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APPLE PIE CONCERT SERIES
Celebrate America with Natalia Rosen & Frank Sanders
Violinist Natalia Rosen and pianist Frank Sanders join forces for an exciting celebration of American music, featuring selections by American composers spanning over a century.
Romance (Amy Beach)
Sonata No. 4 “Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting” (Charles Ives)
Deserted Garden, Adoration (Florence Price)
Suite for Violin & Piano (William Grant Still)
The Sky Was Good for Flying (David Kirkland Garner)
Two Pieces for Violin & Piano (Aaron Copland)
Part of our welcoming Apple Pie Concert series, this relaxed concert experience blends live music with engaging storytelling, followed by a slice of apple pie and a cup of coffee or tea shared with fellow music lovers. Come for the music, stay for the pie!
About the Composer
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach(September 5, 1867–December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her “Gaelic” Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestrain 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era.
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William Grant Still, (born May 11, 1895, Woodville, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 3, 1978, Los Angeles, California), American composer and conductor and the first African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the United States. Though a prolific composer of operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works, he was best known for his Afro-American Symphony (1931).
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