Tag Archives: Live Music

Hispanic Society Museum & Library: Take Flight

Take Flight

Sunday, March 16th, 2025 | 4 to 6pm

Skylark takes to the skies exploring music inspired by the wonder of flight. The centerpiece is Benedict Sheehan’s new commission Songbird Antiphons, featuring poetry by Charles Anthony Silvestri and Talia Sheehan, which celebrates American songbirds while highlighting threats to their habitats. The program features Eric Whitacre’s thrilling Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine alongside works by Caroline Shaw, Abbie Betinis, Ravel, Vaughan Williams, and Stanford.

James Zollar and the Zollar Systems

Powerhouse trumpeter James Zollar, a performer with the Duke Ellington and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras, as well as the Count Basie Band, takes center stage with his electrifying group, Zollar Systems. Delivering a blend of groove-infused rhythms and straight-ahead bebop, the band brings Zollar’s three critically acclaimed albums to life. Prepare for an unforgettable night of high-energy jazz that will move your soul!

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”