Schedule of Events

Here are the events that took place on 8 May 2023.

All the events took place in the Music Building of the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College

Registration and Coffee: 9:30

Welcome: 10:00 am Location: Recital Hall, Room 226

Video Tributes 1
Welcoming remarks by Poundie Burstein (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)

Scholarly presentations: Location: Recital Hall, Room 226

Ellen Bakulina (McGill): Extra Measures in Rachmaninoff's G-Minor Prelude, Op. 23 no. 5
Charles Weaver (Juilliard): Linguistic and Musical Rhythm in Cavalli’s Erismena
Nancy Rao (Rutgers University): Listening to a Cantonese Opera Aria: Metrically Speaking
Deborah Burton (Boston University): Transformations

(intermission)

Concert and tributes: Location: Recital Hall, Room 226

Video Tributes 2
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in E, Op. 109, first movement: Kyle Adams (Indiana University)
Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in A-flat, Op. 28, no. 17: David Schober (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Tribute by Mark Anson-Cartwright (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Suite movements by Bach and Martino: Yuval Shapira, piano (Mannes College)
- J. S. Bach, Allemande and Courante from French Suite in E-flat major, BWV 815
- Donald Martino, Gavotte and Air from Suite in an Old Form
Two pieces by Donald Martino
- "Arietta" from Quodlibets 1: Rebecca Moranis, flute (Graduate Center, CUNY)
- "Canon Ball": Dylan Ofrias, vibraphone, (Queens College); Abhay Saha, piano (Queens College)
Tribute by Joseph Straus (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Set of arias by Lydia Saylor, soprano (Queens College), Abhay Saha, piano
- Giuseppe Verdi, “Sul fil d’un soffio etesio” (from Falstaff)
- Vincenzo Bellini, “Ah, non credea mirarti” (from La Sonnambula)
- Engelbert Humperdinck, “Wo bin ich?” (from Hänsel und Gretel)
Closing remarks