Love in the mansion : a Valentine’s concert
Date
7:45 PM – 9:00 PM | Dinner in the dining room
Location
Admission
RSVP required
$50 | Salmagundi members
+$55 | Prepaid prix-fixe dinner
About the Event
Called a top pick for Valentine’s Day by NBC Online and TimeOut, NY
This Valentine’s, the Salmagundi Club will present a romantic concert evening, followed by a lovely optional prix-fixe dinner. The Bond Street Singers (BSS), a long recognized powerhouse of 19th and 20th century Art Song, light classical and American Songbook standards presents Love in the Mansion – A Valentine Concert, a benefit concert for the esteemed Salmagundi Club, one of New York City’s oldest artists’ club, and the second oldest in the nation.
The Bond Street Singers will perform a specially curated program including works by Gilbert and Sullivan, Bizet, Fauré, Tosti, Schumann, among others, and selections from the American Songbook. The quartet, accompanied by famed composer and pianist Richard Pearson Thomas, has chosen lush, romantic vocal music to perform in the Club’s historic Fifth Avenue brownstone, the oldest surviving mansion on the legendary New York street. Built in 1853 as the Hawley Mansion, it remains remarkably intact and authentic.
The Valentine’s concert offers the general public a rare opportunity to enjoy the 19th (and early 20th century mansion with light classical vocal music, in a unique period home. Surrounded by original artwork, the concert takes place in the impressive Skylight Gallery, constructed in 1917 when the Salmagundi Club members first purchased the home and converted it into their clubhouse, which it remains to this day.
As a delightful added option, a lovely pre-fixe, pre-ordered gourmet dinner prepared by the Club’s noted chef, Melvin de Jesus, will be available immediately after the concert in the club’s 1917 Rathskeller-style dining room. Specially discounted wines will be available at an affordable additional cost.
Dinner must be pre-paid while RSVP-ing for the concert online and dinner orders must be made in advance by emailing chef@salmagundi.org after you RSVP. Dinner orders will be accepted no later than Tuesday, February 11. Those who do not order in advance will be served according to the chef’s discretion. Menu items can be seen below.
Prix-Fixe Love Menu
Appetizer
Soup
Borscht w/ sour cream and fresh dill pickle
Smoked salmon caviar plate
Lemon toast, parley, shallots, egg, white and egg yolk
Main Course
Grilled rack of lamb
W/ asparagus and baby turnips, lamb jus
Black truffles risotto
Lobster thermidor
Baby vegetables
Dessert
Raspberry curd fruit tart
Strawberry shortcake trifles
About the Bond Street Singers
The Bond Street Singers (BSS) was founded as the Bond Street European Singing Society as artists-in-residence at the Merchant’s House Museum (NYC). Following the tradition of Singing Societies since the 18th Century, the group takes its name from a local neighborhood or community, this one being The Bond Street Area, home to the most prominent New York families prior to the Civil War and site of the Merchant’s House Museum, now known as NoHo.
Now in its 21st year, the vocal quartet regularly presents historically informed and original music programs. Some venues have included the Merchant’s House Museum, the Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden (NYC), the Glenview Mansion/Hudson River Museum (Yonkers), The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (NYC), for a specially-commissioned program commemorating the 150th anniversary of TR’s birth, the Woodlawn Cemetery chapel, and special programs at Bentley University (Waltham, MA), the Capitol Theatre (Rome, NY), and the Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (Old Saybrook, CT), plus various private events.