Curtis on Tour
Curtis on Tour The Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music WHEN: VENUE: Sunday, BInG March 4, 2018 cOncErT haLL 4:00 PM Photo: Pete checchia Program Artists Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) david Shifrin, clarinet Grazioso—Un poco più mosso dominic armstrong, tenor Andantino—Vivace e leggiero Zorá String Quartet david Shifrin, clarinet • Jiacheng Xiong, piano Jiacheng Xiong, piano Zizai ning , cello “Extinguish my eyes” from Two Love Songs Leonard Bernstein “I’ve been Afraid” from A Quiet Place “So Pretty” “When My Soul Touches Yours” from Two Love Songs About “My Twelve Tone Melody” the Program “Dream with Me” from Peter Pan dominic armstrong, tenor • Jiacheng Xiong, piano • Zizai ning, cello Leonard Bernstein, aaron copland, and George Gershwin composed some of Sextet for Piano, Clarinet, and String Quartet Aaron Copland (1900–1990) america’s most iconic and beloved Allegro vivace music. Each told a distinctly american Lento story: the Tin Pan alley songs of Finale: precise and rhythmic Gershwin, the open spaces of the david Shifrin, clarinet • Zorá String Quartet • Jiacheng Xiong, piano frontier as expressed by copland, or the —Intermission— bustling jazz-flavored urbanity of Bernstein. With this program curtis joins Lullaby George Gershwin (1898–1937) the worldwide centenary celebrations of Zorá String Quartet Leonard Bernstein, a 1941 conducting graduate, who studied at the school in Songs and Dances (from West Side Story ) Leonard Bernstein his early twenties just before
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