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Music at Maryville 2024-25, Concert 2 of 4 — Musicians of the SLSO perform Gabriel Fauré’s Two Piano Quintets & Leo Marcus’s Three Schumann Stars
Sunday, October 20, 2024 • 3:00 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium • Directions
Artists
- Alison Harney, violin
- Nathan Lowry, violin
- Jonathan Chu, viola
- Melissa Brooks, cello
- Peter Henderson, piano
Musical Program
- Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, op. 89 (1887-94, 1903-05) (ca. 30 minutes)
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
[Untitled piece] No. 30 from Album for the Young, op. 68 (ca. 4 minutes) - Leo Marcus (b. 1945): Three Schumann Stars (Piano Quintet No. 3) (Missouri Premiere) (ca. 14 minutes)
- Intermission (ca. 10 minutes)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, op. 115 (1919-21) (ca. 32 minutes)
Brief Program Note
This program concludes Maryville University’s two-concert mini-series observing the centenary of Gabriel Fauré’s death. Fauré completed two quintets for piano and string quartet. A slow, painstaking composer, Fauré labored eighteen years on Piano Quintet No. 1, which was eventually premiered in 1906. One of his favorite works, its first two movements have an enchanting, ethereal, timeless quality. Fauré’s earthier Piano Quintet No. 2 was composed relatively quickly, across several months in 1920-21. Deemed a masterpiece since its premiere, the second quintet demonstrates “A deep and magnificent serenity of a great poet, wise and lyrical” (Louis Vuillemin). Between these two monumental late works of Fauré, we’ll present the Midwest premiere of Three Schumann Stars by Leo Marcus, an American composer and pianist, who here explores the ambiguity and sensitive beauty of a small piano piece from Robert Schumann’s Album for the Young, op. 68.
Music at Maryville 2024-25, Concert 3 of 4 — Yin Xiong, Cello
with Nicolas del Grazia, Clarinet; and Peter Henderson, Piano
- Sunday, February 9, 2025 • 2:00 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium
- Enjoy our pregame musical performance before the Super Bowl!
- Program to include: Carl Frühling & Johannes Brahms’s Trios for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
- Nicolas del Grazia is Professor of Clarinet at Arkansas Tech University, and has appeared as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician throughout the United States and Europe. As an advocate for contemporary music, he has performed with a number of leading new music ensembles, including Chicago Pocket Opera Players, and Aguava New Music Studio, heralded as “brilliant” by the Washington Post and as “easily one of the most impressive new music ensembles in America today” by the International Record Review. He has worked with a number of the country’s leading composers, including David Felder, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, and MacArthur Genius prize winner John Eaton. As a scholar, Nicolas del Grazia has twice been the recipient of awards from The International Clarinet Association for his research, and he has published work on the hitherto unknown Pastorale & Rondo by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and the unfinished Quartet for Clarinet and Strings by Alexander Zemlinsky. He also enjoys composing, especially for the clarinet. The “pixelated humor” (AllMusic.com) of his Tarantella for clarinet and piano can be heard on Italian Vintages, on the Centaur label.
Music at Maryville 2024-25, Concert 4 of 4 — Scott Lyle, Guitarist & Composer
- Sunday, April 13, 2025 • 3:00 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium
- Scott Lyle is the Director of the Music Program and Assistant Professor of Music at Maryville University in St. Louis. He teaches courses in music theory, aural training, audio engineering, and private lessons, offering students a comprehensive education in both traditional and modern musical disciplines. Scott earned his BM in Music Performance (classical guitar) summa cum laude from the University of Missouri–St. Louis and his MA in Composition from Washington University in Saint Louis. Passionate about academic scholarship and research, he also actively performs music from various eras, with a special affinity for avant garde and post-tonal contemporary works.
Musical Program
To include these guitar works and arrangements, along with the premiere of three lieder by Scott Lyle:
- John Dowland (1563-1626) – “Come, Heavy Sleep,” from “The Firste Booke of Songes” (1597)
- Fernando Sor ( 1778-1839) – “Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, op. 9” (1819)
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) – “Intermezzo op. 117, no. 1,” from “Drei Intermezzi op. 117” (1892)
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918) – “Clair de lune,” from “Suite bergamasque” (1890-1905)
- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) – “IV. Adagietto,” from “Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor” (1902)
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) – “Nocturnal, after John Dowland, op. 70” (1964)
Maryville University Faculty Recitals — Peter Henderson, Piano
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Complete Solo Piano Music, Recital 1 of 2
- Saturday, April 5, 2025 • 7:30 p.m.
- Recital 2 will take place during Fall 2025
- Program TBA
Past 2024-2025 Concerts (listed in chronological order)
Music at Maryville Series 2024-2025 Concert 1 of 4 — Early Music Missouri presents Adoption, Adaption & Appropriation: Invasive Species in Mediterranean Musical Culture
- Samantha Arten, Soprano
- Patrick Rafferty, Renaissance & Baroque Guitars
- Jeffrey Noonan, Vihuela & Theorbo
- Saturday, September 14, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.
- Concert program (PDF) available here
Faculty Recital — Peter Henderson, piano
Monday, September 30, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium • Directions
Musical Program
Gabriel Fauré: Works for Solo Piano
- Romance sans paroles in A-flat major, op. 17 no. 3 (ca. 1863) (ca. 3 minutes)
- Nocturne No. 2 in B major, op. 33 no. 2 (ca. 1881) (ca. 6 minutes)
- Valse-caprice No. 1 in A major, op. 30 (1882) (ca. 7 minutes)
- Impromptu No. 2 in F minor, op. 31 (1883) (ca. 4 minutes)
- Impromptu No. 3 in A-flat major, op. 34 (1883) (ca. 5 minutes)
- Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat major, op. 63 (1894) (ca. 9 minutes)
- Deux pièces, op. 104 (1913)
- Nocturne No. 11 in F-sharp minor (ca. 5 minutes)
- Barcarolle No. 10 in A minor (ca. 4 minutes)
- Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, op. 119 (1921) (ca. 7 minutes)
Brief Program Note
To observe the centenary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, Peter Henderson will perform a Maryville University Faculty Recital exploring works spanning the great French composer’s career. Renowned for his harmonic explorations and freedom, Fauré was also an inspired melodist, spinning long, flowing phrases set in a florid texture. His elegant, gorgeous piano music is poised between vigor and languor, raw emotion and restraint. This program features some of his most famous and extroverted early piano works, including the witty Valse-caprice No. 1 and two scintillating Impromptus, and ends with a few of Fauré’s sorrowful yet consolatory late pieces, including his intensely moving Nocturne No. 13.
