Monday, June 22, 2026 | 6:00 p.m.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza

Giancarlo Latta violin & curator
Robert Fleitz piano

Co-presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the New York City AIDS Memorial

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This performance revives an important but neglected repertoire of works for violin and piano by composers who died during the AIDS crisis, including rediscovered works from the Library for the Performing Arts' collections. Presented by violinist Giancarlo Latta, joined by pianist Robert Fleitz, the program brings together seven outstanding compositions written between 1975 and 1991, many of which have gone unrecorded and generally unperformed over the past several decades. Two larger-scale showcase works—Robert Savage’s Rhapsody and Meditation and Louis Weingarden’s Sonata: Les Violons du Bal—sit at the center of the performance, alongside a new transcription for violin and piano of Chris DeBlasio’s Serenade for Violin and Organ, Michael Seyfrit’s A Dance of Life, and shorter works by Charles Buel, Yvar Mikhashoff, and Robert Nofsinger.

A Dance of Life received generous early support from ChamberQUEER's Open Submission program.

Pictured: Louis Weingarden. Photographer unknown, courtesy of the Juilliard Archives.