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Concerts in the Village, PO Box 114, Kinderhook, NY (2024)

12/17/2024

A tradition continues! Lessons & Carols will be this coming Sunday, December 22 at 4:00pm at Kinderhook Reformed Church (21 Church Street, Kinderhook). Readers from the community and a chorus including many members of the Broad Street Chorale will provide the readings and music, with traditional carols to be sung by all. We hope to see you there!

12/03/2024

Coming this Saturday! Concerts in the Village continues its 15th season with a special concert of piano music for four hands on Saturday December 7 at 3:00pm at Van Buren Hall in Kinderhook!

11/18/2024

A special treat is coming Saturday, December 7 at 3:00pm in Van Buren Hall! CITV will present "Four Hands at One Piano" featuring pianists Gili Melamed-Lev and Manon Hutton-DeWys. Works of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and others will envelope you in the special sound of the four-hand literature. Come join us and kick off your holiday season with music! $25 suggested contribution, students and children free.

11/09/2024

This Sunday afternoon seventy musicians continue CITV’s 15th Anniversary celebration with two inspired, but not often performed works of musical genius – Mozart and Mendelssohn. We hope you will be with us.

And to pique your interest further, there is this recently broadcast interview of CITV’s Artistic Director and Conductor David Smith
by WMHT’s Rob Brown: https://www.classicalwmht.org/concert-preview/2024-11-06/concerts-in-the-village

11/06/2024

This coming Sunday, November 10, we hope you will be able to join us for the music of Mendelssohn and Mozart. 3:00pm at Kinderhook Reformed Church.

10/29/2024

15TH CITV SEASON CONTINUES ON NOVEMBER 10TH WITH FIRST AREA PERFORMANCES OF MOZART AND MENDELSSOHN WORKS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 28, 2024
CONTACT: David Smith at 518-944-6847 or [email protected]

Continuing its 15th Anniversary Season on Sunday, November 10th, Concerts in the Village offers first area performances of significant works by two major composers: Mozart’s cantata Davide penitente and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1 in C Minor. Performing will be CITV’s resident ensembles, the Broad Street Orchestra and Broad Street Chorale, joined by soloists Robin Steitz, Paulina Swierczek and Jun Yang. Artistic Director David Smith will conduct.

Mozart’s colorful Davide penitente, K. 469 of 1785 is unique among his 600-plus works in that eight of its ten movements derive from the composer’s earlier Great Mass in C minor, but with an entirely different Psalm-related text in Italian. Two brilliantly operatic arias for soprano and tenor were written specifically for this cantata. Throughout Davide penitente the solo and choral writing is memorably virtuosic, immediately engaging the listener with dramatic extremes. This performance is believed to be a first in upstate New York.

Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1, Op. 11 was written in 1824, barely a month after the famously precocious composer’s 15th birthday. Dedicated to his beloved and very musical sister F***y, it is by far the least known of Mendelssohn’s five symphonies. Although creatively imaginative and immediately recognizable as by no one else, the work’s energetic, often impetuous writing does recall Mozart and Beethoven, including the latter’s own C Minor Symphony, the very well-known Symphony No. 5. Mendelssohn’s other four symphonies are frequently performed, especially Nos. 3 and 4. However, opportunities to hear his first symphony are rare. As in the case of the afternoon’s Mozart cantata, this performance is believed to be a first in upstate New York.

Two of the concert’s three Mozart soloists, sopranos Robin Steitz and Paulina Swierczek, have been honored as Tanglewood Vocal Fellows and previously featured in CITV concerts, Ms. Steitz in Bach’s solo Cantata 51 and Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and Ms. Swierczek in Mozart’s Requiem and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater.

For this concert, CITV welcomes Korean-American Tenor Jun Yang in his debut appearance. Originally from New York City and praised for his “mesmerizing liquid voice,” Mr. Yang is a recent graduate of Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

Suggested contribution $ 25, with students and children free. Handicapped accessible.

