Brahms at Twilight

Tenderness and turmoil: an intimate encounter with Brahms’s late piano music.

What do we hear when a great composer writes at the edge of farewell? In this intimate concert-portrait, pianist Ari Livne pairs Brahms’s late piano miniatures (Opp. 116–119) with brief spoken vignettes that illuminate the composer’s daily routines, letters, friendships, and frustrations. Moving between tenderness and turbulence, the program draws a line from public legend to private human being—one navigating loss, love remembered, and the stubborn comedy of daily life. Come spend an evening in close company with Brahms. You may never hear him the same way again.

Sensual America

A genre‑bending ride with baritone Jeremy Weiss and pianist Ari Livne—where song explodes into theater, poetry, and playful mayhem.

Sensual America is a concert-portrait of desire and repression, built for baritone and piano and staged as a fluid weave of classical song, theater, poetry, and performance art. Jeremy Weiss and Ari Livne widen the song‑recital frame by inhabiting real and fictional queer characters from American history and theater, tracing sensuality as both a portal to the sacred and a source of shame, panic, and control. Musical selections draw from midcentury giants like Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter, along with more contemporary composers like Lee Hoiby and Justin Weiss, and text fragments from Walt Whitman and his descendants.

Expect the familiar to shift and tilt: a song recital loosens into scenes, monologues, poetry, and disruption. At heart, the piece asks how our puritan origins shape our bodies, minds, and relationships — and what liberation might look like, sound like, feel like, smell like…. you get it.