Program Description: Our final Music in the Stacks, our series of free Sunday afternoon concerts featuring local and international artists and hosted by Hudson area youth organizations, will be with Patrick Higgins, a Hudson based experimental music composer. The Hudson youth organization hosting the concert will be Operation Unite NY.
Date/Time: Sunday, November 17, 4-5:30pm
Registration: Registration is not required. Audience members receive cultural passports, which are stamped at each concert. Each stamp entitles the passport holder one ticket in a raffle for a gift certificate to a Hudson music venue.
Higgins has been described by The New Yorker magazine as one of the “prime movers of the local avant-garde”, and an “exacting avant-classical guitarist” by Time Out NY. He has composed works for the country’s leading ensembles, including orchestral works, percussion cycles, and string quartets. He has scored music for television, museum exhibition and feature-length and short films. Higgins plays and composes in ZS, which the New York Times called “one of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York.” His music has been performed in over 20 countries and at some of the world’s leading music festivals.
These concerts reflect a wide range of musical styles, genres, instruments and cultures – giving the community new musical experiences and opportunities for cultural exchange. The concerts are held on the main floor of the library in the historic Hudson Armory, which is a large open space with unique acoustics. Each concert is hosted by youth from a Hudson area organization, who introduces the musicians and facilitates a conversation about their music, instruments, or cultural tradition. A reception follows the concerts with a chance for audience members to share their reactions and to interact the musicians, youth emcees and each other.
Emily Chameides, Hudson Area Library Director, states, “This first concert in our 2019 Music in the Stacks series represents the excellence, uniqueness and accessibility of music that we wish to bring to our community. We invite all to join us for this cultural, educational and social concert.”
The 2019 Music in the Stacks concerts included Moyna, a Bangla band headlined by Palbasha Siddique, curated by the Bangladeshi American Society of Hudson, and hosted by Hudson Muslim Youth; Harmony Project Hudson, a student and instructor concert, hosted by members of the Hudson Area Library Tween Advisory Council; NorthWinds, a Bassoon Ensemble, hosted by student members of the Hudson City School District’s Tri-M Music Honor Society; and Miho Hatori, curated and promoted by Basilica Hudson who waived their curatorial and publicity fees and hosted by teens from Kite’s Nest Space 2.0.
This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Greene County Council on the Arts.
For more information email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org, call 518-828-1792 x101, or visit the main desk in the library.