Chamber Music Series

American Panorama

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Performances

Oct 3 Tue

With an annual residency at the Harris since 2012, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of the theater’s longest-standing artistic partners. CMS opens the 2023-24 season with a program celebrating beautiful and uplifting music, including Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 players and featuring CMS Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han.

The United States of America maintains its identity as the world’s quintessential melting pot, just about everyone and everything we know having roots elsewhere. CMS’s American Panorama program illustrates this phenomenon in music unmistakably American in spirit yet diverse in dialect, each composer having drawn from distinct sources: Harry T. Burleigh from his African-American heritage; Antonín Dvořák from his exposure to Native-American and African-American music combined with his innate Czech sensibility; Arthur Foote, a leading 19th-century composer who, as a member of the Boston Six, forged a uniquely American sound clothed in European traditions; and Aaron Copland, whose intensive studies in Paris afforded him the technique to express the flavor of America as no other.

PROGRAM
Burleigh | Southland Sketches for Violin and Piano (1916)
Dvořák | Quintet in E-flat major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 97, “American” (1893)
Foote | Nocturne and Scherzo for Flute and String Quartet (1918)
Copland | Appalachian Spring Suite for Ensemble (1944)

ARTISTS
Wu Han, Piano
Francisco Fullana, Violin
Kristin Lee, Violin
Sean Lee, Violin
Danbi Um, Violin
Paul Neubauer, Viola
Danny Phillips, Viola
Edward Arron, Cello
David Finckel, Cello
Anthony Manzo, Double Bass
Tara Helen O'Connor, Flute
David Shifrin, Clarinet
Marc Goldberg, Bassoon

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of the largest performing arts complex in the world, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which includes the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center Theater, and the Metropolitan Opera. Through its many performance, education, recording, and broadcast activities, CMS brings the experience of great chamber music to more people than any other organization of its kind. Under the artistic leadership of David Finckel and Wu Han, it presents a wide variety of concert series and educational events for listeners of all ages, appealing to both connoisseurs and newcomers. The performing artists constitute a revolving multi-generational and international roster of the world’s finest chamber musicians, enabling CMS to present chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period. CMS’s incomparable digital presence, which regularly enables CMS to reach hundreds of thousands of listeners around the globe annually, includes: A growing number of live-streamed programs; more than 1,000 hours of performance and education videos free to the public on its website; a 52-week public radio series across the US; radio programming in Taiwan and mainland China; appearances on American Public Media; the monthly program “In Concert with CMS” on the ALL ARTS broadcast channel; and performances featured on Medici.tv, Tencent, and SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall channel.

Visit the Chamber Music Society online at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org.