Americas Society To Receive ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award -
Presentation at Chamber Music America Conference

The Americas Society "Music of the Americas" concert series will receive
a 2002 ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award on Friday, January 17 at the
ASCAP reception during the annual Chamber Music America conference in
New York.  This distinguished award will be received by Americas Society
Music Director Maria Elena Tobon.

2002 "Music of the Americas" programs have included a concert by guitarist
Hector Gonzalez, who performed the latest works by Colombian composers,
two Jewish Music of the Americas concerts: Klezmer en Buenos Aires and
Brazilian pianist Sonia Rubinsky; explorations of how musicians have
taken and mixed Jewish music with either folk music of Latin America
and/or with different classical traditions, and concerts by the Brazilian
Guitar Quartet, pianist Adam Kent, and a special concert focusing on the
influence of Walt Whitman on Latin America, highlighting parallels and
contrasts of poem settings between U.S.  composers and Latin American
composers.

2002 also saw the launch of a joint project of The Americas Society and
Copland House - Copland &, a five-year series designed to explore the
important role played by Aaron Copland as Cultural Envoy of the U.S.
State Department.  In the first concert, Copland & Mexico, the Music
from Copland House ensemble presented works for clarinet, voice, flute,
piano and strings by Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Silvestre Revueltas,
Lou Harrison, Paul Bowles, Pablo Moncayo and others.

Upcoming 2003 concerts will include music of the Mexican-born composer
Max Lifchitz with the acclaimed North/South Consonance Orchestra, Hector
Martignon and his Jazz Camerata, a very special Stefan Wolpe Centennial
Celebration and our annual Young Performers Night.

For more information about other 2002-2003 season concerts, please visit
the Americas Society online at: http://www.americas-society.org.

The Americas Society is a membership organization that promotes the
understanding of the political, economic, and cultural issues that define
and challenge the Americas today, from the Artic Circle to the southernmost
tip of Argentina.

In January of 2001 the Society created the Music Department and appointed
Conductor/Flutist MariaElena Tobon as its Director.  The New Music
Department seeks to increase awareness and promote the performances of
works by composers from Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, and to
represent these region's culturally diverse musical traditions.

The "Music of the Americas" 2002-2003 season of concerts and educational
components is made possible by the generous support of the Citigroup
Foundation, Credit Suisse First Boston, JPMorganChase and Americas Society
Members.

Jeffrey James <[log in to unmask]>