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FACULTY RECITAL
MUSICAL INNOVATORS: PROKOFIEV AND SHOSTAKOVICH GREGORY PARKER, BARITONE ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO Sunday, September 12, 2021 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Sergei Prokofiev was one of many composers looking to shed the trappings of romanticism and open new vistas in musical expression. Likewise, Dmitri Shostakovich, 15 years younger than Prokofiev, combined an eclectic array of compositional techniques into his works. In this recital, Billias and Parker will present works by these two innovative composers. Selections include Prokofiev’s Three Romances After Pushkin, with texts that include the proletarian subjects that were more common in the composer’s songs after his return to the Soviet Union in 1936. Also, Dr. Billias will play his Fifth Piano Sonata, which features surprisingly light colors and a clarity not typical of Prokofiev’s overall tone. Shostakovich will be represented by his Three Fantastic Dances for piano with its grotesque and exquisite harmonies as well as a selection of preludes from his Opus 34. In addition, Parker and Billias will present Shostakovich’s Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin, which feature the dark themes of an oppressed artist, something he truly was at this point in his career.
FACULTY RECITAL
FRENCH ORGAN MUSIC FROM ACROSS THE CENTURIES: COMPOSITIONS BY GREAT ORGANISTS OF PARIS, ROUEN AND REIMS WILLIAM MCCORKLE
Sunday, September 19, 2021 3 p.m. Lexington Presbyterian Church No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://www.lexpres.org
The lovely C. B. Fisk pipe organ at Lexington Presbyterian Church is the vehicle for a program of music featuring the distinctive but changing sounds of French organs over three centuries, including compositions of great organists from Rouen (Jacques Please connect at 2:50 p.m. through the Lexington Presbyterian Church website https://www.lexpres.org. Join by clicking the “Live Boyvin) and Reims (Nicolas de Grigny), and of several on YouTube” icon located on the top of the home page. great Parisians (Louis Vierne, Jean Langlais, Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen). my.wlu.edu/music-department 21
