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Erik Satie
Erik Satie started calling himself a "gymnopédiste" before he wrote a note of his famous "Gymnopédies" for piano (which we'll hear tonight). Borrowing the word from an abstract poem by Patrice Contamine, Satie delighted in confounding his contemporaries as to what the word meant, exactly.
Later on we'll be celebrating the anniversary of composer Henry Cowell's birth in 1897 with one of his "Hymn and Fuguing Tunes." Other Cowell tonight includes two of his wildly descriptive piano pieces, "Aolean Harp" and "The Banshee." Works by Johann Sebastian Bach—plus a little John Cage thrown in for fun—complete the evening.
Later on we'll be celebrating the anniversary of composer Henry Cowell's birth in 1897 with one of his "Hymn and Fuguing Tunes." Other Cowell tonight includes two of his wildly descriptive piano pieces, "Aolean Harp" and "The Banshee." Works by Johann Sebastian Bach—plus a little John Cage thrown in for fun—complete the evening.
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