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Hispanic Society: Transcripciones

Transcripciones

Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Join Spanish pianist Antonio Galera for the 2025 Hispanic Society Concert Series, which establishes relationships between the museum collections and artists from different fields, in continuous dialogue with the piano.

Thursday, February 27th, 2025 6 – 8 pm
Concert Series Part I: Cordes | Sorolla Gallery 

The first of the concerts, CORDES, will take place in February 2025, where a sample of the museum’s permanent collection is on display. It will be the presentation in America of Antonio Galera’s latest solo album project, which explores references to guitar present in Spanish music written for piano by different composers. For this first project, Antonio has invited Lori Cohen, a member of the HSM&L board, and curator and art collector Christopher Rothko, who together will introduce Antonio Galera and contextualize the pieces performed in the recital.

Hispanic Society – A Sound of Her Own: Music in the Time of the Estrado

A Sound of Her Own: Music in the Time of the Estrado

Monday, February 10th, 2025 | 6 to 8pm

Dr. Elizabeth Weinfield brings Sonnambula, a historically-informed ensemble that brings to light unknown music for various combinations of early instruments with the lush sound of the viol at the core, to the Hispanic Society to perform a program inspired by the exhibition “A Room of her Own: The Estrados of the Hispanic World.” Featuring a pre-concert discussion between Elizabeth Weinfield and Alexandra Frantischek Rodriguez-Jack, curator of the exhibition “A Room of Her Own: The Estrado and the Hispanic World”

HVG Performing Arts Group presents Benefit for Refugees: A Musical Fundraiser

Performing Arts Group at Hudson View Gardens presents a special concert to raise funds for our immigrant community.  Performers include HVG resident pianists David Kalhous, Jason Yeager, Sasha Papernik, and Evelyne Luest. Guest artists include violinist Andy Didorenko, pianist Yuliya Basis, and cellist Evgeniia Zdorova. The program features music by Kreisler, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak, Milhaud, Didorenko and more, as well as Mozart played by Samuel Rodriguez, a talented young violinist and composer from Venezuela.

Also as part of the fundraiser, artists Lilia Levin and others will display and sell their work. Donations will go to UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and Little Shop of Kindness in NYC.

For concert information and the latest updates, visit facebook.com/HVGPAG, which can be accessed by everyone (with and without a Facebook account).

HVG Performing Arts Group Presents: International Jazz Summit in The Lounge

On Sunday, Nov 17 at 5 pm HVG Performing Arts Group presents an International Jazz Summit in The Lounge.

Acclaimed saxophonist Gottfried Stöger (originally from Austria) returns to The Lounge. He’ll be joined by the Grammy award-winning pianist Leo Genovese (born in Argentina) and the brilliant French bass player François Moutin, whose prowess on his instrument Jazz Times proclaims, “is a marvel in itself”.

Their program features original compositions by each musician, showcasing their individual musical heritage, as well as some of the greatest jazz standards.

For concert information and the latest updates, visit facebook.com/HVGPAG, which can be accessed by everyone (with and without a Facebook account).

Admission: $15 suggested donation
($12 seniors/children, children under 8 are free)

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Coming Up in The Lounge – presented by PAG

Sunday, December 15 at 5 pm: Special Fundraiser to benefit New York’s immigrant community

Performers include HVG pianists David Kalhous, Jason Yeager, Sasha Papernik and Evelyne Luest, with more to be announced.

Special day and time!

Saturday, January 11, 2025, 7:30: Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio

The internationally renowned piano trio – pianist Yael Weiss, violinist Mark Kaplan and cellist Peter Stumpf – perform music by Robert Schumann and other chamber favorites.