A letter from Leila Getz I returned last Monday from a trip to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas with a prize winner and a cold! It has been twenty years since I’ve been to a … Continue reading
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Program Notes: Tara Erraught
Posted onJohannes Brahms: Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), Op. 103 More than half of Brahms’ total output was vocal, including over two hundred art songs and an additional hundred folksong arrangements. Most of them are serious, introspective, resigned or elegiac in mood. … Continue reading
Program Notes: Simon Trpčeski
Posted onProgram Notes: Simon Trpčeski Schubert: 16 German Dances, D. 783 (Op. 33) So indelibly is the name Johann Strauss embedded in our consciousness as the purveyor of Viennese dance music that we tend to forget such music existed well before … Continue reading
Program Notes: Doric String Quartet
Posted onFranz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, no. 3 A strong new current of artistic expression swept through central Europe during the late 1760s and early 1770s, known as Sturm und Drang (storm and stress). While … Continue reading
Program Notes: Benjamin Grosvenor
Posted onProgram Notes: Benjamin Grosvenor J. S. Bach: Five transcriptions Benjamin Grosvenor opens his program with a series of piano transcriptions, a genre that was wildly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then went out of fashion, and … Continue reading