Rncm Piano Day Folk Influences
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Saturday 24 June
RNCM PIANO DAY FOLK INFLUENCES WELCOME 10.30am Carole Nash Recital Room 2pm RNCM Concert Hall 5pm RNCM Concert Hall This year’s Piano Day focuses on the CZECH IMPRESSIONS I HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIES CZECH IMPRESSIONS II many stirring folk influences that exist PIANISTS FROM JUNIOR RNCM PIANISTS FROM THE RNCM PIANISTS FROM THE RNCM in piano literature, with programmes from the Hungarian masters Liszt and Bedřich Smetana Selected Polkas Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 Leoš Janáček On an Overgrown Path (Book 1) Bartók, American classics from Barber, Bohuslav Martinů Selections from Loutky in C sharp minor S 244 Jingyu Chen New work Copland and Rzewski, followed by the (Puppets) Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Antonín Dvořák Slavonic Dances Op 46 Zoltán Kodály Danses of Marosszék (for piano four hands) popular Slavonic Dances of Dvořák, all Free admission, no ticket required Béla Bartók Improvisations on Hungarian performed by students from the RNCM, Tickets £6 concessions available Junior RNCM and Chetham’s School of Peasant Songs Op 20 Music. The day culminates in a tour Caroline Bordignon New work de force by pianist Leslie Howard, Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 renowned for his 99 CD recording 12pm Carole Nash Recital Room in C sharp minor S 244 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall project of the complete works of SCOTTISH SONGS AND DANCES Tickets £6 concessions available Liszt, who will contrast the Hungarian PIANISTS FROM CHETHAM’S LESLIE HOWARD virtuoso with a comprehensive selection SCHOOL OF MUSIC of popular folk settings by the Franz Liszt Romancero espagnol S 695c Australian composer Percy Grainger. Erik Chisholm Scottish Airs for Children Franz Liszt Glanes de Woronince S 249 We hope you can join us for a day Ronald Stevenson South Uist Hebridean 3.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 19 of diverse and colourful music. Folksong Suite AMERICAN EXCURSIONS in D minor S 244 John McLeod Five Hebridean Dances PIANISTS FROM THE RNCM Percy Grainger Selection of British Graham Scott artistic director Ronald Stevenson (arr Murray McLachlan) and Danish folk music settings: A’E Gowden Lyric Samuel Barber Excursions Op 20 One More Day, My John Ronald Stevenson Jock o hazel dean, Aaron Copland Billy the Kid (for two The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol n’erday sang pianos four hands) The Merry King Percy Grainger Near Woodstock Town Dennis Tjiok New work Knight and Shepherd’s Daughter Percy Grainger Country Gardens Frederic Rzewski North American Ballads My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone Percy Grainger Three Scottish folk The Hunter in His Career Tickets £6 concessions available song arrangements The Nightingale & The Two Sisters Jutish Medley Free admission, no ticket required Irish Tune from County Derry Maguire’s Kick
Tickets £17 £14 concessions available Booking How to Find Us/Parking Day Ticket £25 Go to www.tfgm.com for details of Covers admission to all public transport in the Greater Piano Day events Manchester area. Please also see Group booking discounts available www.tfgm.com/buspriority to see how through the Box Office your route to College may change as a result of the city-wide Bus Priority Individual tickets as listed Scheme. For more detailed information within this leaflet and a map of how to find us please visit www.rncm.ac.uk/visit The RNCM car park is located next How to Book to the College in the basement of the In person RNCM Box Office Sir Charles Groves Hall of Residence, 124 Oxford Road off Rosamond Street West. Open from Manchester, M13 9RD 6am-11.30pm at weekends, costing £3.50 By phone 0161 907 5555 (payable on foot at the machine any time after arrival). Closes at 11.30pm. Online www.rncm.ac.uk Other car parking options are available (individual event tickets only) at www.rncm.ac.uk/parking Please note that due to recent carriageway changes made by TfGM, Food and Drink visitors can no longer exit Rosamond During RNCM Piano Day, our Café is Street at the junction with Oxford open from 8am-7.30pm for breakfast, Road (as it is now one-way) and are sandwiches, snacks and drinks. Brodsky encouraged to exit either via Higher restaurant is open from 5pm -7.30pm, Cambridge Street or High Chatham Street. booking is advised. To reserve your table please contact Louise North on 0161 907 5353. Our Concert Bar is open from 5pm-11pm, where you can order your interval drinks for the 7.30pm performance.
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