BUDOS BAND to BRING ‘70S RETRO-FUNK to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Staten Island-based retro-funk outfit the Budos Band lays down its classic, horn-inflected grooves at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, April 11, at 9pm. The group’s self-styled “Staten Island instrumental Afro-soul” reminds listeners of the classic 1970s funk of Isaac Hayes and Average White Band, with forays into Henry Mancini, Black Sabbath and hip-hop territory.
ASO Music Director Leon Botstein
AMERICAN SYMPHONY to PERFORM WORKS by STRAUSS, CONUS, and BRAHMS at BARD
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) under the direction of Leon Botstein, music director, will perform works by Johann Strauss Jr., Julius Conus, and Johannes Brahms at the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday, April 11, 2014, and Saturday, April 12, at 8 p.m. The program includes Johann Strauss Jr.’s Emperor Waltz, Accelerations, and On the Beautiful Blue Danube; Julius Conus’s Violin Concerto, featuring Zhi Ma ’15, violin; and Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 2.
TOUGH DAY TUBING BRINGS MUSICAL EXPERIMENTS to SPOTTY DOG
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Tough Day Tubing, a collaboration among avant-garde music legends Al Margolis (if, Bwana), Crank Sturgeon, Walter Wright, and Steve Norton, will perform an evening of improvised music at the Spotty Dog on Friday, April 11, 2014, at 8pm.
Wheelock Whitney
WHEELOCK WHITNEY to PERFORM RECITAL of EARLY 20TH CENTURY ROMANTIC LOVE SONGS at OPERA HOUSE
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Les chemins de l’amour, a program of romantic love songs featuring works in French, Italian, German and English, will be performed by Wheelock Whitney, baritone, accompanied by Edward Cremo on piano at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, April 12, 2014, at 7pm. Les chemins de l’amour takes its title from the valse chantee of that name written in 1940 by Francis Poulenc for the celebrated actress and singer Yvonne Printemps. In addition to Poulenc, the program includes songs by composers including Erik Satie, Reynaldo Hahn, Marc Blitzstein and Noel Coward; also, the little-known Joseph Kosma, whose settings of the poems of Jacques Prevert are full of charm and surprises.
Broken Machine by Daniel Derwilis
NEW GALLERY EXHIBIT EXAMINES CREATIVE PROCESS
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – New gallery Concepto Hudson (741 Warren St.) takes a bow with its inaugural exhibition, Meditation, which introduces six gallery artists – Malin Abrahamsson, Daniel Derwelis, Juan Hinojosa, Kiyoshi Ike, Dallas Owens and Zach Seeger. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, April 12, 2014, from 5 to 7pm, for the exhibition, which runs through June 1, 2014.