A memorial concert in honor of the late Rosalie Calabrese (1938 - 2019) will take place on April 20 , 2020 (7:30pm) at Christ & St Stephens Church (120 W. 69th St, in New York City).
The distinguished performers include concert pianist Margaret Mills, cellist Chris Finckel, and mezzo soprano Jessica Bowers.
Composers Larry Thomas Bell, Joel Feigin and Raphael Mostel will perform their own works, and concert pianist Steven Mayer will perform works by his father William Mayer. Composers whose works feature in the program include: Bruce Adolphe, George Boziwick, Michael Dellaira, Irving Fine, Miriam Gideon, Otto Luening, Francis Thorne, Joelle Wallach, and Beth Wiemann.
Contributions towards the concert fees are needed and will be gratefully accepted at the Go Fund Me link here.
Rosalie Calabrese worked as a management consultant for the arts. For over thirty years she served as Executive Director for the American Composers Alliance, representing three hundred composers of concert music, a roster including Francis Thorne and Richard Danielpour. She then moved on to running her own business and her private clients have included the pianist Margaret Mills, photographer Margaret McCarthy, singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger, and the composers Arthur Berger and Irving Fine, among others.
Later in life, she became passionate about writing poetry. Her poems have been published in Cosmopolitan, Poetry New Zealand, Poetica, Jewish Currents, Mom Egg Review, and The New York Times. She also published six books of her own poetry including one in honor of her son who passed away in 2007, entitled Remembering Chris.
