Our 20th season is made possible by the support of the New York State Council on the Arts and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.

This program of songs by Paul Frederic Bowles will cover over fifty years of his song writing, from his earliest known cycle to his final song, written in honor of Aaron Copland's 86th birthday.

Best known as a novelist, Paul Frederic Bowles (1910Ð1999) was also a composer, music critic, poet, translator, and official recorder of native North African music for the Library of Congress. Paul Bowles wrote in many musical genres, including opera, piano works, chamber works, theater music, film scores, ballets, musique concr�te, two cantatas, and a zarzuela. In addition to works in these genres, Bowles wrote more than eighty art songs. Approximately half of them have been published, but only a few may be found in print today.

The concert features soprano Carole Blankenship and pianist Irene Herrmann.

Featuring composers Chris Berg, Robert Beaser, Tom Cipullo, Daron Hagen, Ruichard Hundley, Paul Moravec, John Musto, David Sisco, Russell Platt.

Featured performers include baritone Chris Pedro Trakas, soprano Hope Hudson, pianist Kelly Horsted, and pianist/composer Richard Pearson Thomas.

The program includes songs and operatic arias by John Adams, William Bolcom, Tom Cipullo, Lori Laitman, Richard Pearson Thomas, and Ben Yarmolinsky