Mannes Orchestra & New York Choral Society to Perform Two Works at Carnegie Hall, 4/8

The Mannes Orchestra, the student orchestral ensemble of Mannes College at The New School, and the New York Choral Society will join forces to perform John Adams' On The Transmigration of Souls and Paul Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, April 8 at Carnegie Hall. David Hayes, who leads both groups, will conduct the performance of these two masterpieces, both of which are inspired by profound historic events and celebrate the strength and resilience of the American spirit. On The Transmigration of Souls will feature the critically acclaimed Young People's Chorus of New York City. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd will showcase the soloists Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano) and Lee Poulis (baritone).

The concert, a journey into the innermost depths of our hearts, souls and emotions, will take place in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium (881 7th Avenue, New York, New York) at 8pm. Tickets, $30 - $80, can be purchased at 212.247.3878 or www.carnegiehall.org.

In advance of the concert, on March 30, Mannes College at The New School will present Adams, Hindemith, Whitman and American Memory, a panel discussion featuring Bill Hirst (New School for Social Research), an expert on collective memory; Martha Hodes (NYU), Professor of 19th Century U.S. History and the author of Mourning Lincoln; Karen Karbiener, (NYU), Professor of American Literature and a specialist on Walt Whitman; and David Hayes. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7:30pm at The New School's University Center (65 5th Avenue, New York, NY), in Room 105 on the Lower Level.

The Mannes Orchestra, which The New York Times has praised its "youthful exuberance," performs a comprehensive symphonic repertoire each year ranging from classical to modern. At Alice Tully Hall this past March, the ensemble gave the New York premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis's Whisper, Echo, A Cry. Previous performance highlights include the New York premiere of Jonny Greenwood's Suite from There Will Be Blood.

John Adams' Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning On The Transmigration of Souls was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 2002 to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Adams has said his intention was to create in the music a "memory space" akin to being in a great cathedral, where one experiences a sense of something otherworldly and feels the collected energy of generations of souls. In a review of this work, David Schiff of The Atlantic has said, "like the greatest music of the past-Bach, Beethoven, Mahler-[Adams' music] can take us beyond...troubles and complexities to states of serenity, wisdom, and peace."

Robert Shaw commissioned Paul Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd in 1946 to memorialize President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had died the previous year. The text is by American poet Walt Whitman, whose grand elegiac poem of the same name was inspired by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The scholar David Neumeyer has described this piece as Hindemith's "only profoundly American work," and the legendary critic Paul Hume hailed it as "a work of genius."

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