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Tempo and Performance Practice in Brahms's Handel Variation

A free early music interest session offered by Early Music America https://www.earlymusicamerica.org The choice of performance tempi in the music of Johannes Brahms presents interpretational challenges, yet his markings for expression and tempo coincide with his own tendencies as a performer. The placement and evolution of markings in the Handel Variations reveal significant musical intent and are therefore a vital source of information for the performer. Brahms’s markings may help the performer achieve a balance between consistent, overall pulse and flexibility in tempo, two traits of his playing made evident in written accounts. In this session Michael Delfin will demonstrate the relationship between tempo and expression markings in the Handel Variations by examining their evolution in the context of Brahms’s letters and autograph revisions. Next, Michael will offer a linear tempo plan from markings in the score and from theories of proportional tempo relationships. He will then apply written evidence of Brahms’s own playing to achieve an informed tempo flexibility. This session will demonstrate a balance between a linear tempo plan across variations and tempo fluidity within them, two characteristics intrinsic to Brahms's variation sets. -------------- Praised for “beautiful performances of great warmth,” Michael Delfín has soloed on piano for the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage and the Aspen, Eastern, and Chautauqua Music Festivals. He has performed with the CCM Philharmonia and won prizes in the International Crescendo Music Awards, Chautauqua Piano Competition, and Eastern Music Festival Piano Competition. As a harpsichordist, Michael has performed for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, the CCM Organ Symposium & Festival, and the Central California Baroque Festival. He was awarded the 2017 Catacoustic Consort Early Music Grant and 2018 HKSNA Bechtel & Clinkscale Award and has attended the American Bach Soloists Academy and the University of Michigan Early Keyboard Institute. Michael is pursuing a DMA at CCM on a full scholarship under the tutelage of Michael Unger. He previously studied piano at CCM, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Peabody Conservatory, as well as history at the Johns Hopkins University.