Ithaca College faculty member, violinist Nicholas DiEugenio, welcomes his duo partner, pianist Mimi Solomon, to IC for a concert featuring music that relates to the specific time and place of WWI Paris. Ithaca College faculty member, violinist Nicholas DiEugenio, welcomes his duo partner, pianist Mimi Solomon, to IC for a concert featuring music that relates to the specific time and place of WWI Paris.
Friday, February 18, 2011 at 8:15 pm in the Hockett Family Recital Hall, Whalen Center.
In creating the program, Nicholas wanted to find music from another place and time that had a resonance here and now--both personally and also in a broader sense. The program offers works that reflect the eclectic, international, and cosmopolitan culture of Paris. Written between 1914 and 1924, each work on the program has its own relationship to the Parisian culture of this WW1 era. There are many personal connections within the planned program.
DiEugenio's duo partner, Mimi Solomon, is not only a talented musician currently residing in Paris, but his recent fiance! They have planned a personal and reflective program - just in time for a week of Valentine's Day activities!
The Enesco Sonata on the program was written for a violinist named Franz Kneisel, who founded a chamber music summer school in Maine that Nicholas and Mimi both attended. Another of the pieces on the program, the "Nuit Exotique," was actually written in Cleveland (where Nicholas attended the Institute of Music) by Ernest Bloch, who both lived in Paris and was President of the CIM in the US, sort of bridging the gap across the Atlantic. The more general appeal of this program is its incredible variety; music that spans just a ten year period of 1914-1924 shares some common underlying influences, but on the surface each piece really sounds different.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20110211170559423