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Crestwood Music Education Center's Soirees Musicales

We are thrilled to present CMEC faculty member Dr. Yelena Grinberg, piano & Michael Haas, cello, at our next soirée musicale on Saturday, March 22nd at 7:30 p.m. Please see the attached program for details about this exciting piano cello concert, as well as notes about the program directly from Dr. Grinberg below.  As always, admission is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors & children, and students of Dr. Grinberg attend for free.  A reception will be provided immediately following the concert.  We hope you will consider joining us for a fantastic evening of piano & cello. 

Celebrating Alkan at 200: The Romantic Masterworks for Cello and Piano 

About the Program: 

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Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) is one of the most enigmatic and perhaps least well-known of the great 19th-century composers and virtuoso pianists, who was both a friend and rival of Chopin and Liszt. This special program, featuring Romantic masterworks for cello and piano, will pair Beethoven's celestial, late-style Sonata no. 1 in C Major for cello and piano, op. 102, no. 1 (1815) with Alkan's seldom-heard and electrifying Sonate de concert for cello and piano, op. 47 - which, to quote the great Alkan pianist, Ronald Smith, is "possibly the most brilliant and certainly one of the most original and rewarding works for the medium to come out of the nineteenth century." The program will also include shorter Romantic miniatures written by Alkan's two great contemporaries: Mendelssohn's effusive and lyrical Song without Words in E Major for cello and piano, op. 109 (1845) and Liszt's soothing Consolations, arr. for cello and piano (1870), as well as his dreamy and wistful Romance Oubliee, arr. for cello and piano (1880). This special program is NOT to be missed!

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