Another Chopin Concert

Judith Conrad, Fortepiano
with the Delight Consort

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 3:00

The Loring Greenough House

Celebrating Fryderyk Chopin’s 200th Birthday

with parlor music by himself and his forbears

Frederic Chopin, whose 200th birthday is March 1st, 2010, played a square piano in his youth in Poland, and continued to perform on them in salons and even in concert halls into the 1840's. And much of his music was written to be played in parlors which often were equipped with pianos much like the Loring-Greenough House fortepiano. Judith Conrad will play a program of the sort that would have been played in such a parlor on March 7 at 3:00pm, focusing on the smaller-scale music of Chopin and including music for cello, flute, recorder and fluegelhorn with Otto Guzman, Frank Fitzpatrick and Paul Ukleja. Composers in addition to Chopin include Handel, Beethoven, Marya Szymanowska, Prince Michal Cleofas Oginski and Princess Anna Maria of Dresden.

The Loring-Greenough House, built in 1760, is located at 12 South Street (at the Civil War Monument) in Jamaica Plain, MA. It is wheelchair accessible. For more information on the Loring-Greenough House, see www.loring-greenough.org.

Tickets are available at the door: donation $17 ($12 seniors, students and JPTC members) which includes a “preservation fee”. For further information call Judy Conrad at 508-674-6128 or e-mail judithconrad@mindspring.com.

Program

First Half

Oginski Polonaise 'Les Adieu a la Patrie'
Maria Szymanowska Piano Fantaisie
Polonaise Chopin wrote for his first piano teacher when he was 11
Chopin Mazurkas
Etude opus 10 no. 2, Cello and piano
Chopin Songs: Smutna Rzeka; Dumka
Song – Maiden's Fancy, played by ensemble

Second Half

Handel Polonaise
Three Dances from the Polish Renaissance
Beethoven Variations on Hail the Conquering Hero – Piano and cello.
Piano music from the Archives in Dresden, Polonaises and Sonatinas by and for Princess Anna Amalia c. 1770
Bellini Costa Diva – Paul on Fluegelhornby
Chopin Waltzes, nocturnesby
Martini Plaisir D'Amour – Sung by the audience

Related posts:

1. Chopin Concert
2. Fortepiano Concert
3. Chopin Preludes