St. Peter’s Church on St. Marks Place in St. George, Staten Island hosted a performance by the Richmond County Orchestra on Saturday, October 18. Sandro Russo was guest pianist for Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Maestro Alan Aurelia, fellow resident at 610 Victory conducted the repertoire which also featured Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6.
Alan Aurelia conducts [...]
Chilean music and dancers complemented a photo exhibition by Ronaldo Brunet at his country’s Consulate on East 48th Street in Manhattan. It was an early-afternoon opening to coincide with a Chilean anniversary of…well, something I can’t exactly remember. Since 1999, the Consulate General has been showing works from native Chileans living in the United States. [...]
On Friday, August 22, former Nightline executive producer Leroy Sievers, 53, died from complications of metastasized colon cancer. I followed his blog almost every day for two years like thousands of others. His wife Laurie has continued it in his honor. One of the common sentiments readers made after hearing about his death was that [...]