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NEW YORK CITY, The Americas Society, 2 May 2001 … Agua y Piedra/Water and Stone: recent works from México … a return engagement at the Americas Society after an absence of three years.  The concert in the beautiful Stanford White mansion which houses the Americas Society featured the New York premieres of works by a distinguished group of Mexican composers: Marcela Rodríguez (who attended the concert), Arturo Márquez, Georgina Derbez Roque, Ramón Montes de Oca, and Federico Ibarra.   The concert was generously supported by the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, who helped with publicity and sponsored the post-concert reception.

… with composer Marcela Rodríguez after the concert.

L-R: a guest of composer Marcela Rodríguez; Marcela Rodríguez; Cervantes; María Elena Tobón; director of the Americas Society concert series; and Carlos Gutiérrez, director of the Performing Arts program of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

 … enjoying a post-concert reunion with US composer Charles Griffin, whose music I'll be playing in the 2001-2002 concert season.

NJ, William Paterson University
A few days later I cross the Hudson River over to Paterson, New Jersey – of William Carlos Williams fame – to play a concert more like the one I performed in Fresno in March: friend, conductor, violist, and concert series manager Bill Houston has asked that I play some Bach as well as music from México.   Like the Americas Society, the William Paterson University venue, Hobart Manor, is historic and lovely: a 100-year-old mansion with beautiful gardens and tranquil interior spaces.  The piano is of about the same vintage as the house, a Chickering which was once a noble instrument.  It has lost surprisingly little of its character, but Bill and I agree that it would be best not to delay rebuilding for too much longer.  The audience is the right size for this intimate salon of a room: it's like playing for a group of friends in my living room … if I had a living room that elegant!

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