With its home closed for renovations, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will celebrate the music of its home country next season, featuring works by American composers.

The society announced Tuesday it will open its 2007-08 season on Sept. 19 at the Rose Theater, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, because Alice Tully Hall will be closed. Other concerts are being presented at the New York Society of Ethical Culture and at the intimate Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio.

Opening night's program includes the world premiere of a CMS-commissioned piece by Bruce Adolphe _ "Crossing Broadway." Also on the program is a 1999 composition by Alan Louis Smith, "Vignettes: Ellis Island, A Song Cycle in Six Parts for Voice and Piano." Its lyrics are from oral histories of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island.

In early 2008, the society will inaugurate Elliott Carter's 100th birthday year with a Jan. 29 workshop about the composer, who's scheduled to participate in the discussions. The next night, the Pacifica Quartet will perform all five of his string quartets.

A festival of American voices from 1750 to 2008 is scheduled for Feb. 8-24. The Feb. 8 program will include a rare performance of a string quartet written by America's colonial renaissance man _ Benjamin Franklin.

The Feb. 22 and 24 programs will include a work written in 1825-26 by Anthony Philip Heinrich, hailed in his day as "the Beethoven of Kentucky."

"It seemed fitting to us, during our time away from home, to immerse ourselves in the spirit of musical exploration, and nowhere is that spirit more vividly heard than in the music of our country," artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han said in a statement.

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