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HVG Centennial Concert Extravaganza!

For the final concert of PAG’s spring 2024 season, we’re celebrating the centennial of our beloved home, Hudson View Gardens. The program on Sunday, June 23 at 5 pm in The Lounge features classical and jazz selections from the 1920s, right around the time that HVG was built!

Nearly a dozen performers will take the stage at The Lounge for this special concert. The program features a special arrangement of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue played by HVG resident pianists Evelyne Luest, David Kalhaus and Sasha Papernick. Also: the world premiere of a composition by Andy Didorenko written especially for the occasion and a 1924 work by Gabriel Faure played by cellist Angela Lee. The extraordinary jazz musicians, HVG residents Andrea Wood (vocals) and Ethan O’Reilly (bass) perform Tea for Two, The Man I Love and other 1920s popular favorites.

A festive reception follows the concert.

PROGRAM

Andy Didorenko: Souvenir de Kálmán  (2024)  World Premiere
(based on the 1924 operetta Countess Maritza by Emmerich Kálmán)
Andy Didorenko, violin; Yuliya Basis, piano

Gabriel Fauré: Sicilienne for cello and piano, op. 78
Ernest Bloch: Prayer (From Jewish Life), for cello and piano
Angela Lee, cello; Evelyne Luest, piano 

Popular songs from the 1920s
 Sasha Papernik, vocals & piano; Andrea Wood, vocals; Ethan Oreilly, bass

George Gershwin (arr. Ian Jamison): Rhapsody in Blue for 8 hands, two pianos
David Kalhous, Huizi Zang, Sasha Papernik, Evelyne Luest, pianists

Hudson View Gardens: House of Time

Handel in Italy featuring Soprano Clara Rottsolk presented by House of Time, New York’s finest baroque ensemble.

November 22, 2024 at 7pm

The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens 
128 Pinehurst Ave. New York, NY 10033

Lauded by The New York Times for her “clear, appealing voice and expressive conviction,” soprano Clara Rottsolk joins New York’s finest Baroque ensemble, House of Time, for an evening of cantatas and trios by the incomparable George Friderick Handel and his Italian contemporaries Caldara and Porpora. During his time in Italy, Handel went from a promising young musician to Europe’s greatest composer, while leaving an indelible mark on Italian music.