Friday, September 11, 2009
UWP professor performs all-Beethoven recital
UWP professor performs all-Beethoven recital
PLATTEVILLE – The Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall in the Center for the Arts on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus will be filled with the music of Beethoven on Thursday, Sept. 17. Professor Eugene Alcalay, Ph.D., will be presented in recital by the UWP Department of Performing and Visual Arts to play an all-Beethoven program. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free of charge to all who wish to attend.
The program will consist of three pieces starting with Beethoven’s 54-minute “Variations on a Waltz by A. Diabelli.” Following an intermission, Alcalay will perform the significantly shorter five-minute “Variations on Rule Britannia” and conclude with “Six Bagatelles Op.126,” which lasts roughly 18 minutes. Alcalay, associate professor and main piano faculty at UWP, annually performs a solo recital for faculty and students.
There is a very practical reason behind this year’s selection of music, commented Alcalay. “I have an ongoing connection with the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe based in London. For the last couple of years they have presented me in recital at several London venues. Next May I will perform an all-Beethoven program for BPSE at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square followed shortly by Oxford and Paris debuts,” said Alcalay.
“The Sept. 17 all-Beethoven UWP program, to be repeated live on Wisconsin Public Radio on the Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen Sunday, Sept. 20 at 12:30 p.m., is in preparation for the BPSE program next year.”
Alcalay has performed at Carnegie Hall; St. James’s Picadilly Circus and St. Martin’s, both located in London, England; and other venues across Europe and in South America.
For more information, contact the UWP Department of Performing and Visual Arts at (608) 342-1143.
posted by Lee S. Jadaan @ 10:12 AM
The program will consist of three pieces starting with Beethoven’s 54-minute “Variations on a Waltz by A. Diabelli.” Following an intermission, Alcalay will perform the significantly shorter five-minute “Variations on Rule Britannia” and conclude with “Six Bagatelles Op.126,” which lasts roughly 18 minutes. Alcalay, associate professor and main piano faculty at UWP, annually performs a solo recital for faculty and students.
There is a very practical reason behind this year’s selection of music, commented Alcalay. “I have an ongoing connection with the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe based in London. For the last couple of years they have presented me in recital at several London venues. Next May I will perform an all-Beethoven program for BPSE at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square followed shortly by Oxford and Paris debuts,” said Alcalay.
“The Sept. 17 all-Beethoven UWP program, to be repeated live on Wisconsin Public Radio on the Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen Sunday, Sept. 20 at 12:30 p.m., is in preparation for the BPSE program next year.”
Alcalay has performed at Carnegie Hall; St. James’s Picadilly Circus and St. Martin’s, both located in London, England; and other venues across Europe and in South America.
For more information, contact the UWP Department of Performing and Visual Arts at (608) 342-1143.
posted by Lee S. Jadaan @ 10:12 AM