MELVIN CHEN, piano

 

PROGRAM

Program Notes

 

Sunday—21 March 2004—3:00 pm

 

Three Selected Sonatas                             Alessandro Scarlatti

                                                                     (1660—1725)

 

Fantasia in c minor K.457                Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

   Molto Allegro                                                (1756—1791)

   Adagio

   Allegro assai

 

Secret and Glass Gardens                                Jennifer Higdon

                                                                                     

Valses nobles et sentimentales                            Maurice Ravel

   Modéré                                                        (1875—1937)

   Assez lent

   Modéré

   Assez animé

   Presque lent

   Assez vif

   Moins vif

   Epilogue

INTERMISSION

 

Estampes                                                      Claude Debussy

   Pagodes                                                       (1862—1918)

   La soiree dans Grenade

   Jardins sous la Pluie

  

Three Nocturnes, Opus 9                                Frédéric Chopin

   Larghetto                                                     (1810—1849)

   Andante

   Allegretto                                                                     

 

Union                                              Louis Moreau Gottschalk

   A Medley of American Folk Tunes         (1829—1869) 

 

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