12 Dec An Evening of Chamber Music and Poetry Friday, December 12, 2008 at 7 PM Washington Irving High School 40 Irving Place, New York, NY

Jasmine Lin and Sharon Roffman, violins
Max Mandel, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
Charles Mays, Jr. bass-baritone
Melvin Chen, piano

This concert culminates a residency at Gramercy Arts High School from December 8-12, 2008 exploring the relationship between music and poetry. During this week, the teaching artists will lead workshops focused on three sub-topics: a study of the poetry of Langston Hughes as it relates to the musical form of the blues, a comparison between the poetic form of the Haiku and the music of Anton Webern, and an examination of the way composers set poems to music, with an emphasis on Ode to Napoleon by Arnold Schoenberg. The concert will feature performances by the teaching artists as well as original poems presented by Gramercy Arts students.

Concert Program
(supported by the Alexander Schneider Foundation)
Johannes Brahms: Lieder
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Anton Webern: Six Bagatelles for String Quartet
Arnold Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon
and more!

Washington Irving High School Workshop 2006