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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Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA
MVE performs its commission from composer Francine Trester, inspired by the etchings of recluse artist Sheridan Oman of the American Southwest.
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
Old American Songs (Sets I and II), 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson Kristina Bachrach, soprano; Dominic Armstrong, tenor; Jorell Williams, baritone; Michael Brofman, Brent Funderburk piano Free pre-concert lecture at 7:00PM by Patricia Mainardi (CUNY)
Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center
New York City
We honor composers from abroad who have based their musical lives in the US along with first-generation American composers whose close links to their parents’ homelands can be heard through their compositions.
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…
