Emily Kalish violin and Kyle P. Walker piano

Music of Gershwin, Ravel, Baker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Errollyn Wallen

In a collaboration with The Black Iris Project, the Juneteenth Celebration at Carnegie Hall will present an excerpt from their forthcoming evening-length ballet "Blood in the Soil" set to an original score by Alabama-rooted classical composer Brian R. Nabors.

Founded by choreographer Jeremy McQueen in 2016, The Black Iris Project (BIP) is an Emmy® award-winning ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates new, relevant classical and contemporary ballet works that celebrate diversity and Black history. Based in New York City, The BIP hosts a team of predominantly artists of color, and delivers cross-disciplinary and original works. Championing individuality, the collaborative harnesses the Black inherent creative spirit.

PROGRAM On June 14th and June 15th, members of The Harlem Chamber Players, violinist Josh Henderson and pianist Kyle Walker will perform music by Duke Ellington, Florence Price, David Baker, Margaret Bonds, and more. ETHEL and Friends is a music series lovingly programmed for “Date Night” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall Balcony Cafe on the 2nd Floor, by the resident ensemble, ETHEL. “Date Night” Artists perform 3 sets on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 - 8:30 PM.

PROGRAM On June 14th and June 15th, members of The Harlem Chamber Players, violinist Josh Henderson and pianist Kyle Walker will perform music by Duke Ellington, Florence Price, David Baker, Margaret Bonds, and more. ETHEL and Friends is a music series lovingly programmed for “Date Night” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall Balcony Cafe on the 2nd Floor, by the resident ensemble, ETHEL. “Date Night” Artists perform 3 sets on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 - 8:30 PM.

Featuring Shostakovich Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 67 and premiere's of student composer works for piano trio.

Emily Kalish, violin Sasha Ono, cello Kyle. P Walker, piano

David Baker - “Roots II” piano trio (1992) Trevor Weston - “Eurythmy Variations” for solo piano (2007) Shelley Washington - “Middleground” String Quartet (2016) Hannah Kendall - “Network Bed” for piano quartet (2018) Brian Raphael Nabors - new piano quintet (2024)

From Castle of our Skins:

“Roots” explores the origins of inspiration, the anchors from where creativity is born. Castle of our Skins, Boston’s concert and education series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music, teams up with critically acclaimed pianist Kyle P. Walker to explore this concept highlighting music from the African diaspora. Color, memory, history, and culture serve as the thread that binds this program featuring a breadth of fresh voices rooted in folk, jazz, classical and contemporary.

Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B-flat major Johann Sebastian Bach   Three Pieces for Cello & Piano Nadia Boulanger   Passacaglia in C-sharp minor Irene Britton Smith   Sonata for Cello & Piano George Walker   Troubled Water Margaret Bonds

Fantasie Negre No. 1 Florence B. Price

Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B-flat BWV 825
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Thème varié, Op.89 Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Passacaglia in C-Sharp minor Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999)

Troubled Water Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)

Intermission

Three-Fours Op. 71 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Coleridge-Taylor

Fantasie Negré No. 1 Florence B. Price (1887-1953)

Samuel Coleridge Taylor Piano Quintet Shirley Thompson Piano Quintet Robert Schumann Piano Quintet

Rebecca Hargrove, soprano Kyle P. Walker, piano

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Etude in A-flat (Aeolian Harp) Op. 25 No. 1

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) From the Southland

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875- 1912)  Three-Fours Op. 71

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)     Seven Variations on “God Save The King,” Wo078    


Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) Troubled Water from Spiritual Sketches

Featuring works by Dwight Andrews, Philip Glass, Libby Larsen, Paola Prestini, Javier Diaz, & more

While it may be nearly impossible to capture the totality of creativity as expressed by today's composers, Composers Now and Tania try. From the very young to the legendary, you will come away from this evening with plenty of new sounds heard and composers met. Among the participants, Tania welcomes: the recipients of the 2024 Visionary Awards -- Dwight Andrews, Philip Glass and Libby Larsen; the recipient of the First Commission Award and the world premiere of a newly written work, in collaboration with Jazz Gallery; a short documentary capturing the Fall 2023 Collaborative Creative Residency at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; works by Paola Prestini, a percussion trio by Javier Diaz, works by Georgia Stitt with Kate Baldwin in collaboration with Maestra, and more.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Partita in E minor

Cecile Chaminade - Theme Varie

Teresa Carreno - La Primavera

Irene Britton Smith - Passacaglia in C-sharp minor

Florence Price - Fantasie Negre No. 1

J.S. Bach: Partita No. 6 in E minor Irene Britton Smith: Passacaglia in C sharp minor Teresa Carreno: La Primavera Cecile Chaminade: Theme Varie Florence Price: Fantasie Negre No. 1

This concert will feature keyboard concertos by J.S. Bach:

Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055 Keyboard Concerto No 3 in D major, BWV 1054 Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053

Including Beethoven Cello and Piano Sonata in A major op. 69, Nadia Boulanger 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano, and more.

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1947) by Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999) Darshan: Charukeshi (2019-2020) by Reena Esmail (b. 1983) Rhapsody No. 1 for Solo Violin (2014) by Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981) Capriccio for Violin and Piano, Op. 18 (1890) by Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) Passacaglia in C-sharp Minor (1940) by Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999) D’un matin de printemps (1917-18) by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) Four Pieces (world premiere, 2023) by Amy Reich (b. 1955) Cortège (1914) by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

An interdisciplinary performance and installation conceived by artist Diana Wege. It is a response to climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and nuclear capability. The piece immerses the audience in a near-future where the degradation and extinction of nature is symbolized by a choir of languages from throughout the globe and the apparition of a landscape painting catching fire and restored by the reversal of humanity’s destructive ways. Earth Requiem joins multiple disciplines to warn us of a clear and present danger. Mark Shapiro will conduct original music by Errollyn Wallen and Jeff Beal, performed by a choir accompanied by piano.

NYU piano faculty, students, and guests present Erik Satie's infamous Vexations in a daylong performance taking place in the Paulson Center's Northeast lobby. Written in 1893 and first performed in Greenwich Village in 1963, this historic work foreshadowed minimalism and installation art by nearly a century. Consisting of a single musical fragment performed 840 times, Vexations offers all listeners a unique real-time experience.