Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra: Visions | Visiones

On Saturday November 4th at 3pm, the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra returns to our home at Fort Washington Collegiate Church for our official "Sound y Sabor" season opening concert, "Visions | Visiones." Join us for incredible music by Iván Enrique Rodríguez, Jessica Meyers, Jean Françaix, and Ottorino Respighi.

"Visions | Visiones" features music that draws inspiration from the visual arts to reveal the composers’ painting within. Françaix's Sérénade is an energetic and vibrant ballet score which conjures the dynamic range of human physicality and all the motions we express through dance. Puerto Rican composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez's wind quintet 3 Visions is inspired by the experience of hidden, even repressed memories suddenly reemerging into our conscious mind to again torment—or liberate. NYC uptown composer Jessica Meyer's In the Waves was written as a response to a painting by Paul Gauguin of the same name. And finally, Ottorino Respighi's "Trittico Botticelliano, one of his best-known works, tours three celebrated paintings by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli: Spring, The Adoration of the Magi, and The Birth of Venus.

About The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra

The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra was founded in August 2015 to serve the communities of Washington Heights and Upper Manhattan with affordable, outstanding neighborhood concert experiences. WHCO aims to be a place that connects great art across genres and cultures and reconnects people in the community, creating an experience that celebrates diversity and enriches the lives of uptown residents.