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Bethany Center for the Arts

For Immediate Release

Pianist Diane Huling Plays Recital Number Two; “Affinities”

Sunday, February 12th at 3PM

Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier Vermont

Admission:Suggested donation at the door, $20, $12 and sliding scale.

Information: Arthur Zorn, 223-2424 ext 224 or arthurzorn@hotmail.com

 

Pianist Diane Huling gives the second concert in her series of “Pianist-Composers” as part of the Bethany Center for the Arts series at Bethany Church in Montpelier, Sunday, February 12^th at 3PM. This program, titled “Affinities: friends and admirers” focuses on composer/pianists who either knew personally and admired the represented composers, or admired them as fellow pianists or composers from afar. Huling’s 2011-2012 season paints a virtuosic and passionate overview of the piano, with the performer as “hero” (or in this case, “heroine”) from the first keyboardists who encouraged its beginnings, such as Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, onward through the repertoire of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and into the 20^th century grandeur, color and spectacle of Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ginastera and Scriabin. Pianists of the highest technical level, they essentially wrote music for their own performances. A breed alone, these virtuosi pushed musical, harmonic and stylistic boundaries in a Golden Age of solo piano playing that continues to this day. This recital includes music of Mozart’s A minor Sonata, K. 330, the Chopin sonata in B minor, three of Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d minor, originally written for organ and transcribed by Busoni.

“It’s been a challenge, playing music written by great pianists of the last three centuries,” says Huling. “There are a lot of notes!” But in addition to the technical challenges, she says “there are considerations for the original instruments, which were very different from today’s pianos. Today, there are many, many different pianos that have many different qualities, from tone to pedal mechanisms and key action. To make something cohesive, respectful to the composer and yet exciting for today’s audiences is the ultimate in the creative process. However, it’s truly magical, finding the musical threads that connect the different composers. For example, Chopin’s favorite composers were Bach and Mozart, and you can hear that in his writing. Mendelssohn and Chopin were friends and admirers of each other’s music and there are some similarities in their music as well.”

For more information, call 802-223-2424 or email hulingperformances@gmail.com.Suggested donation at the door, $20, $12 and sliding scale.

 

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