LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

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  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)
  Bernstein - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1941-42)
  Copland - Appalachian Spring Suite for Ensemble (1944)

"A magical evocation of a Midwest farmland sunrise opens Dvořák’s “American” quintet, a work inspired by the plains of Spillville, Iowa, and the music of Native and African-Americans. This deeply moving work opened a vast musical horizon in the New World, pointing American composers in search of a voice to their own native musical heritage. Harry Burleigh, an African-American music student at New York’s National Conservatory, sang spirituals for Dvořák. The iconic Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein both drew on Dvořák’s game-changing vision to create their own American masterworks."