Inviting performers, educators, and all lovers of song to explore connections between poetry and music, between history and culture, through the work of American composers and poets
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Berkeley Piano Club
Berkeley, CA
Music by Polish and immigrant Hollywood composers of the 40s to the present
Also: Tuesday, Oct. 15, 12 p.m., Cafe Europa (Berkeley), FREE, location TBD, and
Thursday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m., Paderewski Festival, Cass Winery, Paso Robles (without the Moore and Garner)
Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano, Anne Lerner-Wright, cello, and guest pianist Karen Rosenak.
Center for New Music
San Francisco, CA
Ensemble for These Times performs the World Premiere of Chinese composer Weiwei Miao's "Blooming Flowers, Full Moon" for piano trio, along with works by 8 living women composers.
Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano; and guest violinist Ilana Blumberg
The Ware Center
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a concert of music featuring 20th and 21st century African American composers. This concert will be sung by four young artists who are African American opera singers. Two of our singers will recently have performed in "Porgy and Bess" at the Metropolitan Opera, and two were recently in the premier of "Stonewall" with the New York City Opera. They will be accompanied by Dr. Maria Corley, Lancaster's finest collaborative pianist. Also a composer, we will be featuring several of Dr. Corley's songs in the concert. The concert will take place at The Ware Center of Millersville University.
Irish poet and composer Thomas Moore used his gifts to champion the cause of Irish freedom, and his many volumes of Irish Melodies were influential across Europe and America.
Transcendentalism was a visionary way of thinking that was widespread in 19th-century American art and thinking. Among those associated with the movement were Emerson, Thoreau, and the Alcotts. Composers who were influenced by Transcendentalist thinking include Edward MacDowell, Charles Ives, and Charles Griffes.
The best-known of the artists who tried to capture the drama of the American West and its inhabitants were the painter Albert Bierstadt and the illustrator/writer/painter/sculptor Frederic Remington.
A production of The Hampsong Foundation. It was produced by Miriam Lewin of Lavine Production Group, with camera and editing by Randi Cecchine. Our thanks to singers Catherine Swindle, Nita Baxani, and Justin Austin; pianist and composer Richard Pearson Thomas; the Stephen Gaynor School in New York City…
