Roosevelt Island Chamber Music Concert From L'Ensemble To Celebrebrate Women's History Month Saturday March 13 7:30 PM

Women's History Month L'Ensemble Flyer From RIOC

Received the following message from RIOC Community Relations Specialist Erika Wilder:

Greetings
Please join us on Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 pm at the Good Shepherd Community Center for a Chamber music concert celebrating women composers from 18th through 21st centuries. Chamber music group, L'Ensemble, will present a program of music that will examine the difficulties women composers faced and how their efforts, usually met with resistance, often took the criticism of the male-dominated classical music culture. You will hear music from the likes of Clara Schumann, the wife of composer Robert Schumann, Amy Cheney Beach, the first American woman to achieve international acceptance as a composer as well as other women composers who have achieved great successes in Chamber music.

Immediately following the concert, a reception with the artists and informal discussions will take place in the lower level of the Community Center.

http://www.lensemble.org

I hope you can make it.

According to the L'Ensemble chamber music group, the Roosevelt Island Women's History Month Concert will be:

...a program of beautiful music by women who did not receive the attention they should have historically. Maria Theresia von Paradis, a pianist who attracted the attention of Mozart who composed a concerto for her. Clara Schumann who supported her seven children as a touring virtuoso pianist after the death of her husband Robert. And Amy Cheney Beach, the first American woman to achieve international respect as a composer...