Attend all five House Blend Concerts under one ticket.
$75
House Blend is PS21’s annual chamber music series exploring a full range of adventurous music and creative modes of expression, fostering new collaborations specific to our place, venue, and audiences.
This stylistically diverse series surveys cutting edge new music and bold works of the past, creating new contexts for experiencing music in which even the familiar becomes surprising. All programs are developed for our space with an eye toward bringing virtuosic and thoughtful musicians together in genre-defying collaborations. Audiences are invited to go more deeply into the music with open rehearsals, workshops, artist talks, and informal post-concert discussions designed to guide the listener through the mysteries of these daring works. Brewed specially for the audience, House Blend invites listeners to experience vital music in stimulating new ways.
July 15, 7 PM House Blend Extra: World Premiere: Four Meditations on Impermanence by Susie Ibarra
Composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra is joined by Tashi Dorji, Phyllis Chen, and area percussion groups in the premiere of the multi-ensemble version of Four Meditations on Impermanence, a meditation on forests conceived and developed in PS21’s landscape. More info.
July 16, 5 PM House Blend I
Leo Ornstein: Wild Men’s Dance (Danse Sauvage) (1913) for piano; Nocturne (1952) for clarinet and piano
Claude Vivier: Pièce pour violon et clarinette (1975)
Lili Boulanger: Nocturne (1911) for violin and piano
Kaija Saariaho: Duft (2012) for clarinet
Igor Stravinsky: Duo Concertant (1932) for violin and piano
Rebecca Saunders: The under-side of green (1994) for clarinet, violin, and piano
Performed by Miranda Cuckson (violin), Adrián Sandí (clarinet), and Eric Huebner (piano)
August 5, 1 PM House Blend II
House Blend Open Stages
A free, interactive concert for a limited audience with on-stage seating.
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3
Zosha Di Castri: String Quartet No. 1
Performed by the Ulysses Quartet
7 PM Evening Concert
Georg Philipp Telemann: Suite for Two Violins, “Gulliver’s Travels” TWV 40:108 (1728)
Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser’s Option (2016) for string quartet
Luciano Berio: Sequenza II (1963) for harp
Henriette Renié: Trio for harp, violin and violoncello 1. Allegro risoluto (1901)
Wang Huiran: Dance of the Yi People (1960) for pipa solo
Tan Dun: Concerto for String Quartet and Pipa (1999)
Performed by the Ulysses Quartet, Sun Li (pipa), Nuiko Wadden (harp)
August 25, 7 PM House Blend III
Angélica Negrón: Pedazos intermitentes de un lugar ya fragmentado (2022) for flute, clarinet in B-flat, violin, cello, and fixed electronics
Olivier Messiaen: Le Merle noir (1952) for flute and piano
Lou Harrison: Varied Trio (1986/87) for violin, piano, and percussion
Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres (1938) for electronic instruments
Annea Lockwood: Immersion (1998) for marimba, tam-tams, and quartz bowl gong
Allison Loggins-Hull: The Pattern ( 2020) for flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano
Performed by Hub New Music: Michael Avitabile (flutes), Jesse Christeson (cello), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Meg Rohrer (violin/viola) with Adam Tendler (piano), Ayano Kataoka (percussion), and Matthew Gold (percussion)
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About PS21
A vibrant center for contemporary performance in the Hudson Valley, PS21 “presents work that challenges and invites” (The New York Times): adventurous productions by leading and emerging American and international artists in music, dance, and theater, and visionaries creating entirely new genres. On our open-air Pavilion Theater stage, across our expansive, unspoiled grounds, and in the diverse surrounding communities, PS21 cultivates and presents productions that transcend aesthetic boundaries and revitalize existing artistic languages and grammars. Throughout the year, we host developmental residencies for dancers, musicians, actors, and creators of original, even unclassifiable new work. Rooted in community collaboration, PS21’s programming engages creatively with critical global and social issues. It is a mecca for innovative and original artistic voices, a destination for performance that can be experienced nowhere else in the region. PS21’s Pavilion Theater is a green-energy marvel surrounded by 100 acres of unspoiled meadows, trails, and woodlands that are a haven to wildlife and visitors across the region. Integrated into our unspoiled campus, the theater embodies our commitments to the public: open, inviting, and optimized for their enjoyment and encouraging citizen expression and participation.
Photography
PS21 will take photos of this event for use in social media and on our website. The photos sometimes include audiences. Your attendance at this performance indicates you consent to appear in PS21 photography. If you would prefer not to appear in any photos, please let a staff member know, and we will be glad to accommodate your request.