"LA BELLE ÉPOQUE" FESTIVAL CONTINUES THIS FALL AT
MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Yearlong festival of concerts, master classes, and symposia features
music from the turn of the 20th century

(New York, NY –June 25, 2002) "La Belle Époque," a year long festival of concerts, master classes, and symposia featuring music from the turn of the 20th century, continues this fall semester at Mannes College of Music. Mannes faculty, students, and alumni, as well as special guest artists, including Vladimir Feltsman, Richard Goode, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet are participating in the festival. "La Belle Époque" presents a broad diversity of composers active between the 1880's and the end of World War I, representing many nations, including Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and the United States, and many styles, ranging from late romanticism through impressionism and expressionism to modernism. The festival's venues include many NYC cultural landmarks — Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, The Jewish Museum, Goethe Institute, and the Harvard Club, among others.

The fall semester opens with a concert on September 19, 2002 at Steinway Hall. The semester will include 12 concerts, as well as master classes with pianists Vladimir Feltsman, Richard Goode, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. It will also offer two symposia with panels of distinguished participants; one symposium will include a general discussion on the music of "La Belle Époque" at the Goethe Institute in New York, and the other on "Music and New York's Gilded Age" will take place at New School University. By the final concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Monday, December 16, 2002, "La Belle Époque" will have presented a remarkably wide range of music, with compositions by forty composers from eight nations.

Pavlina Dokovska, Chair of the Piano Department, is the Artistic Director of "La Belle Époque."

For a complete schedule of the festival, call the Mannes at 212/580-0210, ext. 255 or visit www.mannes.edu.

"La Belle Époque" follows three highly successful year-long festivals presented by Mannes College of Music:"Chopin at Mannes 1999," "Bach 2000 Festival," and "The Schumanns and Their Circle, 2001."

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

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"LA BELLE ÉPOQUE" - MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC
CALENDAR OF EVENTS – SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2002