7.30pm
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
BIO & PROGRAM
"Ratser’s performance took one’s breath away with its mesmerizing single-mindedness, its inexorable force, and its stunning virtuosity."
Los Angeles Times
7.30pm
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
BIO & PROGRAM
"He played with a weight, articulation, and
coloristic flexibility that touched on an often
overlooked aspect of Brahmsian sensibility,
a sense of grandeur couched in terms of sober modesty...gently seductive tone, complete clarity of texture, and the kind of dynamic gradation that creates the illusion that a work is a breathing organism."
The New Yorker Times
7.30pm
Libby Gardner Hall (Tickets available thru Kingsbury Hall Ticket Office: 801.581.7100 or www.kingsbury.utah.edu)
BIO & PROGRAM
I WANT TO PLAY LIKE HIM
Join the mutual admiration society of two pianists.
A two-piano performance that transcends genre, resulting
in a unique blend of styles and backgrounds. It stirs the jazz
and classic and jazz into one musical recipe. The two have played
throughout Australia to great acclaim, receiving rave reviews.
The two love to create music that results in a unique blend of
styles and backgrounds. They met on tour with American Maestro of the
Mouth Organ, Larry Adler.
The program features composers such as Shostakovich, Keith Jarrett, Fats Waller, Serge Prokofiev, Chopin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Dave Brubeck, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, with compositions and arrangements by Kevin Hunt.
The performance will create an intimate and informative exploration of how these two musical genres are inextricably intertwined.
Some examples of music included in the progam:
- Dinah – Fats Waller
- Vipers Drag – Fats Waller
- Jitterbug Waltz – Fats Waller
- Blue Rondo Alla Turk – Dave Brubeck
- Hymn to Freedom – OscarPeterson
- Blue Monk – Thelonius Monk
- Jordu – Bud Powell
- Mother Goose Suite – Ravel
- Bach – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
- Tricotism/Cheryl – Oscar Pettiford/Charlie Parker
- Spain – Chick Corea
- C Jam Blues – Duke Ellington
- Anthropology – Charlie Parker
- Rhapsody in Blue/3 Preludes – George Gershwin
- Bumble Boogie
- Shostakovich 2nd Piano Concerto
(3rd Movement)
- Debussy Bergamasque Suite
- Duke Ellington’s Black.
Each exclaim…
"I wished I could play
like you!"
"No! I wished I could play
like you!"
