and they’ve agreed. Chanticleer is a cappella at its best, a seamless blend of male voices, ranging from counter-tenor to bass, a chance to rejoice in the magic and majesty of the human voice. The first vocal ensemble ever inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, Chanticleer’s “vocal literature” takes audiences on a journey from Renaissance to jazz to gospel and beyond.

The world’s reigning male chorus – The New Yorker

UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE TOURING COMPANY Saturday, February 22 • 8pm PepsiCo Theatre

The Greatest Comedic Talent in America Today

This powerhouse comedy troupe, a staple of the New York and Los Angeles theatre scenes, is getting its act together and taking it on the road. But it’s an act with an empty suitcase: no script, no planned props. It’s the high-wire act of comedy: improvisation. Their performances can be as cool as hangin’ with college buddies who happen to be quick-witted and super funny or just wildly absurd and loopy. If you’re a Saturday Night Live watcher you see many of their alumni each week…the best of the best in up-to-the-minute comedy!

Twisted and uproarious – Entertainment Weekly

THE DECLASSIFIED Sunday, March 2 • 3pm Recital Hall

Back at The PAC!

Proving it’s possible to be edgy and traditional at the same time, The Declassified were introduced at The PAC in 2012 and presented in partnership with Carnegie Hall. A smashing success, this chamber music society of accomplished young musicians returns, bringing a matchless fervor to their playing, whether it’s a work from the tried-and-true classical music canon or a new work destined for posterity. Our long-time concert-goers embraced them last season, as did audiences new to the communal joy of classical recitals.

The latest example of young classical musicians banding together -The New York Times

Calling all film buffs! See the best independent and foreign films in preview − the way the critics do − without the hype, before anyone else; meet critics, scholars, and filmmakers after each screening. In recent seasons audiences previewed Silver Linings Playbook, The Artist, and Melancholia. What future hit will you see?

The film series that lets you say you saw it here first returns for another season in 2013-2014, with some very exciting new changes. Details will be announced and order forms will be mailed over the summer. Stay tuned!

SAVION GLOVER STePz Saturday, October 26 • 8pm Concert Hall

The Area Premiere of the Newest Work by the Leading Tap-Master

Savion Glover is a tap dancing and choreographic genius, there’s no argument about it. Whenever he creates a new work, whether on Broadway, video, or on tour, audiences know they will be in for a thrill-ride of exuberant dance. The theater was packed, very nearly SRO, when Glover was last at The PAC five years ago. This year Glover and his dancers bring us STePz, a celebration of music and dance taking tap to new heights in an adrenalin rush of a per-formance that will leave audiences exhilarated.

Glover is the kind of supreme artist you adore –Washington Post

DR. JOHN Saturday, February 15 • 8pm Concert Hall

Voodoo Mysticism, Funk, R&B, Psychedelic Rock

A Mac Rebennack concert is always an unforgettable mix of the unlikely and riveting. Mac who? OK, that’s what his friends and family may call him, but the world knows him as Dr. John, the liv-ing embodiment of the musical heritage of New Orleans. There’s nothing subtle about a Dr. John concert. With his singular voice

— casual and scratchy and thoroughly hypnotizing — and wily timing and riffs, he knows how to New Orleans-ize all manner of American music.

Physical and spiritual, earthly and supernatural…a master of elaborate New Orleans piano –The New York Times

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VIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR / PHOTO © LUKAS BECKCASSANDRA WILSON / PHOTO © MARCO GLAVIANO

DENIS O’HARE / PHOTO © JOAN MARCUS

MARIINSKY ORCHESTRAIgnat Solzhenitsyn, Conductor

Saturday, October 12 • 8pm Concert Hall

St. Petersburg’s Great Orchestra

in an All-Russian Program

If imperial means “of a commanding quality, manner,” then this great orchestra’s original name still applies: St. Petersburg Imperial Opera Orchestra. Their return to The PAC will be imperial indeed, filling the stage with passionate musicians and the hall with soaring music in an all-Russian program: Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead, and Shosta-kovich’s Symphony no. 5.

