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BECHSTEIN PIANO CENTRE

207 WEST 58T H STREET

NEW YORK CITY

OCTOBER 18, 2009 6:00 PM

GALA BENEFIT CONCERT

THE NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE

GALA BENEFIT AND SILENT AUCTION

OCTOBER 18, 2009 6:00 PM

Winners of the silent auction will be announced throughout the concert

From Pantomimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nataliya Medvedovskaya Waltz of the Poisonous Mushrooms Tiptoeing Invisible Beings

Marissa Byers, clarinet Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano

Clouds, from Landscapes for Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don HagarChristopher Oldfather, piano

Breaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John de Clef Piñeiro Erin Lesser, flute Craig Ketter, piano

Three Short Pieces for Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carl Kanter Piano Piece – July 2008 Piano Study – Resignation Piano Study 4

Christopher Oldfather, piano

Oui, J'Aime Brahms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacob E. Goodman Arthur Cook, cello Marcia Eckert, piano

Childhood, III and IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard McCandlessRichard McCandless, speaking percussionist

Two Pieces for Solo Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugene McBride Baguettelle à la Chopin Nocturne

Nataliya Medvedovskaya, pianoCesar Vuksic, piano

Diabolique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patricia LeonardYuki Numata, electric violin Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano

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JOHN DE CLEF PIÑEIRO is the former First Deputy General Counsel for Contracts, Real Estate, and Corporate Matters of the New York City Housing Authority, and is a composer of concert music by avocation. He is also the Executive Director of the New York Composers Circle, a member of the American Music Center, and an editorial contributor of concert and CD reviews and interviews for The New Music Connoisseur. His works have been performed in concert venues in New York City and elsewhere in the U.S. Suppleness of gesture and expression is certainly one well-known characteristic of the flute, as it is of the piano. This is why Breaths, essentially a cycle of six miniature duos which include the four being presented here, explores through dialogue and interplay the flexibility of each instrument and the capability of each to mimic and parody the other in contrasting pitch ranges.

JACOB E. GOODMAN, founder of the New York Composers Circle in 2002, is Professor Emeritus of mathematics at City College (The City University of New York), the author of many books and research articles, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Discrete & Computational Geometry. He has composed and improvised all his life, and has studied composition with, among others, Ezra Laderman and David Del Tredici. Recent compositions include a set of six intermezzi for piano, two song cycles, a set of variations on a Beethoven theme, a quintet for piano and strings, Variations for a Rainy Afternoon for flute, violin, cello, and piano, and a set of nocturnes for violin and piano. He recently composed the score for the documentary film Meet Me at the Canoe, produced for the American Museum of Natural History by his daughter, Naomi Goodman. Oui, J'Aime Brahms, whose title is a reply to the title of a book written by Francoise Sagan some 50 years ago, is a rondo for cello and piano in the style of Brahms. It was written as a wedding present for two friends of the composer's, Ricky Pollack and Lori Smith.

DONALD HAGAR is a composer whose music spans a wide range of genres, from solo works to opera, music which has been described as fresh, rhythmically exciting, exhaustively inventive, imaginative, and clear in formal design. Reviewers for the Boston Globe have called his music "intimate," "finely structured," and "perky." Hagar's works have been performed by such ensembles and soloists as ALEA III, Boston Composers String Quartet, NuBotl Chamber Players, Wellesley Symphony Orchestra, Dominique LaBelle, Nancy Ellen Ogle, Patricia Sonego, Patrick Dillery, and Geoffrey Burleson, among others. In 2004, selections from his opera Inspiration were performed in New York City Opera's VOX Showcase, conducted by George Manahan. In 2007, Mr. Hagar was commissioned by harpsichordist Elaine Comparone and violist Veronica Salas to write a piece for them which was premiered at Merkin Hall in New York in June, 2008. In September, 2007, he co-produced a concert with Geoffrey Burleson and Maria Tegzes of his own music, Vincent Persichetti's, and others', at the Tenri Cultural Institute. In August, 2008 Mr. Hagar fulfilled an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where he worked on the completion of his second opera, an adaptation of the story Why the Chimes Rang. Originally from Elmira, New York, Donald Hagar received his B.M. cum laude from Ithaca College, where he studied with Karel Husa and, at the Ithaca College London Center in England, with Justin Connolly. At Boston University, where he received his M.M., his principal composition teachers were Theodore Antoniou and Bernard Rands. Currently living in Brooklyn, Don teaches in the New York City public schools. His New Blues for elementary band has been played by several bands in the New York City area.

