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Chelsea Music Festival Presents: Invitation to Love | Opening Night with Clara Osowski
Groupmuse Night Out

Chelsea Music Festival Presents: Invitation to Love | Opening Night with Clara Osowski

St. Paul's Church

Sat, June 20, at 7:00 PM, EDT
(Ticket sales close Jun 19, 7:00 PM EDT)

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$15 tickets ($10 for Supermusers)
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Capacity
19 of 20 tickets still available
Vaccine policy
COVID vaccine not required
Testing policy
COVID testing not required
Indoors
This is an indoor event
Mask policy
Masks are not required
If you feel sick, stay home
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided
Wheelchair access
Not wheelchair accessible
Stairs
Some stairs may be present in the space

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Host

Chelsea Music Festival

Groupmuse ticket buyers can pick up their tickets at a table at the entrance.

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Across three unique performances at St. Paul’s German Church in NYC, the festival showcases world-class musicians, imaginative programming, and the intimate atmosphere that has made Chelsea Music Festival a favorite among adventurous concertgoers. Each evening offers a different musical journey, blending exceptional artistry with the festival’s signature spirit of creativity and discovery. making this a perfect opportunity to sample one event or immerse yourself in the full festival.

What's the music?

Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski and pianist Melinda Lee Masur open the 2026 Chelsea Music Festival with an evening that weaves together the American immigrant experience, the poetry of Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the theme of dreaming across cultures and generations. The program pairs Aaron Copland and Erich Wolfgang Korngold — two composers living and working almost congruently, one American-born, one an immigrant from Vienna — alongside New York Premieres by Reinaldo Moya, Frederick Piket, Mark Carlson, and Steven Ward, and Libby Larsen's This Unbearable Stillness, a song cycle celebrating the everyday lives of Arab American women in its NYC Premiere. Damien Sneed's luminous spiritual arrangements provide the thread connecting the evening's two halves, from Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry to Langston Hughes's timeless I Dream a World, scored for string quartet and piano — an opening night that asks what it means to dream in America, and who gets to dream.

Performers include:
Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
Melinda Lee Masur, piano
Dimitri Dover, piano
Claire Bourg, violin
Yuyu Ikeda, violin
Alison Wang, viola
Angela Lee, cello

Program:
Mark CARLSON (NY Prem) | III. Stars -The Dream Keeper (poem by Langston Hughes)

Aaron COPLAND | Three Old American Songs

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD | Three Songs

Libby LARSEN (NYC Prem) | This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony

Reinaldo MOYA (NY Prem) | DREAM Songs (NY Premiere)

Frederick PIKET (NY Prem) | The Dream Keeper (poem by Langston Hughes)

Damien SNEED | All Night, All Day and I Dream A World (poem by Langston Hughes)

Steven WARD (NY Prem) | Invitation to Love (poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Reception to follow by Qanoon Restaurant

Location

315 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA

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Garrett E.