Tag Archives: Classical music

Cabrini Shire: Soundscapes for Hope

Music for Hope Concert Series Presents:

Soundscapes for HopeRenaissance to Contemporary

at St Cabrini Shrine

Award winning Flutist / Composer Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano with her Special guest will perform masterpieces by Orlando di Lasso, J.S. Bach, Telemann, and contemporary works by Acher-Modiano, Tofte-Jespersen and Andersen. Audiences will also be invited to join the spiritual, “Amazing Grace.”

Modiano’s flute and music is referred to asevoking the spiritual realm more than the motions made there” by Gorman, CD Review- Guide to Records, American Record Guide. And “a unique phenomenon on a number of accounts…beautiful sine curves of sound that enrapture and illuminate our minds” by Phil’s Review, Atlanta Audio Club.

about the artist: https://modianomusic.net/

Heart-lifting music to bring joy and hope to your heart.

$20/adult, $10/seniors and youth

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).