Kinderhook Reformed Church: 21 Broad Street (US Route 9), Kinderhook NY 12106.

For further information visit www.concertsinthevillage.org and follow CITV on Facebook.

10/18/2024

TOMORROW (SATURDAY) IS THE DAY! On Saturday, October 19th at 3:00pm in Van Buren Hall, Kinderhook, award-winning American mezzo-soprano Katherine Lerner Lee returns for what will be a stunning opening of CITV’s 15th season and its 57th concert. Her previous appearances in Kinderhook have been memorable, including the Requiem of Gabriel Fauré and as Eve in The Creation of Joseph Haydn. Lerner Lee will be joined by pianist Sophia Zhou, one of the most in-demand collaborative pianists in New York City, who will be having her CITV debut.

A graduate of Oberlin College and Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and a 2021-2022 winner of Bard’s prestigious Concerto Competition, Lerner Lee has also been a winner in the Altamura/
Caruso International Voice Competition in Siena, Italy. Her emerging career has taken her throughout the United States for performances in recital and orchestra programs, and in opera.
She has taken part in many festival programs, and is a two-time alumna of both SongFest LA and The Music Academy of the West. In 2019 she made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in
Stravinsky's Les Noces.

As one of the most dynamic and versatile young musicians of her generation, pianist Sophia Zhou has performed extensively as both soloist and chamber musician, including concerts in New York City, Washington D.C., Amsterdam, Sevilla, Shanghai, and elsewhere. She has collaborated with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, as well as faculty members of the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music.

CITV’s Artistic Director David Smith comments, “How exciting it is to welcome these remarkable artists for the opening of our 15th Season! Ms. Lerner Lee has developed many admiring listeners among CITV followers. I am confident that the carefully curated offerings of Debussy, Falla, Korngold, Schoenberg and others will be found especially appealing. Hers is a voice of special beauty and sensitivity to text, always combined with impressive stage presence and confidence.”

This concert is made possible by CITV’s Emerging Singer Fund.

For additional information about these artists, please visit https://www.katherinelernerlee.com/
and https://www.sophiazhoupiano.com/

Suggested contribution $ 25, with students and children free.

Van Buren Hall: 6 Chatham Street (US Route 9), Kinderhook NY 12106. Lift available.

For further information visit www.concertsinthevillage.org and follow CITV on Facebook.

10/14/2024

On Saturday, October 19th at 3:00pm in Van Buren Hall, Kinderhook, award-winning American mezzo-soprano Katherine Lerner Lee returns for what will be a stunning opening of CITV’s 15th season and its 57th concert. Her previous appearances in Kinderhook have been memorable,including the Requiem of Gabriel Fauré and as Eve in The Creation of Joseph Haydn. Lerner Lee will be joined by pianist Sophia Zhou, one of the most in-demand collaborative pianists in New York City, who will be having her CITV debut.

A graduate of Oberlin College and Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and a 2021-2022 winner of Bard’s prestigious Concerto Competition, Lerner Lee has also been a winner in the Altamura/
Caruso International Voice Competition in Siena, Italy. Her emerging career has taken her throughout the United States for performances in recital and orchestra programs, and in opera.
She has taken part in many festival programs, and is a two-time alumna of both SongFest LA and The Music Academy of the West. In 2019 she made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in
Stravinsky's Les Noces.

As one of the most dynamic and versatile young musicians of her generation, pianist Sophia Zhou has performed extensively as both soloist and chamber musician, including concerts in New York City, Washington D.C., Amsterdam, Sevilla, Shanghai, and elsewhere. She has collaborated with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, as well as faculty members of the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School
of Music.

CITV’s Artistic Director David Smith comments, “How exciting it is to welcome these remarkable artists for the opening of our 15th Season! Ms. Lerner Lee has developed many admiring listeners among CITV followers. I am confident that the carefully curated offerings of Debussy, Falla, Korngold, Schoenberg and others will be found especially appealing. Hers is a voice of special beauty and sensitivity to text, always combined with impressive stage presence and confidence.”

