This special event featured music and art that evokes American historical and cultural themes. Patricia Garcia Gil, postdoctoral associate and artist in residence at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, discussed and performed music by lesser-known American women composers on the Center’s Hazleton Brothers square piano, made in New York circa 1850. These compositions commemorate events including the War of 1812, the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to the United States in 1824, the 1853 New York World’s Exhibition, and the American Civil War, as well as sentimental subjects and the American landscape. Andrew C. Weislogel, the Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art at the Museum, offered context for the musical selections with popular American prints by Winslow Homer and other artists. Cosponsored by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
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