HOUSE BLEND III: Miranda Cuckson and Conor Hanick

HOUSE BLEND III: PS21 favorites violinist Miranda Cuckson and pianist Conor Hanick return with a program of J.S. Bach’s Partita in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004), Iannis Xenakis’s, Mikka S., for solo violin, Aaron Copland’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, and a selection of Charles Ives’s Songs (Opus 114) arranged for piano and violin. “A fearless, visionary, and tremendously talented artist” (Sequenza 21), Ethan Iverson writes of Cuckson’s rendition of the Xenakis: “Miranda Cuckson has always impressed with an effortless command of the hardest modern music. I first heard her on the 2014 album Melting the Darkness, which opens with the dumbfounding “Mikka S.” by Iannis Xenakis. It’s an incredibly difficult piece, but Cuckson sounds like she’s crooning a blues lullaby.” – Transitional Technology Program: Iannis Xenakis: Mikka S. J.S. Bach: Sonata in D minor (BWV 1004) Charles Ives: Selections from Songs (Opus 114) Aaron Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano PS21 HOUSE BLEND programs are conceived for our theater with an eye toward bringing virtuosic and thoughtful musicians together in genre-defying combinations. The series opens a creative space unique to our venue, surroundings, and audiences that yields programs that can only be heard at PS21.