"MUSIC AND NEW YORK'S GILDED AGE"
MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC'S "LA BELLE ÉPOQUE"
FESTIVAL TO
PRESENT SYMPOSIUM AND CONCERT ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2002
(New York, NY – September 17, 2002) Mannes College of Music (Joel Lester,
Dean) and the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College and
the Graduate Center at CUNY (Ellie Hisama, Director) will present "Music
and New York's Gilded Age," a symposium of "La Belle Époque"
on Saturday, October 5 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The symposium will take place
at New School University, Orozco Room, 66th West 12th Street, 7th floor, NYC.
Admission is free to both events. No tickets are required. For further information,
call (212) 580-0210, ext. 255.
The follow papers will be presented during the Symposium:
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"Beach and the Brownings" by Adrienne Fried Block (Director
of Music in Gotham, Graduate Center, CUNY)
"Dialogues in Sculpture and Architecture at the turn of the Century"
by Mark Mennin (New York Academy-Graduate School of Figurative Art) and
Hilary Lewis (Architectural Historian and Urban Planner)
"Opera in New York's Gilded Age" by John Graziano (The
City College and Graduate School of CUNY; Co-Director, Music in Gotham)
"I Have a Dream: The Story of James Reese Europe" by Wayne
Alpern (Mannes College of Music; Director, Mannes Institute for Advanced
Studies in Music Theory)
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A concert will follow the symposium at 2:00 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium, New
School University, 66 West 12th Street, NYC. The program will feature:
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Beach |
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Three Browning Songs |
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| Griffes |
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Piano Pieces |
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| Ives |
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Second Violin Sonata |
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| Mahler |
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Songs |
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| Dvorak |
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"American" String Quartet, op. 96 |
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| Joplin |
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Rags |
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La Belle Époque is a year-long festival at Mannes
featuring music around the turn of the 20th Century. "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.
Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of
the world's major conservatories of music. A division of New School
University, Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as
well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Notable alumni from Mannes include
soprano Frederica von Stade, pianists Murray Perahia and Richard Goode, and
conductors Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta and Julius Rudel.
Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information on Mannes, 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 a New York City university comprised
of a liberal arts foundation of three schools: The New School, Graduate Faculty
of Political and Social Science, and Eugene Lang College and five professional
schools: Parsons School of Design, Mannes College of Music, Milano Graduate
School of Management and Urban Policy, Jazz and Contemporary Music Program,
and Actors Studio Drama School. 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