POSTPONED - Music & the Brain: What's Actually Happening While You're Listening

This event has been postponed.
In an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), public events at Merkin Hall have been suspended through May 11. See Kaufman Music Center community updates related to COVID-19.

Featuring rising star musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School High School.

Music is universal in human culture, but serves no obvious biological function. Renowned Tufts University Professor Aniruddh Patel, author of Music, Language and the Brain, will discuss a variety of research studies bearing on the mysterious and sometimes unexplainable power of music (including other species!) – followed by a performance.

Concert Program

MENDELSSOHN  –  String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13
Adagio – Allegro vivace
Rebecca Fischer, coach
Serin Park, violin
Olha Tytarenko, violin
Oriana Hawley, viola
Italia Raimond Jones, cello

RACHMANINOFF  –  Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G minor
Ciana Meyers, violin
Asher Kalfus, cello
Yali Levy-Schwartz, piano

SMETANA  –  Piano Trio, Op. 15
Finale: Presto
Bianna Bell, violin, 
Gabriel Sipe, cello,  
Dovie Lepore-Currin, piano

LIEBERMAN  –  Gargoyles, Op.29
I. Presto
II. Adagio semplice, ma con molto rubato
III. Allegro moderato
IV. Presto feroce
Henry Tang, Piano

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