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, we Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 8 PM are re-imagining the concert experience. We bring America’s leading composers here to Westchester, and preview tomorrow’s classics in dynamic, up-close performances – all for Celestial Harmonies: The Poetry of Science 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 Copland House, P.O. Box 2177, MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE Peekskill, NY 10566. Jorell Williams, baritone; Harumi Rhodes, violinist; Next Concerts: Alexis Pia Gerlach, cellist; Michael Boriskin, pianist Sunday, May 12 at 3 PM Mercury, ANTHONY NEWMAN SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME from Sonata No. 2 “Based on the Planets” (2006) (b. 1941) Lyndhurst, 635 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY Join us in the historic Lyndhurst mansion’s 1838 Blue Parlor for the 30th Annual Weiss Memo- Northern Lights (2009) ROGER ZARE rial Concert: a scintillating afternoon of old and new Americana by Copland, Ives, Bernstein, Gershwin, Sousa, Bolcom, Burleigh, and others celebrating moms – and home, family, kids … (b. 1985) and even dads! Featuring baritone James Martin and pianist Michael Boriskin. Tickets: $25 adults, $14 children (16 and under) Closing Scene, from Man on the Moon (2006) JONATHAN DOVE Purchase tickets at: http://www.showclix.com/event/weiss or call (914) 631-4481 (b. 1959) Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged Sponsored by Lyndhurst and generously underwritten by the Weiss Memorial Fund Liberating Chemistry from BRUCE SAYLOR Sunday, June 2 at 3 PM the Tyranny of Functional Groups (2001) (b. 1946) “I HEAR AMERICA SINGING”: THE WORLD OF WALT WHITMAN Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, NY … A Circle around the Sun … (2000) AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Featuring From Noon to Starry Night by Russell Platt (CH Resident ‘06), plus works by Leonard (b. 1964) Bernstein, Ned Rorem, and Tom Cipullo (CH Resident ‘06) on Whitman texts. Tickets: $25, $20 (Friends of Copland House), $10 (students with ID) Includes audience Q&A and meet-the artists reception from Old American Songs (1950, 1952) AARON COPLAND Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged Simple Gifts (1900-1990) For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] Zion’s Walls The Dodger Sunday, June 9 at 3 PM Bought Me a Cat CULTIVATE 2013 Ching-A-Ring-Chaw Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco, NY Hear tomorrow’s masters today! After a triumphant inaugural last summer, Copland House’s At the River new CULTIVATE emerging composers’ institute returns with the World Premieres of six brand new works written especially for this program by our 2013 Fellows: Tyler Capp, Louis Chiap- Additional support for this program provided by The Alice M. Ditson Fund of petta, Takuma Itoh, William Dougherty, Loren Loiacono, and Nathan Shields (CH Resident ’11). Columbia University and The Peckham Family Foundation Tickets: $15, FREE for Friends of Copland House and students with ID Includes audience Q&A and meet-the artists reception. Audience seating generously provided by O. Anthony Maddalena Advance ticket purchase/reservations strongly encouraged. For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] Presented in collaboration with the Clay Center, Brookline, MA SUBSCRIBE TO OUR 2013-14 SEASON ! Yamaha Piano generously provided by Faust Harrison Pianos, White Plains, NY For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected]. 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, Recording Engineer: Joseph Patrych, Patrych Sound Studios Edison Duma, and Conservation Director John Baker Merestead performances are broadcast by WWFM and webcast by wwfm.org ABOUT THE COMPOSERS: and the Eastman School of Music’s National Council, and is a Board member of the The brilliant, pioneering harpsichordist and organist ANTHONY NEWMAN is also a prolific American Society for the Royal Academy of Music and the American Music Center. composer whose works have been heard in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, AARON COPLAND was one of the most profoundly influential, beloved, and honored London, New York, and across America. He has written four symphonies, four concerti, musical figures in American history. He received three of America’s highest civilian three substantial choral works, two operas, and many piano, chamber, organ, and guitar awards (the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, and National compositions. A Los Angeles native, he studied with two French legends, pianist Alfred Medal of Arts), a Pulitzer Prize, one of the first Kennedy Center Honors, Academy Cortot and organist Pierre Cochereau, and was a Mannes College of Music, Harvard, and Award for Best Original Musical Score (1950, for The Heiress), and numerous other Boston University graduate. He was a longtime Professor of Music at SUNY-Purchase. awards, foreign decorations, and honorary doctorates. In addition to iconic works like ROGER ZARE often finds creative inspiration in the sciences. His works have been Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man, and Lincoln performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota and Sarasota Orchestras, Portrait, and modern classics like the Short Symphony and Third Symphony, Piano Omaha Chamber Symphony, Aspen Festival Contemporary Ensemble, and New York Variations, Piano Fantasy, Dickinson Songs, and Clarinet Concerto, his wide-ranging Youth Symphony. