PERSPECTIVES
ON PIANOS
TWO TUESDAYS AND ONE MONDAY, 7:30 – 9 P.M.
OCTOBER 21 AND NOVEMBER 3 AND 18
RICE UNIVERSITY, SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC
ALICE PRATT BROWN HALL, ROOM 1133
Brian Connelly will explore important musical moments through three
great (and surprisingly different) Viennese pianos.
OCTOBER 21: New Light on Middle-period Beethoven and
Late Classicism, 1810 Rosenberger piano; music of Beethoven, Weber,
and Schubert.
NOVEMBER 3: The First Romantic Generation, 1840 Bösendorfer
piano; music of Robert and Clara Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn.
NOVEMBER 18: Brahms and His Circle, 1853 Bösendorfer
piano; music of Brahms, Liszt, Dvorak.
Brian Connelly is artist teacher of piano at Rice University’s
Shepherd School of Music, where he also heads the program in piano chamber
music. He appears regularly with the period instrument ensemble, Context.
