KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER PRESENTS What Makes it Great? Beethoven, the Pandemic & the Power of Connection The Appassionata Sonata Featuring Orli Shaham, piano 2020-21

MERKIN HALL Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center Monday, September 21, 2020 at 7 pm Kaufman Music Center presents What Makes It Great?® Beethoven, the Pandemic & the Power of Connection The Appassionata Sonata Rob Kapilow, commentator and conductor Orli Shaham, piano

Music Examples: Discussion and Demonstration

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (1770-1827) “Appassionata” (1807) I. Allegro assai II. Andante con moto III. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto

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Steinway is the official piano of Merkin Hall KaufmanMusicCenter.org/MH | 212 501 3330 About the Host

For over 30 years, Rob Kapilow has brought the joy and wonder of classical music – and unraveled some of its mysteries – to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Characterized by his unique ability to create an “aha” moment for his audiences and collaborators, whatever their level of musical sophistication or naiveté, Kapilow’s work brings music into people’s lives: opening new ears to musical experiences and helping people to listen actively rather than just hear.

Kapilow’s range of activities is astonishingly broad, including his What Makes It Great?®presentations (now for over 20 seasons in and Boston), his family compositions and Family Musik® events, his Citypieces, corporate programs, and residencies with institutions as diverse as the National Gallery of Canada and Stanford University. The reach of his interactive events and activities is wide, from Native American tribal communities in Montana and inner-city high school students in Louisiana to audiences in Kyoto and Kuala Lumpur, and from tots barely out of diapers to musicologists in Ivy League programs.

As the music world largely shifted to the virtual arena this summer, Mr. Kapilow recorded a new, three- part, socially-distanced series of What Makes it Great? programs entitled “Beethoven, the Pandemic and the Power of Connection” filmed in ’s Merkin Hall with Kaufman Music Center. He created Livestream programs for the Caramoor Festival as well as Stanford Live, and taught a 7-week online course, “Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim” for the Thurnauer School of Music of the Kaplan JCC of the Palisades, and worked with related themes in a unique, virtual corporate program on listening for CEOs in Istanbul and Dubai.

A summer highlight was a collaboration with the innovative dance group Pilobolus in which Mr. Kapilow helped curate and perform, as well as compose a new choral work based on a Rumi text, for their remarkable, live, car-safari-experience-in-the-woods at their Five Senses Festi- val in Washington Connecticut. In addition to the Rumi choral composition, Mr. Kapilow also worked intensively on his new, large-scale choral/orchestral composition, We Came to Ameri- ca, based on immigrant stories, and previewed parts of the work on a special 2-hour evening on WWFM radio combining demonstrations and discussions of the new work along with analy- ses of music ranging from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony to Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow.”

In June, Mr. Kapilow signed a new, two-book contract with Norton/Liveright, and he is currently hard at work doing research for both books, the first on the music of the Woodstock Generation.

Kapilow has appeared on NBC’s Today Show with Katie Couric; he presented a special What Makes It Great?® for broadcast on PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center; and he has written two books published by Wiley/Lincoln Center: All You Have To Do Is Listen, which won the PSP Prose Award for Best Book in Music and the Performing Arts, and What Makes It Great (2011), the first book of its kind to be especially designed for the iPad with embedded musical examples. His new book, Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim, published by Norton/Liveright is now available.

Rob Kapilow dedicates his summer months to writing and composing new music. He was the first composer to be granted the rights to set Dr. Seuss’ words to music, and his Green Eggs and Ham KaufmanMusicCenter.org/MH | 212 501 3330 has been called “the most successful piece written for families this half century.” A CD featuring Nathan Gunn and Isabel Leonard in two more of his popular Family Musik® compositions, Chris van Allsburg’s Polar Express and Dr. Seuss’s Gertrude McFuzz, was released in 2014, and his new piece for the 25th anniversary of Ottawa Chamberfest based on Louise Bourgeois’ spider sculp- ture, “Maman.” received its premiere in August of 2019. He is currently working on a large new piece for the JCC based on immigrant stories called We Came to America to be premiered in 2021.

Kapilow’s career has been marked by numerous major awards and grants. He won First Place in the Fon- tainebleau Casadesus Piano Competition and was the second-place winner of the Antal Dorati Conduc- tor’s Competition with the Detroit Symphony. He was featured on Chicago Public Radio’s Composers In America series, and is a recipient of an Exxon Meet-the-Composer grant and numerous ASCAP awards.

