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Beyond NYC: Piano Music Concert Series at Union Arts Center in Sparkill, NY

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Beyond NYC: Piano Music Concert Series at Union Arts Center in Sparkill, NY

All-Russian program for two pianos by the world-class musicians at an elegant Arts Center in picturesque Sparkill, NY opens this year Concert Series on October 21, 2018 

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Oxana Mikhailoff, Vassily Primakov, Natalia Lavrova / Photo credit: Paul Royce

Vassily Primakov, Oxana Mikhailoff and Natalia Lavrova, acclaimed classical pianists and the regulars on the music scene in and around New York City, are teaming up to perform a delightful all-Russian music program for two pianos and six (6)!!!! hands featuring Two Suites by Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony “Pathetique” transcribed for two-pianos. This one-of-a-kind concert brings together Vassily Primakov, a passionate interpreter of Chopin, Oxana Mikhailoff, a poetic pianist as well as a sought-after music educator, and Natalia Lavrova, a pianist known for her sincerity in playing in solo recitals and concerts and a formidable art administrator.

The Opening Concert program on Sunday, October 21 starts with Reception at 3 pm followed by a concert at 3.30 pm and will conclude with Gala dinner at 6 pm. The seats are limited so reserve your tickets ahead of time here.

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Beyond NYC: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Beautiful Dutchess County, NY

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Beyond NYC: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Beautiful Dutchess County, NY

Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the collection at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College

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Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat, ca. 1657 / Image courtesy of Vassar Art Center

The picturesque campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY houses an inviting and intimate Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center which serves as an art education lab for students and faculty and an exhibition venue for the public. The center is holding insightful exposés from its collection rotating the focus from American Contemporary Art to Northern European Renaissance to Abstract Impressionism. A visit to the art center organically fits in with pensive nature walks and visits to the historic sites in Hudson Valley.

The Northern European Art 1500-1700 exhibition is celebrating the career of Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Vassar College Class of 1963 and Professor of Art who taught at Vassar for forty years. The exhibition will be on view from April 27 – September 2, 2018 and the admission to the art center is free of charge.

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Beyond NY: Caramoor Summer Season Finale with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Susan Graham

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Beyond NY: Caramoor Summer Season Finale with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Susan Graham

Baroque selections at 2018 Caramoor Summer Season Finale in Katonah, NY with Susan Graham, Orchestra of St. Lukes, and Nicolas McGegan on Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 4 pm

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Susan Graham; photo credit ©Dario Acosta / Image courtesy of Caramoor

This year the Summer Season program at Caramoor in Katonah, NY features a splendid roster of distinguished artists. Each week the Center brings about a delicious musical experience with classical and modern compositions and artistic approaches masterfully complementing each other. For the season Finale, Caramoor is presenting American treasure mezzo Susan Graham and Orchestra of St. Luke’s with  Nicolas McGegan conducting.

Graham, hailed by the Playbill as “powerhouse mezzo” who “dazzled the Metropolitan Opera audiences with performances” of a wide range of repertoire, will be singing selections from Handel’s Ariodante and Alicia in the first part of the program. It will be followed by Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito. For tickets click here.

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Beyond NY: Opera Demon at Bard SummerScape

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Beyond NY: Opera Demon at Bard SummerScape

Rarely performed in the US opera by Anton Rubinstein is part of the SummerScape 2018 program on July 27 – August 5 at Bard College

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Bard SummerScape presents Anton Rubinstein’s Demon / Photo by Maria Baranova

Bard SummerScape is well known for its daring and adventurous streak offering to its audiences a delicious yet rarely performed music. Last year the program included A. Dvorak’s Dimitrij. This year it presents Anton Rubinstein’s opera Demon. Rubinstein’s work will complement the rest of the SummerScape program lineup celebrating the music of the The Mighty Five, the Russian composers of the late 19th century whose ambition was to write compositions rooted in Russian folk songs and traditional tonalities. The resulting trove of music literature enriched the sound palette and expanded the music language.

As for The Demon, with an all-Russian cast directed by Thaddeus Strassberger and accompanied by the American Symphony Orchestra with Mr. Botstein, current president of Bard College, conducting the opera will surely delight and amuse by its vibrant music and opulent choral arrangements. The performance are taking place at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

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