American Chamber Ensemble to Present MULTICULTURAL LANDSCAPE in March
The concert will take place on March 28, 2025.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Mar. 04, 2025
The critically-acclaimed American Chamber Ensemble, celebrating its 59th Anniversary, will perform Multicultural Landscape, a concert on Friday, March 28 at 7:30 PM at Hofstra University's Helene Fortunoff Theater in Monroe Lecture Center on California Avenue in Hempstead, NY, presented by the University Music Department.
ACE will present music for various combinations of piano, clarinet and strings by Aram Khatchaturian, Darius Milhaud, Dvorak, Gershwin, as well as contemporary composers Peter Schickele and Ante Grgin.
Performers will include pianist and ACE Director Marilyn Lehman, along with violinists Eriko Sato and Deborah Wong, cellist Chris Finckel, and clarinetist and Assistant ACE Director Mindy Dragovich. Pianist Adrienne Borbely will join Marilyn Lehman for a performance of a two-piano work by Darius Milhaud.
Tickets are $20 general admission; $15 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID, and will be available at the door. For ticket information or reservations, call 631-242-5684 or 516-586-3433.
Directed by Marilyn Lehman and assisted by Mindy Dragovich, ACE was founded in 1965 by pianist Blanche Abram and clarinetist Naomi Drucker. In residence at Hofstra University, the ensemble explores the great chamber music literature for piano, strings, woodwinds and voice and presents performances featuring world-class artists. ACE consists of the finest freelance musicians in the New York area and has been cited by critics for their superb presentations of chamber masterworks. Their latest CDs on Elysium are American Clarinet Treasures, featuring core members of ACE performing works by George Kleinsinger, Virgil Thomson, Daniel Gregory Mason, Elliott Carter, Douglas Moore and Gary Schocker, with guest artist Stanley Drucker and The American Chamber Ensemble Plays Peter Schickele, which features five of this modern master's most important chamber works.
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