Music From Copland House Brings France To New York City In AFTERNOONS IN PARIS

Hailed by The New Yorker as bold, adventurous, and superb, Music from Copland House is the widely-acclaimed ensemble-in-residence based at the award-winning creative center for American music at Aaron Copland's National Historic Landmark home in Westchester County. Founding and Principal Artists featured at this concert are Derek Bermel, clarinet; Curtis Macomber, violin; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; and Michael Boriskin, piano.

Afternoons in Paris recreates the exhilarating atmosphere of the legendary music professor Nadia Boulanger's weekly salons in the 1920s in her Left Bank apartment the fabled site where artistic luminaries from France and across Europe gathered each week, dropping in on what a young, rising star composer named Aaron Copland called the center of ... the artistic life in Paris. For Music from Copland House's first performance at the CUNY Graduate Center's Elebash Recital Hall, this lunchtime program features music by two titans from the era's old and new guards, Gabriel Faure (his scintillating, autumnal Piano Trio of 1923) and Igor Stravinsky (the suite from his 1919 rollicking take on dealing with the Devil, L'histoire du Soldat). The concert also includes a then-new work Aaron Copland originally composed for a Boulanger concert, his Jazz Age, rarely-heard Two Pieces for Violin and Piano of 1926.

WHEN: Thursday, March 21st at 1pm
WHERE: CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), New York, NY

Boulanger helped to shape the sounds of the 20th century, as a revered (and sometimes feared!) professor of generations of composers from Virgil Thomson and Elliott Carter to Astor Piazzolla, Quincy Jones, and Philip Glass. Copland called her the decisive musical influence in my life, and 1920s Paris was the place where he found his creative voice. So grab a quick lunch, and then cross the Atlantic without leaving Manhattan for a slice of Parisian musical and artistic history!

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