The Cornell Center For Historical Keyboards:
… fosters original and imaginative approaches to the performance and study of keyboard instruments, their technological underpinnings, their intersections with other arts, and their participation in the global currents of cultural and social history.
The Roosevelt Island community is invited to Keyboard Energies, a concert presented by the Cornell Center For Historical Keyboards at the Cornell Tech Tata Innovation Center (11 East Loop Road, Room 141) Sunday March 8 from 2-4 pm..
According to Cornell Tech:
From clavichord to synthesizer, Keyboard Energies brings together keyboard instruments designed over the last half-millennium to explore sonic possibilities that are at once old and new. The event showcases nine instruments from the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, including vintage Minimoog Model D synthesizers designed by Cornell alumnus Robert Moog, two electric pianos, and a clavinet, alongside a clavichord, harpsichord, and fortepiano generously provided by Yi-heng Yang.
The compact program includes newly imagined arrangements of music by Palestrina, J. S. Bach, Brillon de Jouy, Mozart, Alkan, Wagner, and Debussy, followed by a hands-on opportunity for attendees to play the instruments themselves.
Keyboard Energies is conceived, arranged, and performed by Roger Moseley (Director of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards and Cornell’s Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity); Patricia García Gil (Postdoctoral Associate and Artist in Residence at the CCHK); and Federico Ercoli (Graduate Fellow at the CCHK).
Click here for more information and here to Reserve Your Spot.
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