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Performance
150 Years of the Avant-Garde
- a concert series first created and performed by Lois Svard in 1999. The Series celebrates radical ideas in piano music from Franz Liszt in the 1850s to György Ligeti and Annea Lockwood in the 1990s, demonstrating that the avant-garde has always been with us, even in the works that we now consider to be a part of the standard repertoire. The concerts include works for prepared piano, digital keyboard and microtonal tunings, works influenced by jazz and rock, minimalism, the new Romanticism, and more.
CONCERT I |
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Modest Mussorgsky |
from Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) |
Erik Satie |
Gymnopédie No. 1 (1888), Gnossienne No. 2 (1890) |
Alexander Scriabin |
Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (1907) |
Igor Stravinsky |
Four Etudes, Op. 7 (1908) |
Franz Liszt |
La Lugubre Gondola, No. 1 (1882) |
Franz Liszt |
Sonata in B minor (1853) |
CONCERT II |
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Béla Bartók |
Harmonics |
Ruth Crawford |
Prelude No. 5 (1925), Study in Mixed Accents (1930) |
Claude Debussy |
Voiles (1909) |
Erik Satie |
Sports et Divertissements (1914) |
Henry Cowell |
The Banshee (1925) |
George Antheil |
Sonata No. 2, "The Airplane" (1922), Fireworks (1919) |
George Gershwin |
Preludes for Piano (1926) |
CONCERT III |
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John Cage |
Bacchanale for prepared piano (1940) |
Stefan Wolpe |
Tango (1927) |
Igor Stravinsky |
Tango (1940) |
Jackson Hill |
Tango No Tango (1984) |
Olivier Messiaen |
from Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (1944) |
Mario Davidovsky |
Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and electronic tape (1970) |
Charles Ives |
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos (1913-14;1923-24) |
Steve Reich |
Piano Phase for two pianos (1967) |
CONCERT IV |
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Frederic Rzewski |
Down by the Riverside (from North American Ballads, 1979) |
Ben Johnston |
Suite for Microtonal Piano (1977) |
Alvin Lucier |
Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings (1995)* |
György Ligeti |
Etudes 1-9 (1985-89) |
George Crumb |
Five Pieces for Piano (1962) |
Annea Lockwood |
Ear-Walking Woman for prepared piano (1996)* |
Elodie Lauten |
Variations on the Orange Cycle (1991-95) |
* written for Lois Svard |
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