Salon Concert: The Art of the Touch at Salmagundi Club

Salon Concert: The Art of the Touch
Friday, December 6, 2024, 7:30 pm
Salmagundi Art Club on Fifth Avenue at 12th Street
Chaeyoung Park, piano
Sandra Miller, flute
Masayuki Maki, clavichord
Avi Stein, harpsichord
François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin
J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903
C.P.E. Bach: Sonata for Flute and Obligato Keyboard in D Major, Wq 83
Ana Sokolovic: Danse 5 from Danses et Interludes (2003)
Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus, No. 15 - Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus
György Ligeti: Book Two: Étude 10 - Der Zauberlehrling

The season’s second salon concert takes place at the Salmagundi Art Club, a historic arts center on the National Register of Historic Places. The performance covers keyboard works spanning many centuries—surveying the technological developments of keyboard instruments that created new possibilities in music composition. Beginning with Baroque composer Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin and J.S. Bach’s virtuosic Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, moving on to the Classical era with the Sonata for Flute and Obligato Keyboard in D Major by C.P.E. Bach, and ending with contemporary works by Ana Sokolovic, Olivier Messiaen, and György Ligeti, the performance will illustrate how technology impacts art.

Tickets, priced at $125 for the concert and cocktail reception, are available starting on August 1 at aconyc.org or by calling the ACO at (212) 362-2727, ext.4.