World Premiere
October 21, 2016
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
Cast:
Gillian Murphy, Misty Copeland, Skylar Brandt, Cassandra Trenary, Devon Teuscher, Stephanie Williams, Marcelo Gomes, Jeffrey Cirio, Cory Stearns, Blaine Hoven
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October 21, 2016
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
Cast:
Gillian Murphy, Misty Copeland, Skylar Brandt, Cassandra Trenary, Devon Teuscher, Stephanie Williams, Marcelo Gomes, Jeffrey Cirio, Cory Stearns, Blaine Hoven
Composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, sister to the well-known composer Felix Mendelssohn, was never encouraged to publish her work because she was a woman and it would lower her class in society. Despite this, as a highly skilled pianist and composer, she wrote over 400 works for the piano – the instrument that she had access to in her home. Her most famous piano piece, Das Jahr, (The Year) was written as she and her husband traveled on a yearlong journey. At the end of each month, on different colored pieces of paper, she wrote a musical reflection of their experience. Das Jahr is 13 movements, one movement for each month and a final postlude that reflects the end of her year.