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...bulk of the second half of the concert consisted of an awesome performance of Charles Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, the "Concord" Sonata, by Stephen Drury. The work is an unquestioned landmark in contemporary music, and is mammoth both in length and in conception. The four movements, or rather, intellectual portraits of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau, are linked only by two brief themes, which are often interwoven into unrecognizable form. While the latter half of the sonata is more tonal and thus more accessible, the work presents an extreme challenge both to the listener and the performer...
...Bohemia they are brightly colored (and Conklin's hanging transparent tubes are lit with spring like green); and for the return to the indoor court in Sicilia, the white is mellowed with bits of gray. Thus, while the play is bipartite, it is simultaneously tripartite--somewhat analogously to the sonata-form design of a Classical symphony movement, with its exposition and development-cum-recapitulation...
Lisa Goldman '74 plays a piano recital of 3 B's. Bach's Prelude and Fugue (B major, W.T.C. Book II), Beethoven's Sonata Opus 10 No. 3, Brahms's Handel Variations. Mather Dining Hall...
Lesley Amper, piano, plays works of Brahms, Edwards, and a Bethoven sonata. North House, Holmes Hall...
Charles Fisk, piano, performs Back Goldberg Variations and Beethoven sonata. Adams Lower Common Room...