Friday, January 3, 2020 — 5:30pm
Music of Bach and Beethoven
| Program: | |
| Capriccio on the Departure of a Dearly Beloved Brother (1704) 1. Arioso His friends try to persuade him to abandon his journey 2. (Andante) They suggest accidents that may befall him in foreign lands 3. Adagioissimo The lamentations of his friends 4. (Andante) Seeing that it cannot be otherwise, his friends bid him farewell 5. Allegro Poco Song of the Postillion 6. Fugue On the Postillion Horn call | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
| Sonata No. 30, Opus 109 (1820) Vivace ma non troppo Prestissimo Andante molto cantabile ed expressivo | Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
Robert Krupnick has performed solo piano, chamber and contemporary music extensively in California, Seattle and Halifax. He has recently relocated to New Mexico. He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory and UCLA respectively, his main teachers being Jeanne Stark, William Masselos, Andrew Imbrie, and Robert Helps. He has received the Charles Ives Fellowship from the National Foundation of Arts and Letters, the Hertz Award in piano from the University of California at Berkeley, the John Lennon Award from UCLA for the study of the music of Morton Feldman, and has recorded contemporary music for the Cold Blue label. He currently teaches privately in Santa Fe, and accompanies singers and instrumentalists at the New Mexico School for the Arts.