James Besser's 65th Birthday Concert

Saturday, February 15, 2020, at 7:00 pm

This is an archived event, not part of the current festival.

218 West 11th Street at Waverly Place
New York, NY

James Besser, New York composer-pianist, celebrates his 65th birthday with a concert of Jewish music. Composers include Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Copland, Ravel, the neglected 20th century Italian-American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and James himself. This is a concert in the Composers Now Festival (composersnow.org). Includes a reception in Revelation Gallery, showing the art of Jewish painter Anatoliy Fatakhov.

Free, but registration is helpful for catering purposes.