Monday, Feb. 6, 2023 • 8 p.m.
Timashev Recital Hall • 1900 College Rd
Columbus, OH
Lynn Singleton, piano
PROGRAM
Preludes in G major
Prelude and Fugue No. 15
from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (1740)
J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
Prelude Op. 28, No. 3 (1835–1839)
Frederic Chopin (1810–1849)
Prelude Op. 11, No. 3 (1895)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Prelude Op. 32, No. 5 (1910)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Prelude Op. 34, No. 3 (1933)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Jazz Prelude Op. 53, No. 3 (1988)
Nicolai Kapustin (1937–2020)
Preludes in B-flat minor
Prelude and Fugue No. 22
from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (1720)
J. S. Bach
Prelude Op. 28, No. 16
Frederic Chopin
Prelude Op. 11, No. 16
Alexander Scriabin
Prelude Op. 32, No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Prelude Op. 34, No. 16
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jazz Prelude, Op. 53, No. 16
Nicolai Kapustin
From Twenty Etudes for Piano (1991–2012)
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Etude No. 16
Etude No. 2
From Twenty-six Etudes for Piano (1997–2007)
H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
Etude in C# minor
Etude in G# minor
Spiritual Suite
Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)
I. Valley of the Bones
II. The Bells
III. Troubled Water
NOTES
Johann Sebastian Bach was the first composer to write a set of keyboard pieces in all 24 major and minor keys. The two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier, each containing 24 Preludes and Fugues, were the model and inspiration for several other composers to write Preludes in all major and minor keys. The first half of the program features two sets of Preludes — one set in G major and a second set in B-flat minor — and allows a comparison of the treatment of the same key by Bach, Frederic Chopin and the Russian composers Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich and Nicolai Kapustin.
The second half of the program features works by two living American composers and an African-American woman composer. The Twenty Etudes, composed by Philip Glass between 1991–2012, explore a variety of tempi, textures and piano techniques. H. Leslie Adams composed the Twenty-six Etudes for Piano between 1997–2007. Adams, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, was born and currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Music Education from Oberlin College and a PhD in Music Composition from The Ohio State University in 1973, where he studied with Marshall Barnes. Margaret Bonds was born and lived in Chicago, studying composition with Florence Price and William Dawson while in high school. She attended Northwestern University and became the first African American to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933. The Spiritual Suite was recently published for the first time, and the final movement, based on “Wade in the Water,” was performed by Bonds at the end of each of her performances.
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