BERKELEY PIANO CLUB WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2021
10:00 AM HADLEY McCARROLL, Chair
“Favorite Music”
VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Carol of the Lark
............................................................ Mykola
Leontovych (1877—1921)
PHOEBE ROSQUIST, soprano
Sonatina, Op. 100
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Nikolai Kapustin (1927—2020)
VIRGINIA BIGELOW, piano
To the Master
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Giacinto Scelsi (1905—1988)
MONICA SCOTT, cello ~ HADLEY McCARROLL, piano
Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)
....................................... Claude Debussy
(1862—1918)
CHRISTYNA KOZEL, piano
Matrix
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Elinor Armer Child, Your Eyes (b. 1939) Song for a Daughter
NANETTE McGUINNESS, soprano ~ Karen Rosenak, piano
Sonata for cello and piano
........................................................... Sarah
Dubois I. Prelude (b. 1951) II. Molto allegro agitato
AMY BRODO, cello ~ LaDENE OTSUKI, piano
Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Minor, BWV 883 (WTC II)
............ J.S. Bach (1685—1750)
ELIZABETH SWARTHOUT, piano
Serenade in La
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Igor Stravinsky I. Hymn (1882—1971)
HADLEY McCARROLL, piano
Three Compositions for violin and piano, Op. 40
..................... Amy Beach II. Berceuse (1867—1944)
WENDY CLYMER, viola ~ HYE YEONG MIN, piano
24 Studies in African Rhythms
................................... Fred Onovwerosuoke II. Edo (b.
1960) III. Udje
MONICA CHEW, piano
Mykola Leontovych
Nikolai Kapustin
Giacinto Scelsi
Claude Debussy
Elinor Armer
Sarah Dubois
Igor Stravinsky
Amy Beach
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Carol of the Lark .. Phoebe Jevtović Rosquist Faintly a song
Floats through the dark Opens the door In flies a lark Singing to
you, Trilling a song Calling you out Into the dawn: “May the New
Year Fill you with cheer. All that we here Need never fear. Yon
will the lambs Follow their dams Wooly and white Grazing the land.
Sunshine and rain Fall on the field Swelling with grain: Sweet
golden yield, On to the mill, Grinding for bread Everyone full
Everyone fed. Everyone shall have a Happy New Year There by your
side Dark-eyed and kind Your loving wife.” “Dear little bird, May
every word Sung on this day Be as you say.” © Phoebe Jevtović
Rosquist, 2020
Child, Your Eyes .... Rella Lossy (1944—1996) Child, your eyes
astonish me More now than on your first born night. Like a tooth
rooted in urgency You bolt into my sight; Your head bangs like a
door, Knocks at my breast, Then you’re back to the dig, uncovering
shores Of secret rivers, boundaries that will not rest. Who told
you to bury your feet in the sand? Ancestral whispers leave a
nameless mark, My arms open to their command, And you come running
to embrace the dark. I mother you with the blind past that mothered
me; We wade in ancient waters that we cannot see.
Song for a Daughter
....................... Ursula K. Le Guin (1929—2018) Mother of
my granddaughter, listen to my song: A mother can’t do right, a
daughter can’t be wrong. I have no claim whatever on amnesty from
you; nor will she forgive you for anything you do. So are we knit
together by force of opposites the daughter that unravels the skein
the mother knits One must be divided so that one be whole, and this
is the duplicity alleged of woman’s soul. To be that heavy mother
who weighs in every thing is to be the daughter whose footstep is
the Spring. Granddaughter of my mother, listen to my song: Nothing
you do will ever be right, nothing you do is wrong.
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