COUNTERPOINT CONCERTS PRESENTS: AMERICA!

---

Friday, September 18th at 6:30-9:00 pm

Dupont Underground

19 Dupont Circle Northwest
Washington, DC, 20036 

At this season opener sponsored by our founder Dr. Robert Misbin, experience great music by composers who have made America their home.

Program:

Sergei Rachmaninoff — Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10

Béla Bartók — Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56

Arnold Schoenberg — Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41

Tan Dun — Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1

Lera Auerbach — Piano Trio No. 2, “Triptych - This Mirror Has Three Faces

Click here for more information and tickets

One of the most fascinating pieces on the program is the Ode to Napoleon Bounaparte by Arnold Schoenberg. Because he was Jewish, Schoenberg left Austria when Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 and emigrated to the United States. Written in 1942, The Ode to Napoleon is a protest against tyranny and features a reciter utilizing "sprechstimme," a dramatic vocal style midway between speaking and singing, where words are spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches.