[Choir] FW: Upcoming concerts in Vermont November 11 and 12 - Michael Arnowitt, piano (2)

[Brenda J Bean]

FYI.  BB

 

From: Michael Arnowitt <MA at MAPiano.com> 
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2022 7:35 AM
To: 'Michael Arnowitt' <MA at MAPiano.com>
Subject: Upcoming concerts in Vermont November 11 and 12 - Michael Arnowitt,
piano (2)

 

Hello friends,

I will be playing for the first time a new classical piano concert program
titled “Crossroads” featuring the music of Mahler, Bach, Schoenberg,
Debussy, Arthur Lourié, and the Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva.

 

This is a completely different program from the one I performed in Vermont
in September (with the exception of one short piece which both programs have
in common). The focus of this concert is music that is highly personal,
expressive, and emotionally moving. Most of the pieces on the program date
from my favorite period of music and world history, the beginning of the
twentieth century, so about 100 years ago. Crossroads presents music that
reveals what great art can be. At its most moving, art is not escapist
entertainment but touches our deepest emotions and spiritual yearnings
through these composers who did not shy away from exploring our innermost
selves.

 

Here's the details as to where and when I’ll be performing:

 

Friday, November 11, 7:30 pm, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont

Tickets for the Burlington concert may be purchased at the door or online at


https://sevendaystickets.com/events/michael-arnowitt-piano-11-11-2022

 

Saturday, November 12, 7 pm, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, Vermont

Tickets for the Randolph concert can be purchased through their box office
802-728-9878, at the door, or online here:

https://www.chandler-arts.org/

 

Here’s a little more about the music I’ll be playing:

 

The centerpiece of the program is a piano transcription of the first
movement of Mahler’s celebrated Ninth Symphony, universally recognized as
one of the greatest symphony movements of all time, expressing Mahler’s
feelings on the earth, nature, and death. The concert also features two
recent pieces “Ischia Island” and “Sonata quasi una fantasia” by the
Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva, whose emotionally moving and deeply
spiritual music Michael Arnowitt greatly admires and is trying to raise
appreciation of in Canada and the United States. Also on the program is a
set of the wonderfully creative piano pieces of the early 20th century
composer Arthur Lourié, whose forgotten music has only just been receiving
attention from performers in the last few years. The program is rounded out
with shorter pieces by Bach, Schoenberg, and Debussy.      

 

The program pieces are:

 

J.S. Bach - My Favorite Fugues (four selections from The Well-Tempered
Clavier)

Claude Debussy - Étude no. 3, Pour les quartes (1915)

Victoria Poleva - Ischia Island (2019) and Sonata no. 2 “quasi una fantasia”
(2011) 

Arthur Lourié - Mazurka op. 7 no. 1 (1912), Intermezzo (1928), and Marche
from Quatre pièces (1927) 

Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Piece op. 11 no. 1 and Six Small Piano Pieces op.
19

Gustav Mahler - Andante comodo, first movement from Symphony no. 9,
transcribed for piano by Iain Farrington

 

Full program description:

http://www.mapiano.com/crossro.htm

 

Hope you can make one of these two concerts – if you can, please say hi.

 

Almost definite ... I believe I will be also performing this program in
Beacon Hill in Boston on Thursday, November 17; my assistant says don’t
consider it official until we have everything in writing, but if you’d like
information on that performance in Boston, send me an email.

 

Best wishes,

Michael

 

Michael Arnowitt

pianist

MA at MAPiano.com <mailto:MA at MAPiano.com> 

In Vermont: 802-229-0984

In Toronto: 416-763-7344

New YouTube channel: “Michael Arnowitt Music”

 

 

 

 

 


 
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