Schedule

DANZA – ¡Obras fantásticas por el piano!
Dedicado a la diversidad que hace del Bronx la mejor fiesta de todas!

A recital program of my favorite Hispanic music for piano, with works by composers from Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Americas, with some Bronx-inflected music and words by myself.

Obras para piano de Juan Morel Campos, Ignacio Cervantes, Joaquín Nin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Joaquín Turina y Federico Longas.

The program begins at 4:00 p.m. and will be live-streamed in lieu of in-person attendance.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s youthful and bumptious Piano Concerto no. 1, with Elizabeth Schulze conducting. Livestream tickets available in lieu of in-person attendance.

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major op. 19, with Stuart Malina conducting. There will be two performances, on January 23 in St. Petersburg, and on January 24 in Clearwater.

Performances and Master Class. Details tba.

Chamber and solo performances TBA.

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor op. 37, with Stuart Malina conducting.

I will perform George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” Ronald Feldman conducting. Concert at 8:00 p.m. in venerable Jordan Hall.

For all the Early Birds and Piano Students of NEC, I will give a 10:00 a.m. lecture presentation titled “Philly Special,” about the teaching and legacy of Alberto Jonás (1868 – 1943), whose “Master School of Modern Piano Playing and Virtuosity” I have helped to resurrect in the awareness and pedagogy of many of my colleagues. My own students know its 1500+ pages of difficult exercises, well.

Whenever I walk past the former Combs College Conservatory at 1331 South Broad Street in Philadelphia, I nod in homage to Prof. Jonás, whose ghost I believe still roams the building’s hallways — now in use as a funeral parlor. I can still see the elegant Professor, with flamboyant ascot, cutaway coat, waxed moustache, Cuban cigar all at the ready. Back in the 1920s, a Music Teacher was a Music Teacher, and looked like one.

The last of three programs of the complete Piano Sonatas of Wolfgang Mozart includes the Sonatas KV 284 (“Dürnitz”), 310, 311, 331 (“Turkish March”), 576, and the Fantasy in D minor KV 397.

All three recitals are free admission, at Rock Hall of Temple University. This program begins at 3:00 p.m. So you can hear Mozart in the afternoon and watch the Super Bowl at night!

The series is dedicated to the memory of my dear friend and mentor Paul Badura-Skoda.

The second of three programs of the complete Piano Sonatas of Wolfgang Mozart includes the Sonatas KV 309, 533/494 and 570; and the Fantasy and Sonata in C minor KV 475/457.

All three recitals are free admission, at Rock Hall of Temple University. This program begins at 7:30 p.m.

The series is dedicated to the memory of my dear friend and mentor Paul Badura-Skoda.