Voices Up! will be back on Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Lincoln Center’s 12th-Floor lounge with its fall installment, Cantabile Quartet—Music for Strings and Piano. The concert is free for Fordham students and faculty.

The program will feature the music of two vintage modernists, Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) and Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), as well as contemporary pieces by Fordham’s very own Lawrence Kramer, Ph.D., distinguished professor of English, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec, D.M.A., university professor of music at Adelphi University. Also on the program are original pieces by composers Alexander Liebermann and Giovanni Sollima. Listeners will be treated to a rare variation of musical styles featuring violin, viola, cello, and piano.

“There’s a very audience-friendly dimension to these pieces, all have melody that comes from an almost infinite possibility of combining these four instruments to produce sound worlds,” said Kramer. “We’re exploring these different combinations, like violin and viola, to great effect. There’s something you can do with those two instruments that you can’t do with any others and it’s very rare.”

Kramer said that there is not a single atonal piece in the program. Less Schoenberg, more Debussy, he said.

“There will be a diversity of sound, style, and sensibilities.”

Voices Up! will return in the spring, teaming up again with Poets Out Loud.

Friday, March 11, 2011 | 7:30 p.m.
Lowenstein Center | 12th-Floor Lounge
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
Free and Open to the Public

Joyce, Crane, and Fordham University Press

This event is held in collaboration with Fordham’s Poet’s Out Loud program and will (as all Voices Up events do) feature live readings of the texts set to music. This year’s event commemorates the publication, by Fordham University Press, of the first critical edition of Hart Crane’s epic of America, The Bridge, edited by Lawrence Kramer, professor of English at Fordham, and the 2011 edition of Joyce Studies Annual, edited by Moshe Gold and Philip Sicker. Books will be available at the concert.