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10/26/2006
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
SRU’S DR. SOLOMON TO OFFER
‘WANDERING THROUGH OZ: PIANO
FANTASTIQUE’
IN CAMPUS CONCERT SET FOR NOV.
9
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
– Pianist Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon, professor of music at
Slippery Rock University, will present "Wandering through Oz: Piano
Fantastique" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in Swope Recital Hall on the SRU
campus.
She
will also offer a repeat of the concert at 3 p.m. Nov. 12 in First
Unitarian Church of Shadyside (corner of Ellsworth and Morewood
avenues) Pittsburgh, under the auspices of the Steinway Society of
Pittsburgh.
The
free programs will offer a solo recital of "The Wizard of Oz" and
other fantasies. A musical fantasy implies the absence of strict
form and a whimsical or rhapsodic quality to the piece; composers
over the past two centuries have devoted some of their most
inspired thoughts to this genre, Solomon explains.
The concert will
explore a wide range of compositions, including a fantasy by C.P.E.
Bach (J.S. Bach's eldest son), Franz Schubert's "Wanderer," a
20-minute virtuoso work based on the composer's song of the same
title. Also slated are Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor "Fantasia on an
Ostinato" by John Corigliano, most noted for his score for the film
"The Red Violin," “Mephisto Rag,” a fantasy on Liszt's
“Mephisto Waltz” by American composer Libby Larsen, and
"The Wizard of Oz Fantasy" by contemporary composer William Hirtz.
The work includes all of the famous Harold Arlen tunes in a
dazzling arrangement.
Solomon, who began
her 30th year at SRU this fall, performs frequently as soloist and
chamber musician. She has presented lecture-recitals at the College
Music Society national meetings in San Diego, Savannah, Cleveland,
San Juan, Denver, Kansas City, Miami and Quebec City, and has
performed at international conferences in Berlin, Vienna, Kyoto,
Limerick, Costa Rica and Madrid. Her involvement with the
works of women composers has led to invitations to perform at
several feminist theory and music conferences, including the
American Music/American Women Symposium in Boulder, the Athena
Festival in Murray, Ky., as well as at six of the International
Festivals of Women Composers held at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania.
She has been a
soloist with orchestras in Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
as well featured artist with the Butler, Youngstown and Pittsburgh
symphony orchestras. Solomon has performed at the Phillips
Collection and the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., Wigmore Hall
in London, the Lincoln Center Library in New York City and the
Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. A former board member for
performance of the College Music Society, she also served on the
editorial board of the American Music Teacher. She recently
completed a term as board member of the IAWM and is president-elect
of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association. Her three
compact discs are “Piano Music of Nikolai Lopatnikoff,”
“Character Sketches” and
“Sunbursts.”
Solomon
received her early training as a scholarship student at the
Juilliard School. She received her bachelor of arts and her master
of music degrees from Yale, where she was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa. She earned her doctor of music degree at Boston
University.
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