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Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 3 PM
A Solitude of Sound: The World of Emily Dickinson
MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE
Amy Burton and Ariadne Greif, sopranos; Harumi Rhodes, violinist;
Nicholas Canellakis, cellist; Michael Boriskin and Gregg Kallor, pianists
Next Concerts:
Sunday, April 21 at 3 PM
TO AND FROM AMERICA
Poems of Emily Dickinson (1949-50) [excerpts] Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
Heart, We Will Forget Him
Ossining Public Library, Budarz Theater, 53 Croton Ave. Ossining, NY
Crossing borders of countries, sounds, and cultures in a program of works by Aaron Copland,
Bela Bartok, and Sebastian Currier and featuring Igor Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat, with
Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, Ossining Mayor William Hanauer, and realtor Mark Seiden in
speaking roles!
FREE concert; for information, visit www.ossininglibrary.org or call (914) 941-2416
Saturday, May 4 at 8 PM
CELESTIAL HARMONIES: THE POETRY OF SCIENCE
Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, NY
Celebrating the naming of a major crater on the planet Mercury after Copland. Astronomer
Ronald Dantowitz, Director of the Clay Center Observatory in Massachusetts, discovered the
crater, and will lead an audience Q&A on this program of music inspired by the heavens and
space. Featuring A Circle Around the Sun by Augusta Read Thomas, Northern Lights by Roger
Zare, After Mercury by Anthony Newman, and songs from Il Mondo della Luna by Franz Josef
Haydn and from Galileo by Hanns Eisler and Berthold Brecht.
Tickets: $25, $20 (Friends of Copland House), $10 (students with ID) (includes meet-the-artist reception)
Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged
For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected]
Sunday, June 2 at 3 PM
“I HEAR AMERICA SINGING”: THE WORLD OF WALT WHITMAN
Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, NY
Featuring From Noon to Starry Night by Russell Platt (CH Resident 2006), plus works by Leonard
Bernstein, Ned Rorem, and Tom Cipullo (CH Resident 2006) on Whitman texts.
Tickets: $25, $20 (Friends of Copland House), $10 (students with ID) (includes meet-the-artist reception)
Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged
For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected]
AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)
Going to Heaven
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1944) ERNST BACON
It’s All I Have to Bring (1944) (1898-1990)
The Bat (1974) Exhilaration (2007) GREGG KALLOR
Exhilaration is the Breeze
(b. 1978)
It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon –
Bee! I’m expecting you!
We Cover Thee – Sweet Face –
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
What Inn is this
I should not dare to leave my friend
Still owe thee – still thou art –
Exhilaration – is within –
Flowers of the Soul (2007) HENRY MOLLICONE
Dreams are Well
(b. 1946)
The Moon is Distant from the Sea
I Went to Heaven
Oh the Earth Was Made for Lovers
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned in 2007 by Jane Wait for Music from Copland House
Additional support for this program provided by The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia
University and The Peckham Family Foundation
Audience seating generously provided by O. Anthony Maddalena
Yamaha Piano generously provided by Faust Harrison Pianos, White Plains, NY
www.faustharrisonpianos.com, 914-288-4000
Special thanks to the dedicated Merestead team of the Westchester County
Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation: Tom Comito, Rick Woodward,
Edison Duma, and Conservation Director John Baker
Recording Engineer: Joseph Patrych, Patrych Sound Studios
Merestead performances are broadcast by WWFM and webcast by wwfm.org
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS:
AARON COPLAND was one of the most profoundly influential, beloved, and honored
musical figures in American history. He received three of America’s highest civilian
awards (the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, and National
Medal of Arts), a Pulitzer Prize, one of the first Kennedy Center Honors, Academy
Award for Best Original Musical Score (1950, for The Heiress), and numerous other
awards, foreign decorations, and honorary doctorates. In addition such iconic
works as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man,
and Lincoln Portrait, and such modern classics as the Short Symphony and Third
Symphony, Piano Variations, Piano Fantasy, Dickinson Songs, and Clarinet Concerto,
his catalogue includes a wide range of chamber, piano, vocal, operatic, choral, and
film music. Copland was also an active and accomplished pianist and conductor,
author, lecturer, mentor, peerless champion of American composers and their work,
and founder or pivotal early supporter of the Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center,
American Music Center, American Composers Alliance, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony,
and League of Composers.
