From Paris to Maine: Impressionism in Art and Music

Join art historian Kirsten Jensen, Yonkers Philharmonic conductor Ariel Rudiakov, and a sextet of musicians for a dynamic program exploring Childe Hassam and American Impressionism, centered on his 1902 painting Summer Sea, Isles of Shoals, on loan from the Toledo Museum of Art. Performers include violinists Urara Mogi and Emanouil Manolov, violist Ariel Rudiakov, cellist Karen Charif, flutist Adam Ray, and harpist Renee Murphy.

Through conversation, projected images, and live chamber music—including works by Claude Debussy and Marcel Grandjany—the program examines the transatlantic exchanges that shaped Impressionism in both visual art and music. Discover how artists and composers, traveling more freely between Europe and America at the turn of the century, developed parallel “palettes” of light, color, and atmosphere.

Ariel Rudiakov is Music Director of the Yonkers Philharmonic and co-founder of Taconic Music. A violist and educator, he has held leadership roles with orchestras across the Northeast and has served on the faculties of the University of Indianapolis and Yale University.

Kirsten Jensen is an independent scholar and specialist in American Impressionism. She is the former Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator of the Michener Art Museum and previously served as Director of the Catalogue Raisonné for American Impressionist John F. Folinsbee, Assistant Curator at the Hudson River Museum, and Leon Levy Fellow at the Frick Center for the History of Collecting. She holds a PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and has published and organized exhibitions on American art since 1850.

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Image: Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935). Summer Sea, Isles of Shoals, 1902. Oil on canvas. Toledo Museum of Art. Gift of Florence Scott Libbey (PL.2023.4.2).

Support provided by Art Bridges.