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Peabody Conservatory, and catalogue includes chamber, piano, vocal, operatic, choral, and film music. He was also University of Southern California, he has received ASCAP’s Nissim Prize and Morton an active and accomplished pianist and conductor, author, lecturer, mentor, peerless Gould Award, three BMI Student Composer Awards, the 2008 American Composers champion of American composers and their work, and founder or pivotal early supporter Orchestra Underwood Commission, and a 2010 Charles Ives Scholarship from the of Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center, American Music Center, American Composers American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was the ASCAP Foundation Fellow at Alliance, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and League of Composers. Copland House’s inaugural CULTIVATE emerging composers institute, and was composer- in-residence at Maine’s Salt Bay Chamberfest. ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: Pianist and Copland House Artistic and Executive DirectorMICHAEL BORISKIN has London-born JONATHAN DOVE was playing the organ in his local parish church by age 12. performed in over 30 countries, at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, After studying at Cambridge, he worked on the music staff at Glyndebourne, and served BBC, London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin and South West German Radios, Theatre des as Music Advisor to London’s Almeida Theatre, for which he wrote music for many plays. Champs-Elysees in Paris, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and Vienna‘s Arnold Schoenberg He has also composed works for the Royal Shakespeare Company, New York Shakespeare Center, and with leading international orchestras and chamber ensembles. He has Festival and London’s National Theatre. He has written a half-dozen operas for Italy’s recorded widely on BMG/Conifer, Harmonia Mundi, New World, Albany, Bridge, and Musica nel Chiostro, BBC-TV, and Opera OT in The Netherlands, as well as another half- SONY Classical. dozen stage works inspired by community involvement for Glyndebourne and the London Borough of Hackney. His award-winning cantata On Spital Fields (2005) was composed for Cellist ALEXIS PIA GERLACH has performed throughout the world as a soloist and the Spitalfields Festival, of which he was Artistic Director from 2001 to 2006. chamber musician with conductors Mstislav Rostropovich, James DePreist, and Peter Oundjian, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Charleston and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, BRUCE SAYLOR’s catalogue of commissioned works includes four operas, and he has and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and at the Marlboro, Caramoor, and composed many large-scale choral, symphonic, instrumental, and chamber works. He Aspen Festivals. As a member of the Trio Solisti, she performs on major concert series has also provided scores for theatrical productions and dance, and special music for around the U. S., and is heard on the ensemble’s four CDs. As a founding member of important national occasions and religious events, including President Clinton’s Second Concertante, she appears throughout the country, and commissioned and premiered Inaugural and Papal visits of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. His work with American soprano Jessye Norman includes original music and arrangements for two best-selling Arcana by Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts. holiday CDs and her Sacred Ellington concert. A longtime faculty member of the Copland In addition to her career as a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Trio School of Music at Queens College (CUNY), he has received the Ives Scholarship and the Cavatina, violinist HARUMI RHODES is an Artist Member of the Boston Chamber Music Music Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Composition Society. During her residency with Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, she Prize from the National Society of Arts and Letters, and awards from the Guggenheim and appeared at the Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Bard, Bridgehampton, Caramoor, and Japan’s Mellon Foundations. Saito Kinen Festival. She is on Juilliard’s Assistant Violin Faculty, and is Professor of Violin A native New Yorker, AUGUSTA READ THOMAS is among America’s most frequently at Syracuse University.