After an encore the tumultuous ovation lingered –The New York Times

IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRAJoAnn Falletta, Music DirectorSir James Galway, fluteLady Jeanne Galway, flute

Tuesday, October 29 • 8pm Concert Hall

‘Tis said, “Ah, the luck o’ the Irish.” If there’s any truth to that statement good fortune will be in abundance at The PAC when the Irish Chamber Orchestra makes its Purchase debut in October. In fact, there will be an extra pot of gold at the rainbow’s end as the Orchestra will be joined by one of Ireland’s greatest exports, the great Sir James Galway, along with his wife, Lady Jeanne, who both dazzled in a sold-out performance in the Concert Hall this past season. Based in Limerick, this world-class ensemble is renowned throughout Europe for its intense and pas-sionate mastery of the classical canon. That’s no blarney!

The orchestra’s music-making was a pure delight–The Irish Times

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRANobuyuki Tsujii, piano

Sunday, January 26 • 3pm Concert Hall

The Standard Bearer of Chamber Orchestra Excellence

Johnny Carson had the NBC Orchestra. Jay Leno has The Tonight Show Band. If The PAC has a “house band” surely it’s the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. This past year they celebrated their 40th birthday, released their 70th record-ing, commissioned their 35th original work, and, because our enthusiastic audiences asked for more through their thunderous applause, they returned to Purchase for another performance of grace, subtlety, and passion. This most democratic of ensembles — there is no conductor, every musician is in charge, and critics and audiences agree that it works magnificently — is back, this time with 25-year-old Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, the 2009 Van Cliburn International Competition winner who recently made his Carnegie Hall debut to great acclaim, as guest artist.

Orpheus showed how to blend chamber music transparency with a full symphonic sound–Washington Post

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AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRALeon Botstein, Music Director

Thursday, April 10 • 8pm Concert Hall

Leopold Stokowski’s Orchestral Invention

From the stage of Carnegie Hall to the stage of The PAC’s Concert Hall, and halls throughout the world, Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra presents itself as an American original. The great conductor founded it just over 50 years ago, and for the past 20 years Leon Botstein has been wielding the baton and carrying on the tradition. That tradition? Curated concerts — the word

“curated” sounds humdrum, but the result is anything but — created around themes from the visual arts, literature,

politics, and history, often unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival and revisiting familiar pieces in thrilling new interpretations.

A new concept in orchestras –The Wall Street Journal

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GABRIELA MONTERO, piano

Sunday, October 13 • 3pm Concert Hall

Infinite Improvisations

Improvisation is expected in comedy, integral to jazz, the mission of many theatre troupes. But improvisation in classical music? Almost unheard of…except in the performances of Caracas-born pianist Gabriela Montero. Playing since the age of five, she is celebrated for real-time improvisa-tions of sophisticated music. Yes, she is true to the art and architecture of standard classical fare, but her concerts have a matchless pizzazz when she creates music on-the-fly, often starting with melodies suggested by audience members. You may already have encountered her on a cold January day a few years ago, playing for the President’s first inauguration.

If you haven’t heard this wondrous pianist, buy your tickets now! –Seattle Times

JOSHUA BELL, violin

Saturday, November 16 • 8pmConcert Hall

Precise and Passionate with Bow and Strad

Joshua Bell is one of a handful of artists who can sell out a concert hall based on his name alone. Is it any wonder? He’s been around so long that one of his concerts feels like a visit from an old friend. He was just a boy, a 14-year-old, when he first appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and only 17 when he made his Carnegie Hall debut. He’s made that rare transition from prodigy to musical maturity and the years have brought him acclaim and almost-a-household-name recognition. Audiences beyond the world of classical concerts know him. Recently he performed the Academy Award-nominated Best Original Song “Before My Time” with Scarlett Johansson. His return to The PAC — he was here a few years ago as a surprise substitute when Itzhak Perlman took ill very shortly before a scheduled gala performance — is cause for celebration.

