The 63rd Henry & Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance
Established in 1959 with a gift from the Louis and Henrietta Blaustein Foundation
Inc., the Rosenberg Foundation honors the late Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg '21 and her
late husband, Henry A. Rosenberg. Since 1960, the foundation has enriched the music
program at Goucher College by funding the Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance.
Each year, income from an endowment provided by the Rosenberg Foundation brings a
musical group, performing artist, composer, or musicologist to the campus to present
a lecture and performance. The Rosenberg Foundation recently made an additional contribution
to the fund that will continue the lecture-performance series for years to come.
An Evening with Brooklyn Rider
February 27, 2025 | 7 p.m. | Kraushaar Auditorium
General public: $40
Goucher students, faculty, and staff: free
With their gripping performance style and unquenchable appetite for musical adventure, Brooklyn Rider has carved a singular space in the world of string quartets over their fifteen-year history. Claiming no allegiance to either end of the historical spectrum, Brooklyn Rider most comfortably operates within the long arc of the tradition, seeking to illuminate works of the past with fresh insight while coaxing the malleable genre into the future through an inclusive programming vision, deep-rooted collaborations with a wide range of global tradition bearers, and the creation of thoughtful and relevant frames for commissioning projects.
The current concert season is strongly illustrative of the intrepid musical appetite of Brooklyn Rider. This fall, they began unveiling a major new commissioning and programmatic venture called The Four Elements; an exploration of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) as both metaphor for both the complex inner world of the string quartet and the current health of planet Earth. This winter, the quartet will also release The Wanderer, their first ever live concert recording, made in Palieusius Manor in Eastern Lithuania while on tour last spring. The album consists of two recent works written for Brooklyn Rider by Gonzalo Grau and Osvlado Golijov, as well as Schubert’s iconic “Death and the Maiden” String Quartet. This season also sees the quartet reuniting with Magos Herrera across the US for their Dreamers project.
Previous Rosenberg Artists
2023 The Branford Marsalis Quartet
2020 Septura Brass Septet
2019 Anthony McGill
2018 Concert Artists of Baltimore, Edward Polochick, Artistic Director
2017 New York Voices
2016 Ray Chen
2015 Alessio Bax
2014 Eddie Palmieri
2013 Canadian Brass
2012 Simone Dinnerstein
2011 Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet
2010 Leon Fleisher
2009 Nathan Gunn
2008 Wu Man
2006 Joe Lovano Quartet
2005 Cyrus Chestnut Trio
2004 Eugenia Zukerman
2003 Misha and Cipa Dichter
2002 Susanne Mentzer
2001 Mendelssohn String Quartet
2000 Paula Robison
1999 Vladimir Feltsman
1998 Christopher Parkening
1997 Horacio Gutiérrez
1996 Billy Taylor Trio
1995 Garrick Ohlsson
1994 Emanuel Ax
1993 Jean-Pierre Rampal
1992 Andre Watts
1990 Marilyn Horne
1990 Lynn Harrell
1989 Victor Borge
1988 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
1987 Yo-Yo Ma
1986 Roberta Peters
1985 Beaux Arts Trio
1984 Max Morath
1983 Julius Rudel, Philip Glass, Jacquelyn Silver, and Gwendolyn Bradley
1981 Juilliard String Quartet
1980 Beverly Sills
1980 Isaac Stern
1978 Gunther Schuller
1976 Yehudi Menuhin
1976 Mstislav Rostropovich
1974 Marilyn Horne
1973 Boris Goldovsky
1972 Jennie Tourel
1970 Erich Leinsdorf
1969 Milton Babbitt and Anna Sokolow
1968 Ravi Shankar
1967 Ernst Krenek
1966 Michael Tippett
1964 Aaron Copland
1963 Aaron Copland
1962 Virgil Thomson
1961 Nadia Boulanger
1960 75 Years of American Music with Roger Sessions, Wallingford Riegger, William Austin, and Chamber Concert Orchestra under the direction of Elliot Galkin