We had a good session today at Perry’s, who has a 1958 Steinway. The piece by Robert Starer may be the first that most of us have heard of him.
Here's what was played:
- Gregory: Bumble Boogie, by Jack Fina (arrangement of Rimsky Korsakov’s “flight of the bumblebee”)
- Jackie: You raise me up, by B. Graham
- Karin: Prelude #4, by C. Debussy
- Mary Lou: Sonatina in G-, 3rd mov., by Carlos Guastavino
- Perry: Second of Trois Nouvelles Etudes, by F. Chopin
- Jeff: Preludes Op. 12 #3 and Op 44 #2, by A. Scriabin
- Wesley: Sonata KV300h, 2nd mov., by W. A. Mozart
- Allona: Festival Dance, by Lyndsay. E. Bolden
- Gregory: Of Foreign Lands and People, by R. Schumann
- Karin: Vocalise, by S. Rachmaninoff, arr. by P. Barton
- Mary Lou: Sonatina in G-, 1st mov., by Carlos Guastavino
- Perry: Song without words, Op. 62 #3, by F. Mendelssohn
- Jeff: Preludes Op. 16 #3, 4 and 2
- Wesley: Pink, from Sketches in Color, by Robert Starer, and Study No. 7 Op. 91 No. 20, by Moritz Moskowski
- Allona: Tenderly, by Katherine Rollin