Chamber ensemble to perform Scott Joplin

Grace McQuade

The critically acclaimed American Chamber Ensemble, celebrating its 51st Anniversary, will present “Celebrating Scott Joplin and the Influence of Ragtime on Classical Music,” a concert on Sunday, April 2 at 3:00 p.m. at Hofstra University’s Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue in Hempstead.

The event is presented by the University’s Music Department.

The program will include music by composer Scott Joplin and composers he influenced, including Americans William Bolcom and Paul Schoenfield, France’s Erik Satie and Arthur Honneger, England’s William Walton and Russia’s Valery Trofimenko. The Trofimenko work will feature a special performance by the renowned Eglevsky Ballet, choreographed by their Artistic Director Maurice Brandon Curry.

Performers will be ACE Director, pianist Marilyn Lehman, along with soprano Donna Balson, pianist Blanche Abram, violinist Eriko Sato, and cellist Michael Finckel, with guest artist, ACE student award winner Connor Martin, marimba.

Tickets at Hofstra University Box Office – $20 general admission; $15 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. Children are free with a paying adult. For ticket information, call 516-463-6644 or visit https://tkt.xosn.com/tickets/.

Directed by Marilyn Lehman, ACE was founded in 1965 by pianist Blanche Abram and clarinetist Naomi Drucker. The ensemble explores the great chamber music literature for piano and voice in combination with strings and woodwinds 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.

For the latest American Chamber Ensemble concert listings, updates and information, log on to https://americanchamberensemble.com/. Follow ACE on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Chamber-Ensemble/150032171984.

For more information about the American Chamber Ensemble, call Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or email them at jamesarts@att.net.

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