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Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival

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Special Event: Rzewski&rsquo;s The People United Will Never Be Defeated, featuring Conor Hanick, piano Frederic Rzewski&rsquo;s masterpiece, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, received its world premiere roughly 51 years ago at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, February 7, 1976. (Begging your indulgence, your author was &ldquo;a bun in the oven&rdquo; at the time, emerging just a few miles down the road and three months after the premiere.) Pianist Ursula Oppens, teacher of such Festival lifers as Winston Choi, commissioned the work as a companion to Beethoven&rsquo;s monumental Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, which formed the first half of the KenCen program 51 years ago. The music is unabashedly political. Rzewski makes use of not only the source material, a protest song by Sergio Ortega and the Chilean folk music group Quilapay&uacute;n, but also music inspired by other resistance movements in Spain, Italy and Germany. Indeed, we cannot separate the text and context of the music from its impact. But from a purely musical context&mdash; what is sometimes termed &ldquo;absolute music&rdquo;&mdash; the piece is a tour de force requiring both a virtuoso pianist and a virtuoso audience. Clocking in at a lean hour, the piece winds its way through 36 variations, one variation for each measure of the original theme, which makes a final reappearance at the work&rsquo;s conclusion. To experience this music live is to experience change itself. Artist: Conor Hanick, piano

Special Event: Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated, featuring Conor Hanick, piano Frederic Rzewski’s masterpiece, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, received its world premiere roughly 51 years ago at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, February 7, 1976. (Begging your indulgence, your author was “a bun in the oven” at the time, emerging just a few miles down the road and three months after the premiere.) Pianist Ursula Oppens, teacher of such Festival lifers as Winston Choi, commissioned the work as a companion to Beethoven’s monumental Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, which formed the first half of the KenCen program 51 years ago. The music is unabashedly political. Rzewski makes use of not only the source material, a protest song by Sergio Ortega and the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún, but also music inspired by other resistance movements in Spain, Italy and Germany. Indeed, we cannot separate the text and context of the music from its impact. But from a purely musical context— what is sometimes termed “absolute music”— the piece is a tour de force requiring both a virtuoso pianist and a virtuoso audience. Clocking in at a lean hour, the piece winds its way through 36 variations, one variation for each measure of the original theme, which makes a final reappearance at the work’s conclusion. To experience this music live is to experience change itself. Artist: Conor Hanick, piano

Special Event, Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated

Evento Especial: La gente unida nunca ser&aacute; vencida de Rzewski, con Conor Hanick, piano La obra maestra de Frederic Rzewski, La gente unida nunca ser&aacute; vencida, tuvo su estreno mundial hace aproximadamente 51 a&ntilde;os en el Centro John F. Kennedy para las Artes Esc&eacute;nicas, el 7 de febrero de 1976. (Pidiendo su indulgencia, su autor era &ldquo;un bulto en el horno&rdquo; en ese momento, apareciendo a solo unas millas de distancia y tres meses despu&eacute;s del estreno). La pianista Ursula Oppens, profesora de artistas de festival como Winston Choi, comision&oacute; la obra como compa&ntilde;era de las monumentales Variaciones Diabelli, Op. 120, de Beethoven, que formaron la primera mitad del programa del KenCen hace 51 a&ntilde;os. La m&uacute;sica es descaradamente pol&iacute;tica. Rzewski utiliza no solo el material original, una canci&oacute;n de protesta de Sergio Ortega y el grupo de m&uacute;sica folcl&oacute;rica chileno Quilapay&uacute;n, sino tambi&eacute;n m&uacute;sica inspirada en otros movimientos de resistencia en Espa&ntilde;a, Italia y Alemania. De hecho, no podemos separar el texto y el contexto de la m&uacute;sica de su impacto. Pero desde un contexto puramente musical&mdash;lo que a veces se denomina &ldquo;m&uacute;sica absoluta&rdquo;&mdash;la pieza es un tour de force que requiere tanto un pianista virtuoso como un p&uacute;blico virtuoso. Con una duraci&oacute;n de una hora ajustada, la pieza se desarrolla a trav&eacute;s de 36 variaciones, una variaci&oacute;n por cada comp&aacute;s del tema original, que hace una reaparici&oacute;n final al concluir la obra. Experimentar esta m&uacute;sica en vivo es experimentar el cambio mismo. Artista: Conor Hanick, piano

Evento Especial: La gente unida nunca será vencida de Rzewski, con Conor Hanick, piano La obra maestra de Frederic Rzewski, La gente unida nunca será vencida, tuvo su estreno mundial hace aproximadamente 51 años en el Centro John F. Kennedy para las Artes Escénicas, el 7 de febrero de 1976. (Pidiendo su indulgencia, su autor era “un bulto en el horno” en ese momento, apareciendo a solo unas millas de distancia y tres meses después del estreno). La pianista Ursula Oppens, profesora de artistas de festival como Winston Choi, comisionó la obra como compañera de las monumentales Variaciones Diabelli, Op. 120, de Beethoven, que formaron la primera mitad del programa del KenCen hace 51 años. La música es descaradamente política. Rzewski utiliza no solo el material original, una canción de protesta de Sergio Ortega y el grupo de música folclórica chileno Quilapayún, sino también música inspirada en otros movimientos de resistencia en España, Italia y Alemania. De hecho, no podemos separar el texto y el contexto de la música de su impacto. Pero desde un contexto puramente musical—lo que a veces se denomina “música absoluta”—la pieza es un tour de force que requiere tanto un pianista virtuoso como un público virtuoso. Con una duración de una hora ajustada, la pieza se desarrolla a través de 36 variaciones, una variación por cada compás del tema original, que hace una reaparición final al concluir la obra. Experimentar esta música en vivo es experimentar el cambio mismo. Artista: Conor Hanick, piano

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Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival

Special Event, Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated

35 S Spokane St

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