The greatest American violinist active today–Boston Herald

JOSHUA BELL / PHOTO © BILL PHELPS

GARRICK OHLSSON, piano

Friday, February 7 • 8pm Concert Hall

Beloved Hometown Musical “Hero”

As far as we’re concerned it is a homecoming whenever Garrick Ohlsson is on our Great Per-formers roster. The PAC is only a few miles from where he began to study the piano seriously, as an 8-year-old student at the Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains. From there it was Juilliard at the age of 13 and a shelf full of prizes: first prize in the Chopin and Busoni Competitions, the Avery Fisher Prize — you name it, he’s won it. The best news for our audiences: he likes to come home…and we’re only too happy to welcome him.

The muscular grace of Ohlsson’s playing spoke volumes –The Guardian

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DERVISH Friday, March 7 • 8pm PepsiCo Theatre

Irish-Celtic Songs to Warm the Heart

and Celebrate the Season

We followed the rainbow to its end and found not a pot o’ gold, nor the leprechaun, but this troupe from County Sligo. Musical magic is what Dervish cooks up, all rooted in the heart of Ireland: jigs and ballads, with more than a bit of blarney in between. So start your evening with a swig of green beer (it should be “in season” by then) and treat yourself to this performance of Irish music, just as good as it gets and better, blending new compositions and traditional songs into a powerful, joyous sound.

From exquisitely wrought traditional ballads to outstanding originals –The Scotsman

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLARand Other Eric Carle Favourites Sunday, April 6 • 3pm Recital Hall

Tales for the Family

The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia has been here before with this enchanting family entertainment, whimsically designed and a feast for the eyes and ears of all ages. This is truly a back-by-popular-demand program featuring a triple bill of The Very Hungry Caterpillar who evolves into a beautiful butterfly, Little Cloud‘s travels through the sky, and the Mixed-Up Chameleon’s discovery of his own unique nature.

A quiet delight…brought to memorable life –Los Angeles Times

FAMILY BROADWAY + JAZZ

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN’S THE GERSHWINS AND ME Saturday, May 3 • 8pm Concert Hall

S’Wonderful. S’Marvelous. S’Feinstein. No one knows the Gershwins as well as Michael Feinstein does. He wrote the book, literally and figuratively. In his club acts in New York City and throughout the world this most celebrated of male cabaret artists has been acclaimed for his explorations of songs popularized by Sinatra as well as the great composers of the American Songbook. But his per-formance explorations of the Gershwins have not been equaled by any other artist performing today, or yesterday, or quite likely tomorrow.

Mr. Feinstein glides through lyrics like a champion figure skater –The New York Times

CASSANDRA WILSONSaturday, September 28 • 8pm Concert Hall

Opening the 36th Season with an American Original

We wouldn’t open the season with an ordinary artist when extra-ordinary is available. Extraor-dinary is, indeed, a singular word to describe the singular talent of Cassandra Wilson. She doesn’t merely sing, she wraps her talent around every note and nurtures and gives birth to magnificent jazzy, bluesy sounds while incorporating a touch of country and folk adding up to peerless, one-of-a-kind music.

A singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack who has expanded the playing field–Village Voice

YAMATO Friday, November 22 • 8pm Concert Hall

The Drummers of Japan

Start the Thanksgiving season with a bang. Not just a bang. Bang, bang, BANG! The group’s motto: “go anywhere if invited and make the world a little more happy.” We invited them back, they said yes, and audiences will not only be happier but they will be treated to a never-to-be-forgotten experience. Take a few moments to look at their videos on YouTube and you won’t want to miss them. Your family won’t let you miss them!

