Benefit Concert for the Children's Heart Project Foundation

Saturday, March 6, 2010

6:30 p.m.

in Grapevine, Texas (see map below)

Robert Carney, piano

No charge for admission - donations accepted in the foyer

 

The Children's Heart Project Foundation works with top-quality hospitals to provide surgery for children who live in countries where the required medical expertise and equipment are not available. Since 1997, the Children's Heart Project has arranged life-saving operations for more than 600 children from Bosnia, Kosovo, Honduras, Uganda, Mongolia, and Bolivia. (READ MORE)

 

About the concert program:

Although audiences usually think of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf as an orchestral piece, Prokofiev first performed it at a small children's theater with himself at the piano, playing his own solo piano version. On the second half of the program, you are invited to come along on this exciting tale while Peter and his animal friends dare to capture a hungry and dangerous wolf! The story is narrated by soprano Monica Stephens, and the characters in our little adventure can be heard scurrying about in the piano part.

The first half of the program has solo piano pieces chosen with the young at heart in mind! Haydn's C Major Fantasy is light and fun, Rachmaninoff's Etudes are picturesque and exciting, Gershwin's Preludes are jazzy and entertaining, and Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody is a rhythmic and lyrical display of virtuosity with dances from Spain. 

 


The Program...

 

Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major, Hob.XVII:4 (1789)..........Franz Haydn (1732-1809)

 

Two Etudes,........................................................Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
from Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33 (1911), Op. Op. 39 (1916–17)

D Minor, Op. 33, No. 4
D Major, Op. 39, No. 9

 

Preludes for Piano (1926).........................................George Gershwin (1898-1937)

I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
II. Blue Lullaby. Andante con moto e poco rubato
III. Spanish Prelude. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

 

Rhapsodie Espagnole (1858)..............................................Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

 

 

Intermission

 

 

Peter and the Wolf (1936).........................................Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

piano reduction by the composer

Monica Stephens, Narrator






Location and Directions

The Master's Touch School of Music

629 W. College St.
Grapevine, TX 76051



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