Celebrate Lincoln's birthday by hearing masterworks by two African-American composers, cited as "ultimately life-enhancing" (about George Walker, in Fanfare Magazine) and "sharply drawn and gripping" (about Wendell Logan, in The New York Times).
George Walker, Music for 3 (1970/1991)
George Walker, Tangents (1999) (arr. David Sanford)
George Walker, Modus (1998)
Special collaboration with Cygnus Ensemble
George Walker, Five Fancies (1975)
Wendell Logan, Runagate Runagate (1989)
Award presented by Henry Threadgill
Ilaria Loisa Hawley
Quando L'acqua riflette (When the Water Reflects)
Performed by Face The Music
Isabella Caurucci, flute
Yusei Hata, melodica
Oriana Hawley, viola
John Waller, triangle
Vasudevan Panicker, coach
Born in 2009, Ilaria Loisa Hawley is the recipient of a 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the inaugural recipient of Claire Chase's Pnea Foundation Young Flutist Award. Ilaria's music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and Face the Music, and she is a composition student of Mathew Fuerst and a flute student of Zara Lawler. She attends PS 314 Muscota New School and enjoys drawing, drama, reading, rock climbing, and making earrings.