On April 25th, Louis Karchin's new song cycle for soprano and piano trio, The Past as Present, will be premiered at Bohemian National Hall in New York City. It joins six other world premieres that use music of the past to inspire present-day creativity on a program celebrating the vision of the late Czech musicologist Lenka Hlávková. Performed by sopranos Jennifer Zetlan, Alice Teysser, Marisa Karchin, and members of the Washington Square Ensemble, Curtis Macomber, Chris Gross, and Steven Beck, conducted by Tengku Irfan.