In person and online screening of All the music in the world

CO-WORLD PREMIERE: A legend in the world of classical performance, concert pianist Emanuel Ax has delighted audiences at Carnegie Hall and all over the globe for more than 50 years. Filmmaker Joseph Levy reveals how Ax’s scrappy NYC childhood and a close friendship with Yo-Yo Ma illuminated and enriched Ax’s natural gifts, while poignantly capturing the emotional weight of life transitions. “All the music in the world,” says Ax, “exists to express things that can’t be put into words.” – Jaie Laplante

This world premiere is co-presented with Tanglewood, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center & DOC NYC.

The first (November 13, 2026 6:15 PM, IFC Center) and second (Saturday, November 14, 2026 4:10 PM, Village East by Angelika)  screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer/director/producer/editor Joseph Levy, producers Taz Goldstein and Rebecca Cameron, and cinematographer Erin Harvey. Purchase the tickets here.

The online screening is available from Saturday, Nov 14, 2026 12:00 AM – Sunday, Nov 29, 2026 11:59 PM and tickets can be purchased here. Read more …

Emanuel Ax named Musical America Awards’ 2026 ‘Artist of the Year’

Emanuel Ax, at age 76, combines the pianistic insight of an old master with the freshness and modesty of a newcomer. His half-century career has been based in the classics—Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn—but this season he is barnstorming with a new, bespoke work: John Williams’s jazzy piano concerto.

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Mozart’s C-major Piano Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin

“As centrepiece, longtime musical comrades Emanuel Ax and Slatkin stylishly realised the Heaven-sent K503 through well-judged tempos, shapely and expressive phrasing, varieties of subtlety (Ax adding tasteful decoration in the Finale), with the SLS characterful in support, the composer’s intentions speaking directly through musicians whose rapport is self-evident. The first-movement cadenza was by Robert Casadesus (as advised by Mr Ax), and his encore was a Chopin Nocturne, the F-minor, Opus 55/1.”

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