On Friday, April 23rd at 1:00pm EST, violist Carrie Frey will perform a set of works exploring the instrument’s contrapuntal and lyrical capabilities in a livestream recital from Elebash Hall. The program traces a lineage of string writing from J.P. von Westhoff’s Suite No. 1 in A minor, a precursor to Bach’s famous Partitas and Sonatas, to […]
On Monday, March 22nd, Music from Copland House time-travels across the centuries when it features Pulitzer prize-winning composer John Harbison’s provocative quartet for piano and strings entitled November 19, 1828, the day the beloved 19th-century master Franz Schubert passed away. This eerie, ethereal “musical hallucination” invokes moments in the Viennese composer’s life, his passage into […]
Monday, February 22, 2021 at 1:00 PM – Musto Cello & Piano Sonata In his scintillating new Sonata for Cello and Piano, Graduate Center professor and Emmy Award-winning composer John Musto seamlessly brings together the erudition of a contrapuntal musical master, the brilliance and “groove” of a jazz instrumentalist, and the rhythmic ebullience of a Brazilian dancer. This […]
Presented in partnership with the Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center, the second annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival will be taking place online from Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 2021, and will explore the role of music in contemporary Ukrainian culture and politics through lively presentations and performances under the theme “Voices Across […]
