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A
special fundraising concert to benefit the Historical Piano Study
Center will be held at 4:00 PM on Sunday, July 29, at the Ashburnham
Community Church, 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA. Pianist Yuan Sheng, of the faculty of
the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China, is donating a repeat
of the all-French program he will be playing earlier that week at
the International Keyboard Institute and Festival, The New School for
Music, Mannes College, New York. In Ashburnham, Mr. Sheng will be
playing the 1877 Erard piano from the Frederick Collection – an
instrument advertised by the leading Parisian firm as its “Extra-grand modèle de concert” (extra-large concert grand), boasting 90 keys extending to a low G, rather than the usual low A.
Admission
of $25.00 per person (children and students, $10.00) will help support
the general running expenses of the Piano Study Center, the only
resource in the United States where musicians and music lovers can play
on and hear fine grand pianos built by major European makers
between c.1790 and 1928, the instruments known to the great composers
of the standard piano repertoire working during that time.
Plans
are underway to produce a special, limited-edition CD, recorded at the
rehearsal for this concert, a thank-you to be given only to
contributors of $100.00 or more in support of The Study Center.
Mr.
Sheng, who earned his undergraduate and advanced music degrees in New
York and has performed internationally in solo recitals and with
orchestras, learned of the Frederick Piano Collection from pianist
colleagues. A strong advocate for gaining new understandings of
the piano repertoire by playing these original instruments, last summer he
recorded audio-video material here at the Frederick Collection which
were later broadcast in six installments of his weekly China Public
Television program.
For further information, you may
or telephone the Fredericks at (978) 827-6232. No
advance reservations are necessary.
Historical Piano Concerts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; all donations are tax-deductible.
The church, at 84 Main Street, (Rte.12) Ashburnham, is fully wheelchair accessible.
FREDERICK
HISTORICAL PIANO COLLECTION
Historical
Piano Concerts Series
at
the
Ashburnham Community Church
Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 4: 00 p.m.
Program
Suite bergamasque, L.75 (1890-1905)
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
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1. Prélude (Moderato, tempo rubato) |
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2. Menuet (Andantino) |
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| 3. Clair de lune (Andante très expressif) | |
| 4. Passepied (Allegretto, ma non troppo) | |
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Estampes,
L.100 (1903)
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Debussy
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1. Pagodes
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2. Les soirées dans Grenade |
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3. Jardins sous la pluie |
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L'isle joyeuse,
L.106 (publ. 1904)
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Debussy
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Intermission
Sonatine (1905)
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) |
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1. Modéré |
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2. Mouvement de Menuet |
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3. Animé |
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Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) |
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1. Prélude (Vif)
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2. Fugue (Allegro moderato) |
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3. Forlane (Allegretto) |
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| 4. Rigaudon (Assez vif)
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| 5. Menuet (Allegro moderato) | |
| 6. Toccata (Vif) | |
Piano
by Erard, Paris, 1877
All pianos played in the concerts are from
The Frederick Collection
Ashburnham Community Church: 84 Main
Street (Rte. 12) at Chapel Street, Ashburnham, MA (GPS: 42.6359, -71.9083)
Admission (to this fundraising concert only): $25.00 /adult, (children
and students, $10.00)
The building is wheelchair accessible.
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