Grand Encounters: Michelle Cann
Michelle Cann in Concert
Sunday, May 15, 2022
3:30PM
Indiana Landmarks Center
Our season concludes on a high note with Michelle Cann weaving works by Black female composers Margaret Bonds and Florence Price with pieces by Romantic composers Brahms and Chopin. A champion of the music of Florence Price, Cann made her orchestral debut at age fourteen and has since performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra. She will perform Price’s “Fantasie Nègre No. 1 in E minor” as well as “Troubled Water” by Bonds.
PROGRAM
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
Brahms: Ballade in D major, Op. 10, No. 2
Price: Sonata in E minor
—intermission—
Clara Schumann: Quatre Pièces Fugitives
Price: Fantasie Nègre No. 1 in E minor
Bonds: Troubled Water
Please note that audiences will be subject to the COVID‐safety policy of Indiana Landmarks on the date of the event. We will communicate all requirements in a pre-concert email.