Enjoy a discussion with journalist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell on the science of success, followed by a reception with fellow CAAL Members. In his latest work, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”—the best and the... | Learn More

Following a screening of Petra Seeger's film, In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel, Oliver Sacks interviews Kandel about his role in the discovery of how memory works. Kandel, along with his colleagues, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 2000, for discovering the central... | Learn More

My Beijing Birthday takes a heart-felt and humorous look at the rapidly changing lives of a group of young Beijingers through the eyes of a New Yorker, Howie Snyder.

The story shows the group as 8 year-olds in 1996 studying Chinese stand-up comedy with Howie and their teacher, Mrs. Ma. We... | Learn More

Fresh, youthful, and kinetic, this program's four works embody innovation. Using Baroque melodies as counterpoint to modern movement, Jorma Elo's Slice to Sharp is a pyrotechnic tour de force. Martins' vitalizing Hallelujah Junction is a living locomotive of driving energy. Wheeldon's Mercurial... | Learn More

Set in Manhattan's West Side/Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1950s, West Side Story explores the rivalry between two teenage gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The young protagonist, Anton ("Tony"), who belongs to the White gang, falls in... | Learn More

Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired "Hippies of the Age of Aquarius" fighting against conscription to the Vietnam War and living a bohemian life together in New York City. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and all their friends... | Learn More

Mary Zimmerman, who directed Natalie Dessay in last season’s hit new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, underlines La Sonnambula’s dual elements of sleep and wakefulness in an intriguing staging set in the present. Bellini’s hauntingly lyrical score soars as performed by Dessay... | Learn More

Multi-reedman Paquito D'Rivera and his guests, including vocalist Leny Andrade and clarinetist Anat Cohen, explore Brazilian sambas, choros, and bossa nova in all their joy and subtle rhythmic intensity, evoking, as D'Rivera once put it, "the feeling of being happy and sad at the same... | Learn More

London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Vadim Repin, violin

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No.2 in D minor
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1 in D major
Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No.7 in C-sharp minor

Pre-concert lecture by Harlow Robinson... | Learn More

Emanuel Ax, Piano
Itzhak Perlman, Violin
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66

Tickets go on sale to priority notice members (CAAL Fellows and higher membership levels) on... | Learn More