Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 2pm
“Women’s Work” Chamber Concert
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Questions? Email Patron Services at office@stamfordsymphony.org

Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 2pm
“Women’s Work” Chamber Concert
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Questions? Email Patron Services at office@stamfordsymphony.org

Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 2pm
“Women’s Work” Chamber Concert
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Questions? Email Patron Services at office@stamfordsymphony.org

Location
Westport Library,
20 Jesup Road,
Westport, CT 06880
Duration
75 minutes
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About this performance:
Stamford Symphony presents Women’s Work, Trailblazing Women Composers of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Stamford Symphony’s violinist and musicologist, Gabriel Schaff and guest pianist Melody Fader for a duet that will recreate an historical musical journey featuring women composers, musicians and teachers that influenced the likes of their male musical counterparts and greats of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The program will feature many female firsts who stood among men while blazing a well-documented trail for the many talented women composers and musicians that followed. A melodic, delightful and spiritual tribute as we celebrate their musical impact as part of Women’s History Month.
Musical Program to include:
Clara Schumann (1819-1896): 3 Romances, Op. 22
Rosemary Brown (1916-2001): Mazurka in g-sharp minor (1980)
Marion Bauer (1882-1955): Up the Ocklawaha, Op. 6 (1913)
Florence Price (1887-1953): Elfentanz (ca. 1935)
Florence Price (1887-1953): Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (from Three Negro Spirituals, ca. 1933)
Claire Polin (1926-1995): Two TransUral Dances from Shirildang (1991)
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano
Featured Artists:
Gabriel Schaff, Violin

A native of Philadelphia, violinist Gabriel Schaff hails from a musical family. His mother was the acclaimed composer and musicologist Claire Polin, and an earlier musical ancestor was the revered 19th century Russian composer and pianist, Anton Rubinstein. At the age of 16, Gabriel was admitted into Philadelphia’s New School of Music before moving to New York City as a scholarship student of Erick Friedman at the Manhattan School of Music, later serving as his teaching assistant.
Mr. Schaff has performed with many professional ensembles in the New York area, and is a recognized teacher and lecturer on the secondary and college levels. With the Englewood Chamber Players, he performs interactive and historical concerts in diverse communities. Current programs include a retrospective of women composers in celebration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment and lectures on the music of Beethoven in celebration of his 250th anniversary year.
Mr. Schaff is an internationally recognized author of books and articles pertaining to the history of the violin family and the music written for it, most notably “The Essential Guide to Bows of the Violin Family” and “Rediscovering Haydn’s Three Original Violin Sonatas”. He is on the faculty of Essex County College as a lecturer in the Humanities division, evolving a course entitled “Music in Society”. He is also the curator and archivist at the Si-Yo Music Society Foundation and the creator of the Si-Yo Fine Instrument Registry, the first of its kind.
Melody Fader, Piano
