Music of the Americas: Recuerdos
Music of the Americas: Recuerdos
Music of the Americas returns live with concerts by Stephanie Griffin and the Orchestra of St. Luke's next week, and Recuerdos revisits past performances by the musicians.
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Music of the Americas is back on stage in New York, with two concerts next week. On February 28, Canadian violist and composer Stephanie Griffin for the premiere of two new works, including the Americas Society-commissioned song cycle Beautiful You Are, and the dance piece For Sameena. Stephanie has been on our physical and virtual stages several times since 2010, with Momenta Quartet and as a violist, including this virtual production of Louis Aguirre's Ebbó and the U.S. premiere of Alejandro García Caturla's Manita en el suelo. This week we share Agustín Fernandez's first String Quartet, which Momenta performed in their debut on our series in 2010, and a piece from Pietro Cerone's El melopeo y maestro recorded in 2019, for which Momenta became a two-viola quartet.
On March 3, Americas Society is again the venue for the Manhattan stop of the Orchestra of St. Luke's 5 Borough Tour, featuring string quartets by Tania León, inti figgis-vizueta, and Keyla Orozco. In preparation for their new visit, we share two pieces recorded during last year's tour, by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nick Benavides during last year's tour.
En Casa will be back next week.
The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.
The Spring 2023 Music program is also supported, in part, by the Howard Gilman Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Additional support comes from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Amphion Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New Music USA’s Organizational Development Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals’ ArtsForward program, made possible through support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Augustine Foundation.
