Park Avenue Armory on Instagram: "Enter an enveloping world of sound with Georg Friedrich Haas’s spatial masterpiece “11,000 Strings,” making its North American premiere at the Armory September 30–October 7. 🎹 Featuring 50 micro-tuned pianos surrounding the audience alongside chamber orchestra @klangforum_wien, this ambitious new composition moves between tender melodic motifs to the thunderous roar of a looming storm. Each piano is tuned in the smallest of increments—the amount of difference b

Azi Schwartz on Instagram: "Sixty years after Simon & Garfunkel released this song, we find ourselves once again in a world deeply divided. “People talking without speaking - people hearing without listening.” If you recognize some of the singers here, it’s because they also opened the Tony Awards earlier this year. Singing with them on Rosh Hashanah was both a privilege and a reminder that sometimes the most powerful prayer is found not in the noise, but in the stillness. Let us all learn to li

George Clooney and his $14 million gesture! 😱👏 #georgeclooney​ #hollywood​