American Classics
Up one levelConcert programs and projects featuring classical repertoire by American composers
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Variations on America
- Piano Solo and Voice and Piano recital programs featuring American composers and repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries. In this concert one hears the various strands of American culture and their intermingling to create new styles and forms of American music.
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Variations on America for Voice and Piano
- Voice and Piano recital programs featuring American composers and repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries. In this concert one hears the various strands of American culture and their intermingling to create new styles and forms of American music.
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Soul of America
- African-American History Month Programs
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Homages to George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill
- These concert programs were developed during the centennial years of Gershwin, Copland and Weill in 1998, 1999 and 2000 respectively. They feature tributes to various angles and aspects of these composers compositions, lives and eras. In addition, concert tributes to Leonard Bernstein are included in this section.
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Visionary Landscapes
- Solo piano recital of American, European and Latin American piano music drawing upon the mysticism, philiosphy and spiritual traditions of 19th and 20th century America: from the Native Americans to the Transcendentalists and Jewish, African-American, Zen Shinto and the Armenian Orthodox traditions among others.
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Gershwin and Friends
- The music of George Gershwin for solo piano along with music by composers who influenced him and who were influenced by him
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American Christmas
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Senku: Music of the African Diaspora
- Piano recital by William Chapman Nyaho of composers of the African diaspora