Salute to American Composers
March 31, 2007 • 8:00 PM
Eleanor Perrone, Pianist
Program
Piano Concerto in Blue
George Gershwin
Letter From Home
Aaron Copland
Symphony Symphonic Dances
Leonard Bernstein
Pianist Eleanor Perrone's commitment to the music she is playing is
conveyed to the audience with electric energy and technical audacity.
As stated by the Boston Globe, "Perrone is a pianist who makes you listen.
" Her concerto performances have consistently elicited from the entire
audience a rousing standing ovation, from Brazil to the Merrimack Valley,
from Billings, Montana, to Boston's Symphony Hall.
She has toured in Brazil and Europe, performing in Sao Paolo, Campinas,
Brussels, German-American Institutes at Kiel, Saarbrucken and Heidelberg,
The Kieler Nachtrichten called her a "Virtuosic Storyteller", and of her
performance of Brahms, Op. 119, said it was "the very essence of Brahms."
Her solo programming reflects a focus on drawing the audience into the music,
introducing them to unfamiliar works and re-introducing them to familiar ones
- demonstrating that across centuries and musical styles there is a common
core of musical experience and expression. Her repertoire, ranging from
Scarlatti through Bach to the present, includes such standard - yet substantial
- works as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Brahms' Variations and Fugue
on a theme by Handel, and for the 20th Century includes work by Barber, Hartke,
Persichetti, Shapero, Stravinsky, Wyner, and the Lutoslawski-Paganini Variations
for two pianos.
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