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North/South Consonance celebrates Earth Day with a special concert featuring music by composers from the Americas.
The event will take place on Sunday afternoon April 22 at the intimate and acoustically superior auditorium of Christ & St Stephen's Church (
120 West 69th Street) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The free-admission event will start at 3 PM and end around 4:30 PM. The auditorium is ADA accessible. No tickets or reservations needed.
Flutist Lisa Hansen, violinist
Francisco Salazar and pianist
Max Lifchitz will perform solo and chamber works by American composers Harold Fortuin,
Max Lifchitz, Raoul Pleskow and Harold Schiffman; Canadian Michelle Green-Willner; and Venezuelans Mirtru Escalona-Mijares and Icli Zitella. The works performed will be heard in New York City for the first time.
Listen to
Max Lifchitz performing Schiffman's Fourth Piano Sonata click on
https://youtu.be/2otBTPgv_38
To hear Lisa Hansen perform Schiffman's Flute Concertino go to
https://youtu.be/2l0lGKJf3hU
Since its inception in 1980, the North/South Consonance, Inc. has brought to the attention of the New York City public over 1,000 works by composers hailing from the Americas and elsewhere representing a wide spectrum of aesthetic views. In addition to presenting a yearly concert series in New York City the North/South Chamber Orchestra maintains an active recording schedule.
