New Voices From the 1930s

Artists

Leon Botstein conductor
Gilles Vonsattel piano
Deborah Nansteel mezzo-soprano
Frank Corliss piano

 

Part of TŌN’s Carnegie Hall concert series

Conductor Leon Botstein leads this concert spotlighting works from the late 1930s, including William Grant Still’s 1935 portrait of enslaved people taking refuge while seeking freedom, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1936 commentary on conditions under the Nazi regime. These works are performed alongside Carlos Chávez’s 1938 Piano Concerto, which debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1941, and Witold Lutosławski’s 1938 Symphonic Variations.


Program

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Brief remarks by TŌN percussionist Luis Herrera Albertazzi

William Grant Still Dismal Swamp
Frank Corliss piano
14 min
>Read concert notes by TŌN bass trombonist Austin Pancner

Brief remarks by TŌN harpist Taylor Ann Fleshman

Carlos Chávez Piano Concerto
Gilles Vonsattel piano
36 min
>Read concert notes by TŌN clarinetist Juan Martinez

Intermission
20 min

Brief remarks by TŌN percussionist Luis Herrera Albertazzi

Witold Lutosławski Symphonic Variations
9 min
>Read concert notes by TŌN violinist Sarit Dubin

Brief remarks by TŌN harpist Taylor Ann Fleshman

Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony No. 1, Essay for a Requiem
Deborah Nansteel mezzo-soprano
30 min
>Read concert notes by TŌN percussionist Felix Ko

Sample the Music

William Grant Still Dismal Swamp

Carlos Chávez Piano Concerto

Witold Lutosławski Symphonic Variations

Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony No. 1, Essay for a Requiem

Photo by David DeNee

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