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UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Clarion Choir & Orchestra: Best of Ockeghem at The Cloisters

By popular demand, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra extend their celebration of composer Johannes Ockeghem’s 600th birthday (give or take) with an evening of the Franco-Flemish forefather’s finest works: from sacred to profane, from simple to dizzyingly intricate, from polite to downright naughty! Join us for a tour of the masses, motets, and songs that established Ockeghem as a pivotal figure of early Renaissance Europe.

HVG Performing Arts Group: Voyager Reed Quintet

Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 5 pm

HVG Performing Arts Group presents:
Voyager Reed Quintet

Megan Wojtyla, oboe; Nikhil Bartolomeo, clarinet
Jarod Apple, saxophone; Miguel Posadas, bassoon
Timothy Hanley, bass clarinet

The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens
128 Pinehurst Ave at W. 183rd Street (Manhattan)

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

PROGRAM

George Gershwin: Three Preludes
Jean Sibelius: Impromptu, Op. 5
Dieterich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor
Marc Mellits: Splinter
Philip Glass: Piano Etude, No. 3
Andrew List: Harlequin’s Escapades
César Franck: Prelude, Fugue, and Variation
Leonard Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs

Hudson View Garden’s Performing Arts Group kicks off their fall season with a performance by the Voyager Reed Quintet on Sunday, September 29 at 5 pm at The Lounge.

Voyager performs works by Gershwin, Bernstein, Sibelius, Franck, Glass and more. The music is arranged for this particular group of instruments, a “reed quintet” – oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and saxophone – which has become a standard combination in the 21st century.

The ensemble is named for NASA’s Voyager spacecraft and is inspired by the “golden records” carried on that rocket and by the intersections of a wide variety of music.

Coming up on October 20, PAG presents violinist Rolf Schulte and pianist Joseph Liccardo performing sonatas by Mozart, Janáček, and Brahms. More fall concerts will be announced soon.