Andrew Zhou, piano, presents a talk and performance of rarely heard works that brings to life various fantasies of the past: Greek antiquity for Debussy (his Six épigraphes antiques) and Ravel (Mr. Zhou's own transcription from Daphnis et Chloé), wistful Romanticism for the Latvian-Canadian composer-in-exile Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, and an imagined past of Black repertoires in the music of Florence Price (her Fantasie Nègre no. 2). The program will be performed on the 1878 Blüthner (Leipzig), the favored instrument of Debussy for the extra resonance afforded by the patented Aliquot system – an extra set of “floating” strings in the upper register that lends the piano a translucent halo effect.

Note: this program will be performed twice, at 6pm and 8pm

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