Podcast about Amnesty International Group 11 and its 48th annual benefit concert, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the International Declaration of Human Rights. Marcia talks about how she curated this concert of music on the theme of human rights.

In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the International Declaration of Human Rights.
The program is all human rights-related. Performers include Blue Door (Deborah Gilwood and Arthur Cook), Debra Kaye and Roger Aplon, Sara Paar, Marcia Eckert, and Jessamyn Fry. Composers include Olivier Messiaen, Ernst Toch, Debra Kaye, Judith Shatin, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Kim Sherman.

Songs by Clara Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Louise Talma, Jake Heggie.
Sara Paar, soprano; Marcia Eckert, piano.

Songs by Clara Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Louise Talma, Jake Heggie.
Sara Paar, soprano; Marcia Eckert, piano.
Sponsored by the Leschetizky Association.

Debra Kaye: Call of the Dance, movements II & III
Carl Gutowski, flute; Marcia Eckert, piano
Recorded for Kaye's album "Ikarus Among the Stars". Also music by Cameron Wentz, Nina Siniakova, Thomas Parente, Hubert Howe, Dana Dimitri Richardson.

Presentation for the Association of Piano Teachers of Long Island.

Fundraiser for the restoration of Blandford's antique Henry F. Miller grand piano. With pianists Liam Kaplan, Nicholas Kaponyas and Theo Rockas.

Call of the Dance, with Carl Gutowski, flute

Nailah Nombeko's Short Songs to Poetry of William Blake, with soprano Adrienne Patino

With soprano Sara Paar, performing works by Nombeko, Rorem and Strauss

With Kathleen Thomson, violin and Mary Wooten, cello, performing music by Beethoven, Tashiro and Brahms

Human Rights, a work for chorus and jazz quartet by Antoine Miannay, conducted by Claude Lévy; with Marcia Eckert, piano; Zachary Marzulli, string bass; Michael Raposo, clarinets; Riley Palmer, percussion; guest pianists: Jesse Goldberg and Nicholas Kaponyas

With Kathleen Thomson, violin and Mary Wooten, cello, performing music by Beethoven Tailleferre and Shostakovich

With Kathleen Thomson, violin and Mary Wooten, cello, performing music by Shostakovich and Germaine Tailleferre

With Joseph Rukowski, clarinet, and Mary Wooten, cello, performing music by Beethoven, Brahms and Muczynski

Music by Debussy, Mahler, Schubert, Messiaen and Muczynski, with Janice Meyerson, mezzo-soprano, Deborah Gilwood, pianist, Arthur Cook, cello, and Joseph Rutkowski, clarinet

With Joseph Rukowski, clarinet, and Mary Wooten, cello, performing music by Beethoven, Brahms, Muczynski and Messiaen

Mannes Faculty Concert

With Joseph Rukowski, clarinet, and Mary Wooten, cello, performing music by Beethoven, Brahms, Muczynski and Messiaen

Trio la Bella, Blue Door, Eckert-Gilwood Duo and Janice Meyerson (mezzo-soprano), performing works by Brahms, Dvořàk, Glière, Prokofiev and Copland

Music for two pianos by Schumann, Tailleferre, Childs, Atlas, Pärt, Debussy and Bolcom, with Deborah Gilwood.

Fundraiser for the restoration of Blandford's antique Henry F. Miller grand piano. Music for piano two-, four- and six-hands, performed with pianists Robert Bronchard, Nicholas Kaponyas, Liam Kaplan and Teddy Rockas.

Music by Debra Kaye, with saxophonist Javier Oviedo

Music for two pianos by Schumann, Brahmns, Ravel, Tailleferre, Bartok, Mary Ellen Childs and Raphael Atlas (premiere), with Deborah Gilwood

Trio la Bella, Janice Meyerson, mezzo-soprano and Alan Feinberg, piano, performing music by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Copland and J.S. Bach

Piano quartets by Frank Bridge, Mozart and Brahms, performed with Peggy McAdams, violin, Ruth Siegler, viola and Timothy Merton, cello

Panel discussion featuring Marcia, Tatjana Rankovich and Snow Wilson, moderated by Adrienne Kim, presented to parents and students

Works by Rachmaninov, Debussy, Poulenc and Brahms, with Joseph Rutkowski, clarinet and Mary Wooten, cello

Fundraiser for the restoration of Blandford's antique Henry F. Miller grand piano. Music for piano two-, four- and six-hands, performed with pianists Raj Bhimani, Eric Fegan, Deborah Gilwood and Liam Kaplan.

