Marion Rubin Berman '31 Piano Honors Concert: Before and After Schoenberg

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290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
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The annual Marion Rubin Berman Piano Honors Concert features piano competition winners presenting pieces based on the theme, 'Shoenberg 150'. The students performing this evening were chosen through the annual NEC Piano Honors Competition on April 11th.

This is an in-person event with a public live stream: https://necmusic.edu/live

ABOUT THE SERIES:

In celebration of the life of Marion Rubin Berman ’31 (known by her friends as “Mitzi”), her two children, Dr. Harris A. Berman and Phyllis E. Berman, and her daughter-in-law Ruth Nemzoff, have chosen to honor her memory by sponsoring NEC’s Honors Piano Competition and Concert. Music, and piano in particular, was the driving force in Mitzi’s life. Although she married shortly after graduating New England Conservatory at age 19, she continued her piano career by teaching—first in Lawrence, Massachusetts where, according to family legend, young Lenny Bernstein was a pupil in the synagogue children’s choir she led. In 1937, Mitzi and her husband, Frederick P. Berman, moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where she was reunited with her NEC friend Angela Annichiarico ’32. Together they played duo piano for community events for years—Broadway Musical shows, Concord Music Club concerts, and many community programs. They were both leading piano teachers in Concord for years.

Angela tragically died at a young age in a house fire, a terrible loss for Concord, her family and for Mitzi, who continued to be active in the musical life of Concord for over 65 years, inspiring young people and new generations of piano teachers. Although she died at the age of 92 in 2004, she would have been very proud to be honored here tonight at the school that shaped her career.

  1. Pierre Boulez | Twelve Notations

    Fantasque - Modéré
    Très vif
    Assez lent
    Rythmique
    Doux et improvisé
    Rapide
    Hiératique
    Modéré jusqu'a très vif
    Lointain - calme
    Mécanique et très sec
    Scintillant
    Lent - Puissant et âpre

    • Jing Pauline Pu, piano

  2. Johannes Brahms | Three Intermezzi, op. 117

    Intermezzo in E-flat Major: Andante moderato
    Intermezzo in B-flat Minor: Andante non troppo e con molto espressione
    Intermezzo in C-sharp Minor: Andante con moto

    • Truman Walker, piano

  3. Anton Webern | Variations for Piano, op. 27

    Sehr mässig
    Sehr schnell
    Ruhig fliessend

    • Yunsun Shin, piano

  4. Nikos Skalkottas | from Thirty-two Piano Pieces

    II. Children's Dance
    III. Short Variations, Mit relativem wolkigem Milieu und hüllender Eleganz

    • Ziang Yin, piano

  5. Johannes Brahms | Four Piano Pieces, op. 119

    Intermezzo in B Minor: Adagio
    Intermezzo in E Minor: Andantino un poco agitato
    Intermezzo in C Major: Grazioso e giocoso
    Rhapsody in E-flat Major: Allegro risoluto

    • Jin Jeong, piano

  6. Frederic Rzewski | from Four North American Ballads

    III. Down by the riverside

    • August Baik, piano

  7. Donald Martino | Suite in Old Form

    Allemande fantasy
    Courante
    Sarabande
    Gavotte
    Air
    Gigue fantasy

    • Andrew Chen, piano
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