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L-R Terrence Wilson, Pianist, photo by J. Henry Fair, and the Imani Winds, photo by Shervin Lainez, Arts Management Group
Chamber Music
Edward A Kliszus

Imani Winds with Terrence Wilson on Piano 

The Imani Winds with Terrence Wilson on Piano, appeared for their debut performance at the 92nd Street Y. The versatility of these world-class artists facilitated a wide variety of musical styles, from graceful, lyrical melodies to fast-paced, virtuosic passages. They celebrated their essential roles in creating radiant, coruscating sound structures of complexity and beauty.

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Jay Campbell, Cello and Conor Hanick, Piano at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Photo from 92NY.org
Chamber Music
Edward A Kliszus

Jay Campbell, Cello, and Conor Hanick, Piano

Jay Campbell, cello, and Conor Hanick, piano, performed at the prestigious 92nd Street Y in New York. With a large contingency in attendance, the duo opened with Claude Debussy’s Cello Sonata (1915). In the Debussy, the duo captured the work’s stunning display of the beauty and versatility of the cello. The Cello Sonata (1915) fits the impressionist period with its fluid, non-linear musical forms and harmonic language. With aplomb, Campbell aptly evoked the intended mood, atmosphere, and tonal structures. Hanick concurred musically as he played the magnificent concert grand piano with sublime facility.

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Blake Allen. Photo credit: Bryan Clavel
Chamber Music
Edward A Kliszus

Insomia

Blake Allen’s Insomnia is a cerebral, enigmatic, and mystifying artistic creation chronicling a night of an insomniac narrator. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Sleep and Waking” (1934), Allen mobilizes the power of music to dramatize and intensify the import of the conflicting tensions of the restive, lone sufferer.

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Paul Taylor Dance. Photo from Facebook
Chamber Music
Edward A Kliszus

Paul Taylor American Modern Dance

This superb venue in beautiful Neidorff-Karpati Hall at the Manhattan School of Music concluded a three-week festival featuring dance choreography set to the music of J. S. Bach performed by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, conducted by Donald York.

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Thomas Crawford and The American Classical Orchestra. Photo from aconyc.org
Chamber Music
Edward A Kliszus

American Classical Orchestra at Harlem Parish

Henry Purcell’s inventive Chaconne opened the program, performed with superb musicianship by the ACO’s performers, thereby setting the standard of sublime artistry to follow, beautifully filmed, recorded, and produced in the magnificent Harlem Parish setting. How delightful to hear, see and experience representative 17th-century works performed on period instruments. The imaginatively engaged listener propelled by their suspension of belief is anachronistically transported into a magical musical experience.

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