Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players; Episode 3, part two

The University of Chicago and the national educational radio network present another program in our series of concerts by members of the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago Ralph shape the music director. On this evening's concert easily Blackwood piano and Esther Glaser violin will perform the foursome not as for Violin and Piano By Charles Ives. Although widely acclaimed as a pianist of impeccable technique and creative insight easily Blackwood is perhaps best known as one of America's foremost young composers. He was born in 1033 in Indianapolis and received his master's music degree from Yale where he studied with Hindemith. He also worked with 90 Abood on today while on a Fulbright fellowship. His first symphony won the Boston Symphony Orchestra merit award in one thousand fifty eight. His Second Symphony commissioned by G Schirmer for its 100th anniversary was first performed by the Cleveland Symphony in 1981. And his third symphony received its world premier in Mandell hall of the University of Chicago in the spring of

1965 at a concert given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zometa No. Mr Blackwood joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1058 and is now associate professor of music. Esther Glaser a numbered Award winner. Made her debut in Chicago at the age of nine. Her studies included a five year fellowship at the Juilliard School of Music. She has given concerts in America and Europe. And last year as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the University of Chicago. Ms Glaser presented the first Chicago performance of certain Berg's violin concerto. She is the wife of Irwin Hoffman who is the associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Charles Ives was born in Banbury Connecticut on October 20th 1874. And he died in New York on May 19th 954. He received his first musical instruction from his

father who was a professional musician and band master. For ear training drill young Charles was asked to sing well-known tunes while his father played the accompaniment in another key. Especially fascinating to him was the sound of two marching bands playing different pieces at once as well as the bad playing which was the order of the day in one thousandth century New England. In 1894 he entered Yale where he studied composition with Horatio Parker and he graduated from Yale in 1898 during his stay there he held a job as a church organist in New Haven. It is therefore an error to think of Ives as a musical amateur. A misconception widely held because of his second life as a businessman. After many years of indifference and hostility from both the public and other musicians. I've organized performances and undertook publication of some of his works at his own expense. Some time during the one thousand twenty as he lost interest in composing and stopped altogether. I was method as a composer was to

make a bear sketch and then go over it again many times adding notes and making refinements. This process never stopped and there are several works which were changed even after publication and now exist in two editions. For this reason it is somewhat misleading to ascribe dates to his works. The poor violins are not as well written between 100 to 115 according to the printed scores with much overlapping especially in the case of numbers 1 and 2 which occasionally make use of similar material. First on tonight's program we're going to hear the second sonata for Violin and Piano By Charles Ives. It is quite program magic in nature. The first movement has a dusky dark quality distinctly like autumn while the second is a lively barn dance and quadrille time which makes the violinist sound like a country fiddler. The climax at the end is almost orgiastic as several dances in different time break out simultaneously. The revival is quite impressionistic at first

and works up to a grand Hallelujah with a quiet ending. Thanks. And now here are easly Blackwood P.A. and Esther Glaser violin to perform the second sonata for Violin and Piano by Charles II. The work is in three movements the first autumn the second in the barn and finally the third movement. The revival. Way. Good luck.

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Using a blackboard and Esther graves in. Singapore. Listen close you ask a. Crowded nano Hong at the University of. Maryland. Thank you. The Third Sonata which we are about to hear has an improv as a Tory feel that is characteristic of a great deal of Ives music. The first movement is characterized by the recurrence of a lovely refrain made up of fragments of familiar sounding tunes and which has a curiously modal cadence. This is interspersed with quicker contrasting sections.

The second movement is ragtime and here we find that his satiric this. Last movement is made mainly of him fragments and recollections of motives found in the other movements especially impressive is the climax near the end at which time the hymn is heard complete for the first time. Our performers once again will be easily Blackwood at the piano and Esther Glaser violin. As you heard Easley Blackwood piano and Esther Glaser violin have returned to the stage here at Mandel hall at the University of Chicago to perform the Sonata number three for piano and violin by Charles I.

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