Pure energy meets spiritual high –The Scotsman

HOLIDAYVIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR Saturday, December 7 • 8pm Concert Hall

Christmas in Vienna

Before there was a Beethoven or a Mozart or a Bach there was the Vienna Boys’ Choir singing before the Austrian Court. In recent years this centuries-old choir of young men, ages 10 to 14, has become almost synonymous with the Christmas season through their recordings of classical, popular, and international holiday music. CDs are good, but in-person is better. The voices of these young people, pure and beautiful, mesh and meld into an overwhelming and unforgettable musical experience. This is not the world’s only boys’ choir, but it is the best-known…and for good reason.

Cherubic grace and polished blend –The New York Times

HARLAN JACOBSON’S TALK CINEMA

THEATREAN ILIADBy Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare

Sunday, September 29 • 5pm PepsiCo Theatre

One Classic Story, One Actor,

a Stage Full of Characters

Homer’s Trojan War classic, as envisioned by two visionaries, co-writer and director Lisa Peterson and co-writer and actor Denis O’Hare, is a sprawling yarn of gods and god-desses, undying love, and endless battles. Only a truly brilliant actor, and Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare fills the bill, can be the solo embodiment of multiple characters. Not ordinary characters either…O’Hare becomes Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon, Helen, Hecuba, Apollo, Hermes, Athena, and all the rest. This sweeping account of humanity’s unshake-able attraction to violence, destruction, and chaos raises one question: Has anything really changed since the Trojan War?

Smartly conceived and impressively executed, ‘An Iliad’ relates an age-old story that resonates with tragic meaning today–The New York Times

FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA Sunday, March 16 • 3 pm Recital Hall

The Hottest of Hot Dances…Sizzles

Flamenco. The word itself conjures notions of fiery passion and jaw-dropping power, neither of which will be in short supply when Carlota Santana’s company, heading into their 30th anniversary season, takes the stage. But there will also be form and subtlety, integral to the dance synonymous with Spain. Watching these art-ists — arched backs, rolling hips, lightning-fast feet — you’ll feel it coming, you may try to suppress it, but you may be overcome and simply have to shout out: “Ole! Ole!”

A handsome night of dance…moving crisply through multiple traditions and styles –The New York Times

THE CROSSROADS PROJECT Sunday, February 9 • 3pm Recital Hall

FRY STREET QUARTET ROBERT DAVIES Educator & PhysicistLAURA KAMINSKY ComposerREBECCA ALLAN PainterLYMAN WHITAKER SculptorGARTH LENZ Environmental PhotographerCAMILLE LITALIEN Dance Educator

Science, visual arts, dance, music, and the environment connect, collide, and intersect in this dynamic performance piece developed as part of a campus-wide initiative at Purchase College. The Cross-roads Project explores Earth’s rapidly changing climate, the impacts of society’s unsustainable systems, and humanity’s opportunity for a new direction. Spearheaded by Professor of Music Composition and Symphony Space Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky, the perfor-mance weaves together a chorus of artistic and scientific voices responding to one of the world’s greatest challenges.

CHANTICLEER Saturday, April 5 • 8pm Recital Hall

Twelve Guys in Tuxes

They’re back. Their holiday concert last season sold out so quickly that we had to ask them to return, and they’ve agreed. Chanticleer is a cappella at its best, a seamless blend of male voices, ranging from counter-tenor to bass, a chance to rejoice in the magic and majesty of the human voice. The first vocal ensemble ever inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, Chanticleer’s “vocal literature” takes audiences on a journey from Renaissance to jazz to gospel and beyond.

The world’s reigning male chorus – The New Yorker

UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE TOURING COMPANY Saturday, February 22 • 8pm PepsiCo Theatre

The Greatest Comedic Talent in America Today

This powerhouse comedy troupe, a staple of the New York and Los Angeles theatre scenes, is getting its act together and taking it on the road. But it’s an act with an empty suitcase: no script, no planned props. It’s the high-wire act of comedy: improvisation. Their performances can be as cool as hangin’ with college buddies who happen to be quick-witted and super funny or just wildly absurd and loopy. If you’re a Saturday Night Live watcher you see many of their alumni each week…the best of the best in up-to-the-minute comedy!

