Fall 2022 events expand the Center’s research focus to the pianola and the reproducing piano, expressive historical instruments that enable different forms of real-time dialogue between the past and present, the human and the mechanical. Rex Lawson and Denis Hall, leading specialists on the subject, will join us in November. Before then, the semester opens with an exploration of “Lisette quitté la plaine,” an enduringly popular song from guest artist Jean Bernard Cerin’s native Haiti, alongside other music of the African diaspora. As in past seasons, these events will be complemented by programs on a variety of themes inspired by our beloved organs in Ithaca and historical pianos from Cornell’s collection.
We are delighted to welcome longtime friends of the CCHK, pianist Ryan McCullough and vocalist Lucy Fitz Gibbon, back to campus for the semester’s final salon event on Friday, December 2. In the meantime, listen to their new recording, “the labor of forgetting.”
Join us on Wednesday, November 2 during the usual Midday Music for Organ timeslot (12:30–1:15pm) to enjoy a special presentation delivered by world-renowned pianolist and expert on the history of mechanical music, Rex Lawson.
Join us for a special performance by composer Jerome Begin and pianist David Friend (Cornell ’19). The duo performs their GRAMMY-nominated album, Post-, in Barnes Hall.
Our previously scheduled salon, “Piano Players and Player Pianos: Mechanical Instruments, Human Performances,” has been postponed and replaced with a new salon, “The Young Robert Schumann,” led by the Ji Young Kim and the CCHK’s artist-scholar in residence Mike Lee. The event takes place on Friday, October 28 at 5PM.
We are delighted to welcome longtime friends of the CCHK, pianist Ryan McCullough and vocalist Lucy Fitz Gibbon, back to campus for the semester’s final salon event on Friday, December 2. In the meantime, listen to their new recording, “the labor of forgetting.”
Join us on Wednesday, November 2 during the usual Midday Music for Organ timeslot (12:30–1:15pm) to enjoy a special presentation delivered by world-renowned pianolist and expert on the history of mechanical music, Rex Lawson.
Join us for a special performance by composer Jerome Begin and pianist David Friend (Cornell ’19). The duo performs their GRAMMY-nominated album, Post-, in Barnes Hall.
Our previously scheduled salon, “Piano Players and Player Pianos: Mechanical Instruments, Human Performances,” has been postponed and replaced with a new salon, “The Young Robert Schumann,” led by the Ji Young Kim and the CCHK’s artist-scholar in residence Mike Lee. The event takes place on Friday, October 28 at 5PM.
DMA candidate Joshua Biggs discusses the creation of a digital library of samples drawn from the CCHK’s collection.
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All in-person events will follow current Cornell COVID-19 protocols. Compliance with the university’s mask mandate will be required for all audience members.