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Join us for our 2017 Gay-La!
TONIGHT: Join as at all 7:45 for chamber music and drinks, and our GayLa concert at 8:30. Tickets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door. If you purchased tickets online, they will be held at the door.
Our annual Gay-La is on June 17: what better way to kick off Pride Week than with your friends at QUO! Plus we will be joined by very special guest Jacqueline Jonée, who will perform double duty as our evening’s host and also perform at the piano. This is an event you don’t want to miss!
VIP Tickets for the evening are $55, which includes an open bar and our famous concessions. General Admission is $35, but if you purchase tickets in advance, you can save $5. Student/Senior tickets are $25.
The evening begins with a champagne reception with chamber music from 7:45 – 8:15. Unlike previous years, this year our reception is open to all ticket holders (though open bar applies only to VIP ticket holders). Then the concert itself begins at 8:30.
Highlights of the program include:
- Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 (aka Jazz Suite No. 2)
- Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On The Town
- Marquez: Conga dle Fuego Nuevo
- Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story
- Somewhere/Nothing’s Going to Harm You/America (featuring Jacqueline Jonée)
- Over the Rainbow/I Am What I am (featuring Jacqueline Jonée)
Saturday June 17 at 8:30 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue (at 28th Street), New York CityQuick View -
Join us for our 2018 GayLa!
TONIGHT: Tickets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door.
Kick off Pride Week with QUO's annual GayLa concert. Our GayLa is a festive evening: the music is a little less serious, champagne will be flowing, and we'll be kicking into gear for Pride!
We are thrilled that our GayLa this year will be hosted by cabaret artist Molly Pope. In addition to hosting, Molly will join the orchestra for a few selections. We'll also continue to feature women composers on this concert, and we'll throw in a surprise or two. The program includes:
- Gioachino Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra
- Joan Tower: Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (dedicated to the intrepid Hillary)
- Elizabeth Lain: Blood Moon
- Mitch Leigh: Selections from Man of LaMancha
- Jerry Herman: The Best of Times is Now (with Molly Pope)
- Lorde: Royals (with Molly Pope)
- and more…
Tickets are $35, but if you purchase in advance you can get a $5 discount. Student/Senior tickets are $25.
Did we mention champagne? Buy a VIP ticket for $55 and enjoy an open bar all night!
Doors open at 7:15. Unlike our usual concerts, there is no pre-concert talk, but plan to stay after the concert and continue the fun with QUO members.
ALL TICKETS WILL BE HELD AT THE DOOR.
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Join us for our 2019 GayLa!
TONIGHT: TIckets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door.
Kick off Pride Week with QUO's annual GayLa concert. Our GayLa is a festive evening: the music is a little less serious, champagne will be flowing, and we'll be kicking into gear for Pride!
We have an amazing evening planned. We are thrilled to be joined by famed counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo for a performance of Jimmy Lopez’ Man and Man which Mr. Lopez wrote for his wedding to Heleno Leitao.
And we are fortunate that our GayLa will again be hosted by cabaret artist Molly Pope, who will sing a few songs for us again. Plus we have some light classical works as well:
- Lopez: Man and Man
- Bates: Mothership (written for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra)
- Gershwin: An American in Paris
- Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
- Flaherty/Aherns: Love Who Love (with Molly Pope)
- Jerry Herman: The Best of Times is Now (with Molly Pope)
- and more…
Tickets are $35, but if you purchase in advance you can get a $5 discount. Student/Senior tickets are $25.
Did we mention champagne? Buy a VIP ticket for $50 ($55 at the door) and enjoy an open bar all night!
Doors open at 7:15. Unlike our usual concerts, there is no pre-concert talk, but plan to stay after the concert and continue the fun with QUO members.
Saturday, June 22 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYALL TICKETS WILL BE HELD AT THE DOOR.
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Join us for our 2022 GayLa: A Celebration of Beauty
$35.00TONIGHT: TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE ONLINE BUT WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR.
We’re concluding our season with our annual Pride GayLa on June 18. Here’s your chance to kick off Pride Week with your family at QUO: enjoy some great music, some great friends, and even some bubbly.
The concert includes Scenes from a Melodrama, written for QUO by Lucas Syed; Florence Price‘s The Oak (Ms. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer), Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, and the rousing, signature arrangement of John Williams’ Star Wars Suite in honor of the composer’s 90th birthday.
VIP tickets include an open bar and snacks, and a $30 donation to QUO. Advance sale and VIP tickets purchased online include a $5 discount based on door prices.
All tickets will be held at the door, and current protocols call for all patrons to be masked. Protocols are subject to change based on changing guidance from NYC officials and following the standards of other NYC arts institutions. Check back for updates closer to the concert.
Saturday, June 18 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for Pipes of Peace
TONIGHT: Tickets are no longer available on line but will be sold at the door. Doors open at 7:15 pm
If you’ve been to our concerts at the Holy Apostles Church, you’ve glimpsed that amazing organ stage right and have likely wondered when we’d put it to good use. Now is the time: our April concert features Saint-Saëns’ famed Symphony No. 3 (“Organ”). Also on the program: inti figgis-vizueta’s (corradh) bending; Ethel Smythe’s The Wreckers Overture; Leopold Stokowski’s arrangement of J. S. Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582; and an arrangement by our own Derek Weagle of Paul McCartney’s Pipes of Peace.
Saturday, April 15 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for QUO Celebrates NYC
PLEASE NOTE: Due to scheduling conflicts, the date for this concert is changed to FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 at 8 pm. Doors will open at 7:30; there will unfortunately not be a pre-concert talk. We hope you can join us!