Chicago-born ERNST BACON attended Northwestern University, the University
of Chicago, and the University of California. He was assistant conductor of the
Rochester Opera Company, led California’s Carmel Bach Festival, and supervised
the WPA Federal Music Project in San Francisco and conducted its orchestra. His
distinguished teaching career took him from the Eastman School of Music and
San Francisco Conservatory to South Carolina’s Converse College (as dean) and
Syracuse University (as director of the school of music). As a composer, he won two
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, and is best known for his songs, which show
unusual sensitivity to speech, color and rhythm. He set several dozen Dickinson
poems to music, as well as many texts of Walt Whitman. He is also known for his
many arrangements of American folk music. He performed widely as a pianist, and
authored several books, including the classic Notes on the Piano (1963).
GREGG KALLOR is the recipient of a 2011 Copland House Residency Award. In 2007,
the Abby Whiteside Foundation presented his New York concert debut in Carnegie
Hall, which featured the World Premiere of his acclaimed cycles Exhilaration and
Yeats Songs, and solo works showcasing his versatility. His most recent Carnegie Hall
concert featured the World Premiere of his nine-movement suite for solo piano, A
Single Noon - a musical tableau of life in New York City told through composition and
improvisation - and music by Béla Bartók, Chick Corea, Annie Clark, Henry Mancini,
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, and Louise Talma. His recording of A Single
Noon is to be released this year.
HENRY MOLLICONE has had major commissions from the Central City Opera, San
Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Minnesota Opera,
and many orchestras and choruses, and his work may be heard on the New World,
CRI, Albany, Newport Classic, and Crino Musica labels. Later this year, Newport
Classic is to release its full-length feature documentary film called The Face on
the Barroom Floor: The Poem, the Place, the Opera, about one of his operas. His
Flowers of the Soul, heard this afternoon, was written for and premiered by Music
from Copland House in 2007. Upon graduating from the New England Conservatory,
he became an assistant conductor at the New York City Opera. He subsequently
served as a musical assistant for the Bernstein-Lerner musical 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue. He has also worked in Los Angeles as an orchestrator and composer for
film and television, and has conducted productions at over a dozen American opera
companies.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:
Pianist and Copland House Artistic and Executive Director MICHAEL BORISKIN has
performed in over 30 countries, at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie
Hall, BBC, London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin and South West German Radios, Theatre
des Champs-Elysees in Paris, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and Vienna‘s Arnold
Schoenberg Center, and with leading international orchestras and chamber
ensembles. He has recorded widely on BMG/Conifer, Harmonia Mundi, New World,
Albany, Bridge, and SONY Classical.
Soprano AMY BURTON has performed internationally in opera, chamber music,
recitals, orchestral concerts, and cabaret, including a nationally-broadcast White
House performance. She has appeared often in New York at the New York City
Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center Festival and Great Performers series,
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Festival
of Song, and Carnegie Hall. She has recorded for Bridge, Angel/EMI, Albany, and
many others, and is on the faculties at the Mannes College of Music and California’s
Songfest.
Cellist NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center. He has performed at New York’s Bargemusic, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy
Center, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, Disney Hall, and the Santa Fe, Ravinia, Music@
Menlo, Moab, Bridgehampton, Sarasota, Verbier, Aspen, and Music from Angel
Fire Festivals, and was in residence at Carnegie Hall’s Academy ACJW. A graduate
of The Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory, he is currently on
the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division. He has a special
interest in filmmaking.
Soprano ARIADNE GREIF appeared in the title role in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de
Tiresias for Aldeburgh Music and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in
the UK. Her recent debuts include the American Symphony, Zankel Hall, Boston’s
Jordan Hall, Merkin Hall, and Bard’s Fisher Center. At Dawn Upshaw’s invitation,
she appeared at the Ojai Music Festival, and recently performed at the Yellow Barn,
Greenwich and Cape May Festivals. She founded Uncommon Temperament, a
Manhattan-based baroque ensemble.
In addition to her career as a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning
Trio Cavatina, violinist HARUMI RHODES is an Artist Member of the Boston Chamber
Music Society. During her residency with Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society
Two, she appeared at the Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Bard, Bridgehampton, Caramoor,
and Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival. She is on Juilliard’s Assistant Violin Faculty, and is
Professor of Violin at Syracuse University in 2012-13.