Class-Concert around the canadian writer Alice Munro

Class-Concert around the canadian writer Alice Munro, Nobel price of literature in 2013, and more precisly her novel “Dance of the Happy Shades”. Links with music wil be made through the Gluck opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” and his famous aria of the same name.
The class-concert will take place in “Maison des Arts” of Free University of Brussels, friday March 10th from 2 to 4pm. The class is open to public, within available material resources

Program:

(about 20min)

J.S. Bach / F. Busoni Chorals-Preludes for organ by Bach, arranged for the piano by Busoni :
« Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland » in g minor BWV 659 (4min)
« Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme » in E b major BWV 645 (3min)

F. Chopin Selected Preludes op.28 :
n°4 in e minor (2min)
n°6 in b minor (2min)

M. Ravel “Pavane pour une infante défunte” M.19 (6min)

C.W. Gluck / G. Sgambati Aria of the « Dance of the Happy Shades » extract from opera « Orfeo ed Euridice » Wq. 30, arranged for piano by Sgambati (4min)

Simon Vaskou, piano