A Gilded Age Salon: Music from Paris to New York

Would you love to be a fly on the wall in Mrs. Vanderbilt’s parlor? This program offers a rare glimpse into what a music salon during America’s Gilded Age might have been like, shaped by the influence of European culture, particularly French composers and music.

Charles-Édouard Lefebvre Second Suite for Wind Sextet, Op. 122
Claude Debussy Petite Suite
Gabriel Fauré Mandoline
Henry Cowell Suite for Wind Quintet
Katherine K. Davis Musette
Edward MacDowell To a Wild Rose
Poldowski Suite Miniature
William Grant Still Miniatures

Gilded Age