CARL KANTER majored in music at Harvard College, graduating in 1953. Thereafter, he attended Harvard Law School and practiced law for about 40 years. After retiring, he has returned to composition and has written several string quartets, piano trios and numerous

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smaller pieces. He is a composer member of the New York Composers Circle. The Three Short Pieces for Piano constitute an attempt to write piano music in neither a romantic 19th century style nor the pointillistic style or minimal style of other current music.

A native of Boston, PATRICIA LEONARD’s early musical training began with piano studies, followed by composition studies at The New England Conservatory. She received a B.M. in Composition from The Boston Conservatory. In 1998, she came to New York to study composition with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici. Ms. Leonard’s music is performed frequently in New York and in Europe. Awards include the 2008 IBLA Foundation Prize for Distinguished Composer, the Mark Brunswick Prize for Composition, and the CUNY Award for excellence by a woman composer. Ms. Leonard is a founding member of the New York Composers Circle, a board member of The League of Composers/I.S.C.M, and a member of The New York Women Composers. Diabolique is a piece for electric violin and piano in rondo form, influenced by the fable of Diabolus, whose wrath leads to great destruction. A powerful demon, Diabolus has been exiled from the town of Mansoul. Through his clever devices, however, he tricks the town of Mansoul into opening its gates to him. Diabolus, having obtained entrance into the town again, makes his conquest, becomes Mansoul’s ruler, and assaults all that is good. He possesses a beautiful woman and leads her back to hell with him where he reclaims his throne.

EUGENE MCBRIDE's studies have been at William Paterson College, Juilliard, and the Center for Media Arts. His compositions include orchestral works, choral compositions, songs, numerous chamber works, and compositions for solo piano. A movement from his orchestral composition Four for Orchestra may be heard on MMC Orchestral Miniatures, Vol. V, with the composer conducting the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mr. McBride is a production associate for the New Music Connoisseur and has written critiques of contemporary music for that magazine. He is a member of BMI and the American Music Center, and is one of the founding members of the New York Composers Circle. He is happy to have his piano solos presented at tonight’s NYCC Gala by the wonderful pianists Nataliya Medvedovskaya and Cesar Vuksic. Mr. McBride is pleased to announce the premiere of a new solo piano work, Intermezzo. The performance will be by the internationally acclaimed pianist David Holzman. Mr. Holzman’s piano recital is presented by Bargemusic on Friday, Oct. 23rd at 8 PM. The recital will include works of Roger Sessions, Stephan Wolpe, and others. Bargemusic is an intimate chamber music performance space located on a barge in Brooklyn with a picturesque backdrop of the beautiful Lower Manhattan; you may Google "Bargemusic" for directions. Some short excerpts of McBride’s compositions may be heard on his website, www.eugenemcbride.com.

RICHARD MCCANDLESS has been writing and performing music for percussion with and without electronics since 1973. His performance of his composition Childhood for solo speaking percussionist prompted the Washington Post to report that "Mr. McCandless showed himself to be a master of sounds—subtle, emphatic, expertly shaped and richly expressive." The New York Times has referred to McCandless as a gifted performer, and the Washington Post has commented that "Mr. McCandless clearly places a high priority on communication as well as innovation." In 2007, McCandless was featured in a profile concert on the North River Music series in New York City. From 1980 to 1985, McCandless was the percussionist with the Washington Music Ensemble, with whom he frequently performed in New York at Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall, and in Washington at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Library of Congress. McCandless lives in New York City. Additional information is available at www.richardmccandless.com.

NATALIA MEDVEDOVSKAYA, a composer and pianist, was born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg. She graduated with a double major from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where her composition teacher was Sergei Slonimsky and her piano teacher was Tatyana Kravchenko.

She received both of her diplomas at the International Piano Co mpetition "Young Virtuosi" (1989, Czech Republic), one of them awarded for "culture of performance, musicality, and deep understanding of music." Since 2003 Nataliya has been living in New York. She performed as an ensemblist at Weill Recital Hall during the summer of 2005, and also gave a solo recital dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth at the New York Public Library in the Bronx during July, 2006. She and the singer Svetlana Furdui recorded a CD of Rachmaninoff songs that came out in 2007. She has also recorded her piano solo CD of the Mozart program as well as a CD of her own compositions. In January, 2007, her Quartet #2 was premiered at the "Chamber Music America" Conference, and subsequently performed at the Albuquerque June Music Festival by the St. Petersburg Quartet. Her flute sonata was performed at Levinson Hall of Brooklyn College in 2008. Nataliya has been teaching at the Brooklyn Music School since November, 2007. The suite Pantomimes for clarinet and piano, first performed at the International Clarinet Association Convention in Atlanta, consists of six character pieces including the two scheduled on this program. All six are written for various kinds of clarinet (B-flat, A, E-flat and C), and are intended to sound both humorous and threatening.

