This intimate program features a broad range of works, including the "Flute Variations" (1971) and "Ziji" (1987).
But while the county's fall season is largely safe and comfortable, the calendar offers plentiful choices, from large-scale events with famous names at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College to more intimate programs with newer talents in smaller halls.
Even over 90 intermissionless minutes of dense solo violin music, there were few yawns from the attentive and enthusiastic audience, and — just as in Lincoln Center's series A Little Night Music — the late hour added more coziness to what was already an intimate program and space.
High points of the first and more intimate program included Ms. Haran's truly far-sighted "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," which invested the song with a calm, prayerful spirituality, and the unabashedly romantic, almost tearful renditions by Christine Andreas (a former Eliza Doolittle) of songs from "My Fair Lady" and "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue".
After Wednesday's concert he crossed 65th Street to the airy, inviting Kaplan Penthouse for a solo recital as part of the popular Little Night Music series: intimate and informal programs that begin at 10 30, last 60 minutes or so and include complimentary wine.
"By providing an immersive live-work space alongside intimate cultural programming, we foster a spirit of innovative support".
There were fresh brownies on offer, and first-rate live music, as Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet Company presented an intimate, homey program in City Center Studio 4 on Friday.
These include a public presentation as well as a more intimate educational program for University students and faculty, such as a workshop, seminar or master class.
The intimate arts of programming and playing a festival can often get lost amid the heaving crowds and hedonistic hullaballoo.
Charles E. Andrews, a writer at the dawn of television who helped create an informal, intimate approach to programming for Dave Garroway, Studs Terkel and other early stars, died on Friday at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
