BERKELEY PIANO CLUB WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2021

10:00 AM HADLEY McCARROLL, Chair

“Favorite Music”

VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Carol of the Lark ............................................................ Mykola Leontovych (1877—1921)

PHOEBE ROSQUIST, soprano

Sonatina, Op. 100 .............................................................. Nikolai Kapustin (1927—2020)

VIRGINIA BIGELOW, piano

To the Master ........................................................................ Giacinto Scelsi (1905—1988)

MONICA SCOTT, cello ~ HADLEY McCARROLL, piano

Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes) ....................................... Claude Debussy (1862—1918)

CHRISTYNA KOZEL, piano

Matrix ........................................................................................ Elinor Armer Child, Your Eyes (b. 1939) Song for a Daughter

NANETTE McGUINNESS, soprano ~ Karen Rosenak, piano

Sonata for cello and piano ........................................................... Sarah Dubois I. Prelude (b. 1951) II. Molto allegro agitato

AMY BRODO, cello ~ LaDENE OTSUKI, piano

Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Minor, BWV 883 (WTC II) ............ J.S. Bach (1685—1750)

ELIZABETH SWARTHOUT, piano

Serenade in La ..................................................................... Igor Stravinsky I. Hymn (1882—1971)

HADLEY McCARROLL, piano

Three Compositions for violin and piano, Op. 40 ..................... Amy Beach II. Berceuse (1867—1944)

WENDY CLYMER, viola ~ HYE YEONG MIN, piano

24 Studies in African Rhythms ................................... Fred Onovwerosuoke II. Edo (b. 1960) III. Udje

MONICA CHEW, piano

Mykola Leontovych

Nikolai Kapustin

Giacinto Scelsi

Claude Debussy

Elinor Armer

Sarah Dubois

Igor Stravinsky

Amy Beach

Fred Onovwerosuoke

Carol of the Lark .. Phoebe Jevtović Rosquist Faintly a song Floats through the dark Opens the door In flies a lark Singing to you, Trilling a song Calling you out Into the dawn: “May the New Year Fill you with cheer. All that we here Need never fear. Yon will the lambs Follow their dams Wooly and white Grazing the land. Sunshine and rain Fall on the field Swelling with grain: Sweet golden yield, On to the mill, Grinding for bread Everyone full Everyone fed. Everyone shall have a Happy New Year There by your side Dark-eyed and kind Your loving wife.” “Dear little bird, May every word Sung on this day Be as you say.” © Phoebe Jevtović Rosquist, 2020

Child, Your Eyes .... Rella Lossy (1944—1996) Child, your eyes astonish me More now than on your first born night. Like a tooth rooted in urgency You bolt into my sight; Your head bangs like a door, Knocks at my breast, Then you’re back to the dig, uncovering shores Of secret rivers, boundaries that will not rest. Who told you to bury your feet in the sand? Ancestral whispers leave a nameless mark, My arms open to their command, And you come running to embrace the dark. I mother you with the blind past that mothered me; We wade in ancient waters that we cannot see.

Song for a Daughter

....................... Ursula K. Le Guin (1929—2018) Mother of my granddaughter, listen to my song: A mother can’t do right, a daughter can’t be wrong. I have no claim whatever on amnesty from you; nor will she forgive you for anything you do. So are we knit together by force of opposites the daughter that unravels the skein the mother knits One must be divided so that one be whole, and this is the duplicity alleged of woman’s soul. To be that heavy mother who weighs in every thing is to be the daughter whose footstep is the Spring. Granddaughter of my mother, listen to my song: Nothing you do will ever be right, nothing you do is wrong.

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