Summary of Dissertation Recitals Three Programs of Collaborative Piano Music

Three collaborative piano recitals were given in lieu of a written dissertation. The first dissertation recital, entitled Jazzical, was a lecture-recital that explored the blending of classical and jazz styles in 20th-century chamber music. The second recital was a staged version of Hugo Wolf’s complete Italienisches Liederbuch. The final recital, Love from a Distance, featured vocal music centered on the theme of lovers longing to be together. Saturday, December 8, 2012, 8:00 p.m., Stamps Auditorium, School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Assisted by Timothy Steeves, violin, Emily Barkakati, violin, Su-Fan Yiu, violin, and Nathaniel Pierce, cello. Program: George Gershwin Preludes; Maurice Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, II. Blues: Moderato; William Grant Still Suite for Violin and Piano; Paul Schoenfeld Café Music. Friday, March 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m., Britton Recital Hall, School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Assisted by Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone, Jennifer Goltz, soprano, Jonas Hacker, tenor, and Leann Schuering, soprano. Program: Italienisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf. Friday, April 26, 2013, 7:00 p.m., First Congregational Church, Ann Arbor, MI. Assisted by Katie Calcamuggio, mezzo-soprano, Antonina Chekhovskaya, soprano, Jesse Donner, tenor, Dana McGarr, soprano. Program: An die ferne Geliebte by Ludwig van Beethoven; “Suleika,” “Suleikas Zweiter Gesang,” by Franz Schubert; “When far from her,” “I send my heart up to thee!,” “Go not too far,” “Villanelle (Across the World),” by Amy Beach; Canti della lontananza by Gian Carlo Menotti; “We sat together,” “In this moonlight,” “None but the lonely heart,” “Whether day dawns,” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.AMUMusic: PerformanceUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147663/1/brow_1.pd