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America\u2019s musical past and future meet in a provocative new concert series The Graduate Center, CUNY\u00a0 and Copland House will launch this fall. These performances will champion a century of America\u2019s vibrant musical legacy, within the context of broad cultural, historical, and societal currents. The six-concert series ranges widely, from performances of early 20th<\/sup> century masters and an evening of major chamber works by Aaron Copland to musical explorations inspired by identity and assimilation, spiritual journeys, and the intersection of visual art and music.<\/p>\n The series begins on November 4, 2019 and extends through June 15, 2020. All events will take place on Monday evenings at 7.30pm at The Graduate Center\u2019s elegant, acoustically outstanding Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th<\/sup> Street) in Manhattan. Each program will last an hour, without intermission, followed by a meet-the-artists reception. The concerts will all be filmed live by CUNY TV for subsequent telecast to its estimated viewership of over 7 million households in metro New York.<\/p>\n Highlighting the series are new compositions commissioned by Copland House from Sebastian Currier and Graduate Center Professor John Musto; the first New York performances of works by Kevin Puts, Pierre Jalbert, Flannery Cunningham, and Angel Lam; and the world premieres of six commissioned pieces by the 2020 Fellows of Copland House\u2019s acclaimed CULTIVATE emerging composers institute, directed by Music from Copland House founding clarinetist.<\/p>\n “Music opens doors and is an essential instrument for education” said Brian A. Peterson, Interim Vice President of\u00a0Administration and Finance\u00a0and the Dean for\u00a0Academic Initiatives and Strategic Innovation at The Graduate Center. “The arts provide an important catalyst for learning, creativity, and achievement in our communities. This new partnership with Copland House will engage our students and inspire audiences to discover surprising possibilities through these artists performing thrilling works from across America\u2019s vast and vibrant musical spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n All of these concerts will feature the Music from Copland House ensemble, hailed as \u201cbold,\u201d \u201cadventurous,\u201d and \u201csuperb\u201d (The New Yorker<\/em>). The only American repertory ensemble that journeys widely across 150 years of the U.S. musical landscape, MCH performs at Tanglewood, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, and other major venues; appears on CBS Sunday Morning<\/em>, NPR, the European Broadcasting Union, and Sirius; and records on the Koch, Arabesque, and Copland House Blend labels. The ensemble\u2019s roster of Founding, Principal, and Guest Artists includes some of America\u2019s most celebrated performers, of whom The Chicago Tribune<\/em> has raved, \u201cCopland would have been proud of all of them.\u201d Music from Copland House will also offer several rising-star instrumentalists from The Graduate Center\u2019s doctoral program the opportunity to perform side-by-side as Guest Artists with the ensemble at a number of these concerts \u2013 an important aspect of Copland House\u2019s mission championing\u00a0 next-generation artists.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve played with and written for the excellent musicians of Music from Copland House, and we welcome them enthusiastically,\u201d said composer-pianist John Musto, Coordinator of The Graduate Center\u2019s D.M.A. Performance Program. \u201cIt is a privilege to host them here at The Graduate Center in the ensemble\u2019s own series, and we are especially\u00a0fortunate that they will periodically share the stage with some of the gifted young performers in our D.M.A. program.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEven in a city like New York,\u201d said Copland House\u2019s Artistic and Executive Director Michael Boriskin, \u201cthere is ample room for a dynamic new performance platform to explore and celebrate the vast breadth of a century-and-a-half of American musical invention and imagination. And these concerts will also offer the added excitement of discovering some of The Graduate Center\u2019s richly-gifted instrumentalists.\u201d<\/p>\n Individual tickets are $30; discounts for CUNY Faculty and Staff, Friends of Copland House, and seniors over 65 are $20. Subscriptions for any three concerts are $81, or $54 discount. Subscriptions for all six concerts are $153, or $102. Tickets may be purchased securely online<\/a> at<\/p>\n Concert information is available online<\/a>\u00a0or at Copland House at (914) 788-4659, via email<\/a> , or www.coplandhouse.org<\/a> . Media inquiries should be directed to Dworkin & Company at (914) 244-3803 or elizabeth@dworkincompany.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n ABOUT THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY <\/strong><\/p>\n The Graduate Center, CUNY is a leader in public graduate education devoted to enhancing the public good through pioneering research, serious learning, and reasoned debate. The Graduate Center offers ambitious students more than 40 doctoral and master\u2019s programs of the highest caliber, taught by top faculty from throughout CUNY \u2013 the nation\u2019s largest public urban university. Through its nearly 40 centers, institutes, initiatives, and the Advanced Science Research Center, The Graduate Center influences public policy and discourse and shapes innovation. With its extensive public programs, The Graduate Center is one of New York City\u2019s leading venues for culture and conversation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n ABOUT COPLAND HOUSE AND MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE<\/strong><\/p>\n Copland House is an award-winning creative center for American music based at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark residence in Westchester County, NY. Inaugurated in 1998, Copland House is the only composer’s home in the U.S. devoted to nurturing and renewing America’s rich musical heritage through a broad range of activities that embrace