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Ursula Oppens plays Frederic Rzewski's Rondo

PianoSpheres – Explores music of our time. pianospheres.org Piano Spheres Presents FREDERIC RZEWSKI: AN APPRECIATION April 16, 2022 The Colburn School, Los Angeles RONDO Rondo (2019) was commissioned by the Konzerthaus Dortmund for a recital by Sergei Babayan of Mozart Sonatas interspersed with short new compositions. The Rondo referred to is the A minor, K 511 - which, Rzewski writes “ my teacher made me play when I was 10 years old”. Actually, Rzewski cared deeply for his teacher, Charles Mackey, and the work is dedicated in memoriam to him. It contains an improvised cadenza, with the instructions “impulsive; lunghi selenzi, con brevi esplosioni sonore. Come un bambino giocando a fare ‘musica’”. Ms. Oppens has provided some additional information, particularly regarding the “Come un bambino giocando a fare ‘musica’”, from an email sent to her June 20, 2021 by Frederic Rzewski : I arrived in Rome last night from Brussels just about when Noemi and Francesco arrived from Bologna. This morning I was playing Brahms Op 118 No. 2 and Francesco came in to listen. Then he sat on his mother's lap and we did a 4-hand improvisation, which he already learned from his father Salvatore how to do, including a John-Cage-style piece on the wooden parts of the piano. He really can play the piano. Francesco’s mother, Noemi, Rzewski’s daughter, had written Oppens the day before: Ho detto a Francesco "lo sai che domani viene nonno? Lo sai che nonno suona il pianoforte? " E lui ha rIsposto :"no! IO suono il pianoforte!" [I said to Francesco "do you know that grandfather is coming tomorrow? Do you know that grandfather plays the piano?" And he replied: "No! I play the piano!"] [Ed.note: Francesco was 2 years old at the time.] URSULA OPPENS Ursula Oppens, a legend among American pianists, is widely admired particularly for her original and perceptive readings of new music, but also for her knowing interpretations of the standard repertoire. No other artist alive today has commissioned and premiered more new works for the piano that have entered the permanent repertoire. With five Grammy nominations to her credit, Ms. Oppens established her reputation early on with a classic recording of Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated. She has released Piano Songs, music by Meredith Monk, with pianist Bruce Brubaker; Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano; Oppens Plays Carter (complete Carter piano works); Piano Music of Our Time; Keys to the City, (complete Picker piano music); and, with pianist Jerome Lowenthal, Visions de l’Amen by Messiaen and Debussy’s En blanc et noir. Over the years, Ms. Oppens has premiered works by such leading composers as John Adams, Luciano Berio, William Bolcom, Anthony Braxton, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, Anthony Davis, John Harbison, Julius Hemphill, David Hertzberg, Laura Kaminsky, Tania Leon, György Ligeti, Erik Lundborg, Witold Lutoslawski, Harold Meltzer, Meredith Monk, Conlon Nancarrow, Tobias Picker, Bernard Rands, Frederic Rzewski, Allen Shawn, Alvin Singleton, Joan Tower, Lois V Vierk, Amy Williams, Christian Wolff, Amnon Wolman, and Charles Wuorinen. As an orchestral guest soloist, Ms. Oppens has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), and the orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. Abroad, she has appeared with such ensembles as the Berlin Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Deutsche Symphonie, the Scottish BBC, and the London Philharmonic Orchestras. In addition to collaborating with the Cassatt Quartet, she has performed chamber music with the Arditti, Cassatt, JACK, Juilliard, and Pacifica quartets. Ursula Oppens teaches at Mannes College, The New School, and is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. In 2019, Ms. Oppens was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New England Conservatory.