Works by Poulenc, Brahms, Husa and Beethoven, with Joseph Rutkowski, clarinet and Mary Wooten, cello

Works by Poulenc, Brahms and Husa, with Joseph Rutkowski, clarinet

Piano quartets by Mozart, Turina and Dvořàk, performed with Peggy McAdams, violin, Ruth Siegler, viola and Timothy Merton, cello

Piano quartets by Mozart, Turina and Dvořàk, performed with Peggy McAdams, violin, Ruth Siegler, viola and Timothy Merton, cello

Works by Martinu, Beethoven, Morgenstern and Herbert, performed with Lisa Arkus, flute, Monte Morgenstern, clarinet and Peter Prosser, cello

Brahms Op. 118 for Solo Piano

Works by Martinu, Beethoven, Morgenstern and Herbert, performed with Lisa Arkus, flute, Monte Morgenstern, clarinet and Peter Prosser, cello

Works for duo piano by Brahms, Schumann, Ravel, Tailleferre, Bartok and Mary Ellen Childs, performed with Deborah Gilwood

Works for duo piano by Brahms, Schumann, Ravel, Tailleferre, Bartok and Mary Ellen Childs, performed with Deborah Gilwood

Piano quartets by Mozart and Brahms, performed with Peggy McAdams, violin, Ruth Siegler, viola and Timothy Merton, cello

Piano quartets by Mozart and Brahms, performed with Peggy McAdams, violin, Ruth Siegler, viola and Timothy Merton, cello

Cesar Vuksic's Tango Moods for piano four-hands, performed with Debra Kaye

Joseph Pehrson's Duodrama for cello and piano, performed with Arthur Cook

Vox Novus / New York Women Composers Collaboration

Vox Novus / New York Women Composers Collaboration

Mannes Faculty Concert

Guest artists: Peggy McAdams, violin; Ruth Siegler, viola; Timothy Merton, cello; Melanie Baker, violin

Four German Songs

With soprano Lucy Shelton

With violinist Peggy McAdams

With tenor Danel Molkentin

Solo piano works by Kaye, Colicchio and Zahab; works for flute and piano by Hindemith and Russell, with Michael Laderman

With tenor Danel Molkentin

With Players of the Beehive

With tenor Danel Molkentin

With tenor Danel Molkentin

Chamber music by Bach, Schubert, Ravel, Beethoven, with Amy Kimball, Whitney LaGrange and Arthur Cook

Solo piano works by Chopin, Ravel, Colicchio and Zahab

Songs by Nailah Nombeko, with soprano Tiffany Du Mouchelle

Music by Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre, with soprano Helen Gabrielsen

Faculty concert, with tenor Danel Molkentin

Chamber music by Mozart, Ravel and Schumann, with guest artists Amy Kimball, Whitney LaGrange and Arthur Cook

Music by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy for tenor, percussion and piano, with Anthony Pulgram, tenor

Chamber music by Debra Kaye and Richard Russell

Chamber music by Mozart, Ravel and Schumann, with guest artists Amy Kimball, Whitney LaGrange and Arthur Cook

Music by Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre, with soprano Helen Gabrielsen

Music by Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre, with soprano Helen Gabrielsen

Chamber music works by Debra Kaye

Chamber music works by Debra Kaye

World premiere by Martin Halperin

Solo piano works by Tailleferre, along with chamber music and art song by Boulez, Debussy, Messiaen, Poulenc, Ravel and Stravinsky

Works by Tailleferre, Mozart, Schonthal and Chopin

Works by Tailleferre, Mozart, Schonthal and Chopin

Works by Tailleferre, Mozart, Schonthal and Chopin

Dvořàk Slavonic Dances with Robert Bronchard

Music for harpsichord and piano by Kamron Saniee with Thomas Osuga

Featuring piano faculty and piano majors from the Hunter College Music Department

New chamber music by Debra Kaye

For Valentine's Day ... a bouquet of new music

Contemporary works by Margaret Fairlee-Kennedy, Kevin McCarter and Jacob E. Goodman

Songs performed with soprano Susan Gonzalez and others

Eckert-Gilwood Duo: Children's concert of music for two pianos and four-hands

Eckert-Gilwood Duo: Children's concert of music for two pianos and four-hands