Music Academy Faculty Recital
When:
Sunday, November 24, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
Where: Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Admission is free, but tickets are required. Donations will be accepted during the recital.
Contact:
Concert Management Office
(847) 467-4000
Group: Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
Join the faculty of the Music Academy for a free recital to raise awareness and support for the Academy. With a Northwestern history that dates back to the late 1800s, the Bienen School’s community music division provides, piano, string, and guitar lessons to over 300 children and adults. Academy faculty members will perform a variety of solo, two-piano, and string works by W. A. Mozart, Bedřich Smetana, George Gershwin, Charles Trenet, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dave Brubeck, and more. Donations will go directly to the Music Academy, which will allow the Academy to offer tuition support so that students of all income levels can afford music lessons.
Program includes:
Dave Brubeck, A la Turk from Points on Jazz
George Gershwin (arr. Logan Skelton), “Swanee”
W. A. Mozart (arr. Edvard Grieg), Allegro from Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545
Sergei Rachmaninoff, “Vocalise”
Darius Milhaud, selections from Scaramouche, Op. 165
Maurice Ravel, selections from Ma mère l’Oye
Bedřich Smetana, Sonata for Two Pianos in E Minor, JB 1:47
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Charles Trenet (arr. Alexis Weissenberg), En avril, à Paris
Amy Beach, Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
Ethel Smyth, Allegro moderato from Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 7