This evening at the Museum will feature music and art evoking American historical and cultural themes, free and open to all.
Patricia Garcia Gil, postdoctoral associate and artist in residence at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, will discuss and perform music by lesser-known American women composers on the Center’s Hazleton Brothers square piano, made in New York circa 1850. These compositions commemorate events including the War of 1812, the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to the United States in 1824, the 1853 New York World’s Exhibition, and the American Civil War, as well as sentimental subjects and the American landscape.
Andrew C. Weislogel, the Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art at the Museum, will offer context for the musical selections with popular American prints by Winslow Homer and other artists.
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Cosponsored by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
Musical program
March, composed and dedicated to the U.S. Marine Corps
by “A Young Lady of Charleston, South Carolina”
(published Philadelphia: G. E. Blake, 1814–15)
Malbrook with four variations
by Marthesie Demilliere (active New York, 1812–18)
(published New York: Mr. Demilliere, ca. 1812–18)
Variations on “The Country Maid” or “L’Amour est un enfant Trompeur” (ca. 1800)
by Elizabeth Van Hagen (1750–1809)
Oft in a Stilly Night with Variations
by “A Lady”
(published Philadelphia, Geo. Willig, 1827)
Lafayette’s Grand March
by “A Lady of Philadelphia”
(published Philadelphia: J. G. Klemm, ca. 1824)
Crystal Palace Waltz
by Augusta Browne (1820–1882)
(published New York: Musical World and Times 7, no. 14, 1853)
Battle of the Wilderness
by Laura Hastings Hatch (life dates unknown)
(published Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1869)
Mazurka
by Faustina H. Hodges (1822–1895)
(published Philadelphia: W. H. Boner & Co., 1870)