Performance

Five landmark albums by Stevie Wonder

1 upcoming performance in New York

Presented at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), *Five landmark albums by Stevie Wonder* sits within “Stevie: A Life in the Key of Songs,” a program that re-hears Wonder’s catalog through a classical lens. Acclaimed musicians join Stevie Wonder alongside rotating notable guests, shaping familiar songs with ensemble balance, careful phrasing, and restrained dynamics rather than spotlight theatrics. In New York City, where pop and concert-hall traditions routinely overlap, the set reads as a local study in translation: how a landmark recording legacy holds up when the groove is carried by classical discipline. One clear effect is that the writing’s harmonic craft moves to the foreground.