During Native American Heritage Month, explore the past and present experience of Native Americans. Enjoy the soothing sounds of Native American flute music inside the Inwood Hill Nature Center, featuring the traditional Native American flute and modern multichambered flutes carved from various woods.
Location : West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park
Join flute and percussion ensemble Coriolis Duo for a musical exploration of the connections between art, nature, and technology. Hear Ted Babcock’s new work, Daisy Chain, and then make some botanical-inspired art of your own.
Composers often find inspiration from other music, drawing from history, tradition, and artistic lineage. The Music That Inspires Us begins with Reena Esmail’s Avartan, a transcendent fusion of Indian and Western classical traditions. Next on the program is Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte for string orchestra. Written in 2011, the piece was inspired by a moment in a Haydn string quartet where the music suddenly shifts in tone and texture. Shaw describes Entr’acte as “taking you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass,” a kind of musical portal that begins in a classical idiom and gradually distorts it. We will conclude the program with Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite. Taken from his ballet on the Italian commedia dell’arte character, the Pulcinella Suite is a witty and colorful homage to 18th-century Italian Baroque music filtered through Stravinsky’s modernist lens.
This concert will be approximately 1hr, no intermission. Reception to follow.
Bring the whole family to our “Meet the Instruments” petting zoo where even our youngest listeners can get up close and personal with their favorite instruments before seeing them come alive onstage. Then find your seats for our enchanting and engaging Family concert! Narrator Sarah Ziegler will guide you through musical selections from our MainStage concert “The Music that Inspires Us.”
Best for children age 1-10 and their families.
*All attendees must purchase a ticket. Infants under the age of 1 receive complimentary admission.
RenChorNY presents
The Personal and Pious OCKEGHEM – Vray tresorier de musique
Jean de Ockeghem’s secular elegant
and earthy chansons are sung by
small ensembles, and his memoriam to
Gilles Binchois: “Mort tu as navré de ton
dart,” and Josquin des Prez’s déploration
for Ockeghem: “Nymphes des bois” by all.
