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Maureen, Jose, Karina, and I arrived at Chatham University in the frigid cold yesterday during the first piece of Fabiola's concert. I enjoyed the first piece of the concert, and Karina and I commented about how she often played so that it sounded like more than two hands playing!
She played these pieces for the concert as part of the Chatham global series focusing on Brazil:
Tento do Segundo Tom (17th C.) (Pedro de Araujo, Portugal)
Sonata op. 53, "Poem of Ectasy" (1907) (A. Scriabin, Russia)
Three Prophecies in Etude Form (1988) (J. Almeida Prado, Brazil)
I. Resonance Etude (Zacharias, 6:1)
II. Rhythmic Etude (Baruch, 4:36)
III.Etude for legato chords, tremule, repeated notes, trill (Isaiah, 35:8)
Allegro in B minor, op. 8 (1831) (Robert Schumann, Germany)
Sonata, Sz 80 (1926) (Bela Bartok, Hungary)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Sostenuto e pesante
III.Allegro molto
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We had just missed the 5:15 Mass when we decided to stop at Fabiola's to let her change. We sat outside her building when Mom called with an offer for PSO tickets from their neighbors. All of the ladies decided we would take advantage of the tickets, Jose would be seeing the PSO tomorrow night with Fabiola.
We had a quick dinner at Gullifty's, headed to Mom and Dad's to pick up the concert tickets, and we headed to the concert at Heinz Hall. Fabiola and I ran into Mike (I asked him how Joyce was doing), and we all greatly enjoyed the strong, expressive voices of the opera singers performing excerpts from Act I and II, and the whole of Act III of Nixon in China. The Communists were at stage left, the Republicans at stage right (how appropriate!) for the opera. John Adams, the composer, conducted the PSO for the whole evening.
After a brief intermission, the symphonic version of Dr. Atomic (based on Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project work) was performed. Early in the piece there was use of a one-story-high sheet metal piece that made thunder-like noises. The second part of it featured the strings in a harried, frenetic movement. Later in the piece there was a French horn acting to "bark out orders."
Fabiola and the rest of my orchestra-seated row were absolutely, irrevocably entranced.
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We left, arriving at about eleven thirty at Gullifty's (again) to enjoy more music and desserts. I enjoyed a pina colada smoothie.
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I found my back door's lock frozen shut, and Maureen drove me 'round to the other side of the building....Waow! What a musically-inclined afternoon and evening!
Labels: Chatham College, dining, Faith, friends, international culture, music, PSO
posted by Grace @ 1/17/2009 01:52:00 PM
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