Join pianist and Yellow Barn Artistic Director Seth Knopp in New York City for a unique new music appreciation course “Music Speaks” on February 22 and 23 and March 1 and 2. And enjoy a 20% discount as a member of ACMP!

Times:
February 22 and 23, 11am to 1pm
March 1 and 2, 11am to 1pm

Location:
251 West 91st, New York

Cost: $250 – but only $200 for members of ACMP

Log into the ACMP website and click on this Member Benefit Link for the special discounted ACMP registration form.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2025

For the first time in New York City, Yellow Barn offers the opportunity to enroll in Music Speaks, an in-person course developed and taught by its Artistic Director, Seth Knopp. Over the span of four 2-hour sessions augmented with independent assignments, students will explore the course proposition, arriving at an understanding of the more complex, shifting relationships that allow music to speak, and that determine its importance in our lives. This course is open to professional and amateur musicians alike, and non-musicians who love to listen to classical music!

A message from Seth Knopp:

How music speaks to us determines why we listen.
Music Speaks is a course based on this single proposition.

For me, the musical experience is not first or foremost a history lesson or anthology. We may come away from concert programs knowing more about how the musical world has organized itself by natural evolution, by geography, by invention, by cultural upheaval, but in the end, we are left with one fundamental continuum crystalized in those moments when composer-interpreter-listener become inseparable, and also invisible. Those are the rare moments that move us unmistakably, but that we cannot quantify or replicate, when all that is left is Music, and its love affair with itself.