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Yoshiko Sato Allen Shawn After graduating from Keio University in Tokyo. Japan. pianist Yoshlko Soto continued her musical studies in Paris and the United Sates, receiving a diploma from the Ecole Normale de Musique d' Alfred Cortot in Paris. and from the Hartt School of music in Hartford, Connecticut. She was a semi-finalist in the 1991 BENNINGTON COLtEGE International Mozart Competition in Sarrbourg. France. Ms. Sate has given recitals in Japan. the United States, France. and Switzerland, and has appeared as soloist with the Emerson String Quartet, the Manchester Symphony Orchestra. the Orquestra de Cambra de L'Emporda in Spain, the Hartt CARRIAGE B~RN SERIES Symphony Orchestra. and the Sage City Symphony. She gave a solo recital at Park McCullough House in 2003, and has also been heard frequently at Park McCullough House and elsewhere in recitals with Tenor Thomas Bogdan. with violinist Kaori Washiyama. and in duo-piano recitals with her husband Allen Shawn. PRESENTS: Ms. Sate's recording of Shawn's "Childhood Scenes" was released in 2004 on Albany Records. Her recording of his "Nocturne for Y" can be heard on "Allen Shown-Piano Music, Volume Ill". on Albany records (released 2012). In 2009. she recorded a CD of Hungarian folk song settings by Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, with tenor Thomas Bogdan, for the Centaur label. Allen Shown grew up in New York City and has been on the music faculty of Bennington College since 1985. His composition teachers included Earl Kim , Leon Kirchner, and Nadia Boulanger. Shawn has received both a Goddard Lieberson Award and an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his work as a composer. A significant amount of his music is available on CD. including much chamber music, three volumes of piano music. his Piano Concerto performed by Yoshiko Sato pianist Ursula Oppens with the Albany Symphony. and his chamber opera. "The Music Teacher", to a libretto by his brother, playwright and actor. Wallace Shawn. Shawn is also the author of four books. Arnold Schoenberg's Journey. Wish I Could Be There, Twin, and a forthcoming book about Leonard Bernstein. Notes by A. Shawn: Johann Sebastian Bach's six "French" suites for clavier were composed between 1722 and 1725. Like the orchestral suites. the six "English" Suites, the six Partitas, and six cello suites. they are primarily collections of dances which, as the names of the dances suggest, have origins from all over Europe. The terms "French" and "English" were added by later writers and publishers. "Four Piano Pieces" were composed for German pianist Julia Bartha. Allen Shawn Chopin's Nocturnes were composed over a twenty year period. and were published in groups of two or three. Chopin wrote his first Nocturne when he was seventeen and his last when he was thirty-six. The nocturne in G major was composed in 1839. the Nocturne in A flat in 1837. Reliable sources quote Brahms's as describing his Three Intermezzi, op. 117. written in 1892 when the composer was fifty-nine, as "Lullabies of my sorrows". Brahms wrote his first set of "Libeslieder Waltzes" for voices and piano four-hands in 1868, and the second set in 1874. The first set was written in such a way that the piano parts could also be played by themselves. The set comprises eighteen pieces. of which we are performing nine. TUESDAY, "Suite Parisienne" for piano. Four-Hands was composed as a teaching piece for my daughter. Annie. in 1994, when she was nine years old. I wrote a reasonably challenging lower part for myself. and an upper part for Annie that stayed on one fixed set of pitches in one hand position for the duration of each movement. She played the piece fantastically well. SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 This year. at Yoshiko's suggestion, I made an expanded and more elaborate version of this piece for us to play. Each movement is twice to three times as long as in the original version, and the upper part is more mobile and more commensurate to the lower in terms of difficulty. But in expanding the music I also stuck to the materials of the original. and preserved its innocent and childlike character. I also 8:00PM added one new movement (no. 3) . Like the original version. this one is dedicated to Annie Shawn. r • - • • ·- • • • -. ·- • • • • • • •••• • • rl ;-: • ~ • • .. • French Suite No. 3 in b minor .... .. .................................. ... .. J.S . Bach Intermezzo op. 117, no. 2, in b flat minor ...... .. ........... ... Johannes Brahms I • { 1685-1750) (1833-1897) Allemande • from Liebeslieder Waltzes, op. 52 a ............................... Johannes Brahms Courante • no.1. in E major Sarabande -.--. • no. 2. in a minor .. I ,_ • . .. Menuet I Menuet II Menuet I do capo • no. 4. in F major • Anglaise •• • no. 7. in c minor Gigue _ • • • no. 8 in A flat major •I • no. 9 in E major • no. 11 in c minor Four Piano Pieces (20 13) ............................................ .. Allen Shawn no. 14 in E flat major {b. 1948) no. 18 in D flat major 1. Insect dream 2. BlumenstOck (flower piece) • • 3. Etude in Big Band Style .- .. .1 Suite Parisienne (1994-expanded version 2013) ......... ....... Allen Shawn 4. Wiegenlied (lullaby) I • 1. Can-Can! .. - 2. In the Tuilleries Gardens ~ . 3. The Seine, with some birds, and an ambulance siren Nocturne in G major, op.37 #2 ............... : .......... Frederick Chopin 4. Montmartre Tan go Nocturne in A flat Major, op. 32 #2 " {1810-1849) ~ 5. The Eiffel Tower 6. The Bells of Notre Dame Cathedral • - 7. On the Champs-Eiysees rh • • I ... • • • •- I ...... -• ... ... t• -.:- • ~ I. • II_ • • .• - • • r • : .- .. Brief Intermission • •••• -:..1 • • • • • I~ • • • -• ~~ .. • {Musicians Biography and Piece Information on back) ... • • .. • • • • rJI •• _. • • • .
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