A highly selective preview of cultural events taking place this weekend in the greater Hudson, N.Y., region, including an all-star acoustic music holiday concert; an interactive new-music holiday parade; a chamber music concert, and a whole lot more.
Darol Anger
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Violinist and acoustic music legend Darol Anger brings his annual holiday-music program – this year featuring banjo genius Tony Trischka and singer-songwriter Emy Phelps – to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, December 4, at 8pm. The concert will feature an all-star cast of string musicians in a multigenerational musical experience focusing on the spirit of mid-winter and the turning of the year.
Phil Kline’s ‘Unsilent Night,’ New York 2011 (photo Taylor Davidson)
PHIL KLINE’S ‘UNSILENT NIGHT’ MAKES HUDSON DEBUT for 20th ANNIVERSARY WINTER WALK
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “Unsilent Night,” an interactive, communal, seasonally themed new-music work by composer Phil Kline, will make its Hudson debut as part of the city’s 20th anniversary Winter Walk celebration on Saturday, December 3, at 5pm.
Originally created as a work for boomboxes when it debuted in New York City’s Greenwich Village in 1992, Kline’s ethereal holiday street parade – “one of the loveliest communal new-music experiences you’ll ever encounter,” according to TimeOut New York – has been updated for the digital era, with its own app that can stream to smartphones and wireless speakers. The sum effect of a community performance of the work is that of a mobile sound sculpture which is unique from every listener’s perspective.
Sarah McElravy
WORKS by SAINT-SAËNS and CÉSAR FRANCK FEATURED in CHAMBER CONCERT at MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Works by Saint-Saëns and César Franck and the object of their mutual love, Augusta Holmès, are on tap in “L’Amour Toujours,” a chamber concert at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, December 3, at 6pm, part of the Close Encounters With Music series. Featured musicians are pianist Roman Rabinovich, violinists Diana Cohen, Sarah McElravy, and Julian Rachlin, and Close Encounters artistic director, cellist Yehuda Hanani.