(New York, NY - November 9, 2004) New School University’s Mannes College of Music concludes its year-long festival, “The Flowering of Romanticism” with a concert at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at 8:00 p.m. The Weill Recital Hall program includes Schumann’s Toccata, Op. 7, Mondnacht, Op. 39, No. 5 and Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49, No. 1; Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C-sharp minor; Paganini’s Introduction and Variations on ‘Nel cor più non mi sento’ from Paisello’s La molinara; Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise, Op. 22; and Mendelssohn’s Piano Quartet in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 3.
“The Flowering of Romanticism” festival focuses on the early maturity of musical romanticism in the works of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Clara and Robert Schumann, Bellini, Berlioz, Liszt, and the young Brahms. Special guests, pianists Eteri Andjaparidze, Vladimir Feltsman, Richard Goode, and Menahem Pressler, participated in the festival. Pavlina Dokovska, chair of the piano department at Mannes, was the artistic director for the festival.
Mannes students who be performing include pianists Mariko Furukawa, Ilya Kazantsev, Natasha Paremski and Matei Varga, violinists Dan Zhu and Svetlana Tsoneva, violist Chiu-Chen Liu, cellist Laura Metcalf, and baritone Espen Langvik.
Tickets for the Weill Recital Hall concert are $25 and are available through CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800. For more information on the festival, call the Mannes Festival Information Line at (212) 580-0210, ext. 4881 or visit the Mannes Web site at http://www.mannes.edu.
“The Flowering of Romanticism” follows five highly successful year-long festivals presented by Mannes College of Music: “The Birth of Romanticism,” “La Belle �poque 2002,” “Chopin at Mannes 1999,” “Bach 2000 Festival,” and “The Schumanns and Their Circle, 2001.”
The next Mannes year-long festival in 2005, “The Late Romantics,” will examine the culminating generations of romantic composers from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. The inaugural concert will take place on February 1, 2005 at The New-York Historical Society.
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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 visit the Web site at www.mannes.edu.