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The OutBach® Festival of [Mostly] Women's Music
On 13th September 2019 we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Clara Wieck, brilliant concert pianist and composer, and muse to a host of the Romantic era's better known composers, among them her husband Robert Schumann and their close and beloved family friend, Johannes Brahms. For this concert, Donna Coleman performs Vier Stücke aus Soirées Musicales opus 6, composed in 18341836 by Clara Wieck, four works that inspired her future husband Robert Schumann to create his opus 6 Davidsbündlertänze in 1837. Robert's borrowing of thematic material from Clara was an aspect of their secret courtship. Intermezzi and Capricci from the opus 76 set of Klavierstücke by Johannes Brahms complete the musical love triangle.
Musicologists and pot-boiler authors have long debated the prospect of a full-blown "affair" between Clara and Johannes. The fact is that Clara and Robert welcomed the young Johannes into their home, their lives, their musical encouragement, and the relationship between the three of them was a genuine Love Supreme. Robert died in a mental hospital at forty-six years of age, and Clara remained a steadfast friend to Johannes and an ardent supporter of his music throughout her long life that surpassed that of her husband by forty years. Brahms lasted barely a year after her death. A Love Supreme brings the story of this sad love triangle to life through the music created by three of music history's greatest composers.
Dr DONNA COLEMAN
Donna Coleman's performances of American music earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina and the Southern Arts Federations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, Radcliffe College, and Second Prize in the first John F Kennedy Center International American Music Competition, among others. Her recording of Charles Ives's Concord Sonata for Amsterdams prestigious EtCetera label received Frances Diapason dOr and Editors Choice, and Christian Tarting's review for Diapason magazine claims, this Second Pianoforte Sonata . . . finds here its most convincing recorded version, due to its assertion, the assurance in its manner of effectively carrying out each detail, its analytical finesse. James North writing for Fanfare found Donna Coleman's performance of Ives's First Sonata (also on EtCetera) is grand and sweeping, strong and confident, filled with charm and overflowing with joy. It immediately becomes my preferred version.
A dual US and Australian citizen, for more than two decades Donna inspired Australia's finest talent as Head of Keyboard in the Victorian College of the Arts, produced dozens of world concert tours and direct broadcasts for ABC Classic FM, and created her OutBach® project that explores relationships between Indigenous, art, and popular music and creates performances in unexpected locations and combinations, including the world-first piano and didgeridoo collaborations. She recorded two compact discs for ABC Classics, Rags to Riches: A Syncopated Century and Havana to Harlem. Her own label OutBach® released Don't Touch Me, the Danzas Cubanas by Ignacio Cervantes (2010), described by Jean-Marc Warszawski, writing for musicologie.org, as a beautiful recording event. . . . a rare musical success, thanks to the serene majesty of the interpretation, the tone color, the presentation, and the interest and curiosity that these compositions arouse, and The Lost Lady (2015). All of Donnas CDs are available at amazon.com and iTunes.
She created The Emerson Trio to explore the rich repertory of chamber music by American composers, and the ensemble has performed for the popular Sundays Live series, streamed direct-to-air via internet, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art annually since 2016. In November 2018, she produced and performed in the first OutBach® Festival of [Mostly] American Music in Santa Fe NM that featured her scripted version of Charles Ives's Concord Sonata.
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LocationSan Miguel Chapel (View)
401 Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87501
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 12 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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