Clarinetist MARISSA BYERS, a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was a winner of the Mary Starling Concerto Competition at age fourteen. She received her Bachelor's degree at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Richard Stoltzman. More recently, she studied with David Krakauer while completing her Master's degree at Mannes College of Music. She has performed with the Boston Civic Symphony, the International Tour Orchestra, and One World Symphony. Mrs. Byers has also given performances in Germany, France, Austria, and Italy. She has performed with the Vision Into Art Ensemble at Symphony Space, as well as the Riverside Opera Company at Merkin Hall in New York City. Mrs. Byers is currently the artistic director of DELANCEY, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to the collaboration of western classical music with arts and culture from around the world.

ARTHUR COOK, cellist, has appeared as a chamber musician and soloist in summer festivals in the United States at Sandpoint, Meadowmount, Taos, Yale-at-Norfolk, Rutgers, and Apple Hill, and in Naples and Montecassino, Italy. He was the recipient of the George Szell Award and the Graduate Performance Award at Mannes College. He has been on the faculties of Seton Hall University and Smith College. Arthur Cook has performed with pianist Deborah Gilwood under the name Blue Door since 1985. The Star-Ledger (N.J.) noted that "Blue Door was off to a fine start with some compelling performances. One marveled at their delicate yet taut reading, flawlessly paced. They gave ample demonstration of technical strength, musical intelligence, expressive power, and open ears." They serve as artistic directors for Blue Door Chamber Music at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Their recording Censored by Hitler: the Rediscovered Masterpieces(sonatas by Weill, Toch, and Hindemith, is available through Centaur Records. Mr. Cook's teachers include Arthur Follows, David Geber, Felix Galimir, and Louis Krasner. He plays a 1798 Josef Gagliano cello presented to him by the Gandolphe Foundation.

MARCIA ECKERT is active as piano soloist and collaborative artist and has appeared in the Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as at Merkin, Alice Tully, and Weill concert halls, and at London’s Leighton House. She has traveled throughout the United States presenting lecture-recitals on piano music by women composers and on the music of Charles Ives. She has recorded for the Cambria and Leonarda labels. Ms. Eckert is on the faculty of Hunter College,

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where she was a 1998 recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been teaching piano and chamber music in the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division since 1983 and is the director of Pianophoria! and Teen Pianophoria!, summer piano intensives in New York City. Ms. Eckert holds degrees in Piano Performance from the Indiana University School of Music and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Teachers have included Jorge Bolet, Gilbert Kalish, Claude Frank, William Masselos, Seymour Bernstein, Luis Batlle, and Lucy Greene.

American pianist CRAIG KETTER is rapidly distinguishing himself as a leading pianist of his generation, performing as soloist and chamber musician throughout the world. Critically acclaimed for “transporting the listeners to extraordinary heights” and “into a world beyond time and space,” Mr. Ketter is known for playing with powerhouse sonority combined with long-lined, dulcet lyricism. Mr. Ketter has performed as soloist with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Sacramento Philharmonic, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the South Orange Symphony, the Raleigh Symphony, the Durham Symphony, the Rocky Ridge Music Festival Orchestra, and the American Festival for the Arts Orchestra. His solo concerts have taken him to Mexico, Argentina, France, Germany, and Japan and across the United States and Canada. Mr. Ketter regularly joins forces with international singers and chamber groups. Venues include NPR’s Performance Today series, CBS Sunday Morning, Sirius Satellite Radio, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, La Huaca, Atlapa in Panama City, the Savannah Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine, “Music in the Mountains” in Colorado, and The Marilyn Horne Foundation. Musicians he has collaborated with include flutist Eugenia Zukerman, clarinetists Stephen Williamson and Ricardo Morales, cellists Robert deMaine and Eric Bartlett, violinists Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Roy Malan, and singers Deborah Voigt, Margaret Jane Wray, Cynthia Lawrence, Ben Heppner, Cliff Forbis, and Robert White. He has also performed with the esteemed actress Claire Bloom.

