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One Quiet Plunge, 30 Maple Avenue, Millbrook, NY (2026)

09/06/2019

A big "thank you!" to the many folks who came out to see One Quiet Plunge's performance at Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook. For those who missed it, 1QP presents "Vocal music of the Hudson Valley", a reprise of the program, this Saturday, September 7, at 7:30pm in Picotte Recital Hall at the Massry Center for the Arts on the campus of the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Admission is free!

08/24/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “The Duck and the Kangaroo” by Bruce Craig Roter. The piece is a comic song setting the poem of the same name by Edward Lear, imagining an extended dialogue between the two animals, in which they discuss the relative merits of their different types of lifestyle.

Bruce Craig Roter grew up in Hauppauge, Long Island. Formal studies began at the Juilliard School’s preparatory division and continued at the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and Rutgers University. Read more and hear his music at brucerotermusic.com.

Photo credit: "Duck 6-18-2010 2-59-25 PM" by JimWienecke is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

08/24/2019

It's a beautiful day and a beautiful space for some music! Come join us at 3pm today at Lyall Memorial in Millbrook!

08/23/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “To the Rising Full Moon” by Tianyi Wang. Dedicated to Stephanie Hollenberg, the piece sets a text by the famous German poet Goethe, appearing here in translation by A. S. Kline. Addressed directly to the moon, Wang’s piece will resonate with anyone who has watched the majesty of night come on.

Composer Tianyi Wang’s works have been performed both nationally and internationally, including by Boston Modern Orchestra Project, impuls Festival (Austria), CEME (Israel), iNEnesemble (Russia), Audiograft Festival (UK), Ashmolean Museum (UK), MISE-EN New Music Festival, Boston New Music Initiative, and many others. Read more and hear his music at tianyiwangmusic.com.

Photo credit: "Late Full Moon rise over Bramble Bay-1=" by Sheba_Also 45,000 photos is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

08/22/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “God’s Optimism,” by William Volinger. The piece is a setting of a poem by Yehoshua November, an award-winning Lubavitcher poet. The music is both playful and serious, and is based on the familiar Passover hymn, “Dayenu.”

William Vollinger’s music is described as “3D: different, direct and deep.” Thirteen of his compositions have been nominated for the American Prize and two of his works “Stalin and the Little Girl” and “It Takes a Long Time to Grow up in New Jersey” received Judge’s Citations. Read more and hear his music at williamvollinger.com.

08/21/2019

We're working hard and having fun! Come see the outcome this Saturday (8/24) at 3pm in Millbrook at Lyall Memorial Church!

08/21/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “The Story” from Melangell Variations by Hilary Tann. The piece sets text of Gwyneth Lewis that captures the ancient story of a young female hermit, Melangell, whose grace and piety led her to shelter a hare in her robes while keeping a hunter’s hounds at bay. Melangell would eventually become the abbess of a sanctuary, now a place of pilgrimage.

Welsh-born composer, Hilary Tann lives in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. Praised for its lyricism and formal balance, her music is influenced by a strong identification with the natural world. Her music is widely performed and recorded. Read more and hear her music at at hilarytann.com.

Photo credit: "Harvest Hare" by Giles Watson's poetry and prose is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

08/20/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “An Idle Hour” by Jeffrey Miller. The text of “An Idle Hour” is by John Clare (1793-1864), who was known in his lifetime as the “peasant poet.” Though written far from the Hudson Valley, it describes an experience familiar to ramblers of the area, “sauntering at ease” and stopping at a rural stream to observe the variety of plant, animal, and insect life in and about the water.

Jeffrey Miller has composed works ranging from band and orchestra to solo instruments and voice. His music has been performed throughout the United States, and he has received commissions from the Irving M. Klein String Competition, Musicians’ Accord, and the Nova Singers. Read more and hear his music at jeffreymillermusic.com.

