RI Concerts‘s unique gift for the Roosevelt Island community spans centuries, wedding 18th Century music with modern tunes. With the holidays fast rising on the calendar, there’s a bit of that too, and topping all off a soothing musical performance.
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
“We have a wonderful concert coming up on December 3rd at 730 pm,” says Roosevelt Islander Yiheng Yang. Yang is on the faculty at Julliard.
Led by the fantastic vocalist Christina Courtin, Aisslinn Nosky (concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society) Yiheng Yang and several graduates of Juilliard’s Historical Performance program will be playing on baroque period instruments, giving Courtin’s arrangements of pop and holiday tunes a vintage, original sound.
“The program is called “Baroque Covers,” and Christina will be singing her own re-inventions of pop tunes from the 1970s to the present. with a baroque chamber ensemble…”
Courtin’s music is the definition of unique. She takes hits from the 1960s to today and re-imagines them for singer and baroque chamber ensemble. As part of that that fantastic stretch, she reinterprets Tom Waits’s moody All the World is Green and Cyndi Lauper’s aching Time After Time through a 18th Century classical filter.
If you love great music, this is exciting stuff.
“Plus,” promises Yang, “we will play some Bach as well as holiday tunes.”
Roosevelt Island Concerts invites the whole community to attend their annual Holiday Concert. The concert is family friendly, and there will be refreshments and an opportunity to meet the artists after the show. Suggested donation is $20 for students, $10 seniors, but all are welcome. You can reserve a seat here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holiday-concert-baroque-covers-tickets-759667735647?aff=oddtdtcreator
This should be a December night to remember.
What the Promenade Remembers
The light on the East River in the early morning is different from the light anywhere else on the Island. It comes in low and sideways, catching the water in long, uneven flashes. On certain days it makes the promenade feel less like a walkway and more like a corridor someone once meant to finish but never quite did. When I was younger I found the suggestion to stop and look at it faintly ridiculous.
