A Long Journey Called Home, featuring pianist Anne Lovering Rounds

About "A Long Journey Called Home"

"A Long Journey Called Home" is a solo piano program and coming of age story. The recital first revisits the past, presenting canonical classical repertoire from childhood and formative years at the instrument. The second half of the program offers pieces that became newly emotionally and technically available in adulthood, from J. S. Bach's thorny D-minor English Suite to Missy Mazzoli's stunningly cathartic 2022 work, "Forgiveness Machine." Through performance and personal essays as program notes, the recital tells the story of growing up musically and invites listeners to be part of a journey still unfolding.

Read the program notes and recital setlist here.

About the Artist

Anne Lovering Rounds is a poet, pianist, and professor of English at Hostos Community College, a campus of the City University of New York located in the South Bronx. A student of 2026 GRAMMY ® nominee Adam Tendler ("the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene," Minneapolis Star Tribune), Anne has performed in venues including New York’s Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Other teachers and coaches have included Steven Beck, Teresa Dybvig, and Lura Johnson. Anne is the author of three books of poetry: Variations in an Emergency (Ravenna Press); Little Double Elegy for All of You (Ravenna Press); and Clearing the Stage: A Suite From / For Pandemic Times (Bottlecap Press). She is a native of Ann Arbor and an alum of Greenhills School (class of '00).

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