Tag: AdamsMusicHouse
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Ellen Foreman, 2021 Fellowship Winner!
Adam’s Music House is pleased to announce the fine pianist Ellen Foreman as the winner of our fellowship. She will perform in September for a meet and greet and in December for a lecture recital at the new Drayen Mason Hall at KMFA in downtown Austin. We are very excited to welcome Ellen! We taped…
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Debussy Blog Series
Dr. Tobin will move forward with his Chopin Blog Series next week, but in the meantime we though we would remind and recap the Debussy Blog Series Dr. Tobin completed this spring-summer-fall. The posts can be viewed by opening the Debussy Presentation page or clicking on the image below.
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Chopin Series
This week Dr. Tobin begins an exporation of some of the works Frederic Chopin created while in Paris. Tobin is interested in how Paris might have influened Chopin and in particular to how Chopin created a unique language for the piano.
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The Wind on the Plain
This week Dr. Tobin explores a bit about the order of the Debussy Preludes in Book I and some of the themes important to Debussy.
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La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
This is one of Claude Debussy’s most evocative Preludes, one of the last composed in December, 1912. It was inspired by an article in Le Temps which described the coronation of King George the V as emperor of India. It is Debussy’s answer to Wagernism, Twelve-tone harmony, and the logical completion of tonality that Brahms…
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