Bard Conservatory of Music Events
Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents
Friday, March 1, 2024
Guest Artist Lecture-Recital: Catherine Kautsky, piano
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Debussy in Paris: Poets, Politics, and the Piano Intertwined
Pianist Catherine Kautsky presents a lecture-recital placing Debussy's piano music in the context of fin-de siècle Paris. We’ll look at fairies and clowns, writers and painters, arabesques and castanets, and along the way we’ll encounter the many issues of race, gender, colonialism, and nationalism that affected (and afflicted) Paris c. 1900.Catherine Kautsky, Chair of Keyboard at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, has been lauded by the New York Times as “a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers … The music spoke directly to the listener, with neither obfuscation nor pretense.” Her recording of the Debussy Preludes, released by Centaur in September, 2014, was said to “bring out all the power, majesty, and mystery of Debussy’s conception.“ Ms Kautsky has just released a 24 video set, “Great Works for the Piano” for Great Courses/Wondrium, and is also presenting courses on piano literature for the Juilliard Extension Division and the 92nd Street Y of New York City.
Free and open to the public.
Download: Catherine Kautsky biography.pdf
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Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Save this Event: Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents
Guest Artist Lecture-Recital: Catherine Kautsky, piano
Debussy in Paris: Poets, Politics, and the Piano Intertwined
Pianist Catherine Kautsky presents a lecture-recital placing Debussy's piano music in the context of fin-de siècle Paris. We’ll look at fairies and clowns, writers and painters, arabesques and castanets, and along the way we’ll encounter the many issues of race, gender, colonialism, and nationalism that affected (and afflicted) Paris c. 1900.Catherine Kautsky, Chair of Keyboard at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, has been lauded by the New York Times as “a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers … The music spoke directly to the listener, with neither obfuscation nor pretense.” Her recording of the Debussy Preludes, released by Centaur in September, 2014, was said to “bring out all the power, majesty, and mystery of Debussy’s conception.“ Ms Kautsky has just released a 24 video set, “Great Works for the Piano” for Great Courses/Wondrium, and is also presenting courses on piano literature for the Juilliard Extension Division and the 92nd Street Y of New York City.
Free and open to the public. Download: Catherine Kautsky biography.pdf