[ad_1]
The piano and the great French composers go hand in hand, which will be evident during the guest recital of the James Herrin Piano Festival next week.
Dr. Richard Shuster, pianist and music teacher at Texas Woman's University, will perform a music program infused with the French romantic tradition. His recital of guest artist takes place at 7 pm. Thursday at the Stilwell Humanities Music Hall of Texarkana College.
This co-presentation of the TC Music Department and the Allegro Club, formerly the Texarkana Music Teachers Association, is free.
"The main piece of the program is by Ravel, Maurice Ravel, entitled" Mirrors "," said Mary Scott Goode, TC music teacher. The word "mirrors" is the French word for "miroirs" and this piece is a sequence of five movements.
"All the programs, so they have different titles, different pictures, different scenes that are portrayed," Goode said. It was first written as a suite for solo piano, then orchestrated by Ravel and others.
"The pieces are wonderful," Goode said, noting that late nineteenth century composers enjoyed programmed music and the ability to enhance sounds with images. "It's also a romantic trait that romantics like other arts," she said.
In a sense, it gives the audience something to listen to, she explains. They can use certain colors and sound effects, such as a sound that mimics a bird. Famous program music examples include Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain". These are works that create an image in your mind, said Goode.
A piece by Gabriel Fauré, "Barcarolles", which refers to folk songs sung by the Venetian gondoliers, also explained Goode, describing a barcarolle as "a sort of boat song".
"The image is a kind of sensation of wild boar movement that sways back and forth – it's something nice," said Goode.
In addition, this repertoire for the recital includes Claude Debussy, one of the "Preludes". Goode says that it was in the era of French music and a golden age of writing for the piano. The "Préludes" of Debussy were composed between 1909 and 1913. It is at that time that the piano really became an instrument, said the music teacher.
Shuster, who has already played Texarkana, has a strong background in the interpretation of Fauré's music. He also recorded the composer's work for a CD, "Gabriel Fauré: The Complete Nocturnes". He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University. In 2019, he will teach piano literature at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Hungary through a Fulbright Scholarship.
Goode notes that it is the twenty-third year of the piano festival. It has become a tradition that students and piano teachers are eager to see, as is the public invited to attend.
"And it's the fourteenth year I'm president," she said. "I'm proud of what this festival has become and what we do."
[ad_2]
Source link
