Mannes College of Music

Joel Lester, Dean

and

The Institute for Studies in American Music

at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, CUNY
Ellie Hisama, Director

present

"Music and New York's Gilded Age"

a symposium of

La Belle Époque — a year-long festival at Mannes
featuring music around the turn of the 20th century

Saturday, October 5, 10 AM to 12:30 PM
at
The Orozco Room, 7th floor
New School University, 66 West 12th Street
New York, NY


Adrienne Fried Block (Director of Music in Gotham, Graduate Center, CUNY), "Beach and the Brownings"

Mark Mennin (New York Academy-Graduate School of Figurative Art) and Hilary Lewis (Architectural Historian and Urban Planner), "Dialogues in Sculpture and Architecture at the turn of the Century"

John Graziano (The City College and Graduate School of CUNY; Co-Director, Music in Gotham), "Opera in New York's Gilded Age"

Wayne Alpern (Mannes College of Music; Director, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory), "I Have a Dream: The Story of James Reese Europe"

A concert will follow at 2 PM
in Tishman Auditorium, New School University, 66 West 12th Street

Beach Three Browning Songs
Griffes Piano Pieces
Ives Second Violin Sonata
Mahler Songs
Dvorak "American" String Quartet, op. 96
Joplin Rags

Admission Free to both events, no tickets required

For further information, please contact Dean Lester at LesterJ@newschool.edu.

Mannes College of Music is a division of New School University






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