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Music Department

National Gallery of Art

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The Sixty-fourth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,574th Concert

Joseph Schwartz, pianist

May 14, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission free
Program

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Sonata in B-jlat Major, opus posthumous (1828)

Molto moderato

Andante sostenuto

Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza

Allegro ma non troppo

INTERMISSION

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Berceuse in D-Jlat Major, op. 57 (1843-1844)

Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, op. 60 (1845-1846)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Preludes, Book 1 (1909-1910)

Danseuses de Delphes (Delphic Dancers)

Voiles (Sails or Veils)

Le vent dans la plaine (The Wind on the Plain)

Les sons et les parfums tournent dans Fair du soir

(Sounds and Perfumes Swirl in the Evening Air)

Les collines dAnacapri (The Hills of Anacapri)

Des pas sur la neige (Footprints in the Snow)

Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest (What the West Wind Has Seen)

La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with Flaxen Hair)

La serenade interrompue (The Interrupted Serenade)

La cathedrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)

La danse de Puck (Puck’s Dance)

Minstrels

The Musician

Joseph Schwartz’s long and distinguished career has encompassed solo

performance, chamber music, and piano instruction. He captured the attention ofthe music world by winning the celebrated Walter W. Naumburg

Competition and followed soon after with a stunning debut in Town Hall.

New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg hailed Schwartz’s “successful fusion of whiz-bang technique and musicianship” and called him

“one ofthe finest young pianists around.” His solo recitals and appearances

with orchestras have taken him to concert stages throughout the United

States, as well as to Asia, Canada, Europe, and South America. Schwartz

recently performed three Beethoven concertos in one marathon concert

with the Galveston (Texas) Symphony Orchestra, and his current season

includes recitals in Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Schwartz enjoyed a thirty-eight-year tenure as the Robert W. Wheeler

Professor of Piano Performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music,

where he also established the annual Summer Piano Institute and served 

as its director for twelve years. Since 1991 he has been a member ofthe

Oberlin Piano Trio, which has performed most recently in Armenia,

Germany, and the Czech Republic. The trio has recorded CDs of French

music and twentieth-century American music.

Schwartz has given master classes at many colleges and universities,

including the Hong Kong Conservatory, the Interlochen Arts Academy,

the University of Alberta, and the University of Texas at Austin. He and

his wife, pianist and teacher Renata Kuh, reside in Clearwater, Florida.