"A Selection of Graduate Student Piano Recitals from Fall 2020" program

CSUF SCHOOL OF MUSIC presents

A Selection of Graduate Student Piano Recitals from Fall 2020 Curated by Prof. Ning An Vivian Tzu-Hua, Colleen Sharpe, and Tyler Kielb March 13, 2021

California State University, Fullerton

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WELCOME Hello, and welcome to the School of Music’s latest streaming event. We are so excited to share this selection of graduate piano recitals with you! First, I want to thank all of the students, faculty, and staff who have worked tirelessly to make

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PROGRAM

a selection of graduate student piano recitals from Fall 2020:

VIVIAN TZU-HUA WEI, COLLEEN SHARPE, AND TYLER KIELB

Selections from The Seasons, op. 37a PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)

Vivian Tzu-Hua Wei

Ivory and Ebony

JOAN TOWER (b. 1938)

Colleen Sharpe

Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20 BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945)

Tyler Kielb

PROGRAM NOTES

Selections from The Seasons, op. 37a PYTOR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY In 1875, Nikolay Matveyevich Bernard, the editor of the St. Petersburg music magazine Nouvellist, commissioned Tchaikovsky to write 12 short piano pieces, one for each month of the year. Bernard suggested a subtitle for each month's piece. Tchaikovsky accepted the commission and all of Bernard's subtitles, and in the December 1875 edition of the magazine, readers were promised a new Tchaikovsky piece each month throughout 1876. The January and February pieces were written in late 1875 and sent to Bernard in December, with a request for some feedback as to whether they were suitable, and if not, Tchaikovsky would rewrite February and ensure the remainder were in the style Bernard was after. March, April and May appear to have been composed separately; however the remaining seven pieces were all composed at the same time and written in the same copybook, and evidence suggests they were written between 22 April and 27 May.

Ivory and Ebony JOAN TOWER Ivory and Ebony was commissioned by the 2009 San Antonio International Piano Competition in Memory of Andrew Russell Gurwitz and is dedicated to the wonderful apianist Blair McMillen.

The black and white keys provide the thematic basis for this piece.

When they are separate, they offer different but (mostly) consonant pitch collections of various color combinations, but when they are together, the dissonance increases.

This piece tries to use those separate and together color combinations as a narrative throughout the piece.

It was also intended to be virtuosic to provide a challenge for the wonderful competitors in the competition.

—Joan Tower

Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20 BÉLA BARTÓK After his 15 Hungarian peasant songs, these Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs are the second of Bartók’s works to feature the words “Hungarian peasant songs” in their title. The manner in which he confronts folk melodies with subtle, avant-garde sounds here was later described by Bartók himself as venturing to “the outermost limits.” He also breaks up the song structures so radically into their constituent motives that the title “improvisations” best conveys his approach to this folk music.

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