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"The Ce11turv's Piano Giants" ~ Part I
Abram Kreeger Lecturer
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 17, 1999
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plus a special guest pianist peiforming LIVE ABRAM KREEGER Lecturer
I am the marketing and sales manager of the Harid Conservatory School of Music at Lynn University and have been fortunate to enjoy an intense and diverse background in music. The interest really began during my undergraduate years at the University of Rochester (NY), where I frequented the Eastman School of Music and its music library. After completing my bachelor degree in psychology and serving as the editor for the Eastman section of the campus newspaper, I entered the manager-in-training program at Spec's Music's original store in Coral Gables. Having worked in the classical music department intermittently throughout semester breaks during college, I developed an even greater interest in classical music and expanded my recording collection. While working for Spec's Music, I happened to begin offering music appreciation classes in one of the more intriguing of places, the Dade Correctional Facility in Florida City. It was there that I had the opportunity to test music appreciation presentations with an audience least likely to value it. It became apparent that certain techniques in presentation were more effective in presentations and discussions than others. While working at Spec's Music, my exposure to music increased dramatically. Where else better to learn m ore about music than to listen to it often in upwards of forty hours a week and to be able to purchase recordings for 30% off? I must credit my father, Julian Kreeger, for my being able to have the privilege of working for Spec's (as he had to be one of their most frequent customers in the days of LPs). The interview, when I first began there, had one question "when do you want to start, when are you available?" The next chapter of my life was entry into the M.B.A. program, once again at the University of Rochester. While completing my degree in marketing, I had the good fortune of convincing the student government to allow me to present a series of concerts featuring Eastman School of Music students. It was at this time that I could enjoy firsthand working with musicians in creating programs audiences could enjoy. My first job just after graduation in the classical music business was be the role of marketing manager for the New World Symphony. After two seasons with the New World Symphony, I met Harid's former director Kate Ransom and landed in Boca Raton. Having first becoming introduced to Boca Raton and the Conservatory in particular when I applied for the job here, it has been a wonderful place to be as a music lover. This year, I created "The Piano Lover Network," a web site devoted to promoting piano music and the pianists themselves. In the next few days, I will be proud to release a compact disc featuring Tao Lin (staff accompanist at Harid) in music by Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. FEATURED RECORDINGS (excerpts from:) ~The Harid Conservatory Josef HOFMANN ~ s,hool ol '.\h1'1e .u Lynn Lnl\cr>: ly Chopin Piano. Concerto No. 2, II (VAI)
President Donald E. Ross Wilhelm BACKHAUS Vice President Nancy A. McGinn Beethoven Les Adieux Sonata, IV (Grammofono) Dean Roberta Rust
Sergei RACHMANINOFF 1999-2000 FACULTY & STAFF Schubert Impromptu, op. 90 no. 4 (RCA) Strings
Sergiu Schwartz VIOLIN
Alfred CORTOT Michael McClelland VIOLA
Chopin Nocturne, opus 9 no. 2 (EMI) Johanne Perron CELLO
Shigeru Ishikawa DOUBLE BASS Artur SCHNABEL Winds Beethoven Piano Sonata, op. 2 no. 2, N (EMI) Laura Gilbert FLUTE John Dee OBOE Vladimir HOROWITZ Paul Green CLARINET Liszt Paganini Etude No. 2 (APR) Anhur Weisberg BASSOON INTERMISSION Brass Walter GIESEKING Gregory Miller FRENCH HORN Debussy Prelude Book I, No. 8 (EMI) Richard Sroelze! TRUMPET Stephen Rawlins TROMBONE
Matthew K. Brown TUBA Benno MOISIEWITSCH Percussion Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, II (Koch) Michael l'arola PERCUSSION Piano Simon BARERE Roberta Rust PIANO Blumenfeld Emde for the ... (APR) Theory
Thomas McKinley MUSIC THEORY William KAPELL Professors, Instructors, & Accompanists
Liszt Mephisto Waltz (RCA) Jodie DeSalvo, INSTRUCTOR AND STAFF ACCOMPANIST
Phillip Evans, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Dinu LIPATTI Dianne Garvin, INSTRUCTOR Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (EMI) Elizabeth Holland Tomlin, INSTRUCTOR AND STAFF ACCOMPANIST
Claudio Jaffe, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE
LYNN MUSIC PREPARATORY
Tao Lin, STAFF ACCOMPAN IST RECOMMENDED RECORD STORES Music Library
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