Cellist Joel Krosnick and Pianist Gilbert Kalish Present "Musical Transitions" Featuring the Music of Gerhard, Shapey, Faure, Hindemith, and Bacon on Wednesday, October 21 at 8 PM in Juilliard's Paul Hall
Chair of Juilliard's Cello Department Joel Krosnick and guest pianist Gilbert Kalish present the first recital in the Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series on Wednesday, October 21 at 8 PM in Juilliard's Paul Hall. The program entitled Musical Transitions features Roberto Gerhard's Sonata for Cello and Piano (1946); Ralph Shapey's Sonata for Cello and Piano (1954); Paul Hindemith's Cello Sonata, Op. 11, No. 3; Gabriel Fauré's Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 117; and Ernst Bacon's A Life (begun in 1946 with last two movements completed in 1970). Joel Krosnick, who has been a member of the School's resident Juilliard String Quartet since 1974, has performed recitals with Mr. Kalish throughout the United States and Europe for more than twenty years together. Since 1976, their annual recitals together have taken place at Weill and Merkin halls, and Juilliard, as well as at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University. They have recorded on the Arabesque label.
Mr. Kalish and Mr. Krosnick are interested in music that represents the transition from one musical period and its style to another period and the style of composition. The chromatic tonality of the 19th century had reached its climax with Wagner and Richard Strauss; composers from Schoenberg, Hindemith, Fauré, Gerhard, Bacon, and Shapey all reacted to the move from tonality to atonality in different and interesting ways. That transition from highly chromatic tonality to various versions of atonality is what the program - Musical Transitions - is all about.
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Ralph Shapey's Sonata for Cello and Piano was composed in 1954. Mr. Kalish and Mr. Krosnick present a tribute to their close friend and great American composer Ralph Shapey. The Sonata is among the early milestones of Shapey's creative output. According to Gilbert Kalish, this work "already has the ‘grandeur' and is extremely contrapuntal - two salient aspects of Shapey's musical language."
Ernst Bacon's A Life had its premiere in 1986 with Mr. Krosnick at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The work was composed over a period of years to commemorate moments in the life of the composer's newborn son, who died in an accident at the age of 26. The work contains music written in celebration of his son's birth, as well as music in tribute composed after his son's death. The five movements include a waltz of parental love and a march of young manhood before the sober elegy.
Cellist Joel Krosnick has performed as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician around the world. As a member of the Juilliard String Quartet since 1974, he has performed the great quartet literature throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With his sonata partner of more than 30 years, pianist Gilbert Kalish, Mr. Krosnick has performed recitals throughout the U. S. and Europe. Since 1976, they have given annual series of recitals in New York City. With Mr. Kalish, Mr. Krosnick has recorded the complete sonatas and variations of Beethoven and the sonatas of Brahms as well as works by Poulenc, Prokofiev, Carter, Hindemith, Debussy, Janačék, and Cowell for the Arabesque label. Especially noteworthy is their CD devoted to the cello and piano music of Ralph Shapey. Yet to be released is a CD, Forgotten Americans. Mr. Krosnick completed his bachelor of arts degree at Columbia College where he began his lifelong commitment to contemporary music. He has performed and premiered a large number of new works by composers including Donald Martino, Ralph Shapey and Richard Wernick. Joel Krosnick's recording of the Sonata for Solo Cello by Artur Schnabel appears on the CP2 label, and his CD of Roger Sessions' Six Pieces for Solo Cello is presented on Koch Classics. A dedicated and passionate teacher, Mr. Krosnick is chair of the cello department of The Juilliard School and is a member of the faculty of Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Maine. He has been associated with the Aspen, Marlboro and Tanglewood music festivals, and appeared for the third time as a member of the artist-faculty of the Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California. A recipient of the Chevalier du Violoncelle Award from the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at the Indiana University School of Music, Mr. Krosnick holds honorary doctoral degrees from Michigan State University, Jacksonville University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Pianist Gilbert Kalish leads a musical life of unusual variety and breadth. His profound influence on the musical community as educator, and as pianist in myriad performances and recordings, has established him as a major figure in American music making. A native New Yorker and graduate of Columbia College, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabella Vengerova. He was the pianist of the Boston symphony Chamber Players for 30 years and was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a group devoted to new music that flourished during the 1960s and 70s. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world's most distinguished chamber ensembles. His thirty-year partnership with the great mezzo-soprano Jan De Gaetani was universally recognized as one of the most remarkable artistic collaborations of our time. He maintains longstanding duos with the cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and he appears frequently with soprano Dawn Upshaw. As educator he is Distinguished Professor and Head of Performance Activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1969-1997 he was a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center and served as the chairman of the faculty at Tanglewood from 1985-1997. He often serves as guest artist at distinguished music institutions such as The Banff Centre, and the Steans Institute at Ravinia, and the Marlboro Music Festival. He is renowned for his master class presentations. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th Century masterworks and new compositions. Of special note are his solo recordings of Charles Ives' Concord Sonata and Sonatas of Joseph Haydn, and immense discography of vocal music with Jan De Gaetani and landmarks of the 20th Century by composers such as Carter, Crumb, Shapey and Schoenberg. In 1995, he was presented with the Paul Fromm Award by the University of Chicago Music Department for distinguished service to the music of our time.
2009-2010 DANIEL SAIDENBERG FACULTY RECITAL SERIES AT JUILLIARD
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Wednesday, October 21, 8 PM, Paul Hall
Joel Krosnick, Cello
Gilbert Kalish, Piano
Musical Transitions
Roberto Gerhard - Sonata for Cello and Piano (1946)
Ralph Shapey - Sonata for Cello and Piano (1954)
Paul Hindemith - Cello Sonata, Op. 11, No. 3
Gabriel Fauré- Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 117
Ernst Bacon - A Life
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