For the final concert of PAG’s spring 2024 season, we’re celebrating the centennial of our beloved home, Hudson View Gardens. The program on Sunday, June 23 at 5 pm in The Lounge features classical and jazz selections from the 1920s, right around the time that HVG was built!
Nearly a dozen performers will take the stage at The Lounge for this special concert. The program features a special arrangement of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue played by HVG resident pianists Evelyne Luest, David Kalhaus and Sasha Papernick. Also: the world premiere of a composition by Andy Didorenko written especially for the occasion and a 1924 work by Gabriel Faure played by cellist Angela Lee. The extraordinary jazz musicians, HVG residents Andrea Wood (vocals) and Ethan O’Reilly (bass) perform Tea for Two, The Man I Love and other 1920s popular favorites.
A festive reception follows the concert.
PROGRAM
Andy Didorenko: Souvenir de Kálmán (2024) World Premiere
(based on the 1924 operetta Countess Maritza by Emmerich Kálmán)
Andy Didorenko, violin; Yuliya Basis, piano
Gabriel Fauré: Sicilienne for cello and piano, op. 78
Ernest Bloch: Prayer (From Jewish Life), for cello and piano
Angela Lee, cello; Evelyne Luest, piano
Popular songs from the 1920s
Sasha Papernik, vocals & piano; Andrea Wood, vocals; Ethan Oreilly, bass
George Gershwin (arr. Ian Jamison): Rhapsody in Blue for 8 hands, two pianos
David Kalhous, Huizi Zang, Sasha Papernik, Evelyne Luest, pianists