the entire creative process:\u00a0 multi-faceted composer support, live and recorded performances, and in-school and on-site educational activities. Music from Copland House (MCH) occupies a special place as this country’s only wide-ranging American repertory ensemble that explores a century-and-a-half of the nation\u2019s rich musical heritage. Hailed by The New York Times<\/em> for performances that are “bracing, \u201cbeguiling … and all exuberance and bright sunshine” and that \u201cilluminate essential truths about the music,\u201d MCH has been a regular presence on major stages across North America, including Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, Yale and Brandeis Universities, Merkin Hall, Miller Theatre, and the Caramoor, Cape Cod, Bard, SONiC, and Ecstatic Music Festivals,\u00a0 among many others, and has a growing discography on the Arabesque, Koch International, and Copland House Blend labels. Its popular mainstage concert series in Westchester County, NY is now 11th<\/sup> season. Inspired by Copland’s peerless, lifelong advocacy of American composers, MCH also presents a wide variety of educational and community outreach activities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FUNDING CREDITS<\/strong><\/p>\n Major support for Copland House’s 2019-2020 season comes from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Friends of Copland House. Additional support comes from ArtsWestchester, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and the Amphion, ASCAP, BMI, Jandon, and Westchester Community Foundations. This series is supported by The Office for Academic Initiatives and Strategic Innovation at The Graduate Center, CUNY.<\/p>\n #\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All concerts on Monday evening at 7.30pm, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n November 4, 2019 \u2013 SONIC IMAGES:\u00a0 CHAMBER MUSIC OF AARON COPLAND<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Inaugurating this new series with a pre-birthday salute to an artistic icon and Music from Copland House\u2019s namesake \u2013 a commanding figure who helped to define the sound and spirit of what he called \u201ca recognizably American musical idiom.”<\/p>\n Major chamber works, including the Violin Sonata, Piano Quartet, and Sextet<\/em><\/p>\n MCH ARTISTS: Derek Bermel, clarinet; Magdalena Filipczak^ and Pala Garcia^, violins; Danielle Farina, viola; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Michael Boriskin, piano<\/p>\n <\/p>\n December 2, 2019 \u2013 THE LISTENING EYE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Eye meets ear at the intersection of art and music, with compositions inspired by line drawings and paintings of Pablo Picasso, vibrant color abstracts of Robert Motherwell, stained glass of Frank Lloyd Wright, and ancient ceramics and statuary of the Incas.<\/p>\n New York Premieres by Viet Cuong (Fine Lines)* and Karim Al-Zand (Three Bagatelles), plus works by Andrew Norman (Light Screens), Gabriela Lena Frank (Quatro Bosquejos; Four Pre-Inca Sketches), and Robert Sirota (Seven Picassos)<\/em><\/p>\n MCH ARTISTS: Beomjae Kim, flute; Derek Bermel, clarinet; Curtis Macomber, violin;\u00a0 Danielle Farina, viola; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Michael Boriskin, piano<\/p>\n <\/p>\n February 3, 2020 \u2013 VOYAGE OUT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Magical, mystical journeys \u2013 real, imagined, and spiritual \u2013 coursing through sound and time, hereditary history and the Scottish highlands, and an ancient Egyptian guide to the after-life (as interpreted through the lens of a Bill Viola video installation).<\/p>\n New York Premieres of works by Flannery Cunningham (Boreal)*, Sebastian Currier (Voyage Out)*, and Kevin Puts (Living Frescoes)<\/em><\/p>\n MCH ARTISTS:\u00a0 Igor Begelman^, clarinet; Curtis Macomber and Suliman Tekalli, violins;\u00a0 Danielle Farina, viola; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Michael Boriskin, piano<\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 2, 2020 \u2013 MIGRATION TALES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Migration, identity, and assimilation across the generations, heard through a contemporary re-mix of sounds of ancestral homelands, family roots, and ethnic and cultural heritage.<\/p>\n New York Premieres by Angel Lam (Fragrance of the Sea)* and Pierre Jalbert (Crossings)*, plus works by Reena Esmail (Tasveer)*, Saad Haddad (Thulathi), and David Schiff (Divertimento from \u201cGimpel the Fool\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n MCH ARTISTS:<\/p>\n Beomjae Kim, flute; Derek Bermel, clarinet; Curtis Macomber, violin; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Michael Boriskin, piano<\/p>\n <\/p>\n April 27, 2020 \u2013 SPOTLIGHTS, NEW AND DISTANT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A century of instrumental virtuosity and \u201cstar-turns,\u201d animated by gospel singing, Latin rhythms, Baroque chamber music, and French country idylls.<\/p>\n World Premiere by John Musto (Piano Trio No. 2*, plus works by Derek Bermel (Soul Garden), Aaron Jay Kernis (Air), Arthur Foote (Nocturne), and<\/em> Ernest Bloch (Concertino for Flute, Viola, and Strings)<\/em><\/p>\n MCH ARTISTS:\u00a0 Marina Piccinini, flute; Magdalena Filipczak^ and Curtis Macomber, violins;\u00a0 Danielle Farina and Paul Neubauer, violas; Thomas Kraines and Clare Monfredo^, cellos; Michael Boriskin, piano<\/p>\n <\/p>\n June 15, 2020 \u2013 CULTIVATE 2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Tomorrow\u2019s masters today! Journey to concert music\u2019s cutting-edge, with the World Premieres of six brand new works written especially for Copland House\u2019s acclaimed CULTIVATE emerging composers institute.<\/p>\n MCH ARTISTS:\u00a0 Derek Bermel and Moran Katz, clarinets; Pala Garcia^, violin; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Michael Boriskin and Margaret Kampmeier, pianos<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ^ = CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral program\u00a0 * = Copland House commission<\/p>\n <\/p>\n2019-20 INAUGURAL SEASON AT-A-GLANCE<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n