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FSU’s Department of Music Presents Piano Studio Recital
Frostburg State University’s Department of Music will present its Piano Studio, directed by Dr. Jay DeWire, in concert on Sunday, April 21, at 3 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; click the “Join Stream” button on this page a few minutes before the recital is scheduled to begin, or any time during the recital, to view the live performance.
Cayla Gavin will play “Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47” by Frédéric Chopin, the third of his ballades for solo piano. It was composed in 1841 and published the same year. It is the only ballade by Chopin that does not end in a minor key.
Playing the first movement, “Allegro con brio,” from “Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:37” by Joseph Haydn is Taylor Bryan. Published in 1780, the Sonata in D is one of Haydn’s best-known and most widely played piano sonatas. The first movement has been described as sparklingly brilliant.
Bryan will also perform “Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784” by Johann Sebastian Bach from “Fifteen Two-Part Inventions (BWV 772-786).” As far as Bach was concerned, an invention is a short exercise, which has a two-part counterpoint, written for private practice by keyboard students.
Riley House is playing the third intermezzo of “Four Pieces for Piano (Klavierstücke), Op. 119,” four character pieces for piano that Brahms composed in 1893. The collection is Brahms’ last composition for solo piano.
Jack Maust will perform the third movement, “Allegretto,” of “Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2,” one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most iconic and unusual works for piano. While all of Beethoven’s mature sonatas are mini-universes in themselves, defying any conventional molds, the “Tempest” Sonata is an exception among exceptional works.
Also performing a piece by Beethoven is Sam White. He will play the second movement, “Adagio cantabile,” of “Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13,” commonly known as “Sonata Pathétique.” This elegant and classical piano piece was composed in 1798.
In addition to the Beethoven piece, White will play “Crépuscule d’un faune” (“Dusk of a Faun”) from “Deux Estampes for Piano, Op. 2” by Arthur Lourié. Lourié was a Russian composer, writer, administrator and musical agent. He played an important role in the earliest stages of the organization of Soviet music after the 1917 Revolution but later went into exile. He composed “Deux Estampes” in 1910.
Emily Bates will perform “Allegro, ma non troppo” from “Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2,” which Beethoven most probably composed for a member of the aristocracy during his visit to Prague in 1796. The no-fuss “Allegro, ma non troppo” (“A Study for Playing Triplets) is straightforward.
For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.
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