Salon Concerts will bring chamber music into your own salons this year with our streamed concerts. In this time when many of us are experiencing our families spatially separated during the holidays, Kathryn is bringing her own family virtually from Germany as we share music with each other and with you, our Salon family.

This first program of our 31st season will start out with three short piano pieces Kathryn has just written as musical journal entries. Then we’ll go to Hannover to join her granddaughter and son playing the beautiful, romantic Fauré Elegy. Kathryn’s daughter-in-law Elisabeth will play a brief piece for solo violin by the German composer Moritz Eggert composed in 2019. Stephen will continue our Beethoven 250th birthday-year celebration with his Sonata Op. 2 No. 3. Kathryn’s grandson will take us to the beautiful Marktkirche church to play the moving and fabulous Liszt Fantasia on its majestic organ.

Sunday December 20, 2020 5pm

FREE to attend, register below. Concert will be available to view for 30 days.

For those who attend on the original streaming date of Sunday the 20th, you are invited to join in a Zoom live chat with Stephen, Leah and Kathryn. We look forward to seeing you!

Program:

Journal Entries - Kathryn Mishell

Elegy - Gabriel Fauré

No. 3 from “Mir mit dir” (amabile e liberamente) - Moritz Eggert

Sonata for Piano Op.2 No.3 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H, S.260 - Franz Liszt

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Kathryn Mishell, piano

Elisabeth Kufferath, violin

Stephen Perry, piano

Perry Kufferath, organ

Mariella Kufferath, cello

Part of the Salon Concert experience is sharing food, wine and conversation with all who come. Although we can’t partake of that experience in person this season, we are sharing a signature cocktail recipe for each concert, developed by Kathryn's daughter Lenore Perry. Details are shared below. We can each be listening and enjoying a beverage in our own salons.

Salon de Mishell - the drink

With the theme of Kathryn Mishell & Family, the signature cocktail base spirit was a given, as single-malt Scotch drinking is a serious Mishell family tradition.

The performers in Germany are loosely represented by the use of Cynar which, while Italian, is a popular beverage in Germany when mixed with orange juice. Cynar is an aperitif of the amaro variety made from 13 herbs and plants, the most notable among them, artichoke leaves (!). Finally, sweet vermouth. This is a simple 3-ingredient cocktail, similar to the Boulevardier which itself is a variation on the Negroni.

1 oz. Scotch (we use a glorious 12-year-old single malt from Islay called Caol Ila, but it absolutely needn’t be so fancy)
.75 oz Cynar
1 oz Sweet Vermouth (we use Dolin)
2 dashes orange bitters
garnish of orange twist

Combine Scotch, Cynar, Vermouth and bitters in a mixing glass and fill to about half with ice. Stir until the outside of the glass is chilled, 30 seconds or so. Strain into a chilled rocks glass with one large ice cube or many smaller ice cubes. Express the orange over and around the glass and drop inside.

Please note that if you purchase a bottle of Cynar, you’ll find it to be a delightful addition to your liquor cabinet—one of the essential amaro to be sure. It’s wonderful as an aperitivo with soda on ice, or as digestivo with chocolate, as we enjoy it around the table after les dinners du Mishell. :) There are also lots of cocktails out there that use them, like the Eeyore’s Requeiem (one of my favorites), or use it as a substitute for Campari in a standard Boulevardier or even Negroni. And it’s great in a Black Manhattan. Explore! The world is your artichoke! :)

Follow Lenore and her delicious beautiful drinks on Instagram @cheersiloveyou

December Concert

KATHRYN MISHELL AND FAMILY