The Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center

program
“American Voices”: What defines the sound of America? This question is explored through a program of American music that spans hundreds of years.

Antes: Trio in D minor for Two Violins and Cello, Op. 3, No. 2 (c. 1790)

Smith: "Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman" (from the Daily Journal of Margaret Ann Alsip Frink, 1850) for Mezzo-Soprano, Piano, Violin, and Cello (2006) [American mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe sings Alan Smith’s moving song cycle based on Margaret A. Frink’s daily journal of her passage by covered wagon toward dreams of California gold.]

Gershwin: Lullaby for String Quartet (c. 1919-1920)

Beach: Quintet in F-sharp minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 67 (1907)