Jeremy Denk, piano
Schedule
Sun Feb 12 2023 at 03:00 pm
Location
Hertz Hall | Berkeley, CA
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“A pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs” (The New York Times), Jeremy Denk returns to Berkeley with an artfully curated recital of American-inspired music paired with canonic works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Denk is known for bringing fresh perspective to a staggering range of repertoire, from medieval to contemporary. Two works here celebrate Black American vernacular composers whose music rarely gets its due on concert stages: “Blind Tom” Wiggins’ The Battle of Manassas and Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin’s Heliotrope Bouquet. British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s They Will Not Lend Me a Child reflects his interest in Black American spirituals; and Frederic Rzewski’s “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” is a movement from his Four North American Ballads, based on American folk and protest songs.PROGRAM
J.S. BACH Partita in G major, BWV 829
SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, D. 935
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR They Will Not Lend Me a Child
WIGGINS The Battle of Manassas
JOPLIN and CHAUVIN Heliotrope Bouquet
RZEWSKI “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues,” from Four North American Ballads
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
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Where is it happening?
Hertz Hall, U C Berkeley,Berkeley,CA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
