FEATURED COMPOSERS
Featured Performers
SEASON 4 [January 26, 2009]
AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC II:
THE 21ST CENTURY
AMY BRIGGS, piano
Traces (2006) world premiere |
Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964) |
| I. Reverie: Like Robert Schumann (The Poet Speaks) crossed with George Crumb II. Caprice: Like Scarlatti’s Baroque Ornamentation crossed with Art Tatum III. Tango: Like Astor Piazzolla crossed with John Coltrane IV. Impromptu: Like Stravinsky crossed with Chopin and Thelonius Monk V. Two-Minute Toccata: Like J.S. Bach crossed with BeBop |
Modern Love Waltz (1977) |
Philip Glass (b. 1937) |
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Waltz #1 (2006) |
Elliott Smith (1969-2003) |
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Waltz (2003) |
Bruce Stark (b. 1956) |
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Pulaski Skyway Waltz (2002) |
Eric Moe (b. 1954) |
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The Poltergeist: Rag Fantasy (1971) |
William Bolcom (b. 1938) |
– Intermission – |
From Three Études for Piano (2003) |
Nico Muhly (b. 1981) |
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Requests (2003) |
David Smooke (b. 1969) |
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Selected Piano Études |
David Rakowski (b. 1958) |
| Absofunkinlutely (2005, funk étude) Palm de Terre (2006, étude on clusters) U.S. premiere Cell Division (2003, treble étude on arpeggios) Chord Shark (2003, slow étude on thick chords) world premiere Strident (2002, stride piano étude) Schnozzage (1999, étude for nose) Martler (1997, crossing hands étude) |
Funding for this concert is provided in part by Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program. Leadership support for Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.
