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An Evening of Music & Celebration at Greenwich House Music School

Join us to welcome Dr. Sara Davis Buechner as the inaugural German Diez Memorial Piano Chair at Greenwich House Music School. Dr. Buechner will perform several pieces, both solo and with special guests, including violinist Ralph Evans, as well as Greenwich House Music School faculty members Theresa Rosas, Danyal Lawson and Alexandra Saraceno.

Concert begins at 7 p.m. There will be one intermission and a reception afterward.

– Program –

Sonata in D major KV 576                                    Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791)

Allegro

Adagio

Allegretto

Variations for Violin and Piano (1989)                    Sara Davis Buechner (b. 1959)

with Ralph Evans, violinist

– Intermission-

Ma Mére l’Oye (“Mother Goose”)                            Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)

  1. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormat (Sleeping Beauty)
  2. Petit Poucet (Tom Thumb)
  3. Laideroneet, Impératrice des Pagodes (Empress of Pagodas)
  4. Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête (Beauty and Beast)
  5. Le jardin féerique (The Fairy Garden)

with Danyal Lawson, Theresa Rosas and Alexandra Saraceno

Five Spanish Pieces                                              Federico Longás (1893 – 1968)

Bulerias (Danza Ibérica)

Un sueño en Granada

Guajira

Catalana

Aragón

This concert is free and open to the public. To support our newly established piano chair, GHMS has created the German Diez Memorial Fund, to help Dr. Buechner with her teaching and student recruitment efforts. To donate to the fund, please click here.

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