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Image Credits (L-R): Miró Quartet by Jeff Wilson; Paul Lewis by Kaupo Kikkas; Danish Quartet by Caroline Bittencourt; Junction Trio by Shervin Lainez; Sasha Cooke by Stephanie Girard; Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason by Jake Turney; Pacifica Quartet by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Karen Slack by Kia Caldwell; Mahan Esfahani by Kaja Smith.
Featuring the Miró Quartet in a World Premiere by Caroline Shaw, Pianist Paul Lewis (Baltimore Recital Debut), Danish String Quartet (Baltimore Debut), Junction Trio (Baltimore Debut), Mezzo-Soprano Sasha Cooke (Baltimore Recital Debut), Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, the Pacifica Quartet with Soprano Karen Slack (Baltimore Debut), and Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani (Baltimore Debut)
WTJU May 17th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
There are some things you can count on with a Bohuslav Martinu. It will be tuneful. It will have syncopated rhythms. It will have modal harmonies and unusual chord progressions.
The three cello sonatas in this release check all the boxes. And, as a fan of Martinu’s music, that’s just fine with me.
A lot of Czech culture is bound up in Martinu’s style. The harmonies come from the traditional music of the region. The rhythms come from the speech patterns of the Czech language.
Martinu’s three cello sonata span 13 years and a world war. And yet there’s remarkable consistency across the three works.
UpdatedThu, Apr 29, 2021 at 6:49 pm ET
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Rebecca Penneys works with a student at RPPF, a tuition-free festival that brings together 36 of the world’s aspiring collegiate pianists to work with world-class faculty. Performances and sessions will be available on-line to the general public. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival)
TAMPA, FL The celebrated Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival (RPPF) is scheduled to return live, July 6-24, 2021, at the University of South Florida (USF) Barness Hall. The tuition-free festival brings together 36 of the world s aspiring collegiate pianists, who are selected from an extensive list of applicants world-wide.
Tuition for students is covered by Rebecca Penneys Friends of Piano, a non-profit 501c3 organization, supported entirely by private donations. The students are joined by 21 world-class faculty, who work closely with students over the 19-day festival, providing a semester s worth of private lessons, nightly masterclasses, sp