The Big Bang
Rameau’s Zais and Handel’s Fireworks
The daring, impressionistic overture of Zaïs depicts the creation of the world, proceeding from chaos to order, while the dances that follow present the kaleidoscopic world of 18th century ballet music through the lens of Rameau’s colorful wit. Then sparks fly as House of Time takes you to Baroque London with its version of Handel’s Fireworks Music. Handel’s paean to peace is transformed into exciting and elegant chamber music in Gonzalo X. Ruiz’s arrangement.
November 9th at The Lounge at 7:30pm
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The talented Michele Garzo returns to the Shrine for another outstanding performance. On Sunday, November 5 he will play music of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Scarlatti, Chopin and more! Admission is by donation
Family-Friendly! All ages welcome.
Concert will be approximately 1 hr, no intermission.
Fort Washington Collegiate Church
729 W. 181st St
Washington Heights, NYC, 10033
Saturday, November 4, 3:00pm
On Saturday, November 4th at 3:00 pm, we return to our home at Fort Washington Collegiate Church for our official season opening concert, “Visions | Visiones.”
Join us for incredible music by Iván Enrique Rodríguez, Jessica Meyer, Jean Françaix, and Ottorino Respighi.
“Meet the Instruments” event from 2:15-2:45pm
Pictured: A young WHCO audience member “meets” the timpani with WHCO musician, Stella Perlic.
Sunday, October 29 at 5 pm
HVG Performing Arts Group presents:
Miranda Cuckson, violin and Blair McMillen, piano
Two of the top recitalists in town, violinist Miranda Cuckson and pianist Blair McMillen have performed and recorded together for over a decade. They’ll play music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Janáček and Ross Lee Finney at The Lounge at HVG on Sunday October 29 at 5 pm. The program expresses each of these composers’ responses to war and wartime.
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)
Two of the top recitalists in town, violinist Miranda Cuckson and pianist Blair McMillen have performed and recorded together for over a decade. They’ll play music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Janáček and Ross Lee Finney at The Lounge at HVG on Sunday October 29 at 5 pm.
The program expresses these composers’ response to war and wartime, including two very different and personal reactions in the aftermath of World War II: Sergei Prokofiev’s haunting Violin Sonata No. 1 is juxtaposed with Ross Lee Finney’s tender suite of folk tunes, “Fiddle-Doodle-Ad”. Also on the program, Beethoven’s sunny and rambunctious Violin Sonata No. 8, published just before Napoleon brazenly declared himself Austrian Emperor; and Leoš Janáček’s optimistic 1914 Violin Sonata, infused with Moravian folk music.
About the Artists
Violinist Miranda Cuckson and pianist Blair McMillen’s musical partnership spans well over a decade. As a duo, they have played many recitals of music both old and new, and they have given numerous world-premiere performances. A 2016 ECM release of music by Béla Bartók, Witold Lutoslawski, and Alfred Schnittke, was highly critically-acclaimed. Cuckson and McMillen have also recorded recent violin-piano music by Michael Hersch, Jason Eckardt, Donald Martino, Ralph Shapey, and Harold Meltzer. They are each active performers and pedagogues, and both are on faculty at Mannes School of Music at the New School.
