American Women Play American Women
Campus Arts Event
American Women Play American Women
The pianist Magdalena Baczewska brings the renowned Cassatt String Quartet to the Italian Academy to perform music by three American women — Amy Beach, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Florence Price.
FREE
March 30, 2023 | 7:30 pm
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Repetoire

Florence Price
String Quartet No.1 in G major (1929)
Florence Price
Fantaisie nègre, No. 1, for piano solo (1932)
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Modes for string quartet (1968)
Amy Beach
Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor Op 67 (1907)

Performers

Cassatt Quartet
Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower
violins
Rosemary Nelis
viola
Rosemary Nelis
cello

Location

Teatro of the Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

About The Event

“an extraordinary quartet” —The New York Times

The pianist Magdalena Baczewska brings the renowned Cassatt String Quartet to the Italian Academy to perform music by three American women — Amy Beach, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Florence Price. The concert is free, and advance reservations are recommended.

In 2019, Ms. Baczewska and the Cassatts performed at the Italian Academy to a full house, who “were clearly moved by the music and offered standing ovations,” wrote Rick Whitaker, Italian Academy concert manager in Columbia News. “It was a concert I always describe as one of the best we’ve ever presented,” he said.

All three composers on the program were pioneers and groundbreaking musicians. Price was the first Black woman to have her music performed by a major orchestra. Moore, who lived in New York City until her death last year, was co-founder of Symphony of the New World, the first racially-integrated orchestra in the United States. Beach is known for being the first woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra in 1896.

On the program, the CSQ performs Moore’s “Modes” and Prices’ String Quartet No. 1, and is joined by Baczewska for Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor. Baczewska also performs a solo piano work by Price.

For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.

Image: Cassatt Quartet / courtesy of the Italian Academy