WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Would you like to sponsor one of these concerts? Support a performer’s appearance? Lend a hand at our entry tables? These are just a few of the many ways you can help bring Copland House’s American musical adventures to this majestic estate. As one of the very few ongoing series in the U.S. to showcase our nation’s rich musical heritage, Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 3 PM we are re-imagining the concert experience. We bring America’s leading composers here to Westchester, and preview tomorrow’s classics in dynamic, up-close perfor- A Solitude of Sound: The World of Emily Dickinson mances – all for only a very nominal cost. Please help us continue to make these world-class activities as accessible as possible by making a tax-deductible gift to MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE Copland House, P.O. Box 2177, Peekskill, NY 10566. Amy Burton and Ariadne Greif, sopranos; Harumi Rhodes, violinist; Nicholas Canellakis, cellist; Michael Boriskin and Gregg Kallor, pianists Next Concerts: Poems of Emily Dickinson (1949-50) [excerpts] AARON COPLAND Sunday, April 21 at 3 PM Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (1900-1990) TO AND FROM AMERICA Heart, We Will Forget Him Ossining Public Library, Budarz Theater, 53 Croton Ave. Ossining, NY Going to Heaven Crossing borders of countries, sounds, and cultures in a program of works by Aaron Copland, Will There Really Be a Morning? (1944) ERNST BACON Bela Bartok, and Sebastian Currier and featuring Igor Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat, with It’s All I Have to Bring (1944) (1898-1990) Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, Ossining Mayor William Hanauer, and realtor Mark Seiden in The Bat (1974) speaking roles! FREE concert; for information, visit www.ossininglibrary.org or call (914) 941-2416 Exhilaration (2007) GREGG KALLOR Exhilaration is the Breeze (b. 1978) Saturday, May 4 at 8 PM It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon – CELESTIAL HARMONIES: THE POETRY OF SCIENCE Bee! I’m expecting you! Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, NY We Cover Thee – Sweet Face – Celebrating the naming of a major crater on the planet Mercury after Copland. Astronomer Wild Nights – Wild Nights! What Inn is this Ronald Dantowitz, Director of the Clay Center Observatory in Massachusetts, discovered the I should not dare to leave my friend crater, and will lead an audience Q&A on this program of music inspired by the heavens and Still owe thee – still thou art – space. Featuring A Circle Around the Sun by Augusta Read Thomas, Northern Lights by Roger Exhilaration – is within – 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. Flowers of the Soul (2007) HENRY MOLLICONE Tickets: $25, $20 (Friends of Copland House), $10 (students with ID) (includes meet-the-artist reception) Dreams are Well (b. 1946) Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged The Moon is Distant from the Sea For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] I Went to Heaven Oh the Earth Was Made for Lovers Sunday, June 2 at 3 PM WORLD PREMIERE “I HEAR AMERICA SINGING”: THE WORLD OF WALT WHITMAN Commissioned in 2007 by Jane Wait for Music from Copland House 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 Additional support for this program provided by The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia Bernstein, Ned Rorem, and Tom Cipullo (CH Resident 2006) on Whitman texts. University and The Peckham Family Foundation Tickets: $25, $20 (Friends of Copland House), $10 (students with ID) (includes meet-the-artist reception) Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged Audience seating generously provided by O. Anthony Maddalena For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] 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 Recording Engineer: Joseph Patrych, Patrych Sound Studios Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation: Tom Comito, Rick Woodward, Merestead performances are broadcast by WWFM and webcast by wwfm.org Edison Duma, and Conservation Director John Baker ABOUT THE COMPOSERS: he became an assistant conductor at the New York City Opera. He subsequently AARON COPLAND was one of the most profoundly influential, beloved, and honored served as a musical assistant for the Bernstein-Lerner musical 1600 Pennsylvania musical figures in American history. He received three of America’s highest civilian Avenue. He has also worked in Los Angeles as an orchestrator and composer for awards (the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, and National film and television, and has conducted productions at over a dozen American opera Medal of Arts), a Pulitzer Prize, one of the first Kennedy Center Honors, Academy companies.

