Chamber Orchestra of New York Performs 'Cuckoo! For the Birds' Concert at Weill Recital Hall Tonight

Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio, Music Director, will present Cuckoo! For the Birds, a concert tonight, May 14 - 7:30 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.

CONY will perform Frederick Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending and Respighi's The Birds. Soloist will be violinist Jennifer Pike. Visit her at http://www.jenniferpike.com/.

Tickets are $35 and $25 general admission and can be purchased online at http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/5/14/0730/PM/Chamber-Orchestra-of-New-York/, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie box office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue.

Chamber Orchestra of New York was founded in honor of Ottorino Respighi - the preeminent early twentieth century Italian composer whose compositions bridge the classical and modern traditions. The orchestra's programming presents great works of the 20th and 21st centuries, including film scores and rarely performed gems, alongside ancient music. For more about them, visit http://www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/.

A native of Italy, Salvatore Di Vittorio has achieved international recognition as a composer and conductor, hailed by Luigi Verdi of the prestigious Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, as a "lyrical musical spirit, respectful of the ancient Italian tradition...and an emerging leading interpreter of the music of Ottorino Respighi." He gained considerable attention with his orchestration and completion of Ottorino Respighi's rediscovered first Violin Concerto (in A Major), a commission he received from Respighi's family descendants and archive curator. Much more about him at http://www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/music_director.html.