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2/25/08
'Poetry In Piano' Performance March 2 At St. Lawrence
CANTON - Oni Buchanan will present a "Poetry in Piano" concert at St. Lawrence
University on Sunday, March 2, at 2 p.m. in Gilbert Recital Hall, Noble University
Center. The event, the annual Hutchison Keyboard Concert, is open to the public
free of charge.
The concert features music inspired by or relating to poetry, with repertoire
drawn from many different cultures and different times throughout history. For
those pieces that have been composed around or inspired by specific poetic texts,
Buchanan will present a brief discussion of the source texts, examining how the
form, style and substance of the music relates to the form, style and substance
of the poetry that inspired its composition. For those piano pieces that
purport to imitate or replicate a poetic form, such as the pantoum, villanelle
or sonnet, she will discuss the formal structure of the poetic form and show
how this structure is rendered, modified or transformed in the music.
Buchanan's concerts have been described as full of "flair, abandon and color." She
has performed solo recitals throughout the U.S. and abroad, and has been a
guest soloist on many occasions as well. Her discography includes three
solo piano CDs, the first of which was released in 2004 and features
recordings of Bach, Bartók, Mark Applebaum and Prokofiev. Buchanan's second
CD, Portraits, Pictures & Prints for Piano (2005), is a compilation of piano
works inspired by the visual arts, including Mussorgsky's Pictures at an
Exhibition. Her third CD, a live concert recording released in 2006, includes
works by Frederic Rzewski, J.S. Bach, Conlon Nancarrow, Beethoven and Chopin.
The James W. Hutchison Music Fund was established in 1984 by the
music department and friends of Hutchison, emeritus professor of music,
honoring his retirement after a distinguished teaching career of 35 years.
The fund supports a Moving-Up Day award to a student demonstrating noteworthy
piano study and performance, as well as keyboard concerts.
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