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FREDERICK HISTORICAL PIANO COLLECTION

Historical Piano Concerts Series
at the
Ashburnham Community Church
Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 4: 00 p.m.


Emma Tahmiziàn
(Click on name for Bio)

DANCING
with
Chopin, Schumann, Brahms and Dvorák


Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6**  (1837) Robert Schumann
(1810 – 1856)*
Heft I:Heft II:
Lebhaft
Innig
Mit Humor
Ungeduldig
Einfach
Sehr rasch
Nicht schnell
Frisch
Lebhaft		 Balladenmäßig: Sehr rasch
Einfach
Mit Humor
Wild und lustig
Zart und singend
Frisch
Mit gutem Humor
Wie aus der Ferne
Nicht schnell

Intermission

Waltzer Op. 39   (1866)
(Brahms’s own arrangement from  piano, four-hands)		 Johannes Brahms
(1833 – 1897)
No. 1 in B
No. 2 in E
No. 3 in g#
No. 4 in e
No. 7 in c#
No. 13 in B
No. 14 in g#
No. 15 in Ab
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Mazurkas Frédéric Chopin
(1810 – 1849)*
Op. 24 No. 2 in C
Op. 41 No.4 in c#
Op. 17 No. 4 in a
Op. 56 No. 4 in C
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Slavonic Dances Op. 46  (1878)
(originally for piano, four-hands)		 Antonín Dvorák
(1841 – 1904)
No. 1 in C      Furiant:  Presto
No. 5 in A      Skocná: Allegro vivace
No. 8 in g       Furiant:  Presto
*   In honor of the composer’s bicentennial.
** In loving memory of my first piano teacher, Penka Petkova of Plovdiv, Bulgaria – a woman of  unparalleled spirit, devotion, generosity and love,
     a genius in her approach and findings, and a fighter for what she believed to be worth in times and regime of great limitations.  E.T.
Piano from The Frederick Collection

All pianos played in the concerts are from The Frederick Collection

Ashburnham Community Church: Main Street (Rte. 12) at Chapel Street

Admission: $10.00 /adult (children and students, free)

The building is wheelchair accessible.

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