Program Five: Varieties of Engagement: The American Jewish Composer

4:30 p.m. Preconcert Talk Edwin Seroussi
5:00 p.m. Performance Leigh Beery, soprano; September Bigelow, mezzo-soprano; W. Patrick Blackwell, bass-baritone; Nicole Cabell, soprano; Melvin Chen, piano; Robert Mack, tenor; Robert Martin, cello; Sharon Roffman, violin; Larry Woodard, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players, Rebecca Miller and Jonathan Tunick, conductors; and others
Aaron Copland (1900–90): Vitebsk, for violin, cello, and piano (1929); Music for the Theater (1925)
Rubin Goldmark (1872–1936), Prairie Idylls (1915)
Selections from musicals by Leonard Bernstein (1918–90), George Gershwin (1898–1937), Richard Rodgers (1902–79), and Irving Berlin (1888–1989), chosen and introduced by Jonathan Tunick