The Department of Music presents a Guest Artist Concert featuring Dr. Daniel Landes, piano, on Thursday, September 18 at the Roland Hayes Concert Hall (UTC Fine Arts Center, corner of Palmetto and Vine St.) for a recital of Romantic and Post-Romantic piano music. The concert begins at 1:40 p.m. and is open to the general public free of charge.<\/p>\n
The recital features Claude Debussy\u2019s Images oubli\u00e9es<\/em>, the third piano sonata by Robert Muczynski, and Beethoven\u2019s \u201cWaldstein\u201d Sonata. Debussy\u2019s \u201cForgotten Images\u201d was written about the same time as his Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun<\/em> and dedicated to Yvonne Lerolle, whose image at the piano was preserved by both Degas and Renoir. The first movement has been described as being unsurpassed in Debussy\u2019s output for sheer expressive beauty. Muczynski has been described as turning out some of the most impressive music for piano by any American since Samuel Barber and his music gives a pianist every opportunity of displaying musicianship and virtuosity. Beethoven\u2019s \u201cWaldstein\u201d Sonata, dedicated to Count Ferdinand von Waldstein of Vienna, is considered one of Beethoven\u2019s most technically demanding works.<\/p>\n