Twisted and uproarious – Entertainment Weekly

THE DECLASSIFIED Sunday, March 2 • 3pm Recital Hall

Back at The PAC!

Proving it’s possible to be edgy and traditional at the same time, The Declassified were introduced at The PAC in 2012 and presented in partnership with Carnegie Hall. A smashing success, this chamber music society of accomplished young musicians returns, bringing a matchless fervor to their playing, whether it’s a work from the tried-and-true classical music canon or a new work destined for posterity. Our long-time concert-goers embraced them last season, as did audiences new to the communal joy of classical recitals.

The latest example of young classical musicians banding together -The New York Times

Calling all film buffs! See the best independent and foreign films in preview − the way the critics do − without the hype, before anyone else; meet critics, scholars, and filmmakers after each screening. In recent seasons audiences previewed Silver Linings Playbook, The Artist, and Melancholia. What future hit will you see?

The film series that lets you say you saw it here first returns for another season in 2013-2014, with some very exciting new changes. Details will be announced and order forms will be mailed over the summer. Stay tuned!

SAVION GLOVER STePz Saturday, October 26 • 8pm Concert Hall

The Area Premiere of the Newest Work by the Leading Tap-Master

Savion Glover is a tap dancing and choreographic genius, there’s no argument about it. Whenever he creates a new work, whether on Broadway, video, or on tour, audiences know they will be in for a thrill-ride of exuberant dance. The theater was packed, very nearly SRO, when Glover was last at The PAC five years ago. This year Glover and his dancers bring us STePz, a celebration of music and dance taking tap to new heights in an adrenalin rush of a per-formance that will leave audiences exhilarated.

Glover is the kind of supreme artist you adore –Washington Post

DR. JOHN Saturday, February 15 • 8pm Concert Hall

Voodoo Mysticism, Funk, R&B, Psychedelic Rock

A Mac Rebennack concert is always an unforgettable mix of the unlikely and riveting. Mac who? OK, that’s what his friends and family may call him, but the world knows him as Dr. John, the liv-ing embodiment of the musical heritage of New Orleans. There’s nothing subtle about a Dr. John concert. With his singular voice

— casual and scratchy and thoroughly hypnotizing — and wily timing and riffs, he knows how to New Orleans-ize all manner of American music.

Physical and spiritual, earthly and supernatural…a master of elaborate New Orleans piano –The New York Times

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MARIINSKY ORCHESTRAIgnat Solzhenitsyn, Conductor

Saturday, October 12 • 8pm Concert Hall

St. Petersburg’s Great Orchestra

in an All-Russian Program

If imperial means “of a commanding quality, manner,” then this great orchestra’s original name still applies: St. Petersburg Imperial Opera Orchestra. Their return to The PAC will be imperial indeed, filling the stage with passionate musicians and the hall with soaring music in an all-Russian program: Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead, and Shosta-kovich’s Symphony no. 5.

After an encore the tumultuous ovation lingered –The New York Times

IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRAJoAnn Falletta, Music DirectorSir James Galway, fluteLady Jeanne Galway, flute

Tuesday, October 29 • 8pm Concert Hall

‘Tis said, “Ah, the luck o’ the Irish.” If there’s any truth to that statement good fortune will be in abundance at The PAC when the Irish Chamber Orchestra makes its Purchase debut in October. In fact, there will be an extra pot of gold at the rainbow’s end as the Orchestra will be joined by one of Ireland’s greatest exports, the great Sir James Galway, along with his wife, Lady Jeanne, who both dazzled in a sold-out performance in the Concert Hall this past season. Based in Limerick, this world-class ensemble is renowned throughout Europe for its intense and pas-sionate mastery of the classical canon. That’s no blarney!