This concert is made possible by CITV’s Emerging Singer Fund.

For additional information about these artists, please visit https://www.katherinelernerlee.com/
and https://www.sophiazhoupiano.com/

Suggested contribution $ 25, with students and children free.

Van Buren Hall: 6 Chatham Street (US Route 9), Kinderhook NY 12106. Lift available.

For further information visit www.concertsinthevillage.org and follow CITV on Facebook.

10/08/2024

Concerts in the Village: A Stunning Opening to the 15th Season

On October 19th at 3:00pm in Van Buren Hall, Kinderhook, award-winning American mezzo-soprano Katherine Lerner Lee returns for what will be
a stunning opening to CITV’s 15th season. Katherine will be joined by pianist Sophia Zhou, one of the most in-demand collaborative pianists in New
York City. Katherine’s previous appearances with us are memorable, including CITV’s performances in the Requiem of Gabriel Fauré and as Eve in
The Creation of Joseph Haydn. For additional information about these outstanding artists, please visit https://www.katherinelernerlee.com/ and
https://www.sophiazhoupiano.com/

I hope you will join us for this very special program!

David Smith, Artistic Director
Concerts in the Village
www.concertsinthevillage.org

10/07/2024

With its 57th program this October, Concerts in the Village (CITV) will begin its 15th Anniversary Season 2024-2025. Drawing classical music lovers from throughout the region, including the Capital District, Mid and Upper Hudson Valley, and the Berkshires, CITV is comprised of the all-professional Broad Street Orchestra, the Broad Street Chorale, the Broad Street Chamber Players and guest soloists. The majority of its performers are regionally-based.

CITV’s past programs have included over 225 significant works from the recital, chamber, choral, orchestral, and operatic repertoire. Programming highlights have included Beethoven’s Fidelio, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, J.C. Bach’s Endimione; the Mass in B Minor, cantatas and motets of J.S. Bach; Requiems of Mozart, Cherubini, Brahms and Fauré; masses of Haydn and Beethoven; symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bizet and Farrenc; Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Serenade to Music; oratorios and other major works of Handel, Haydn, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Honegger, Poulenc and Milhaud; concerti of J.S. Bach, Handel, C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Copland and Piston; song cycles of Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Ravel; Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale; chamber instrumental and vocal works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Hummel, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Farrenc, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Poulenc, Bridge, Britten . . . and much more.

Artistic Director David Smith summarizes the past 56 concerts by calling attention to both the rich variety of CITV’s programming and the quality of its performances. “We have been fortunate in being able to draw on a remarkable body of musical talent and experience, and in doing so created many special opportunities for both performers and listeners in our area. Of course none of this would have been possible without the consistent support of many individuals, as well as private and public grantors, for which CITV is very grateful. In sum, available talent, engaged listeners and generous support have proven our essential ingredients, enabling us to contribute importantly to the cultural life of the region, while also ensuring broad accessibility to our concerts.”

The anniversary season about to begin will include 3 concerts in 2024 and 5 concerts in the first half of 2025. On Saturday, October 19th at 3:00pm in Van Buren Hall, award-winning mezzo-soprano Katherine Lerner Lee and pianist Sophia Zhou offer works of Debussy, Korngold, Schoenberg, Falla and others. On Sunday, November 10th at 3:00pm in Kinderhook Reformed Church, the Broad Street Orchestra and Chorus are joined by sopranos Robin Steitz and Paulina Swierczek, and tenor Maximillian Jansen for the first area performances of Mozart’s Davide Penitente and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1. On Saturday, December 7th at 3:00pm in Van Buren Hall, Gili Melamed-Lev and Manon Hutton-DeWys offer works for piano four-hands. Details soon available at www.concertsinthevillage.org

The five CITV concerts scheduled for 2025 will be announced this December.

