SONG SALON

On Sunday, June 2nd, 2024, Joy in Singing presented a Song Salon featuring soprano Trudy Wodinsky and pianist Richard Pearson Thomas. The performance was given at the home of JIS board member Craig Tessler in Washington Heights and was attended by thirty people.The varied program featured songs in Spanish, French, German, Yiddish and English, by Joaquín Turina, Francis Poulenc, Gustav Mahler, Richard Pearson Thomas, Joseph Rumshinsky and Alexander Olshanetsky. Ms. Wodinsky and Mr. Thomas performed with excitement, great expressivity and beauty throughout the evening. Impressively, Ms. Wodinsky performed the entire concert from memory, her diction in all languages was superb and she is a natural actress. Mr. Thomas’ well-crafted compositions were beautiful and amusing and very well recieved. We are planning more Song Salons for the fall.

WHERE MUSIC LOVERS INCREASE THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SONG AND CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

Everything old is cool again! Designed to give both artists and audiences the opportunity to experience art song in a true chamber setting (think 21st century Schubertiade), our SongSalon events routinely sell out.

SongSalon programs present singers and pianists who have a relationship with Joy In Singing.
Artists on the SongSalons are either past winners or finalists. A sampling of past programs:

The South American Way (Upper East Side)
An afternoon of English song (Lincoln Center area)
B is for Britain: songs by Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge (Midtown at The Coffeehouse Club)
Present memories of things past (Upper West Side)
Voci di Primavera: songs for spring (Hell's Kitchen)