Kapilow has conducted many of North America’s major orchestras, as well as new works of musical theater, ranging from the Tony Award-winning Nine on Broadway to the premiere of Frida for the opening of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, and premieres of works for the American Repertory Theater. At the age of 19, Kapilow interrupted his academic work at Yale University to study with the legendary Nadia Boulanger. Two years later, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, he continued his studies at Eastman School of Music. After graduating from Eastman, he returned to Yale, where he was an assistant professor for six years at the university. He lives in River Vale, NJ, with his wife and three children.

About the Artist

Hailed as a “first rate Mozartean” by the Chicago Tribune, Orli Shaham performs the first of a pair of recitals exploring the deep musical connections between her favorite Mozart piano sonatas and other beloved works for the keyboard. In this program, Ms. Shaham reveals the connections between Mozart’s intense Sonata No. 14 in C minor and Beethoven’s moving “Pathétique,” which shows the influence of that particular Mozart work.

Orli Shaham has established an international reputation as one of today’s most gifted pianists, admired for her interpretations of both standard and modern repertoire. She has performed with many of the major orchestras around the world, and in recital from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is Artistic Director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series (Costa Mesa, California) and Artistic Director of the interactive children’s concert series, Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010. In 2020, Ms. Shaham and Kaufman Music Center produced Bach Yard Playdates, an interactive video series avail- able online.

In 2020, Ms. Shaham releases Volume 1 of the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas on Canary Classics. Her Mozart recording project began with her album of Piano Concertos K.453 and K.491 with St. Louis Symphony (Canary Classics, 2019). Also in 2020, Ms. Shaham was named Regular Guest Host and Creative for the national radio program From the Top.

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Pianos by Steinway and Sons. The house harpsichord was built by Eric Herz in 1985 and donated by Mr. Joseph Wronker.

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Celebration of Our Muse Kaufman Music Center gratefully acknowledges the generous supporters who made leadership gifts to our educational programs, in honor of the retirement of our longstanding Executive Director, Lydia Kontos. Under Lydia’s leadership, the Center’s educational programs grew significantly, making a transformative impact on the young people of New York City. Apollo’s Circle Lyric Poets Helene Blue Evelyne Luest and $100,000 $10,000 to $24,999 Roger Chen and Eileen Shin Aaron Jay Kernis Elaine and Henry Kaufman Sanford L. Batkin Lilian and Jacob Cohen Christina M. Mason Carolina Farias Betty Neal and Ronald A. Crutcher Karen McKinnon and Muses Phyllis and Samuel Feder Todd Dimston and Melissa Bank Ricardo Zurita $50,000 Judith and Robert Hall Gina Dizzia and Daniel Fernandez Joohee and Gabriel Meister Rosalind Devon Helen Hovdesven Elizabeth and Adrian Ellis Olga Nekrasova and Charles Dimston and Solange Landau Judi Sorensen Flom Andy Arluk Elena Asribekova Wendy and Bruce Mosler Michelle and Mark Graham Amanda Offit Bethany and Robert B. Millard The Mystery Lady of Santa Fe Mariel Harris and The Edward John and Patricia Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc. Barbara Rellstab Daniel Cooperman Rosenwald Foundation Janet and William Schwartz Orli Shaham and Jane Huber and The Alfred and Jane Ross David Robertson L. Chandler Carter Foundation Oracles Janet and Gil Spitzer Hooni Kim and Catharine Chang Jessica L. Rothstein and $25,000 to $49,999 Roni Tamari and Shai Wosner The Kontos/Busquet family (Nina, Kurt Lageschulte Connie and Leonard Goodman John, Laurent, and Nicholas) Rita Fredricks Salzman Migene Kim and Dennis Lee Greek Chorus Yvonne Lau and Derek Tsui Katherine M. Schlatter and Cathy White O’Rourke $1,000 to $9,999 Jenny X. Liao Joseph P. Mauro Marjorie Penrod and Eric Wallar Arlene and Alan Alda Euching Lin and Wayne E. Yang Jack and Janet Teich Stephanie and Mark Rambler Margot Astrachan Production Alex and Brad Linard Joy and Graham Wyatt Christa and Chris Somers Johanna Roman Barish Ann and Michael Loeb Luka and Niko Zylik

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Presentations in Merkin Hall are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and from the New York City Council through the good offices of Council Member Helen Rosen- thal. Kaufman Music Center presentations in Merkin Hall are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Presentations in Merkin Hall are also supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.