BEETHOVEN: Near Perfect As Promised

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Join us for the fifth recital in the WRITE OFF THE KEYBOARD Free Noon Hour Series!

The month of April features BEETHOVEN: Near Perfect As Promised, on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 at 12 noon. Join us in the St. Lawrence Centre’s Bluma Appel Lobby for this free, one-hour performance.

Few composers have sought perfection in sound architecture as Beethoven did. By the year 1800 (at the age of 30), Beethoven sculpted a culminatory work in sonata-form: the Grand Sonata in B-flat, Op.22. He regarded this piece as “hat Gewaschen,” literally translated as “washing itself.” An idiomatic English equivalent would be “That’s the way it’s done!” And Beethoven certainly did attain an impressive mastery of structure, harmonic development and maturity of expression in this work. Admitted perfection by composers – a rare thing indeed – is further highlighted in this recital by Adam Sherkin’s own German Promises of 2011. These pieces remain a personal favourite of the composer’s, marking his own achievement in a new musical language.

Admission is FREE

Adam Sherkin, solo piano

Programme:

Beethoven: Sonata No.11 in B-flat major, Op.22

Adam Sherkin: German Promises (2011)

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