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Jan. 24, 2003
CONTACT: Gordon Ovenshine (724) 738-4854;
e-mail: gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
PUBLIC INVITED TO FREE PIANO RECITAL AT
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY --
THE KAPLAN DUO SISTERS' ACT TO PERFORM
FOUR-HAND RECITAL
SLIPPERY
ROCK, Pa. – The Kaplan Duo, comprised of Slippery Rock
University music Professor Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon and her
sister Dr. Iris Kaplan will present a free piano duet recital open
to the public at 4 p.m. Sunday [Feb. 9] in SRU’s Swope
Recital Hall.
The
program consists of original piano duets by Amy Beach, Erwin
Schulhoff, Akira Miyoshi, Constant Lambert, Antonin Dvorak as well
as a transcription of Leonard Bernstein's popular score to
“Candide.”
Solomon
has been a professor at SRU since 1977. An active performer, she
has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician on many college
campuses and artist series in the United States, and has performed
in Austria, England, France, Germany, Japan and Ireland. She has
been a concerto soloist with the Butler, Youngstown and Pittsburgh
symphonies and has been invited to present lecture-recitals at many
national and international conferences. Her three, compact discs
have received critical acclaim.
As
a duo, the sisters have performed in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and were featured performers at the 1998 College of Music Society
National conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A curious genre
One piano, four hands? The genre of the piano
duet has sparked curiosity and interest in performers and audiences
and has been a catalyst for some of the great composers' most
inspired efforts, Solomon says. Duets achieved moderate popularity
in the 18th -century and flourished in the
19th-century as a form of musical and social
entertainment in almost every affluent parlor. Before the age of
recordings, duet arrangements of orchestralworks served as
the principal means of acquaintance with symphonic
literature.
Sister act
Both
sisters received their early training as scholarship students at
the Juilliard School pre-college division.
SRU’s
Solomon continued her education at Yale, graduating magna cum
laude. She received a master’s degree from the Yale School of
Music and doctoral degree in music from Boston
University.
Kaplan
received her bachelor of music degree from the University of
Michigan, where she studied with Louis Nagel and her master of
music and doctoral degrees from New York University, focusing her
research on the Alexander Technique and its relation to piano
performance. She has performed as a soloist and chamber
musician throughout the New York metropolitan area and attended an
International Piano Workshop in Austria. She has taught at C.W.
Post College in New York, as well as at Brooklyn Poly Prep
Academy.
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