01/20/2020
Great workshop!
This year's Conference will feature Frederic Chiu who will perform a program titled "Classical Smackdown." Members of the audience will be provided a ballot to choose their favorite composer/composition from four different performance rounds. This event will be at 7:00 pm on Friday, February 7, 2020. There are no fees to attend, but we ask you to register at https://www.nku.edu/academics/sota/music/prospective/piano.html ,
Classical Smackdown Program 1
Sergei Prokofiev vs. Claude Debussy
Round 1
Debussy Suite Bergamasque (1890-1905)
(1862-1918) Prelude
Menuet
Clair de Lune
Passepied
Prokofiev Three Pieces from Romeo and Juliet (1935)
(1891-1953) The Montagues and the Capulets
Friar Laurence
Public Merrymaking (arr. F.Chiu)
Round 2
Prokofiev Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Opus 28 (1917)
Debussy L’isle joyeuse (1904)
intermission
Round 3
Prokofiev Sarcasm #1 (1912)
Two Fugitive Visions (1915-17)
Diabolic Suggestions (1908)
Debussy Cloches à travers les feuilles (Bells
through the leaves) from Images (1907)
Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the rain)
from Estampes (1903)
Round 4
Debussy Rêverie (1890)
Prokofiev Toccata (1912)
Representative: Maria Guralnik, Sky Top Group (www.fredericchiu.com)