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Nov
24
2024

Music Academy Faculty Recital

The music academy faculty stands and sits, smiling for the camera in the concert hall.

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 

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