A special Friday night concert with the award-winning harpist Rita Costanzi opens the HVG Performing Arts Group concert season on September 25 at 7:30 pm. Costanzi was Principal Harp of CBC Radio Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony and has performed throughout Europe and the Americas. In the intimate setting of The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, she’ll perform a program that includes works by Bach, Faure, Granados, Liszt and Debussy.
Rita Costanzi is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and two-time winner of the American Harp Society’s National Competition. She produced and performed an award-winning one-woman show based on her memoir “The Strings of My Heart.”
The season continues on October 25 with Swing a Song of Sondheim, a special co-presentation with Castle Village. Classical guitarist Mak Grgic, a Grammy nominee, comes to The Lounge on November 22, and an HVG favorite, Cassatt String Quartet, returns on December 13. HVG resident pianist Evelyne Luest and friends perform solo piano and chamber works on January 31. Details are below.
Concerts are open to the public; admission is $20 suggested donation ($15 for seniors/youth 8-18; under 8 free) at the door. The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens is at 128 Pinehurst Ave at West 183rd Street in Manhattan. The audience is invited to meet the performers at a post-performance wine reception.
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Thanksgiving Day, 9AM Start! Come join your neighbors for a fun-fill run/walk through beautiful Inwood Hill Park. All proceeds go to support the Inwood Food Pantry.
Do you think you make good chili? Then enter it into our 9th annual NYC Chili Bowl cookoff on Nov 9th from 12-2:30. This is an annual fun community fundraising event supporting the Cabrini Immigrant Services Food Pantry at the Church of the Good Shepherd (Saturday mornings from 7-9). Please see the attached flyer for more detail.
Artist Rose Deler will discuss her installation, “Píntame Angelitos Negros,” the 2024 selection for the Art on the Audubon Terrace in partnership with the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA). The conversation will be moderated by the Executive Director of NoMAA, Dr. Niria E. Leyva-Gutiérrez.
