Return to the Frederick Collection Homepage

FREDERICK HISTORICAL PIANO COLLECTION

Historical Piano Concerts Series
at the
Ashburnham Community Church
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 4: 00 p.m.


Simon Tedeschi, piano 
with Jacob A. Cooper, lyric baritone
(Click on name for Bio)

 

Piano Solo Works

No. 6  Sonetto 123 del Petrarca  (1838-1849)
Années de pélerinage, Vol.II “Italie”, S. 161
Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)
----------
No. 1  En bateau  (1888-1889)
Petite Suite (originally for piano four-hands; arranged for solo piano by Henri Büsser in 1907)
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
----------
Prelude in g#   Op. 32, No. 12  (1910)
Elégie  Op. 3, No. 1  (1892)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943)
----------
Viper’s Drag  (1935 ?)
Alligator Crawl  (1924)
Ain’t Misbehavin’  (1929)
Fats Waller
(1904-1943)
----------
In Dahomey: Cakewalk  (1903-1909)
(based on tunes by Will Marion Cook & Arthur Pryor)
Percy Grainger
(1882-1961)

Intermission

Songs

Six Chansons Villageoises  (1942)
(poems by Maurice Fombeure)
Francis Poulenc
(1899-1963)
----------
Quatre mélodies  (1884) Gabriel Fauré
(1845-1924)
Aurore
Fleur jetée
Le pays des rêve
Les roses d'Ispahan
----------
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée   (1932-3)
(lyrics by Paul Morand (1845-1924); after three orchestral chansons)
Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)

Piano by Erard, Paris, 1893

All pianos played in the concerts are from The Frederick Collection

Ashburnham Community Church: Main Street (Rte. 12) at Chapel Street

Admission: $10.00 /adult (children and students, free)

The building is wheelchair accessible.

For further information on the Historical Piano Concert Series, The Historical Piano Study Center, or any other item on this page please send e-mail to  .

For complete contact information and how you can help support the Historical Piano Concert Series and/or The Historical Piano Study Center, please click here .

Questions or comments about this web site should be sent to the  .