In our 2016-2017 season, QUO Celebrates NYC: Our City, Our Home. Join us for our first concert this season on October 21, when we present
- Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Ives: Symphony No. 2
Our guest soloist for the Gershwin will be Aryo Wicaksono. A “virtuoso talent, offering an excellent combination of solid technique and sensitive expressiveness,” (San Francisco Examiner), Mr. Wicaksono has performed as a featured soloist and chamber musician in venues and festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe – and was the first Western classical music artist to hold a visiting artist-in-residence position at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Tickets are no longer available online but MAY BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR. If you ordered tickets, they will be waiting for you at the door.
Friday, October 21, 2016 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue (at 28th Street), New York CityQuick View -
Join us for QUO Celebrates NYC: Date Night
$20.00TONIGHT at 8 PM. Tickets available at the door.
In our 2016-2017 season, QUO Celebrates NYC: Our City, Our Home. Join us for our next concert on February 18 when we present
- Carter: Elegy for String Orchestra
- Villa-Lobos: Cirando das sete notas
- Music for Trumpet and Orchestra
- La Virgen de la Macarena
- Oblivion
- Echoes of Harlem
- Vivaldi/Bach Concerto
- Favorite romantic music from the movies, including
- Music from Carol
- Tango de la Luna
- Adagio from Spartacus
- Dvorak Waltzes
Our gift to you this season is an all-star cast of guests. Joining us for the trumpet set will be Joe Burgstaller, who — in keeping with the evening’s theme — is also the husband of our artistic director Julie Desbordes. QUO’s own Darcy Grae, winner of our annual concert competition, will be the bassoon soloist in the Villa-Lobos, and QUO’s former Artistic Director Nolan Dresden returns to conduct the Carter. Need some romance? Our movie music will be interpreted by dancers Quetzal Arias and Chris Braz. And we are thrilled to announce that the evening will be hosted by Jenny Lee Mitchell.
As always, join us at 7:15 for a pre-concert discussion panel with our artistic directors and soloists.
Saturday, February 18, 2018 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue (at 28th Street), New York CityQuick View -
Join us for QUO Loves NYC: Tchaikovsky #5
Tickets are no longer available online, but may be purchased at the door. If you purchased tickets online, your name will be at the door.
The next concert in our QUO Loves NYC series is so big, we are presenting it twice. Come join us on Saturday May 6 or Sunday May 7 for a program that includes:
- Bukowski: High Tides (WORLD PREMIERE)
- Fairouz: Symphony No. 2
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
We are especially thrilled to be presenting the winner of our composition contest: Andrew Bukowski’s High Tides. That will be followed by Symphony No. 2 of Chelsea-resident Mohammed Fairouz, whom the BBC World News proclaims as “one of the most talented composers of his generation.” And how could a season of things we love not include the monumental Symphony No. 5 of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Saturday’s concert will include a pre-concert discussion panel at 7:15 for all ticket holders. Sunday’s concert will be more kid-friendly and less formal, including educational notes about the pieces (some of which will be abbreviated).
Saturday, May 6 at 8 pm
Sunday, May 7 at 4 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue (at 28th Street), New York CityQuick View -
Join us for QUOtets XIII
TONIGHT! Tickets are no longer available online but may be purchased at the door.
It’s time for QUOtets! Join us for an evening of chamber music, food, and drink as musicians from QUO perform some of their favorite chamber music.
Saturday, March 30 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYQuick View -
Join us for QUOtets XIV
TODAY at 4 pm. Tickets are no longer on sale on line but will be available at the door.
It’s time for QUOtets! Join us for an afternoon of Chamber Music at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community center. This is chance to hear QUO members play in smaller groups and enjoy an afternoon with friends and family.
Featured on the program:
Pierne: Introduction et variations sur une ronde Popularie for Saxophone Quartet
Mussorgsky: Selections from Pictures at an Exhibition for French Horn Choir
Faure: Elegy for Viola and Piano
Gaubert: Troisieme Sonate pour Flute et Piano
Loeffler: L’Etang (from Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano)
Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen for English Horn and Guitar
Adler: Celebration (from Elegy for Norman) for Flute and Piano
Brahms: Sextet in B-flat for String SextetSunday, December 8 at 4 pm
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 W 13th Street, NY, NYQuick View -
Join us for Quotets XVI
$15.00 – $25.00 Select optionsJoin us for Quotets XVI
$15.00 – $25.00TONIGHT: Tickets are no longer available on-line but will be available at the door. Doors open at 7:30.
QUO’s popular chamber series QUOtets returns! Join us for an evening of chamber music in a cabaret-style setting as QUO members break out of the symphonic mode and perform their favorite chamber works. We’ll have everything from traditional string quintets and sextets performing Brahms and Dvorak, to lesser-known works like Mozart’s Sonata for Bassoon and Cello, to works featuring our Flute section and or Oboe section, and more!
All tickets will be held at the door.
Saturday, December 3 at 8 pm
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NYThe Church of the Holy Apostles is handicap accessible.
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Join us for QUOtets!
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Join us for QUOtets!
$25.00TONIGHT AT 8!
Tickets are no longer on sale online but will be available at the door. If you purchased tickets online, they will be held at the door.
QUOtets is an evening of chamber music presented in a cabaret-style setting. You’ll hear some of QUO’s best performers in a different setting as they present their favorite works for small ensembles. Seating is at round tables, and there will be plenty of time to interact with your friends and QUO members.
Time: Saturday, March 17 at 8:00 pm
Location: Church of the Holy Apostles 296 Ninth Avenue (at 28th Street), New York CityQuick View
