“I Hear America Singing”: the Musical World of Walt Whitman
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WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Sponsoring a concert, supporting a performer’s appearance, and assisting at our entry tables are just a few ways you can help bring Copland House’s American musical adventures to this majestic estate. As the only ongoing U.S. series to exclusively showcase our nation’s rich musical heritage, Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 3 PM we are re-imagining the concert experience, bringing America’s leading composers to Westchester, and previewing tomorrow’s classics in dynamic, up-close performances – all for only a modest price. Help us continue to make these world-class activities as accessible as possible with a tax-deductible “I Hear America Singing”: gift to Copland House, POB 2177, Peekskill, NY 10566. The Musical World Of Walt Whitman NEXT EVENTS: Sunday, June 9 at 3 PM MIRROR VISIONS ENSEMBLE CULTIVATE 2013 (soprano Vira Slywotzky, tenor Scott Murphree, baritone Jesse Blumberg) Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco and pianist Alan Darling Hear tomorrow’s masters today! Featuring the World Premieres of six brand new works by CULTIVATE 2013 Fellows Tyler Capp, Louis Chiap petta, Takuma Itoh, William Dougherty, Loren Loiacono, and Nathan Shields (CH I Hear America Singing (2008) TOM CIPULLO Resident ’11). Tickets: $15, FREE for Friends of Copland House and students with ID A Clear Midnight (2009) (b. 1956) Includes audience Q&A and meet-the artists reception. The Wave, from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (2009) Advance ticket purchase/reservations strongly encouraged. For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] To You (1957) NED ROREM O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (1957) (b. 1923) Sunday, July 14 at 3 PM Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (1969) A Bastille Day Celebration Lyndhurst, 635 South Broadway, Tarrytown To What You Said (1977) LEONARD BERNSTEIN Toast France’s answer to the Fourth of July, with a musical visit to a 1920s Parisian salon! Features music by Debussy, Poulenc, Milhaud, Stravinsky, and Copland. (1918-1990) Tickets: Available online after 6/10/13; www.lyndhurst.org/music or 914-631-4481 From Noon to Starry Night: A Walt Whitman Cantata (2006) RUSSELL PLATT Includes meet-the artists reception. Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged. (b. 1965) A Clear Midnight Sunday, July 28 from 2pm to 5pm Salut au Monde! (Part 1) An Open House at Copland House Paumanok Visit Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in Cortlandt Manor, enjoy a mini-concert in his own When I Heard at the Close of the Day studio, and sample hors d‘oeuvres and light refreshments. I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Tickets by invitation only for Friends of Copland House. Twilight For more information or to become a member, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] The Dying Veteran (A Long Island Incident – Early part of the Present Century) Sunday, September 22 at 5:30 PM The Dismantled Ship A Cut Above: A Culinary & Musical Gala Unseen Buds Celebrating Copland House’s 15th Anniversary A Sketch (1842) Porter House restaurant, with renowned Chef Michael Lomonaco Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle, New York City Additional support for this program provided by Gala Tickets: $500 and up; sponsorships from $625 and up. The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University and The Peckham Family Foundation For more info, contact 914-788-4659 or [email protected] Audience seating generously provided by O. Anthony Maddalena Sunday, September 28 at 8 PM th Opening Night Celebration: Copland House’s 15 Anniversary Yamaha Piano generously provided by Faust Harrison Pianos, White Plains, NY Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco www.faustharrisonpianos.com, 914-288-4000 A cavalcade of Copland’s greatest hits, commissions, and revivals, with surprise guests. Tickets: $50 Includes meet-the artists reception. Recording Engineer: Joseph Patrych, Patrych Sound Studios Advance ticket purchase/reservations strongly encouraged. Merestead performances are broadcast by WWFM and webcast by wwfm.org For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] Special thanks to the dedicated Merestead team of the Westchester County SUBSCRIBE TO OUR 2013-14 SEASON ! Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation: Tom Comito, Rick Woodward, For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected]. Edison Duma, and Conservation Director John Baker ABOUT THE COMPOSERS: Sohn, pianists Brian Zeger and Margo Garrett, and conductor Alexander Platt with the Wisconsin TOM CIPULLO’s works have been heard in concert halls on four continents, from San Francisco and Philharmonic. His work has also been performed at the Aspen, Ravinia, and Grand Teton Festivals, Tel Aviv to Stockholm and LaPaz. A 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the newly-announced and can be heard on the Albany and Innova labels. He has received commissions from Bargemusic, recipient of Copland House’s Sylvia Goldstein Award, he has received commissions from the Mirror