Faculty Artist Series: Murasaki Duo - A French Affair

Faculty Artist Series: Murasaki Duo - A French Affair

Friday, April 12, 2019 . 8 PM
Photo by Geoff Sheil
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Murasaki Duo
Eric Kutz, cello
Miko Kominami, piano

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This event will last approximately 2 hours.
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Faculty member Eric Kutz, cello, joins duo partner Miko Kominami, piano, for an evening of French music: suave, sultry and sensuous! The program will include Maurice Ravel's last composition, written for a film version of Don Quixote from which Ravel was fired and Francis Poulenc's Sonate, a piece begun in 1940 and halted by World War II. Sonate was finally completed in 1948 at the behest of French cellist Pierre Fournier. Rather than a reflection of war’s horror, the piece is a jubilant celebration of peace.

Murasaki Duo
Eric Kutz, cello
Miko Kominami, piano

Program:

  • Maurice Ravel: Chanson à boire (Drinking Song) from Don Quixote a Dulcineé
  • Gabriel Fauré: Elegy, Sicilienne, Papillon (Butterfly)
  • Georges Auric: Imagineés II (Imagined II)
  • Nadia Boulanger: Three Pieces
  • Francis Poulenc: Sonate