Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, presented by Friends of Chamber Music
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Celebrating their 50th Anniversary Season as the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music, thirteen artists will join Friends of Chamber Music for a program entitled “New World Spirit,” including David Finckel on cello, Gloria Chien on piano, and David Shifrin on clarinet. Concert will open Friends of Chamber Music's 2019-20 season. October 16, 2019, 7:30 PM, Newman Center for the Performing Arts.
New World Spirit
This concert celebrates the intrepid American spirit by featuring two pairs of composers that shaped the course of American music. Harry T. Burleigh was a star student of Dvořák at the National Conservatory in New York. A talented composer and singer, he exposed the Czech composer to American spirituals and was in turn encouraged by Dvořák to perform his native African-American folk music. Two generations later, Copland and Bernstein conceived a clean, clear American sound that conveys the wonder and awe of open spaces and endless possibilities.
- Harry Burleigh: Southland Sketches for violin and piano
- Antonin Dvorak: Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97
- Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
- Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite for Ensemble
"… this was a superb concert by some of the best in the business. It's actually a touch intimidating to witness this kind of virtuosity." Bill Robinson of Classical Voice of North Carolina
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