Community Calendar

Making her series debut, this Silver Medalist at the 12th Van Cliburn Competition has performed with most every orchestra in the country. This season, she appears in recital at Boston’s Celebrity Series, Seattle’s Meany Hall, and other major venues.

Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 119
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Janáček: Andante from In the Mists
Scriabin: Trois morceaux, Op. 45
Gershwin: Songbook for Piano

This Parisian quartet is among one of the best in the world and is always a “circle-the-date” concert on the series. The Ébène shows off its scintillating technique, lush sound, and awe-inspiring togetherness in masterworks of the literature.

Mozart: D-minor Quartet, K. 421
Debussy: Quartet, Op. 10
Brahms: A-minor Quartet, Op. 51, No. 2

The revered British singer has had a long, respected career as an art song specialist, but it was his performance at King Charles III’s coronation that brought him worldwide fame. Closing our season, he performs Schubert’s seminal song cycle about love and despair.

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795

This unique and entertaining music and multimedia event chronicles the extraordinary career of Simon & Garfunkel. The music speaks for itself, performed by Aztec Two-Step 2.0 (anchored by Rex Fowler, co-founder of the renowned folk-rock duo Aztec Two-Step, and his wife, Dodie Pettit, an original cast member of Broadway’s The Phantom of The Opera). The show’s storyline was originally created by Pete Fornatale, the late great pioneer of progressive FM radio and author of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends biography. Now telling the stories, emceeing and directing the engaging and amusing multimedia show is Fornatale’s dear friend and protégé, Tony Traguardo, WCWP-FM radio host, noted rock music historian, podcaster and founding board member of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Nostalgia and laughter abound, and a sing along is always in the mix!

Clarion Concerts and the exciting young Verona Quartet bring string quartets of Mendelssohn, Bacewicz and Beethoven to the Hudson Valley! Among the most distinguished ensembles on the chamber music scene today, the award-winning Verona Quartet's adventurous new recording, Shatter, entered the Billboard Classical music chart at #1. Their program combines a much-beloved early quartet by Mendelssohn with a work by the under-appreciated Polish woman composer Grażyna Bacewicz and the first of Beethoven's Razumovsky quartets. Treat yourself to a luscious end-of-summer evening of beautiful chamber music!