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Cinco de Mayo Concert in New York City - Sunday, May 4 @ 7 PM

April 28, 2025 | By Laura Ellis
Director
Cinco de Mayo Celebration!
 
Chamber Music by Mexican Composers
 
Sunday, May 4 @ 7 PM (EST)
 
Lisa Hansen, flute
Max Lifchitz, piano
 
works by  Carlos Chavez, Manuel Enriquez, Max Lifchitz, Manuel M.Ponce,
Silvestre Revueltas & Wieslaw Rentowski
 
Klavierhaus
790 11th Ave, New York, NY 10019 (bet 55th & 54th Streets)
 
Streamed live @

https://www.youtube.com/live/IlbUt4tU3JM?si=XhyxoGLLlxZt6Ll0
 
FREE ADMISSION
 
www.northsouthmusic.org
 
 
Flutist Lisa Hansen and pianist Max Lifchitz join forces to mark the Cinco de Mayo Holiday on Sunday evening, May 4, performing a program featuring music by Mexican composers from the 20th and 21st
centuries.

Sponsored by North/South Consonance, Inc., the concert will start at 7 PM (EST) and end around 8:15 PM.

It will be held at the intimate Klavierhaus Auditorium located at 790 11th Ave (between 54th and 55th Street).

Admission to the event is free (first come, first served).

The event  will be streamed live via YouTube @
 
https://www.youtube.com/live/IlbUt4tU3JM?si=XhyxoGLLlxZt6Ll0
 
 
 

Flutist Lisa Hansen’s critically acclaimed EMI/Angel recording of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto Pastoral with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has been broadcast worldwide. The New York
Times described her playing as “irresistibly lyrical,” while Fanfare proclaimed: "One might well prefer Hansen to Galway.” She has performed and recorded with North/South Consonance since 1988. She is the featured soloist in several North/South Recordings, including Harold Schiffman’s Concertino for Flute and Strings, Stephen Yip’s Shun, and Robert Martin’s One Year the Milkweed. A graduate
of The Juilliard School, Ms. Hansen is now the flute professor at Kean University.

The San Francisco Chronicle described Max Lifchitz as "a stunning, ultra-sensitive pianist," while The New York Times praised his "clean, measured and sensitive performances.” Lifchitz started his musical
training in Mexico City before relocating to New York where he perfected his craft at The Juilliard School. Awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of
Twentieth Century Music, Lifchitz has appeared on concert stages throughout Latin America, Europe, and the US. His highly praised solo and ensemble recordings are widely available through streaming
platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.

The program includes works written during the first half of the 20th century by beloved Mexican masters Carlos Chavez, Silvestre Revueltas, and Manuel M. Ponce.  It also features more recent works espousing a cosmopolitan outlook by Manuel Enriquez and Asi es la vida (Life Happens!) a piece written for the occasion by Polish-American Wieslaw Rentowski. Also on the program is a composition written by Mr. Lifchitz while growing up in Mexico City during the 1960s and his recently completed Mosaico Latinoamericano.

For further programming information, please visit the North/South Consonance website @ http://www.northsouthmusic.org

Active since 1980, North/South Consonance, Inc. is devoted to promoting music by composers from the Americas and the world. Its activities are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Music Performance Funds, the BMI Foundation, and the generosity of numerous individual donors.

 

 

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