Distant Impressions

     - Debussy "Estampes," Copland "El Salon Mexico," Adams "China Gates,"

        Liszt from "Les Années de Pélegrinage," Szymanowski "Masques"

"Five"

     - Brahms (Sonata No. 3), Crumb (Five Pieces for Piano), Scriabin (Five Preludes),

        Prokofiev (Five Sarcasms), Brubeck "Take Five"

Composer - pianists

     - music of Clementi, Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Bartok, Bernstein

The Italian avant-garde: Berio and Scelsi        (NY Times and NPR reviews)

     - music of Luciano Berio and Giacinto Scelsi

Faenza Codex and Beyond            (NY Times review)

     - Faenza Codex (keyboard manuscripts from early 15th Century) and

       music influenced by it as well as other Italian piano traditions

The Legacy of the American Piano

     - music of Ives, Carter, Cage, Copland, Rzewski, Feldman

American Pianism: Today and Tomorrow

     - music of Lee Hyla, Annie Gosfield, Eric Moe, Jon Magnussen, Adam Silverman,

       Daniel Roumain,  Derek Bermel

Music in Dialogue

     - Selections of wide range of music, all inspired by other music 

       Mozart/Salieri, Bach/Busoni, Debussy, Copland/Bernstein, Cummings, White

"Where are the Passacaglias and Double Fugues?"

 Music Inspired by Popular Culture

     - music of Debussy, Satie, Bartok, Copland, Bolcom, and others

"Do as I say, not as I do" - composers and their multifarious students

     Part I:  Sessions/Imbrie, Nancarrow, Rzewski:  Milhaud/Glass, Brubeck, Kurtag, Bolcom 

     Part II: Schoenberg/Cage, Horatio Parker/Ives, Wolpe/Feldman

 Composers of Princeton

     - music of Frederic Rzewski, John Harbison, Su Lian Tan, Barbara White,

       Jon Magnussen, Andrew Imbrie, Mario Davidovsky, Emily Doolittle