Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra Performs Faure and Friends on Thanksgiving Weekend

HUNTER — Catskill Mountain Foundation proudly presents the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Platt at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville on Saturday, November 29 at 7 PM. The award-winning piano soloist Henry Kramer and 15 members of the choral ensemble Ars Choralis of Woodstock, New York join the 18-member orchestra to share the music of some of the favorite composers of the family in whose memory the concert is sponsored.

This inaugural performance by the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Platt, Music Director of the Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, includes Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus, Faure’s Cantique de Jean Racine (arranged by John Rutter), Bach’s Piano Concerto in D Major, BWV 1054, Verdi’s String Quartet in E Minor (arranged by Arturo Toscanini) and Robert Manno’s Adagio for Strings. Founded by Robert Manno, the orchestra is comprised of the finest musicians from the New York area and includes current and former members of some of the world’s most esteemed orchestras and ensembles. Manno gained national attention through many nationwide broadcasts of its live performances from the Windham Chamber Music Festival and Catskill Mountain Foundation on American Public Media’s Performance Today. Alexander Platt is honored to follow in the footsteps of Manno as conductor. 

“… this opportunity allows me to further put down roots as a maestro in the Catskills and Hudson Valley area, which over the years has truly become… where I want to be for the rest of my days,” -- Platt 

The reflective music of Mozart, Bach, Faure, Verdi and Manno will be especially transcendent in the recently upgraded Orpheum Performing Arts Center. Get tickets to the November 29 performance at https://our.show/faure-and-friends,  call 518-263-2063 or email boxoffice@catskillmtn.org. This performance is sponsored by the Mapleside Fund in honor of Dr. John Farber. 

About Catskill Mountain Foundation
The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s (CMF) aim is to provide educational opportunities in the arts for youth and lifelong learners, to bring the experience of the arts to the Catskill community, and to support artists and art organizations in the development of their work through residencies. Since its founding in 1998, CMF has presented hundreds of music, dance, and theater performances; screened over 1,000 films to tens of thousands of audience members; provided studio arts classes to thousands of students of all ages; and served thousands of art-loving patrons in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop.

Since 1998, CMF has raised, generated, and invested close to $16 million in facility development and an excess of $42 million in programming operations, for a total investment in the Catskill community of over $58 million. CMF believes that the arts can transform the lives of those touched by it and can transform the community. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.