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February 2020
Faculty Concert: 75th Anniversary Celebration
Exploring Music from the time of the School's Founding. Piano Trio in a minor, Opus 150 by Amy Beach Dance Preludes by Witold Lutoslawski Three Songs Without Words by Paul Ben-Haim Variations on a Theme by Paganini by Witold Lutoslawski Clarinet Quartet by Paul Hindemith HBMS Faculty Performers April Johnson, violin Daniel Spitzer, clarinet Eleonora Rotshteyn, piano Eriko Sato, violin Gerald Robbins, piano Maxine Newman, cello Peter Seidenberg, cello Tomoko Uchino, piano Vered Reznik, piano Guest artists: Elke Velazquez, piano;…
Find out more »Heaven, Hell, and Hollywood: Life and Music in Exile
Great Composers Lecture Series with Michael Boriskin In the period before, during, and after World War II, Los Angeles was home to as large an assemblage of musical talent than existed in any other major city. Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Korngold, Kurt Weill, Bruno Walter, Hanns Eisler, Ernst Toch, Igor Stravinsky, Franz Waxman, Otto Klemperer, and countless other composers, instrumentalists, and vocalists all sought a haven as they fled the ravages of war, tyranny, persecution, and at least probable death. Some…
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School closed for February Recess.
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Violin Master Class: Colin Jacobsen
Colin Jacobsen is an eclectic musician who draws on a range of influences. He is active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s famed Silk Road Ensemble. For his work as a founding member of two game-changing, audience-expanding ensembles (Brooklyn Rider, which combines new-music chops and genre-bending innovation with an equal mastery of the classics, and The Knights, which is a consistently inventive, infectiously engaged indie ensemble) Jacobsen was recently selected from among the…
Find out more »Cello Master Class: Joel Krosnick
As cellist in the Juilliard String Quartet from 1974 to 2016, Joel Krosnick performed the great quartet literature around the world and recorded it for the Sony Classical, Wergo, and CRI labels. He is known as a international soloist and, with pianist Gilbert Kalish, his sonata partner of more than 40 years, hehas performed cello literature throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is the recipient of the Chevalier du Violoncelle Award from the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at the…
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