MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC ANNOUNCES
"THE BIRTH OF ROMANTICISM: FROM HAYDN TO SCHUBERT"

A year-long festival of concerts, master classes, and symposia
exploring musical romanticism

Festival opens with a concert on Friday, January 31, 2002 at 7 PM
at The New-York Historical Society

(New York, NY – December 20, 2003) New School University's Mannes College of Music announces "The Birth of Romanticism," a year-long festival of concerts, master classes, and symposia exploring musical romanticism, from its roots in the Sturm und Drang of Haydn and Mozart to its early flowering in Beethoven, Rossini, and Schubert. Mannes's young artists, distinguished faculty, and special guest artists, including pianists Vladimir Feltsman, Claude Frank, Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Charles Rosen, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet will participate in the festival. The festival's venues include many of NYC cultural landmarks - Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Goethe Institute, the Harvard Club, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, among others.

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

Pavlina Dokovska, chair of the Piano Department at Mannes is artistic director of "The Birth of Romanticism. On announcing the festival, Ms. Dokovska said, "This dynamic era in music history will come to life through concerts and master classes featuring Mannes's young artists, distinguished faculty and guest artists. We want our audiences to explore with us the crowning achievements of musical romanticism and the genesis of the music of our time."

The festival opens with a concert on Friday, January 31, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. at The New-York Historical Society at 2 West 77th Street in Manhattan. Admission is $16 and $8 for members of The New-York Historical Society. The concert features Haydn's "Shepherd on the Rock" for soprano, clarinet, and piano, D. 965, as well as other works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. For further information on the opening concert, call (212) 580-0210, ext. 222.

Other highlights of the festival include master classes by Eteri Andjaparidze, Claude Frank, Vladimir Feltsman, Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Charles Rosen, Victor Rosenbaum, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet; "The World of Opera and the Birth of Romanticism," a special presentation by The Mannes Opera with director Joseph Colaneri; "Wall to Wall: The Birth of Romanticism"; and a concluding concert at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in December 2003.

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

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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 committed to critical scholarship, artistic integrity, and ethical responsibility in the social sciences, humanities, the arts and design. It is comprised of a liberal arts foundation of three schools: The New School, Eugene Lang College and the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, and five professional schools: Parsons School of Design, Mannes College of Music, Actors Studio Drama School, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, and the Jazz & Contemporary Music Program. 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) 5Ave-321 or go to the Web site at www.newschool.edu.