St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Ensembles, American Composers Forum, Mirror Visions Ensemble, Visions Ensemble, SongFest at Pepperdine University, Joy in Singing, Sequitur, Cantori New York, and Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, and has been awarded six composing residencies at tenor Paul Sperry, mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart, Five Boroughs Music Festival, pianist Jeanne Yaddo. An alumnus of Oberlin College, the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Minnesota, Golan, soprano Martha Guth, Walt Whitman Project, baritone Jesse Blumberg, New York Festival of and St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, he curated a “NYFOS Next” concert of contemporary Song, and many others. He has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, works by himself and others for the New York Festival of Song in April 2012. Recent commissions Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Copland House, Italy’s Liguria Study Center, Spain’s Fundacion include works for Switzerland’s Orchestre Symphonique Bienne (a piece which will be given its U.S. Valparaiso, Germany’s Oberpfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Minneapolis Pops, premiere in April 2014 by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic), Mirror Visions Ensemble (to National Association of Teachers of Singing, and San Francisco Song Festival. be premiered at the American University in Paris in the same month), and Five Boroughs Songbook. Although NED ROREM has composed three symphonies, four piano concertos, and an enormous ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: array of works for numerous combinations of orchestral and chamber forces, words and music have Founded in 1992 by Tobé Malawista, Richard Lalli, and Scott Murphree, THE MIRROR VISIONS long been inextricably linked for him. He is justly renowned for his art songs, and has composed ENSEMBLE celebrated its 20th anniversary last spring, and is now comprised of soprano Vira more than 500 of them; his evening-length song cycle for four singers and piano, Evidence of Things Slywotzky, tenor Scott Murphree, and baritone Jesse Blumberg, with Ms. Malawista as Artistic Not Seen (1998), represents his magnum opus in the genre. He has also composed ten operas Director. In the past few years, the ensemble has had a significant presence in Paris, performing (including his recent Our Town, on the Thornton Wilder classic), choral works of every description, in museums, churches, and universities. Last fall, the ensemble held a masterclass in conjunction and ballets and other music for the theater, and literally hundreds of songs and cycles. His work has with a performance of Concert à la carte at New York University along with composer and pianist been commissioned by virtually every major orchestral and chamber music organization in the U.S. Richard Pearson Thomas. In March, MVE visited Morse College of Yale University in a performance His 80th birthday in 2003 brought three new concertos -- for cello (commissioned by the Residentie featuring musical settings by Richard Lalli and Tom Cipullo of the poetry of Linda Pastan, and Orchestra in The Netherlands), cello (Philadelphia Orchestra), and percussion (Madison Symphony included readings and a dialogue between Cipullo and Pastan. Its 2013-2014 season will include and Eos Orchestra). In addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, more masterclasses in conjunction with a revival of the group’s musical portrait of Emmanuel three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, Musical America’s 1998 Composer in the Year, and a Grammy, Chabrier, Impressionism in Painting, Music & Life, and the release of a double CD. Commissioning is and ASCAP’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), he was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts an integral part of MVE’s mission, as seen in Platt’s From Noon to Starry Night on today’s program. and Letters by the French government in 2004. From 2000 to 2003 he served as President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in Richmond, Indiana, he grew up in Chicago, studied Soprano VIRA SLYWOTZKY has sung with the Seattle, Sarasota, Chautauqua, and Cape Cod Operas, at the Music School of Northwestern University, and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Opera Company of the Highlands, Boston Midsummer Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera, and Philadelphia and The Juilliard School; he is the author of sixteen books. Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. Favorite roles include Nedda (Pagliacci), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan Tutte), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), LEONARD BERNSTEIN’s multi-faceted gifts appeared early, and almost immediately after completing and the title role in Vanessa. Recipient of a 2007 Richard F. Gold Career Grant and twice a New his studies at Harvard, Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, and Tanglewood, he began his England Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, she represented the meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the classical music world. Before he was 30, his first symphony was U.S.