At last we are back performing in Madison! On September 8 and 9 we will jump early
into Madison’s concert season with recitals at Capitol Lakes Retirement
Community and the Chazen Museum of Art (see “Upcoming Events” at right for
details). Our program is titled
“Invitation to the Dance” and features a century’s worth of dance and
dance-inspired music from France, Italy, and Germany.
In this post we’d like to present some notes on the
program. As always on WPR’s Sunday
Afternoon Live, host Lori Skelton will
present an interesting background sketch on each piece, but on a 1.5-hour show
that, after all, is primarily dedicated to the music itself, there simply won’t
be time to discuss many particulars!
Since we’re hard put to write just a simple, short essay for our program
notes, we’ve written a rather extensive essay and uploaded a PDF here.
You can download it to read at your leisure on screen or on paper—and
even bring it with you to the performance, which really should help with
understanding of the program notes (whether or not the converse holds
true!). In any case, however you
choose to read the essay, we hope it will provide some helpful insights into
both the music and our preparation process.
