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Sunday October 20, 2024 4:00 p.m.Donna Coleman, pianist
“Concord, Mass., 1840-60”
The Second Pianoforte Sonata by Charles Edward Ives
commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer
Coleman’s adaptation of Ives’s monumental opus presents each movement of the Sonata with
excerpts from the writings of the four authors for whom the movements are named and from Ives’s own Essays Before a Sonata
I Emerson
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Emerson
II Hawthorne
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
“The Celestial Railroad” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Feathertop” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Hawthorne
III The Alcotts
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: The Alcotts
IV Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods and Journals by Henry David Thoreau
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Thoreau
Epilogue
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Epilogue
Donna Coleman’s worldwide recognition encompasses award-winning recordings, major prizes in international competitions, concert tours around the planet, and invitations from music schools on four continents for teaching and performance residencies. She is renowned for her interpretations of the music of Charles Ives, with two acclaimed recordings on the Et’cetera label, one of which, the "Concord" Sonata (KTC 1079) received France’s Diapason d'Or upon release. In his review, Christian Tarting wrote, “This Second Pianoforte Sonata . . . finds here its most convincing recorded version, due to its assertion, the assurance in its manner of effectively carrying out each detail, its analytical finesse.” Her half-century of research and study of Charles Ives and his music has been guided and supported by John Kirkpatrick, Curator of the Ives Collection of manuscripts at Yale University and pianist who gave the first complete performance of the “Concord” Sonata in 1939, by William Masselos, who gave the first performance of the Piano Sonata No.1 in 1948, and by Lou Harrison who copied that sonata from Ives’s manuscripts. In addition to performances and recordings of nearly all of Ives’s repertory for the solo piano, Coleman has performed and taught the Trio, the violin sonatas and other chamber music involving the piano, the Quarter-Tone Pieces, the “Take-Offs,” nearly all of the 126 songs, and she was the only pianist in Australia in 1995 capable of playing the solo piano part for the Australian premiere of the monumental Symphony #4, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Town Hall, Gunther Schuller conducting.
"Spirit, Passion, and the Right Hands"
“The formidable dimensions and the equally high technical and psychic demands experienced throughout the course of the “Concord” Sonata are not only overcome by the interpreter, rather, she far surpasses a mere ordering of the interrelated, stylistically colorful material and uses her manual and didactic possibilities for a strongly moved, impulsive interpretation. Donna Coleman takes the aura of inaccessibility from what is in the truest sense of the word an unwieldy, complex composition. A work for both specialists and aficionados becomes unexpectedly familiar, without having its edges or its stylistic autonomy appear tempered.” Peter Cossè, Fono Forum (Berlin 1990)
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The Music House BnB, 408 W 5th St,Greenville,NC,United States
