Contacts:

Gloria Gottschalk, New School University
212-229-5667, ext. 239
[email protected]

Lauren Erlichman, New School University
212-229-5667, ext. 206
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Patricia A. Neely, Mannes College of Music
212/580-0210, ext. 228
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MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC PRESENTS
SCHUMANN SYMPOSIUM AND PERFORMANCE – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2001

EVENT PART OF YEAR-LONG FESTIVAL, THE SCHUMANNS AND THEIR CIRCLE\

(New York, NY - September 10, 2001) On Saturday, October 27, 2001, Mannes College of Music, a division of New School University, will be holding a Schumann symposium and evening performance as part of a year-long festival on The Schumanns and Their Circle. The Symposium at 2PM at the Liederkrantz Foundation (6. E. 87th Street, NYC) will be followed by an evening performance at 8PM at the Goethe-Institute (1014 Fifth Avenue, NYC). Seating is limited. For reservations, call 212/580-0210, ext. 280. For information on other events during the festival, call the Mannes Schumann concert line at 212/580-0210 ext. 255 or visit www.mannes.edu.

The Schumanns and their Circle runs from September through December 2001, culminating with a concert at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, December 19 at 8 PM. Last season's festival attracted enthusiastic capacity crowds at some of the city's most beautiful venues, including the National Arts Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the German Consulate. Organized by Artistic Director and Mannes’s Piano Department Chair, Pavlina Dokovska, the festival concerts feature the works of Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Frederic Chopin and Franz Schubert. Soloists and chamber groups are made up of Mannes students and special guests.

The presenters for the Symposium will be Nancy B. Reich, L. Poundie Burstein, John Daverio, Rufus Hallmark and Joel Lester, Dean of Mannes College of Music. The talks will address the following topics:

  • "Her Ways, Their Ways: the Female Personae in Clara Schumann's Lieder." Dr. L. Poundie Burstein, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate School; Mannes College of Music
  • "A Second Look at Clara Schumann, the Artist and the Woman" - Dr. Nancy B. Reich.
  • "Fact and Fiction in Schumann Biography" - Dr. John Daverio, Boston University School of Music.
  • "Playing the Score: Performance Styles for Robert Schumann’s Music" - Dr. Joel Lester, Mannes College of Music.
  • "Schumann and the Other Frauenliebe Songs" - Dr. Rufus Hallmark, Queens College and CUNY Graduate School.

    The evening performance will feature:

    Robert Schumann-Mignon's Songs from Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister"
    Amy Porter, Soprano
    Megumi Yanai, Piano

    Robert Schumann-Kreisleriana, Op.16
    Pei-Yao Wang, Piano

    Clara Schumann - Three Romances
    Tiffany Petrosky, Violin
    Vladimir Valjarevic, Piano

    Robert Schumann- Piano Trio No.2 in F major, Op. 80
    Ieva Jokubaviciute, Piano
    Yoshiko Hiratsuka, Violin
    Eric Phelps, Cello

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    Mannes College of Music, a division of New School University, was founded in 1916. It is one of the world’s major conservatories of music. Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information on Mannes College of Music, call 212/ 580-0210 or go to the Web site at www.mannes.edu

    New School University, with 7,000 matriculated students and 25,000 continuing education students, is comprised of seven academic divisions: The New School, the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College, Mannes College of Music, the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, and the Actors Studio Drama School, as well as the University's B.F.A. in Jazz and Contemporary Music. New School Online University offers one of the largest selections of online courses in the nation. For further information about admission to New School University, call 877-528-3321 or go to the Web site at www.newschool.edu