Carnegie Hall

She is 16 years old and performing this month in Carnegie Hall. But Kristen Foaksman said she isn't too nervous, after all, she performed in the hallowed venue last year too. "It's my second time going so it's pretty exciting," Foaksman said. "You don't really have time to get nervous there. " Foaksman recently won first place in the Crescendo International Music Competition with her performance of Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 23 no. 7 in C Minor. Her prize as it was when she won the same competition last year is to perform the piece at a recital in Carnegie Hall with fellow...

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NEW YORK — We all know how to get to Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice. What is less well known, even for the experienced New York visitor, is that the area around the hall is a good place to stay, particularly if you’re interested in the arts. The neighborhood is easier to drive in and out of, it’s a step or two removed from the chaos of Times Square, it’s home to world-class museums, and it’s easy walking distance to Central Park and any number of cultural attractions from the Museum of Modern Art to Lincoln Center to the Theater District.

(Image courtesy BC High) Members of the school's choir at Carnegie Hall. By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent Three students from Dorchester joined Boston College High School classmates for a recent performance at New York's famed Carnegie Hall. Junior Brendan Caulfield and freshmen Jake McEachern and Edward Shaddock, performed with the school's 85 member choir in New York, belting out selections in Latin, Czech, Russian, and English.

NEW YORK -- Arthur Zankel, the financier who gave $10 million for the Carnegie Hall recital space that bears his name, plunged to his death from his ninth floor apartment in an apparent suicide Thursday, police said yesterday. He was 73. Mr. Zankel, Carnegie Hall's vice chairman, died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital after apparently jumping from his Fifth Avenue apartment, Detective Noel Waters said, confirming a report in the New York Sun. Mr. Zankel, a member of the Citigroup Inc. board of directors from 1986 until last year, specialized in real estate investment...

(Image courtesy BC High) Members of the school's choir at Carnegie Hall. By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent Three students from Dorchester joined Boston College High School classmates for a recent performance at New York's famed Carnegie Hall. Junior Brendan Caulfield and freshmen Jake McEachern and Edward Shaddock, performed with the school's 85 member choir in New York, belting out selections in Latin, Czech, Russian, and English.

NEW YORK -- Robert Harth, who became head of Carnegie Hall just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and led America's premier classical music venue into an adventurous new era, died of a heart attack Friday at his apartment near the hall. He was 47. Mr. Harth, Carnegie's executive and artistic director, had planned to announce the hall's new season tomorrow, including the second year of programs at the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall. His reputation as a cutting-edge arts administrator grew with last year's...

Carnegie Hall has unveiled details of its 2012-13 season, which will include the Boston Symphony Orchestra's annual three performances. The announcement also brought word of a new appointment for Boston-based composer Osvaldo Golijov, who will hold the prestigious Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall. In that role, Golijov will serve as an artistic adviser to an expansive citywide festival titled "Voices From Latin America," and performances of Golijov's music will be sprinkled throughout the Carnegie Hall season.

SARAH RODMAN'S CONCERT PICKS ■BUTCH WALKER Oct. 22, Royale ■WILD FLAG Oct. 14, Paradise ■STING Oct. 21, Citi Wang Theatre ■VINCE GILL Sept. 11, Wilbur Theatre ■GUNS N' ROSES Nov. 20, Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ■DEF LEPPARD WITH HEART June 30, Comcast Center ■LAURA MARLING Sept. 25, Brighton Music Hall ■PAUL SIMON June 1, Citi Wang Theatre ■SADE June 19, Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia ■JAMES TAYLOR WITH STING, BETTE MIDLER, STEVE MARTIN, DIANNE REEVES, KEVIN POLLAK AND...

Guitarist Jose Manuel Lezcano will be featured in a free concert at Hingham Public Library's Saturday Sounds Special Series, presented with the Boston Classical Society, on April 7 at 3 p.m. Lezcano's music features traditional and Latin American songs as well as his own original compositions. The Cuban native has performed as a recitalist, collaborative musician, and concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall and at the North/South Consonance Concert Series in New York City. Lezcano currently teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire.

Guitarist Jose Manuel Lezcano will be featured in a free concert at Hingham Public Library's Saturday Sounds Special Series, presented with the Boston Classical Society, on April 7 at 3 p.m. Lezcano's music features traditional and Latin American songs as well as his own original compositions. The Cuban native has performed as a recitalist, collaborative musician, and concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall and at the North/South Consonance Concert Series in New York City. Lezcano currently teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire.

Carnegie Hall has unveiled details of its 2012-13 season, which will include the Boston Symphony Orchestra's annual three performances. The announcement also brought word of a new appointment for Boston-based composer Osvaldo Golijov, who will hold the prestigious Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall. In that role, Golijov will serve as an artistic adviser to an expansive citywide festival titled "Voices From Latin America," and performances of Golijov's music will be sprinkled throughout the Carnegie Hall season.

SWAMPSCOTT - She is 16 years old and performing today in Carnegie Hall. But Kristen Foaksman said she isn't too nervous. After all, she performed in the hallowed venue last year. "It's my second time going so it's pretty exciting," Foaksman said. "You don't really have time to get nervous there. " Foaksman recently won first place in the Crescendo International Music Competition with her performance of Rachmaninoff's Prelude No. 7 in C minor (Op. 23). Her prize, as it was when she won the same competition last year, is to perform the piece at a recital...

SARAH RODMAN'S CONCERT PICKS ■BUTCH WALKER Oct. 22, Royale ■WILD FLAG Oct. 14, Paradise ■STING Oct. 21, Citi Wang Theatre ■VINCE GILL Sept. 11, Wilbur Theatre ■GUNS N' ROSES Nov. 20, Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ■DEF LEPPARD WITH HEART June 30, Comcast Center ■LAURA MARLING Sept. 25, Brighton Music Hall ■PAUL SIMON June 1, Citi Wang Theatre ■SADE June 19, Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia ■JAMES TAYLOR WITH STING, BETTE MIDLER, STEVE MARTIN, DIANNE REEVES, KEVIN POLLAK AND...

NEW YORK — We all know how to get to Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice. What is less well known, even for the experienced New York visitor, is that the area around the hall is a good place to stay, particularly if you’re interested in the arts. The neighborhood is easier to drive in and out of, it’s a step or two removed from the chaos of Times Square, it’s home to world-class museums, and it’s easy walking distance to Central Park and any number of cultural attractions from the Museum of Modern Art to Lincoln Center to the Theater District.

LOS ANGELES - Wayne Brady is savoring a big year, with doors opening to him at Carnegie Hall, the White House, and, in multiples, on “Let’s Make a Deal.’’ The actor-singer-funnyman debuted in October as host of a revival of Monty Hall’s classic game show, riding herd on eager contestants choosing between cash and the chance of prizes tucked, famously, behind door number one, two, or three. The game show gig and Brady’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in New York followed his White House performance as part of a tribute to Stevie Wonder last February.