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What is one of the many benefits of becoming a Carnegie Hall Friend? Members at the Supporter level ($600) and above now receive access to Carnegie Hall+, our premium streaming channel that features exceptional performances from the world’s most renowned stages. Learn more 👉 carnegiehall.org/friends

🎥: Yunchan Lim in J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 2025. Watch the full, sold-out performance on Carnegie Hall+.

As part of “Sing Sing Voices,” Kenyatta performs his original song “Holding Out Hope” at Sing Correctional Facility. One year after this performance, he sang the same song in Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing as part of “First Free Note”—a concert that took place on the same day he came home from prison.

“A lot of times, it feels like when you hope, you open yourself up to the possibility of disappointment. That’s the way in which we arm ourselves and preserve ourselves and keep ourselves safe so that [we] can navigate a situation like this when sometimes hope can feel toxic. But the fact is, it’s true. Hope doesn’t disappoint. What will happen, will happen and our current circumstances are only our current circumstances.” —Kenyatta

For more than 15 years, Carnegie Hall has collaborated with men incarcerated at Sing Sing to create and perform original music. “Sing Sing Voices” is a new series of video playlists that feature nearly 50 original songs, offering a rare window into the creativity and resilience that takes place inside prison walls. Learn more about the project and experience this music—now available to the public for the first time 👉 carnegiehall.org/SingSingVoices

A Night of Inspiration returns to Carnegie Hall! From a celebration of the “Queen of Gospel Music” Shirley Caesar to a special tribute to Maestro Richard Smallwood, join music director Ray Chew Live, co-producer Vivian Scott Chew, and an all-star lineup of guest artists for this uplifting, joyful, and beloved Carnegie Hall tradition on Saturday, December 5. Tickets are now available: bit.ly/4eD4p7B

Celebrate America’s rich musical legacy with the The Metropolitan Opera! As part of Carnegie Hall’s “United in Sound: America at 250” festival, experience six acclaimed operas by American composers for free through June 30 on Met Opera on Demand: bit.ly/4uSFxiN

From Terence Blanchard’s history-making “Champion” to Kevin Puts’s “The Hours” and Gershwin’s beloved “Porgy and Bess,” each of these productions reflect voices that have shaped—and continue to shape—American identity.

🎥: Latonia Moore as Serena in “My Man’s Gone Now” from the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019–2020 production of “Porgy and Bess”

Irish fiddler Martin Hayes and his Common Ground Ensemble took to our largest stage last March, kicking off a new annual St. Patrick’s celebration at Carnegie Hall!

The evening featured percussive dancers Nic Gareiss and Stephanie Keane, guitarist and vocalist Sam Amidon, harpist and vocalist Síle Denvir, and Pulitzer Prize– and T. S. Eliot Prize–winning poet Paul Muldoon.

Hayes returns in March 2027 alongside pianist Thomas Bartlett—one of Hayes’s bandmates in Irish American supergroup The Gloaming—and additional artists to be announced. Tickets for next year’s concert are now available: bit.ly/43LxpEV

Common, Joyce DiDonato, and Arturo O’Farrill—three world-renowned Grammy-winning artists—reflect on their experiences working with men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility and of music’s role as a tool for self-discovery and transformation.

For more than 15 years, Carnegie Hall has collaborated with men incarcerated at Sing Sing to create and perform original music as part of the Musical Connections program. “Sing Sing Voices” is a series of video playlists that feature nearly 50 original songs, offering a rare window into the creativity and resilience that takes place insideprison walls.

Learn more about the project and experience this music—now available to the public for the first time: bit.ly/496FJlB