The Lion that Couldn’t Roar – October 2015

Margarita Zelenaia’s music fairy tale “The Lion that Couldn’t Roar” (for Piano trio, Clarinet and Narrator) will be performed at the Mannes Sounds Festival in October 2015 (the date is TBA). It will be part of the program dedicated to the music fairy tales written by the Russian composers, and curated by Irina Morozova. “The Lion that Couldn’t Roar” was written in a collaboration with Robert Sherman, award-winning American radio broadcaster, bestselling author, music critic, writer, and educator. At this concert Mr. Sherman will be a narrator of his own story.

Mannes College The New School for Music

Concert Hall, Mannes College,

150 West 85th Street New York, NY 10024

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served.

Since 1999, Mannes has presented a yearlong music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts performed by Mannes College’s gifted young student artists, distinguished faculty members, and renowned guests, and held at prestigious New York City concert venues and cultural institutions. The festivals are an outstanding component of the total Mannes program.