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Virtual WIU Piano Festival Guest Recital Thursday

April 22, 2021

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MACOMB, IL – The Western Illinois University School of Music will present the WIU Piano Festival Guest Recital, featuring pianist University of Iowa Professor of Piano Alan Huckleberry, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall.

Due to the restrictions currently in place, there are no general admission performances in the COFAC Recital Hall. The performance will be broadcast on the School of Music's YouTube Channel and Facebook page.

WIU piano students will also have the opportunity to play for Huckleberry during a masterclass. The 2021 WIU Piano Festival is made possible by the generous support of Professor Emerita Hyung Ja Kim.

For more information, visit wiu.edu/cofac/piano/pianofest.php.


PROGRAM - Pictures at an Exhibition-Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Promenade I
Gnomus
Promenade II
Il Vecchio Castello
Promenade III
Tuileries
Bydlo
Promenade IV
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
Promenade V
Limoges. Le marché
Catacombs
Promenade VI
The Hut on Hen's Feet
The Great Gate of Kiev

INTERMISSION
Maple Leaf Rag-Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Tea for Two-1933 Version by Art Tatum (1909-1956) / Originally composed by Vincent Youmans (1924)
Nightmare Fantasy Rag-William Albright (1944-1998)
Round Midnight-Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

For more information, call the COFAC Recital Hall office at (309) 298-1843 or visit wiu.edu/recitalhall.

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