Award for Best Original Musical Score (1950, for The Heiress), and numerous other ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: awards, foreign decorations, and honorary doctorates. In addition such iconic Pianist and Copland House Artistic and Executive DirectorMICHAEL BORISKIN has works as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man, performed in over 30 countries, at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie and Lincoln Portrait, and such modern classics as the Short Symphony and Third Hall, BBC, London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin and South West German Radios, Theatre Symphony, Piano Variations, Piano Fantasy, Dickinson Songs, and Clarinet Concerto, des Champs-Elysees in Paris, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and Vienna‘s Arnold his catalogue includes a wide range of chamber, piano, vocal, operatic, choral, and Schoenberg Center, and with leading international orchestras and chamber film music. Copland was also an active and accomplished pianist and conductor, ensembles. He has recorded widely on BMG/Conifer, Harmonia Mundi, New World, author, lecturer, mentor, peerless champion of American composers and their work, Albany, Bridge, and SONY Classical. and founder or pivotal early supporter of the Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center, American Music Center, American Composers Alliance, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Soprano AMY BURTON has performed internationally in opera, chamber music, and League of Composers. recitals, orchestral concerts, and cabaret, including a nationally-broadcast White House performance. She has appeared often in New York at the New York City Chicago-born ERNST BACON attended Northwestern University, the University Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center Festival and Great Performers series, of Chicago, and the University of California. He was assistant conductor of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Festival Rochester Opera Company, led California’s Carmel Bach Festival, and supervised of Song, and Carnegie Hall. She has recorded for Bridge, Angel/EMI, Albany, and the WPA Federal Music Project in San Francisco and conducted its orchestra. His many others, and is on the faculties at the Mannes College of Music and California’s distinguished teaching career took him from the Eastman School of Music and Songfest. 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 Cellist NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, and is best known for his songs, which show Center. He has performed at New York’s Bargemusic, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy unusual sensitivity to speech, color and rhythm. He set several dozen Dickinson Center, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, Disney Hall, and the Santa Fe, Ravinia, Music@ poems to music, as well as many texts of Walt Whitman. He is also known for his Menlo, Moab, Bridgehampton, Sarasota, Verbier, Aspen, and Music from Angel many arrangements of American folk music. He performed widely as a pianist, and Fire Festivals, and was in residence at Carnegie Hall’s Academy ACJW. A graduate authored several books, including the classic Notes on the Piano (1963). 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 GREGG KALLOR is the recipient of a 2011 Copland House Residency Award. In 2007, interest in filmmaking. the Abby Whiteside Foundation presented his New York concert debut in Carnegie Hall, which featured the World Premiere of his acclaimed cycles Exhilaration and Soprano ARIADNE GREIF appeared in the title role in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Yeats Songs, and solo works showcasing his versatility. His most recent Carnegie Hall Tiresias for Aldeburgh Music and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in concert featured the World Premiere of his nine-movement suite for solo piano, A the UK. Her recent debuts include the American Symphony, Zankel Hall, Boston’s Single Noon - a musical tableau of life in New York City told through composition and Jordan Hall, Merkin Hall, and Bard’s Fisher Center. At Dawn Upshaw’s invitation, improvisation - and music by Béla Bartók, Chick Corea, Annie Clark, Henry Mancini, she appeared at the Ojai Music Festival, and recently performed at the Yellow Barn, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, and Louise Talma. His recording of A Single Greenwich and Cape May Festivals. She founded Uncommon Temperament, a Noon is to be released this year. Manhattan-based baroque ensemble. HENRY MOLLICONE has had major commissions from the Central City Opera, San In addition to her career as a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Minnesota Opera, Trio Cavatina, violinist HARUMI RHODES is an Artist Member of the Boston Chamber and many orchestras and choruses, and his work may be heard on the New World, Music Society. During her residency with Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society CRI, Albany, Newport Classic, and Crino Musica labels. Later this year, Newport Two, she appeared at the Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Bard, Bridgehampton, Caramoor, Classic is to release its full-length feature documentary film calledThe Face on and Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival. She is on Juilliard’s Assistant Violin Faculty, and is the Barroom Floor: The Poem, the Place, the Opera, about one of his operas. His Professor of Violin at Syracuse University in 2012-13. 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,