Midday Music for Organ
February 10: David Yearsley (Cornell Baroque Organ): “Handel’s Feet.” Including arrangements of Handel’s Chandos Anthem no. 9 and music from Theodora and Messiah.
February 24: Michael Plagerman (French Romantic Organ, St. Luke Lutheran Church): “Walcker, Willis, and Cavaillé-Coll: ‘…for the performance of a melody.’” Music by Arthur Foote, Brahms, Franck, and Parry.
March 10: David Yearsley (Cornell Baroque Organ): “Man Versus Machine: Three Pieces for Musical Clock.” Music by Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart.
March 24: Anna Steppler (Cornell Baroque Organ): “Chromatic Fantasy.” A program for Lent, with music by Sweelinck, Scheidt and Praetorius.
April 7: Annette Richards (Italian Baroque Organ): “The Art of Sweelinck.” Toccata, echo fantasy, and variation sets, in the 400th year of Sweelinck’s death.
April 21: Annette Richards (Cornell Baroque Organ): “Great Artist, Great Teacher.” Music by Sweelinck (the monumental Ricercar) and his students, including Schildt, Scheidemann and Bruhns.
May 5: Cornell organ students and faculty: A Festive End-of-Semester Celebration (Aeolian-Skinner Organ, Cornell Baroque Organ, and others).
Beethoven and Pianos (continued)
March 15: Ji Young Kim plays the Bagatelles, Op. 126, on CCHK's Regier-Graf piano.
March 22: Mike Lee plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 101, followed by a conversation with Annette Richards about her 2001 book, The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque, in which Op. 101's dislocated narrative archetype is illuminated through the fantastical prism of C. P. E. Bach.
Week of May 3: Mike Lee plays the "Appassionata" Sonata, Op. 57, on CCHK's 1799 Broadwood piano.
Brahms Young & Old
Week of April 5: Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8, early version (1854). With Becky Anderson (Visiting Lecturer, violin), John Haines-Etizen (Senior Lecturer, cello), and Roger Moseley (Associate Professor of Music) playing the J. B. Streicher piano.
Week of April 12: Panel discussion with Jacquelyn Sholes (University of Rochester) and Roger Moseley about the Op. 8 Piano Trio.
Week of April 26: Malcolm Bilson, Mike Cheng-Yu Lee, and Ji Young Kim play early and late works for solo piano by Brahms on various historical pianos.
Week of May 3: Miriam Fried (violin, New England Conservatory) and Clancy Newman (cello) offer masterclasses for Cornell students.
Week of May 10: Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8, late version (1889). With Miriam Fried (violin), Clancy Newman (cello), and Miri Yampolsky (Senior Lecturer, piano).