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Stefan Jackiw, Violin
Jeremy Denk, Piano

When

Thursday, November 7, 2019, 8:00 PM EST

Where

Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

Tickets

$25-55 General / $10 Students (with valid ID)

Concert Classics Series

About the Event

When insurance-salesman-by-day/modernist-composer-by night Charles Ives invited violinist Franz Milcke to read through his violin sonatas, he recollects that his friend “didn’t even get through the first page… After he went, I had a kind of feeling which I’ve had off and on… Are my ears on wrong? No one else seems to hear it the same way.” Leave it to PUC fan-favorite, Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning violinist Stefan Jackiw and MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning pianist Jeremy Denk to prove that all was quite well with Ives’ ears as they skillfully guide us, in reverse order, from the raucous fourth violin sonata to the exuberant spontaneity of the first. By interspersing Ives’ sonatas with the popular Americana classics—hymns, songs, marches—that he imbued in these works with some help from members of our own Princeton University Glee Club, the duo humanizes and contextualizes some of the most substantial, yet rarely heard, music in the violin repertory by an American composer.

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Program

with members of the Princeton University Glee Club, under the direction of Gabriel Crouch

Charles Ives
The complete Violin Sonatas with the songs that inspired them

CHARLES IVES Violin Sonata No. 4
STITES / SWENEY  “Beulah Land”
LOWRY / HAWKS  “I Need Thee Every Hour”
CHARLES IVES  Violin Sonata No. 3
BARTHÉLEMON / ROBINSON  “Autumn”
CHARLES IVES  Violin Sonata No. 2
ROOT / NELSON “The Shining Shore”
ROOT “Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The Boys Are Marching”
KIALLMARK / WOODWORTH “The Old Oaken Bucket”
MASON / COGHILL “Work Song”
CHARLES IVES  Violin Sonata No. 1


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