Tag Archives: Classical music

Rising in the Heights: Music & Storytelling with Denise Adusei Rosario and Leadlights Ensemble

Bronx Children’s Museum Executive Director and author Denise Adusei Rosario joins Leadlights Ensemble to present a program of music and stories, featuring her children’s book “Cesaria Feels the Beat,” a lyrical and heartfelt story about deafness, community, and Carnival.

Rising in the Heights is a festival of free outdoor public arts performances curated by Leadlights Ensemble in partnership with Word Up Community Bookshop. The festival celebrates the rich artistic contributions of Latinx and Black cultures and promotes children’s literacy through music and bilingual storytelling. Free copies of the featured book will be available. 

This project is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement, supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ); and Creative Engagement, supported by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and the Howard Gilman Foundation. UMEZ Arts Engagement and Creative Engagement are administered by LMCC.

Penny Jo’s: Sunday Baroque “Les Passiones Animae”

Join new early music ensemble “Les Passiones Animae” at Penny Jo’s at 5:00 PM at Penny Jo’s on April 20! Featuring musicians Nuria Canales Rubio, baroque flute, Ryan Cheng, viola da gamba, Nathan Mondry, harpsichord, Ela Kodzas, baroque violin, Allen Maracle and Andrew Koutroubas cello performing works by Telemann, Handel, Boismortier, Platti, and more! Free admission, food and drink for purchase.

Cabrini Shire: Flute Soundscapes for Hope – Baroque to Contemporary

Music for Hope Concert Series Presents:

Flute Soundscapes for Hope – Baroque to Contemporary

w/ Award winning Flutist and Composer Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano

Sunday April 6 at 5:30pm

at St Cabrini Shrine

St. Cabrini Shrine’s Calendar: https://cabrinishrinenyc.org/event/soundscapes-for-hope/

Admission: $20/adult, $10/seniors and youth. Tickets available in advance and at the door.

Description:

Award winning Flutist / Composer Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano will perform masterpieces by J.S. Bach, Debussy, and contemporary works by Acher-Modiano. The Audiences will also be invited to join in on “Amazing Grace” and other known soulful songs. All are welcome to immerse in the Shrine’s gracious acoustics and atmosphere.

Artist website: https://modianomusic.net/

 “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.

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”