Concert “A Long Journey Called Home” — Anne Lovering Rounds, piano
A classical piano program tracing the arc of learning at the instrument from childhood to adulthood, in performance, writing, and images.
“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.
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
Time: 12:00 pm EST
Free!
