Pianist Jennifer Hayghe, a member of the faculty at the School of Music will present a free recital on Wednesday, January 31 at 7:00 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.
Hayghe described the program: “Everything on the program is 19th or 20th century piano works centered on the concepts of ‘Love, Death and a Little Ecstasy.’ Granados’s ‘The Maja and the Nightingale’ fits the theme, as does Busoni’s Sonatina No. 6, which is based on themes from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’—an opera full of love and death. Scriabin—a composer obsessed with ecstasy—will be represented by his fourth sonata. Prokofiev’s music for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and a piano transcription by Liszt of Wagner’s ‘Liebestod’ from ‘Tristan and Isolde’ complete the program. The Wagner is a triple whammy, ecstatic music about, as the title suggests, love and death.”
For more information about this or any of the approximately 300 concerts presented each year at the Ithaca College School of Music, visit www.ithaca.edu/concerts or call (607) 274-3717.
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