Longtime PAG favorite The Cassatt String Quartet returns to The Lounge on Sunday, November 19 at 5 pm with three alluring quartets spanning three centuries. Beethoven’s early quartet in F major shares the program with Fanny Mendelssohn’s masterpiece, and “Blue and Green Music” by Victoria Bond is inspired by the Georgia O’Keefe painting of the same name.
Admission is $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.
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)
Bloom Readings, along with the Castle Village Events Committee, is co-sponsoring one big event at the HVG Lounge on Sunday, September 24th, at 6:00 PM
Joyce Carol Oates will be reading from her new collection, “Zero-Sum”.
Ms. Oates, author of 160 books, including novels, short-story collections, mysteries and books of poetry, obviously needs no introduction The evening will also include an interview and a question & answers period.
Also, her newest book will be available for purchase and signing on-site courtesy of our neighborhood bookstore, WordUp Community Bookshop at 165th and Amsterdam.
The event is sponsored by HVG Community Activities Committee.
Suggested donation: $10. Save the Date!
