Brahms, Strauss & Blacher with William Eddins
Fri, 06 Dec
|Houston
Showcasing the talents of Shepherd School Concerto Competition Winner Jonathan Mak, Brahms’s formidable Piano Concerto No. 2 courses with thundering power and luminous poetry. Mak won the top prize at the first annual Sorel-Tracy International Piano Competition in Québec in October with the same con
Time & Location
06 Dec 2024, 19:30 – 22:00 GMT-6
Houston, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
About the event
https://music.rice.edu/events/brahms-strauss-blacher
Showcasing the talents of Shepherd School Concerto Competition Winner Jonathan Mak, Brahms’s formidable Piano Concerto No. 2 courses with thundering power and luminous poetry. Mak won the top prize at the first annual Sorel-Tracy International Piano Competition in Québec in October with the same concerto.
Music doesn’t get any more fun than Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, which follows a wily trickster as he upends the establishment and cavorts from one prank to the next. Based on a well-known tune by Paganini, Blacher’s Variations on a Theme of Paganini sparkle with sharp wit and dazzling invention.
Tickets required
Before the concert at 6:45pm, ticketholders are invited to Room 1133 in Alice Pratt Brown Hall to view the one-of-a-kind musical album of Max Kalbeck, the Viennese music critic and biographer of Brahms. The book's owner, Ronald Franklin, will share its significance and display the page containing Brahms' signature, circa 1874.…