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Piano association to give inaugural concert
By Liam Otten The Washington University Piano Association, a newly formed student group, will sponsor its first recital at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in Tietjens Recital Hall. The Piano Association was founded last spring by juniors Barbara Huen and Brad Adelman, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Clement Chau, a psychology and music double major in Arts & Sciences, as a way to bring together piano enthusiasts from across the University. The group, which currently has about 20 members and recently achieved Student Union recognition, will sponsor performance opportunities as well as piano workshops, lectures and group trips to local concerts. Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences and director of the piano program, serves as faculty adviser. Huen, who began studying piano at age 6, noted that, for students with some training but who are not currently taking lessons, "this is a way of continuing what they love to do without the pressure of grades and classes. It's also about teamwork and other people, because of the type of music that we play," which often includes works for four, six or eight hands on multiple pianos. The Nov. 13 performance will feature works by Beethoven and Schubert performed on fortepiano, a keyboard instrument whose heyday extended from the second half of the 18th century into the early 19th century. (The instrument's successor, the modern piano, came into full use during the 1860s.) Students will perform on a copy of a fortepiano built in 1824 by Conrad Graf, a maker of instruments played by Beethoven and Schubert as well as Haydn and Mozart. The group's next recital, on Dec. 11, will feature movements of Beethoven's 5th and 7th symphonies and works by Rachmaninoff, Faure and Bizet, among others. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call 862-1225. |
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