UPCOMING PERFORMANCES Pianist Beibei Lin March 12
Auburn Indian Music Ensemble*† March 26
To be announced March 19
Soprano Faith Walker and bass Evan Coldiron with pianist Haein Kim April 2 * featuring Auburn University faculty † featuring Auburn University students
ART CONNECTIONS
Chromaticism in Western music describes the concept of composing music that features the use of all (or most of the) twelve named notes. The root “chroma” means color. In visual art, we will use a word like monochromatic to describe works that use only one color or at least project that idea. Ligeti composed the eleven-part Musica Ricercarta with an increasing degree of melodic complexity, starting with its first piece that uses only two notes. With this in mind, we will project a collection of images that mirrors Ligeti’s chromatic progression. The works come from three current exhibitions, Feminist Forms: Contemporary Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, From Her Innermost Self: Visionary Art of Southern Women, and Mother Earth as Art.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University offers students, faculty and the wider community impactful opportunities to engage with a diverse visual and decorative arts collection spanning centuries, genres and materials, with works by such renowned artists as John James Audubon, Roger Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Howard Finster, Mary Proctor, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Kara Walker and Andy Warhol. The original core of the museum’s permanent collection—36 modernist paintings purchased by the university in 1946 from the U.S. State Department’s “Advancing American Art” collection—includes works by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Georgia O’Keeffe. To learn more about the museum and how you can help support the arts at Auburn, contact us at 334.844.1484 or birmirc@auburn.edu.
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All of the performers are members of the Auburn University piano
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studio under the instruction of Dr. Jeremy Samolesky.
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JOY XU received her first bachelor’s degree in music education
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from Capital Normal University in her native Beijing. In 2016, She
The Auburn University Piano Studio Joy Xu, Yongyu Chen, Raymond Penland Daniel Wilson, Jake Evans Thursday, March 5, 2020 Auditorium Noon
Jake Evans (I, VII), Raymond Penland (II, XI), Joy Xu (IV, VI), Daniel Wilson (V), Yongyu Chen (VIII, X) George Frideric Handel (1685–1789)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Yongyu Chen
at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center. YONGYU CHEN is a junior from Changsha in the Hunan Province of southern China. She began learning the piano when she was five years
interested in the music and life of W. A. Mozart. RAYMOND PENLAND is a sophomore from Virginia Beach, Virginia, double-majoring in piano performance and history. He has been playing piano since the third grade, the cello since the sixth grade and currently plays cello with Auburn University’s Chamber Orchestra. In Virginia Beach, he was a member of the Bay Youth Orchestra, in which he was able to travel and play overseas. DANIEL WILSON is a freshman at Auburn pursuing bachelor’s degrees in both music and biomedical sciences. He began studying piano in Birmingham with Dr. Melodie King and at Samford Academy of the Arts under Mrs. Connie Macon. JAKE EVANS is a freshman double-majoring in music and electrical
Raymond Penland
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is working toward her next bachelor’s degree in piano and teaches music
enjoys researching composers of the Classical Period and is especially
Musica Ricercata (1953) György Ligeti I. Sostenuto – Misurato – Prestissimo (1923–2006) II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale IV. Tempo di valse (poco vivace – “à l’orgue de Barbarie”) V. Rubato. Lamentoso VI. Allegro molto capriccioso VII. Cantabile, molto legato VIII. Vivace. Energico X. Vivace. Capriccioso XI. (Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi) Andante misurato e tranquillo
Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 904
received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from Auburn. She
old, and it has become an integral part of her life. In her free time, she
PROGRAM
Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432 6. Passacaglia
THE ARTISTS
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
engineering. He started lessons at age five and began taking from Dr. Samolesky at age ten. His success in the Alabama State Piano Competition led to a performance before the annual assembly of the Alabama Music Teachers Association. He plays with the Auburn University Jazz Combo and performs jazz professionally.