A Long Journey Called Home - Anne Lovering Rounds, piano

"A Long Journey Called Home" is a pianist's therapeutic coming of age story. The program first revisits the past, presenting canonical repertoire from formative years at the piano. The second half of the recital offers pieces that became newly emotionally and technically available in adulthood, ending with Missy Mazzoli's stunningly cathartic "Forgiveness Machine," originally commissioned for pianist Adam Tendler’s elegiac Inheritances project. Through performance, personal essays as program notes, medical records, and images, this recital tells the story of growing up musically and invites listeners to be part of a journey still unfolding.

This concert is free and open to the public. No reservations necessary.

Anne Lovering Rounds is a pianist, poet, and professor of English at Hostos Community College, City University of New York. As a pianist, she has performed in New York’s Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and Queens Public Library, and has been a visiting artist at the Mount Sinai Ambulatory Care Center. She is the author of three books of poetry: Variations in an Emergency; Little Double Elegy for All of You; and Clearing the Stage.

Program

George Gershwin, 3 Preludes for Piano
W.A. Mozart, Twelve Variations on “Ah, vous dirais-je, Maman"
Felix Mendelssohn, Andante and Rondo Capriccioso

J.S. Bach, English Suite No. 6 in D minor
Franz Schubert / Franz Liszt, Gretchen am Spinnrade
Missy Mazzoli, Forgiveness Machine

Run time: approximately 1 hour

Setlist and program notes:

cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-long-journey-called-home

Photo credit: (c) J. Adrian Wylie, 1999

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