05/20/2024

CONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE: VIOLIST RONALD CARBONE – CELEBRATING AN ARTIST AND HIS INSTRUMENT!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2024

On Saturday May 25th in Van Buren Hall, CITV celebrates the artistry of distinguished violist Ronald Carbone, joined by mezzo-soprano Hailey McAvoy and pianist Thomas Weaver. Their program includes music of Brahms, Bridge, Amram, Honegger and Juon, and concludes CITV’s 14th Season.

Ronald Carbone, a regular member of CITV’s Broad Street Orchestra and Broad Street Chamber Players, has had a distinguished career as a chamber music, orchestral and solo performer in both the United States and Europe. He has been Principal Violist of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, an Associate Member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.

Carbone has performed regularly with the New York Philharmonic, been violist of the Composers String Quartet and the Grammy-nominated New York Piano Quartet, and a frequent guest with Spectrum Concerts in Berlin, Germany. In New York City he has been a highly regarded teacher and recording artist, and in Columbia County the founding music director of the Canaan Chamber Music Festival.

Having performed works of Chausson, Respighi, Haydn, Szymanowski and others with the Broad Street Orchestra and Broad Street Chamber Players, mezzo-soprano Hailey McAvoy is well-known to CITV audiences. Throughout the United States she has inspired listeners with the warmth and richness of her voice and her consummate musicianship. McAvoy is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

Thomas Weaver is an American pianist, composer and conductor currently on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. An active soloist and chamber musician, Weaver has been presented by many organizations, including Carnegie Hall, the La Jolla Music Society, Princeton University Concerts, and the New York Chamber Music Festival. His performances in the United States have taken him to many cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Diego, Washington DC, Nashville and Dallas, in addition to the Tanglewood Music Festival.

CITV Artistic Director David Smith comments, “How special it is to share the exceptional artistry of Ron Carbone, for many years a devoted member and essential contributor to the talented family of CITV musicians. This concert seems to me long overdue. And as a part-time resident of Columbia County, Ron is truly delighted to be offering this appealing and exciting program right here in Kinderhook.”

Suggested contribution $ 25, with students and children free.

Van Buren Hall: 6 Chatham Street (US Route 9), Kinderhook NY 12106. Lift available.

For further information visit www.concertsinthevillage.org and follow CITV on Facebook.

05/17/2024

CONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE: VIOLIST RONALD CARBONE – CELEBRATING AN ARTIST AND HIS INSTRUMENT!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2024

On Saturday May 25th in Van Buren Hall, CITV celebrates the artistry of distinguished violist Ronald Carbone, joined by mezzo-soprano Hailey McAvoy and pianist Thomas Weaver. Their program includes music of Brahms, Bridge, Amram, Honegger and Juon, and concludes CITV’s 14th Season.

Ronald Carbone, a regular member of CITV’s Broad Street Orchestra and Broad Street Chamber Players, has had a distinguished career as a chamber music, orchestral and solo performer in both the United States and Europe. He has been Principal Violist of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, an Associate Member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.

Carbone has performed regularly with the New York Philharmonic, been violist of the Composers String Quartet and the Grammy-nominated New York Piano Quartet, and a frequent guest with Spectrum Concerts in Berlin, Germany. In New York City he has been a highly regarded teacher and recording artist, and in Columbia County the founding music director of the Canaan Chamber Music Festival.

Having performed works of Chausson, Respighi, Haydn, Szymanowski and others with the Broad Street Orchestra and Broad Street Chamber Players, mezzo-soprano Hailey McAvoy is well-known to CITV audiences. Throughout the United States she has inspired listeners with the warmth and richness of her voice and her consummate musicianship. McAvoy is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

Thomas Weaver is an American pianist, composer and conductor currently on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. An active soloist and chamber musician, Weaver has been presented by many organizations, including Carnegie Hall, the La Jolla Music Society, Princeton University Concerts, and the New York Chamber Music Festival. His performances in the United States have taken him to many cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Diego, Washington DC, Nashville and Dallas, in addition to the Tanglewood Music Festival.