Join us Saturday, August 24 at 3pm at Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook, NY for the One Quiet Plunge Fifth Anniversary concert, featuring soprano Suna Avci-Gunther, baritone Thomas Gunther, and pianist Joshua Groffman. More at
https://onequietplunge.wordpress.com/current-projects/

Photo credit: "DSC03144-1-2_tonemapped" by fran.trudeau is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

08/19/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “That Lonesome Whistle” by Lawrence Kramer. The piece invokes Kramer’s early days of residence in the Hudson Valley, when he frequently took the train by the Hudson River to and from New York, always arriving upstate after dark. He says, “Those trips, in turn, brought back certain childhood memories of listening, in bed late at night, to train whistles sounding across the Pennsylvania countryside, where my great aunt had a house barely a minute’s walk from the railroad crossing.”

Lawrence Kramer divides his time between scholarship and composition. His work has won several competitions and received numerous performances across the United States and throughout Europe. Read more and hear his music at musicbylawrencekramer.com.

Join us Saturday, August 24 at 3pm at Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook, NY for the One Quiet Plunge Fifth Anniversary concert, featuring soprano Suna Avci-Gunther, baritone Thomas Gunther, and pianist Joshua Groffman. More at
https://onequietplunge.wordpress.com/current-projects/

Photo credit: "New Hamburg NY" by neatnessdotcom is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

08/18/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “Summer Wind (Why so slow?)” by Joshua Groffman. “Summer Wind (Why so slow?)” is a musical reflection of the poem “Summer Wind” by William Cullen Bryant. It describes a sense experience that feels profoundly familiar: the sound of wind rising in the trees on a hot day, the way it moves across the landscape in a quick wave, activating stillness.

Joshua Groffman is a composer and scholar focusing on the intersection of sound, place, and the natural world. A native of New York’s Hudson Valley, he is the founding director of One Quiet Plunge. Read more and hear his music at joshuagroffman.com.

Join us Saturday, August 24 at 3pm at Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook, NY for the One Quiet Plunge Fifth Anniversary concert, featuring soprano Suna Avci-Gunther, baritone Thomas Gunther, and pianist Joshua Groffman. More at
https://onequietplunge.wordpress.com/current-projects/

08/17/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “Seven O’Clock at the Cedar (Ode to Kline/de Kooning)” by Chester Biscardi, to a text by Shirley Kaplan. The Cedar Bar was a ‘60s gathering place in New York City for the Abstract Expressionist painters. The lyrics document an exchange between Willem de Kooning and two young women trying to connect to a famous artist.

Chester Biscardi is a recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, among numerous other awards and fellowships. Read more and hear his music at chesterbiscardi.com. Shirley Kaplan, playwright, director, and painter, has worked extensively in theatre within the United States and Europe. Co-founder of the OBIE-Award winning Paper Bag Players she has devised numerous visual and music/theatre projects including The Connecticut Cowboy (music by Arthur Siegel, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize).

Join us Saturday, August 24 at 3pm at Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook, NY for the One Quiet Plunge Fifth Anniversary concert, featuring soprano Suna Avci-Gunther, baritone Thomas Gunther, and pianist Joshua Groffman. More at
https://onequietplunge.wordpress.com/current-projects/

Photo credit: "January 2, 2011" by aj.hancock is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

08/16/2019

In the run-up to our concert on Saturday, August 24 in Millbrook, NY, One Quiet Plunge is featuring a different piece from the program each day!

Today’s piece: “Hymn” by Joseph Bertolozzi. The text of “Hymn” is found in Edgar Allen Poe’s tale “Morella,” and addresses the Virgin Mary, thanking her for hearing prayers and pleading for a bright future.

Joseph Bertolozzi’s two most recent albums, Tower Music, using the Eiffel Tower in Paris itself as his instrument, and Bridge Music, using New York’s Mid-Hudson Bridge, were both top twenty selling albums on the Billboard Classical Charts. Read more and hear his music at josephbertolozzi.com.

Join us Saturday, August 24 at 3pm at Lyall Memorial Federated Church in Millbrook, NY for the One Quiet Plunge Fifth Anniversary concert, featuring soprano Suna Avci-Gunther, baritone Thomas Gunther, and pianist Joshua Groffman. More at
https://onequietplunge.wordpress.com/current-projects/

Image attribution: "Don Bosco Retreat Ctr and Marian Shrine in Stony Point, NY" by dsovercash is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

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