Come Early to the July 5 House Blend Opening Night for a Pre-Concert with Cellist Matt Haimovitz at 6:30 pm
A champagne reception and bring-your-own picnic hosted by PS21 in our lovely orchards will come before and after the pre-concert.
Prodigious musician Matt Haimovitz will perform a 30-minute show at 6:30 pm before the full “House Blend” Concert at 8 pm. The pieces, commissioned by The Primavera Project, are all New York State premiers, and Vijay Iyer’s “Equal night” is a world premiere.
The program includes:
Lisa Bielawa: “Missa Primavera”
Juri Seo: “Two Rhapsodies of Spring”
inti figgis-vizueta: “the motion between three worlds”
David T. Little: “The Crocus Palimpsest”
Vijay Iyer: “Equal night”
Don’t forget – bring your own picnic and join in the champagne toast hosted by PS21!
House Blend Concert I: July 5
Ralph Shapey: Evocation No. 1 for Violin, with Percussion and Piano (3rd Movement)
Billy Jim Layton: Five Studies for Violin and Piano
Franco Donatoni: Mari
David Sanford: 22 Part 1 for Cello and Piano
Giya Kancheli: Nach dem Weinen (Having Wept)
With Miranda Cuckson, Matt Haimovitz, Geoffrey Burleson, and Matthew Gold
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