Praecepta, the student chapter of the Society of Composers, Inc., promotes new music activities in the Bowling Green community. This event is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed.
24/24 is an event put on by Praecepta in which performers and composers are paired together randomly for the weekend to collaborate over a period of 48 hours. For the first 24 hours, the composer writes a piece for their randomly paired performer. For the second 24 hours, the performer learns the piece and a concert is held at the end of the 48 hour period.
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Greg Anderson, piano, will present a masterclass as part of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition.
Free and open to the public.
The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.
Greg Anderson, piano, will present a talk as part of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition.
Free and open to the public.
The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.
The semifinals of the 16th annual David D. Dubois Piano competition will be held in Kobacker Hall beginning at 9 AM.
The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.
Greg Anderson, piano, will give a guest artist recital as part of the 16th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition. This free event is open to all.
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PROGRAM
Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004........................J.S. Bach, arr. Ferruccio Busoni
Lost Fantasy in F minor........................................W.A. Mozart, arr. Greg Anderson
Based on the Fantasy in F minor (fragment), K. Ahn. 32, and “I’ve lost it, poor me!” from The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Mosaic Variations...................................................Greg Anderson
Based on Mozart’s “Là ci darem la mano” (Don Giovanni, K. 527), constructed from 102 variations and a dozen fantasies by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and 28 of their contemporaries
Overture
Theme: Duettino
Variation I: Duplets
Variation II: Triplets
Variation III: Quadruplets
Variation IV: Slow, major
Variation V: Slow, minor
Variation VI: Feats & Flourishes
Finale: Stretta & Fugue
~intermission~
Dreaming, Op. 15, No. 3..........................................................................................Amy Beach
Paranoid Android: Duel of Flesh & Circuitry............................Radiohead, arr. Greg Anderson Based on “Paranoid Android” from OK Computer
“Ave Maria”...................................................J.S. Bach, Charles Gounod, arr. Greg Anderson Based on the Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Ragtime Alla Turca...............................................................W.A. Mozart, arr. Greg Anderson Based on “Rondo Alla Turca” from Piano Sonata in A major, K. 331
This performance is a Kobacker Concert, funded by the Marvin S. Kobacker Concert Fund.
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PROGRAM NOTES
Mosaic Variations
by Greg Anderson
The 23-minute Mosaic Variations are built upon a century of musical responses to Mozart’s “Là ci darem la mano.” Drawing from nearly ten hours of variations, fantasies, paraphrases, and potpourris, the piece gathers 35 composers at the same roundtable to celebrate the duet’s allure and debate its themes of seduction and desire. Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt are seated beside Paganini, Czerny and Helene Liebmann—along with two dozen others—to offer their most distinctive musical ideas, interrupting, answering, and overlapping one another in a cross-century conversation.
The Mosaic Variations challenges conventional notions of the solitary musical genius by uniting these scattered voices. Here we find a group of creative individuals circulating ideas across generations, reshaping and even stealing from each other. Yet we also find lightning bolts of invention from all, with single flashes from overlooked composers shining just as brightly as those from the greats. This piece sets these inspired moments back-to-back to reveal creativity as a cumulative human inheritance. August Klengel’s astonishing, nearly forgotten fugue crowns the work and becomes its natural metaphor, its independent musical voices converging into a dramatic arc far richer than any on their own.
Note: Composers are listed in the order their music enters each movement, with dates indicating their source work’s likely year of composition.
Overture — Carl Czerny (1829), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1817), August Alexander Klengel (1821), Frédéric Chopin (1827), Sigismond Thalberg (c.1836), Franz Liszt (1877)
Duettino — Niccolò Paganini (c.1820), Renaud de Vilbac (1874), Franz Liszt (1841), R. P. Cramer (1878), Ludwig van Beethoven (1795), August Eberhard Müller (c.1790), Frédéric Chopin (1827), Sigismond Thalberg (c.1853), Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy (1867)
Variation I: Duplets — Hélène Liebmann (1806), Nicolas Baldenecker (c.1820), Charles-Auguste de Bériot & Benoit Constant Fauconier (1854), August Eberhard Müller (c.1790), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1817), Renaud de Vilbac (1874), Ludwig van Beethoven (1795), Joseph Gelinek (1789), Carl Czerny (1829)
Variation II: Triplets — Ludwig van Beethoven (1795), Joseph Gelinek (1789), August Eberhard Müller (c.1790), Franz Liszt (1841), Frédéric Chopin (1827), Henri Maylath (1871)
Variation III: Quadruplets — Franz Ignaz Danzi (c.1818), Frédéric Chopin (1827), Ludwig van Beethoven (1795), Nicolas Baldenecker (c.1820), Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1847), Bartolomeo Campagnoli (c.1800), Joseph Gelinek (1789), Bernhard Romberg (1815), Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (c.1832), Jean-Delphin Alard (1850), Henri Vieuxtemps & Édouard Wolff (c.1845), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1817), Charles-Auguste de Bériot & Benoit Constant Fauconier (1854)
Variation IV: Slow, major — Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1817), Nicolas Baldenecker (c. 1820), Sigismond Thalberg (c. 1836), Bartolomeo Campagnoli (c. 1800), Jean-Delphin Alard (1850), Emma Maria Macfarren (c. 1858)
Variation V: Slow, minor — Hélène Liebmann (1806), Carlo Michele Alessio Sola (c.1830), Ludwig van Beethoven (1795), Nicolas Baldenecker (c.1820), Frédéric Chopin (1827), Johann Bobrowicz (1832)
Variation VI: Feats & Flourishes — Emma Maria Macfarren (c. 1858), August Eberhard Müller (c. 1790), Joseph Gelinek (1789), Ludwig van Beethoven (1795), Jean-Delphin Alard (1850), Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1847), Frédéric Chopin (1827), Franz Liszt (1841 & 1877), Hélène Liebmann (1806), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1817), Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach (1866), Francesco Calegari (c.1825), Johann Kaspar Mertz (1851), Carl Czerny (1829)
Finale: Stretta & Fugue — Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1817), Franz Liszt (1841 & 1877), Nicolas Baldenecker (c. 1820), Emma Maria Macfarren (c. 1858), Théodore Oesten (c. 1850), Ludwig van Beethoven (1795), August Alexander Klengel (1821), August Eberhard Müller (c. 1790), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1782), Sigismond Thalberg (c.1836)
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Weeks of Welcome
Jan. 12-Feb. 27 | This event is part of Spring Weeks of Welcome, which begins at move-in and extends to Spring Break. During this celebration, explore opportunities hosted by the campus community to design your ultimate BGSU experience.
The piano competition finals of the 16th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition will be held in Kobacker Hall beginning at 9:00 AM.
The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.
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Brian Snow, cello, and Laura Melton, piano, will present a recital in our weekly Faculty Artist Series. This event is free and open to the public.
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Tentative Schedule for Trombone Day:
2 PM: Inter-Service Trombone Quartet, Bryan Recital Hall
4 PM: Masterclass/Clinic with Inter-Service Trombone Quartet and Lake Effect Trombone Choir, Bryan Recital Hall
5:30 PM: Final Concert featuring Lake Effect Trombone Choir (Kobacker Hall)
The final concert will be livestreamed
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Compositions by BGSU faculty members will be performed in this weekly Faculty Artist Series event. This concert will be livestreamed, and is free and open to the public.
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