AMERICA!

Counterpoint opens Season 3 with AMERICA! The 250th-anniversary program explores migration, resistance and reinvention through the music of composers who came to America.

Composers Lera Auerbach, Bartók, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff and Tan Dun carried folk traditions, political histories and personal memories across borders as they forged new artistic identities. Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances transform collected Transylvanian melodies for ensembles; Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon channels Lord Byron’s text to protest tyranny; nostalgia pulsates through Tan Dun’s Eight Memories in Watercolor and Auerbach’s Piano Trio No. 2 unfolds like a fractured mirror, picking up the pieces between individuality and ensemble, harmony and conflict.

Program

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10

Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56

Arnold Schoenberg - Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41

Tan Dun - Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1

Lera Auerbach - Piano Trio No. 2, “Triptych - This Mirror Has Three Faces”

Miho Saegusa, Katie Hyun, violins; Allison Goodman, viola; Joseph Gotoff, cello; Rob McGinness, baritone; Natalia Kazaryan, piano

Doors & Bar Cart: 6:30 PM
Performance: 7:00 PM — 8:45 PM (with intermission)

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