Jeremy Denk returns to Berkeley with a recital of American-inspired music paired with works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Two works in the concert celebrate Black American vernacular composers whose music rarely gets its due on concert stages: “Blind Tom” Wiggins’ The Battle of Manassas and Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin’s Heliotrope Bouquet. British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s They Will Not Lend Me a Child reflects his interest in Black American spirituals; and Frederic Rzewski’s “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” is a movement from his Four North American Ballads, based on American folk and protest songs.
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Program Items
J.S. Bach
Partita in G major, BWV 829
Schubert
Four Impromptus, D. 935
Coleridge-Taylor
They Will Not Lend Me a Child
Wiggins
The Battle of Manassas
Joplin and Chauvin
Heliotrope Bouquet
Rzewski
"Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues,” from Four North American Ballads
Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
Performers
Jeremy Denk
Pianist