Flutist ERIN LESSER has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Canada, Europe, China, Brazil, and the United States, and was hailed as a "superb flutist" by The New York Times. She is a founding member of Argento Chamber Ensemble, Due East, and Scarborough Trio, and performs regularly with the Wet Ink Ensemble and Sequitur. Erin recently completed a two-year fellowship at The Academy(a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute, which included performances with Ensemble ACJW. Ms. Lesser is actively involved in the contemporary music world, having worked closely with composers such as Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, Mario Davidovsky, Tristan Murail, and Helmut Lachenmann. She has performed with many leading ensembles including So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, eighth blackbird, American Modern Ensemble, and the Locrian Chamber Players. She has also commissioned several new works with her various ensembles, and presented lectures and demonstrations on flute techniques of the 21st century. Festival appearances include: Shanghai Electroacoustic Music Festival, Kilkenny Music Festival, Warsaw Crossdrumming Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Holland Festival, Ojai Music Festival (California), International Spectral Music Festival (Istanbul), SEAMUS, and the Salihara Festival (Indonesia). Erin is a Pearl Flute Performing Artist.

YUKI NUMATA is a violinist with “virtuosic flair and dexterous bravery,” according to The New York Times. Ms. Numata is rapidly gaining attention as a charistmatic virtuoso, having performed as a soloist with the New World Symphony, the University at Buffalo’s Slee Sinfonietta, the Wordless Music Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Eastman Philharmonia Orchestra. Ms. Numata was invited to perform Charles Wuorinen’s Rhapsody with the Tanglewood Orchestra and at the composer’s request and as a last minute replacement, she performed Wuorinen’s Spin Five with The Slee Sinfonietta. Ms. Numata has an avid interest in new music and as a result, has had the opportunity to work closely with some of today’s foremost composers. These include Charles Wuorinen, Steve Reich, and John Zorn.

At the Tanglewood Music Center, Ms. Numata was invited to be a New Fromm Player, focusing specifically on the performance of contemporary chamber music repertoire. Ms. Numata holds a great deal of respect for composers of her own generation—as such she has a close working relationship with BMI award-winning composer Jeff Myers. Together with pianist Ming-Hsiu Yen she has presented a recital of Myers’s violin and piano works at New York City’s Symphony Space. Additionally, Ms. Numata performs frequently with the New York-based American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), and premiered Timothy Andres’s piece for string quartet and orchestra with ACME at Carnegie Hall this past spring. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Ms. Numata received a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Her principal teachers include Andrew Jennings, Zvi Zeitlin, and Gwen Thompson. Ms. Numata completed a three-year fellowship at the New World Symphony and currently resides in New York City with her husband, Jason Bitman.

Pianist CHRISTOPHER OLDFATHER has devoted himself to the performance of twentieth-century music for more than thirty years. His eclectic career on all keyboard instruments has taken him as far as Moscow and Tokyo. The New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and Ensemble Moderne in Germany have all presented him as soloist, and he is a longtime member of Boston's acclaimed Collage New Music ensemble. His recording of Elliott Carter's Duo for Violin and Piano with Robert Mann was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1990, and he has collaborated with the conductor Robert Craft and can be heard on several of his recordings.

CESAR VUKSIC, composer, pianist, and painter, has appeared throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Japan as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and chamber musician. He has premiered numerous compositions by South and North American composers, some written especially for him. As a composer, his own works have been performed in the U.S.A. and Latin America by outstanding musicians, and presented in concerts and festivals by music organizations such as Buenos Aires New Music Association, Americas Society, North-South Consonance (New York), New York University, Western Michigan University, InterAmerican Music Festival (Washington, D.C.), etc. He has been a recipient of several grants from Meet the Composer and the Queens Council on the Arts. Recently, Queens Public Television gave him a grant to videotape and broadcast his Queens Rhapsody for narrator, clarinet, violin, trombone, percussion, and piano. Barry L. Cohen wrote in The New Music Connoisseur: “It was Mr. Vuksic's playing that, to us, made for as fine an event as anyone will ever come across.”

Staff for this concert:Eugene Marlow, Ph.D, producer

Richard Brooks and Patricia Leonard, associate producersRobert E. Anderson, sound recordist

Jacob E. Goodman, Stephen W. Leibholz, and Eugene Marlow, publicityJacob E. Goodman, programs

The NYCC thanks the Bechstein Piano Centrefor generously donating its facilities for this benefit concert.

The NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE is an artistic and educational organization of composers and performers, dedicated to new music, whose mission is to provide a platform and forum for composers of concert music of all genres, for the development and performance of their works, for the continued growth of the art, and for the development and education of new audiences for new music. As such, the NYCC offers its members various opportunities for testing works in progress, performing completed works in concert, and fostering collaboration and development, both artistic and professional. The NYCC taps the rich creative potential of New York City in an original way: it is unique among composers' organizations in providing a regular monthly forum for those who create new music to maintain an ongoing interaction with their peers. All who are enthusiastic about new music are welcome—composers, performers, dancers, poets, and listeners. This frequently available and rich creative exchange, and the opportunities it brings for networking and collaboration, makes participation in the Circle an invaluable experience. In addition, it offers the inspiration and camaraderie borne of our common involvement in music and our common commitment to bringing new music into the world. Inspired by a workshop at the American Music Center, Jacob E. Goodman founded the New York Composers Circle in the spring of 2002 as an association of composers meeting monthly to play their music for each other. It soon became apparent that we had the artistry and commitment to present our music before an audience. In May, 2003, the NYCC produced its first public concert at Saint Peter’s Church, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici, along with eleven of the NYCC's original members. This well-attended concert was favorably reviewed in the New Music Connoisseur. The NYCC continues to evolve by tapping the rich vein of talent and resources among its members. Under the continued leadership of Debra Kaye, and more recently of John de Clef Piñeiro, the NYCC's membership has more than quadrupled since its inception, and the number of its concerts has grown from one each season to its current calendar of four concert presentations during the 2008-09 season. The group continues to expand its programs. Informal readings of new pieces allow member composers to "test fly" their works with some of New York's finest professional and advanced student musicians. Such events, along with our monthly music salons and collaborations with other groups and institutions, support the creation of new music through the various stages of its development. In the 2004-05 season, award-winning composer Ezra Laderman joined members of the NYCC in its spring concert. In addition to its own two concerts, in March, 2006 the NYCC presented a joint concert with the performing ensemble ModernWorks, presenting a piece by John Eaton; during the following season we collaborated with New York University in our first concert at NYU's Frederick Loewe Theatre. In the summer of 2007 the NYCC held its first annual composers' competition, open only to nonmembers. The winning work in the 2009 competition, our third, Elizabeth Lim's Wafting, for string quartet, will receive its premiere performance at our May 25th concert. Last season the NYCC launched a new outreach initiative—the New York Composers Circle Community Encores program—in which we send performers out to institutions around the city such as schools and senior centers, with the aim of acquainting previously untapped audiences with concert music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The first outreach performance in this series took place to great audience acclaim on February 24, 2009, at the Hebrew Home in Riverdale; Nataliya Medvedovskaya presented a program of piano works introduced by our Executive Director, John de Clef Piñeiro. This program was repeated at a JASA community center on May 1, 2009; additional outreach programs are planned for this season. We are happy to announce a new partnership with the No Borders Quartet, an Italian group, which will perform a concert of our members' works in Italy this November and again in New York the following March. Details may be found on the NYCC website.

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The New York Composers Circle

Board of DirectorsJohn Eaton Dinu Ghezzo Jacob E. Goodman

David Katz Stephen Leibholz, Chair

AdministrationJohn de Clef Piñeiro, Executive Director

David Katz, TreasurerEugene Marlow, Membership Coordinator

Richard Russell, Webmaster

Honorary Members Elliott CarterEzra Laderman

John Eaton Tania León

Dinu Ghezzo Paul Moravec

Composer MembersRoger BlancRichard Brooks

Jacob E. GoodmanDonald Hagar

Patricia LeonardEugene Marlow

Miki NakanishiJoseph Pehrson

Tamara CashourRobert S. Cohen

Martin HalpernNoah Haverkamp

Peri MauerEugene W. McBride

Frank RetzelDana Richardson

John de Clef Piñeiro Hubert Howe Richard McCandless Richard RussellPeter Dizozza Fedor Kabalin Nataliya Medvedovskaya Inessa SegalMargaret Fairlie-Kennedy Carl Kanter Yekaterina Merkulyeva William VollingerBrian Fennelly Debra Kaye Christopher Montgomery Cesar VuksicVictor Frost Stephen Leibholz Gayther Myers

Performer Members Demetra Adams, soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle, soprano Javier Oviedo, saxophone Christina Ascher, contralto Marcia Eckert, piano Lisa Pike, horn Haim Avitsur, trombone Oren Fader, guitar Anthony Pulgram, tenor Mary Barto, flute Leonard Hindell, bassoon Stephen Solook, percussion Adam Berkowitz, clarinet Jill Jaffe, viola Patricia Sonego, soprano Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet Sibylle Johner, cello Anna Tonna, mezzo-soprano Allen Blustine, clarinet Michael Laderman, flute Ricardo Rivera, baritone Sofia Dimitrova, soprano Maxine Neuman, cello Stanichka Dimitrova, violin Margaret O'Connell, mezzo

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The next New York Composers Circle concert will take place February 23, 2010at 8 PM, at Saint Peter's Church, Citigroup Center, Lexington Ave. & 54th St.

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