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Music Department

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The Sixty-fourth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,580th Concert

Sara Davis Buechner, pianist

June 11, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission free
Program

Mieczyslaw Munz (1900-1976)

Two transcriptions

Minuet from Berenice (George Frideric Handel)

Serenade from Suing Quartet in C Major, op. 3 (Joseph Haydn)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Sonata in F Major, K. 533/494 (1786)

Allegro

Andante

Rondo: Allegretto

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Danse (Tarentelle styrienne)

La plus que lente

Golliwog’s Cakewalk from Children’s Comer

La fille aux cheveux de lin from Preludes, Book 1

L’isle joyeuse

INTERMISSION
Rudolf Friml (1879-1972)

Six salon pieces

Festival of Roses from California Suite, op. 57

La danse des demoiselles, op. 48

Bohemian Dance (Polka), op. 29

Humoresque, op. 45

Chanson

Staccato Etude, op. 37

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Three foxtrot improvisations

Transcribed from acoustic recordings and player piano rolls

by Sara Davis Buechner

Do Do Do

Someone to Watch over Me

Kickin’ the Clouds Away

Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue (1924)

Transcribed for piano solo by the composer

The Musician

Sara Davis Buechner’s career began auspiciously when she won the gold 

medal ofthe 1984 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition

and then the bronze medal ofthe 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano

Competition. Since then she has maintained a solid reputation for artistic

sensitivity and extraordinary versatility and has gone on to win major prizes

in many ofthe world’s most prestigious piano competitions, including

those of Leeds, Salzburg, Sydney, and Vienna, and the Queen Elisabeth

International Music Competition of Belgium.

With a repertoire of nearly one hundred piano concertos by composers

ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) to Charles Wuorinen

(b. 1938), Buechner has appeared as soloist with America’s most prominent

orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the symphony orchestras of Cleveland, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, and San Francisco. Outside

the United States, she has performed with the BBC Philharmonic, the City

of Birmingham (United Kingdom) Symphony Orchestra, and the Japan 

Philharmonic, among many others. She was a featured artist at the Piano

2000 Gala Concerts at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony

Orchestra and recently made her debut at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart

Festival. In addition to her frequent North American concert appearances

and radio broadcasts, she tours annually throughout the Far East.

In 1997 Buechner released her world premiere recording, ofthe Busoni

version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which was profiled in the Arts and

Leisure section ofthe New York Times. Stereophile magazine also selected her

album of piano music by George Gershwin as record ofthe month, and her

recording of piano concertos by Hollywood composers Bernard Herrmann

and Franz Waxman won Germany’s Deutsches Schauplatten Preis for the

best soundtrack. Her extensive discography also includes more than ten

discs for the Yamaha Disklavier and Piano Soft systems.

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Buechner has performed premieres of noteworthy new music and film

scores by Larry Bell, Pierre Charvet, Richard Danielpour, Dick Hyman, and 

Henry Martin, and she appears regularly with the Film Society of Lincoln

Center. She has also collaborated with choreographer Neta Pulvermacher 

and toured extensively with the Mark Morris Dance Group. A former faculty

member of New York University, in 2003 Buechner was appointed assistant

professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

She appears at the National Gallery by arrangement with Carrie Feiner

Enterprises of Scarsdale, New York.

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