CITV Artistic Director David Smith comments, “How special it is to share the exceptional artistry of Ron Carbone, for many years a devoted member and essential contributor to the talented family of CITV musicians. This concert seems to me long overdue. And as a part-time resident of Columbia County, Ron is truly delighted to be offering this appealing and exciting program right here in Kinderhook.”

Suggested contribution $ 25, with students and children free.

Van Buren Hall: 6 Chatham Street (US Route 9), Kinderhook NY 12106. Lift available.

For further information visit www.concertsinthevillage.org and follow CITV on Facebook.

05/06/2024

Save the date! Saturday, May 25, 3:00pm at Van Buren Hall in Kinderhook. Violist Ron Carbone is joined by mezzo-soprano Hailey MacAvoy and pianist Thomas Weaver in a special program of music of Brahms, Bridge and others. $25 suggested contribution, children & students free.

04/12/2024

COLOR-TEXTURE-MYSTERY: On April 21st Concerts in the Village (CITV) continues its 14th season with Color-Texture-Mystery: Works of Bizet, Ravel, Debussy, Scriabin and Szymanowski. CITV’s Broad Street Orchestra and Broad Street Chorale will be joined by three outstanding soloists. Of the works being performed three are believed to be first performances in the Capital Region. Artistic Director David Smith will conduct.

Bizet began composition of his sparkling Symphony in C in 1855 — a mere four days after his 17th birthday! A month later the entire four-movement work was complete. Possibly a student work, it was not performed during the composer’s lifetime, and remained virtually unknown until rediscovered in 1933 in the archives of the Paris Conservatory. Except for the symphony’s beautifully inventive second movement with its now-famous and very sensuous solo for oboe, this classically-structured work crackles with spirited writing for every section of the orchestra.

Equally French, if in an entirely different early 20th c. impressionist style, is Ravel’s sparkling Le Tombeau de Couperin, a four-movement celebration of the harpsichord suites of the 18th century. Dance-like and originally a six-movement work for piano, in 1919 Le Tombeau de Couperin was “re-conceived” for orchestra. Here is found the brilliant inventiveness evident in so many of Ravel’s works, most famously of course in Bolero.

Debussy’s stately Sarabande, also originally written for piano, is among the composer’s best-known works. It is believed that at some point Debussy intended to orchestrate this gorgeous work himself. In any event, with permission from the composer’s widow, Ravel did so in 1922.

Although certainly not French by birth, Scriabin and Szymanowski were nonetheless greatly influenced by French impressionism. Scriabin’s brief Rêverie is one of his early works, richly textured and a very appealing, if seldom programmed, example of the orchestral color for which he was to become known.

Karol Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater for chorus, three soloists and orchestra was written in 1925-26. It is a work of remarkable intensity and focus, a mystical wrapping of eastern European medieval-style melody in a blanket of French impressionist harmony and orchestration. For the listener this Stabat Mater occupies a special and not easily forgotten “space.” Featured will be the Broad Street Chorale, soprano Paulina Swierczek, mezzo-soprano Hailey McAvoy and baritone Jonathan Lawlor. All three soloists are graduates of Bard’s Vocal Arts Program and have been enthusiastically received in previous CITV concerts. Paulina Swierczek and Jonathan Lawlor have also been Vocal Fellows at Tanglewood. Hailey McAvoy is a frequent recitalist; among many appearances, she has been soloist with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra.

CITV’s Artistic Director and Conductor David Smith remarks, “For both listeners and performers this program will prove a very special journey, one embracing influences from eastern and western Europe. We will celebrate French classicism with the very precocious Bizet, French impressionism (with a nod to 18th-century baroque dance) with Debussy and Ravel, and the mystical wonders of eastern Europe with Scriabin and Szymanowski. I am confident that all present will be moved.”

04/01/2024

Happy April Fool's Day! But it is no April Fool that Concerts in the Village will be back on Sunday April 21, at 3:00pm at Kinderhook Reformed Church for a very special afternoon of music. Save the date! Further concerts for the spring season will be announced soon.

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