In memory of Solomon Epstein (1939-2018): American composer, synagogue cantor, music educator, friend, who died a year ago. Dr. Epstein (1939-2018) donated all of his unpublished music manuscripts and his papers to ICAMus.
Maple Leaves; poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, music by Charles Ives; No. 23 of Charles Ives, 114 Songs (1922). The beautiful autumnal feeling of a song, as we remember great American composer Charles Ives on his birthday (October 20, 1874). His music and his philosophy are endlessly innovative.
Soprano Caroline Helton and pianist Kathryn Goodson perform the entire program of their forthcoming Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco album at the University of Michigan School of Music, Sunday, October 20, 2019, 4:30 pm. Most of this program was premiered in Rome, a collaboration ICAMus-Sapienza Università di Roma, June 2018.
A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.: Chorale and Sermon for Orchestra, Speaker and Choir, by contemporary American composer Jerome N. Margolis. The score is accessible for study and research at The ICAMus Studio.
The Florence project, American Art Song: Poets and Composers from the United States, directed by Aloma Bardi and Nicole Panizza, is a collaboration of ICAMus with the Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze and The University of Florence. The opening event will take place May 18, 2020 in Florence, Palazzo Adami Lami, home to the Lyceum.
As we work on the program of American poets set to music by American composers, to be premièred in Florence, May 2020, the newly-released Emergence album has arrived at the ICAMus Studio: EMERGENCE: EMILY DICKINSON SETTINGS. Nadine Benjamin (soprano), Nicole Panizza (piano); Stone Records.
September 26. In celebration of George Gershwin, beloved American composer, on his birthday, we displayed his newly published, masterful biography by Richard Crawford, Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music. We also displayed on this special occasion all of Crawford's books, which illuminate American music, and revisited the numerous Gershwin events of the Center over the years.
American composer, Jerome Margolis has donated numerous music scores and recordings of his works to the ICAMus Archive and Special Collections. Dr. Margolis is the composer of more than 200 works in almost every medium including orchestra, chamber ensemble, electronic, mixed media, piano, ballet, jazz and music-theater. The items of the Margolis Collection are on display at The ICAMus Studio; they are accessible for study and research.
A newly released CD of special relevance to the ICAMus projects: EMERGENCE: EMILY DICKINSON SETTINGS. Nadine Benjamin (soprano), Nicole Panizza (piano). Songs by A. Copland, L. Zaninelli, J. Hall, S. Glickman, E. Jarman-Pinto. ICAMus is working with Nicole Panizza and Nadine Benjamin on an ongoing program of American poets set to music by American composers, directed by Aloma Bardi and Nicole Panizza, to be premièred in Florence, May 2020.
Opening of new season of research and events at The ICAMus Studio. Celebrating Early American Music with new acquisitions from American Music Preservation: CDs of Music from Abraham Lincoln’s Era, Music from Alexander Hamilton’s Era, Early Songs of Protest and Patriotism, and more rare items from the American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC) of AMP.