The orchestra’s music-making was a pure delight–The Irish Times

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRANobuyuki Tsujii, piano

Sunday, January 26 • 3pm Concert Hall

The Standard Bearer of Chamber Orchestra Excellence

Johnny Carson had the NBC Orchestra. Jay Leno has The Tonight Show Band. If The PAC has a “house band” surely it’s the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. This past year they celebrated their 40th birthday, released their 70th record-ing, commissioned their 35th original work, and, because our enthusiastic audiences asked for more through their thunderous applause, they returned to Purchase for another performance of grace, subtlety, and passion. This most democratic of ensembles — there is no conductor, every musician is in charge, and critics and audiences agree that it works magnificently — is back, this time with 25-year-old Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, the 2009 Van Cliburn International Competition winner who recently made his Carnegie Hall debut to great acclaim, as guest artist.

Orpheus showed how to blend chamber music transparency with a full symphonic sound–Washington Post

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AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRALeon Botstein, Music Director

Thursday, April 10 • 8pm Concert Hall

Leopold Stokowski’s Orchestral Invention

From the stage of Carnegie Hall to the stage of The PAC’s Concert Hall, and halls throughout the world, Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra presents itself as an American original. The great conductor founded it just over 50 years ago, and for the past 20 years Leon Botstein has been wielding the baton and carrying on the tradition. That tradition? Curated concerts — the word

“curated” sounds humdrum, but the result is anything but — created around themes from the visual arts, literature,

politics, and history, often unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival and revisiting familiar pieces in thrilling new interpretations.

A new concept in orchestras –The Wall Street Journal

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GABRIELA MONTERO, piano

Sunday, October 13 • 3pm Concert Hall

Infinite Improvisations

Improvisation is expected in comedy, integral to jazz, the mission of many theatre troupes. But improvisation in classical music? Almost unheard of…except in the performances of Caracas-born pianist Gabriela Montero. Playing since the age of five, she is celebrated for real-time improvisa-tions of sophisticated music. Yes, she is true to the art and architecture of standard classical fare, but her concerts have a matchless pizzazz when she creates music on-the-fly, often starting with melodies suggested by audience members. You may already have encountered her on a cold January day a few years ago, playing for the President’s first inauguration.

If you haven’t heard this wondrous pianist, buy your tickets now! –Seattle Times

JOSHUA BELL, violin

Saturday, November 16 • 8pmConcert Hall

Precise and Passionate with Bow and Strad

Joshua Bell is one of a handful of artists who can sell out a concert hall based on his name alone. Is it any wonder? He’s been around so long that one of his concerts feels like a visit from an old friend. He was just a boy, a 14-year-old, when he first appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and only 17 when he made his Carnegie Hall debut. He’s made that rare transition from prodigy to musical maturity and the years have brought him acclaim and almost-a-household-name recognition. Audiences beyond the world of classical concerts know him. Recently he performed the Academy Award-nominated Best Original Song “Before My Time” with Scarlett Johansson. His return to The PAC — he was here a few years ago as a surprise substitute when Itzhak Perlman took ill very shortly before a scheduled gala performance — is cause for celebration.

The greatest American violinist active today–Boston Herald

JOSHUA BELL / PHOTO © BILL PHELPS

GARRICK OHLSSON, piano

Friday, February 7 • 8pm Concert Hall

Beloved Hometown Musical “Hero”

As far as we’re concerned it is a homecoming whenever Garrick Ohlsson is on our Great Per-formers roster. The PAC is only a few miles from where he began to study the piano seriously, as an 8-year-old student at the Music Conservatory of Westchester in White Plains. From there it was Juilliard at the age of 13 and a shelf full of prizes: first prize in the Chopin and Busoni Competitions, the Avery Fisher Prize — you name it, he’s won it. The best news for our audiences: he likes to come home…and we’re only too happy to welcome him.

The muscular grace of Ohlsson’s playing spoke volumes –The Guardian

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