Mannes Sounds Piano Cantabile: Nadia Boulanger’s American Students
Ernst C. Stiefel Concert Hall at Arnhold Hall

Curated by John Novacek

The Piano Cantabile Series is part of the Mannes Sounds Festival which was founded in 1999 by Pavlina Dokovska, chair of the Mannes Piano department. The festival presents more than 20 concerts annually performed by young artists from Mannes, the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and the School of Drama as well as master classes and lectures by distinguished faculty members and renowned guest artists and is one of the outstanding components of Mannes’ performance program. The events are held at various prestigious New York City concert venues and cultural institutions.

PROGRAM:

Aaron Copland: The Cat and the Mouse
Copland: Four Piano Blues
Roy Harris: Toccata
Virgil Thomson: Persistently Pastorale – Aaron Copland (from 13 Portraits)
Elliott Carter: Piano Sonata
Philip Glass: Etude No.6
Louise Talma: Pastoral Prelude
George Walker: Prelude
George Walker: Caprice
Burt Bacharach: Alfie
Astor Piazzolla (arr. Pablo Ziegler for 2 pianos): Soledad & Michelangelo 70

Presented by the College of Performing Arts at The New School.