Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube
Glendale Noon Concerts 9/1/21
NANCY FIERRO – piano
During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home"
period,
Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs
to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:
The SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 program can be
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Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PT
On Wednesday SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 at 12:10 pm PT:
NANCY FIERRO – piano
Program:
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Four Sonatas
Sonata in A major K. 322
Sonata in C major K. 159
Sonata in D minor K. 1
Sonata in D minor K.141
Maria Agata Sżymanowska (1789-1831)
Nocturne in B flat major
Etude in C Major
Etude in E major
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Ballade (L70)
Clair de Lune
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Toccata in E flat minor
(Scroll down for artist bio & program notes)
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Streaming on Wednesday SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 at 12:10-12:40 pm PDT:ADRIANA ZOPPO – viola d’amore
Music for 1 and 2 violas d'amore:
Studio Modale by Aurelio Arcidiacono
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Much appreciation to the
Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art & education
and their generous grant to GNC.
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ARTIST BIO:
DR. NANCY FIERRO is a noted concert pianist, lecturer, and author. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano from the University of Southern California and a Certificate in Piano, Theory, and Analysis from the American Conservatory of Fine Arts in France. In addition to her mastery of the traditional repertoire, she is considered an authority on music by women.
As a concert artist, Dr. Fierro has been hailed by critics for an interpretive style both powerful and dramatic. Legendary musician Nadia Boulanger praised her as a “real pianistic talent” with deep musical understanding. At Boulanger’s invitation, Nancy gave a concert in the Jeu de Paume salon of the Conservatoire Americain in France. Other international appearances have included performances in Mexico, Canada, and Germany.
Dr. Fierro recorded one of the first compilations of women’s music, entitled “Premiere.” This successful album was followed by “The Romance of Women’s Music” and “Riches and Rags,” commissioned by the Polish Music Reference Center at the University of Southern California. She has also given several premieres of significant works by women, notably the first American performance and recording of the Sonata No. 2 for piano by the Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz. A professional speaker, Nancy has been a guest-artist lecturer on numerous university campuses, for the Music Teachers National Association State Convention, and for the Music Teachers Association in California.
Dr. Fierro has received several awards including a Certificate of Honor from the Third International Congress of Women in Music and the Sigma Alpha Iota Radio-Television Award for her radio production of “Nine Centuries of Women in Music.” For five consecutive years, Nancy was also selected by the California Arts Council to participate in the Touring Artists program. Currently, Nancy Fierro maintains a private studio, lectures extensively on the 12th-century composer Hildegard of Bingen, and is on the piano faculty at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.
Program notes:
Four Sonatas (K .322, K.159, K 1 and K.141)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Scarlatti was a well-known Italian composer and harpsichord player who was invited to be court musician for the royal courts of Portugal and Spain. He composed over 500 Sonatas for the keyboard which his royal students found charming and challenging. In his works, he often imitated sounds of drums, bells, clacking heels and hunting horns as in the K.159 Sonata. For entertainment and development of technique his keyboard works often include acrobatic feats such as crossing hands, passages which jump across the keyboard with wide, dangerous leaps and twisty finger passages—features you will hear in the sonatas in this program.
Maria Agata Sżymanowska (1789-1831)
Nocturne in B flat major, Etude in C major, Etude in E major
Maria Agata Sżymanowska was a Polish composer and concert artist whose music, along with that of John Field, was an important forerunner of Chopin’s piano music. Her performances throughout Eastern and Western Europe were acclaimed for their expressive singing tone, technical prowess and clarity. She caught the eye of the Russian Court and was invited to be Royal Pianist for the Czar and Czarina-- a position confirmed with gifts of pearls and diamonds as tokens of their esteem. She composed Nocturnes, Etudes, Mazurkas, songs and other piano miniatures. Her compositions are notable contributions to the literature and technique of the piano.
Ballade (L 70)
Clair De Lune
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Both the Ballade and his famous Clair De Lune are early works composed in the 1890’s. At first, Debussy gave Clair de Lune the title “Promenade Sentimentale.” Not satisfied with the name or the music, he revised it in 1903 and changed the title to ”Clair de
Lune “after a dreamlike poem of the same name by Paul Verlaine. He composed his Ba
llade after a short trip to Russia. We can sense the Slavic flavor of the main melody
which Debussy repeats and elaborates.
Toccata in E flat minor
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
This Toccata is a favorite among pianists. And rightly so, because it has so many attractive pianistic features: powerful driving rhythms, a rhapsodic central section reminiscent of the Armenian folksong style and brilliantly expressive flourishes. Khachaturian composed the Toccata in 1932 while he was studying at the Moscow Conservatory.
