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Neave Trio performs Ravel  and Tailleferre live and online

7/15/2021

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On Saturday, August 7 and Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 1pm, the Boston-based Neave Trio will perform on two concerts presented as part of Bard Music Festival’s 12-concert series, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. The concerts will be performed for a live audience at the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater at Bard College (Manor Ave.) and livestreamed online.


The Bard Music Festival returns for its 31st season with an exploration of the life and work of Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), the pioneering Parisian pedagogue, composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and indomitable personality who shaped more than a generation of American musicians. Through a series of themed concert programs, lectures, and panel discussions, Nadia Boulanger and Her World pays tribute to one of the most important female figures in the history of classical music.


On Program Two, “Contemporaries and Colleagues,” August 7 at 1pm, Neave Trio will perform Ravel’s Piano Trio on a concert which traces Nadia Boulanger’s early musical relationships. The program couples songs she wrote in her teens with chamber works by then-preeminent Debussy, her composition teacher Fauré, and renowned classmates George Enescu and Ravel. Ravel composed his only piano trio after nearly six years of sketching and planning. But following the beginning of World War I in 1914, Ravel was motivated to quickly complete the work before enlisting in the French army. In a letter to Igor Stravinsky, he wrote, “The idea that I should be leaving at once made me get through five months’ work in five weeks! My Trio is finished.” Complete program and ticket information: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/boulanger-p2/


On August 8 at 1pm, Program Four, “The Epitome of Chic: Paris Between the Wars,” offers a snapshot of post-World War I era through vocal and chamber works by both Boulanger sisters and a host of their fellow Parisians. Neave Trio will perform Tailleferre’s Piano Trio. Tailleferre was the sole woman composer of Les Six. She composed her melodically captivating and boldly rhythmic trio between 1916-17, but did not publish the work until after she revisited it 60 years later around 1978. 

​For more details on performances and tickets, click here.

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What happens when pianists are in quarantine

7/14/2021

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Katarzyna Musial is a quite talented Polish-Canadian pianist, having won multiple competitions and issuing a commercially released disk entitled "My Spanish Heart".  She is also founder of and Artistic Director of the Stella Musica Festival which promotes women in music, and she performs around the world.

But during the pandemic, well, let's just say that musicians left to their own devices can do things that are a little different.  Katarzyna produced a series of videos entitled "Pianist in Quarantine" in which she both plays and dances.

One of the episodes can be found here.

Make your own judgments.

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Amherst Early Music Festival returns--in hybrid form

7/14/2021

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The Amherst Early Music Festival will be held July 17-25, but this year will be a hybrid festival.  Concerts will be available online only, but there will be in-person classes in four different cities as well as online classes.

For details on the festival, events, and tickets, click here.
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Passing of Jeanne Lamon

7/9/2021

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This almost got past us without our notice, but Jeanne Lamon, longtime Music Director of Tafelmusik passsed away on June 20 of cancer.  She was 71.

​A tribute can be found on the Tafelmusik web site here.
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