Piano Music Inspired by Popular Culture

(total duration: 75 minutes + intermission)

Minstrels from Preludes, Book I (1908)

Claude Debussy 

Yachting

from ”Sports et Divertissements” (1914)

Boating from “Mikrokosmos,” Vol. 5 (1935)

Erik Satie

 

Bela Bartok

Tango from “Sports et Divertissements” (1914)

Tango (1940)

Erik Satie

Igor Stravinsky

Selections from

Sports et Divertissements” (1914)          

The Unappetizing Chorale - Hunting  - The Water Slide - Tennis - Fireworks – Carnival - Horse Races

Erik Satie

 

Selections from “Mikrokosmos,”

Vol. 4 and 5 (1935-36)

From the Island of Bali

In the Style of a Folk Song

Jack-in-the-Box

Syncopation

Bela Bartok

 

 

 

 

El Salon Mexico (1938) (arr. L. Bernstein)     

Aaron Copland

 

intermission

 

Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (1980)

Charles Dodge

I Wish They All Could Be.....

Conrad Cummings

The Ping-Pong Prelude (2000)

Brooklyn, Oct. 5 1941 (1998)

David Rubinstein

Annie Gosfield

Graceful Ghost Rag (1970)

William Bolcom

Boogie the Woogie (1943)

Boogie Woogie Etude (1943) 

Morton Gould

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