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4-6pm
Wethersfield Estate and Garden
Celebrating a 20+ year artistic collaboration, Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble and composer/pianist Timo Andres presentan intimate evening of solo piano works inspired by Andres’ recent Carnegie Hall debut of quintessentially varied American musicincluding delicate piano masterpieces by Duke Ellington, the last of Philip Glass’s 20 piano etudes, and Frederic Rzewski’s boisterousWinnsboro Cotton Mill Blues.
Also featured will be Andres new work Fiddlehead (2024 Carnegie Hall commission), highlighting Andres’s “textural imagination andear for piquant harmony” (The Guardian), and a New York premiere by the inventive Gabriella Smith.
“The question of what constitutes ‘Americanness’ in art has long interested me. It was little more than 100 years ago that composersstarted writing music that sounded ‘American,’ transcending the Eurocentric pastiches of earlier efforts. It’s a recent enoughoccurrence that one can still imagine different paths composers could’ve taken, could still take. These works represent, to me, thebest qualities in American music.” -Timo Andres
This program was generously underwritten by an Anonymous Donor and the Soo & Carolina Kim Foundation.
Receptions begins at 4:00 PM
Doors close at 4:45 PM, recital begins promptly at 5:00 PM