BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20240524T120000Z DTEND:20240524T131000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Afternoon in Paris: Cork PianoFest Recital Series DESCRIPTION:Music by Chaminade\, Debussy\, Boulanger\, Lewis and Porter\n\nAnna Xaubet Piferrer\, Laura McLaughlin\, Maryia Vasiljeva and Aaron Russ\n\nThis programme takes us on a voyage through the City of Light\, beginning with beautiful character pieces for piano duet by C cile Chaminade and two movements from Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque including one of his most popular and enduring works\, 'Clair de lune'. Lili Boulanger was only twenty when she wrote this set of variations on an original theme\, though tragically she died only four years later from tuberculosis having suffered from ill health throughout her life. She was the first female composer to win the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1913\, coincidentally the same year that Chaminade became the first female composer to be awarded the L gion d'Honneur. The programme concludes with two American impressions of Paris\, by the jazz pianist John Lewis and the celebrated songwriter Cole Porter\, who spent several years living in the French capital and whose first hit Broadway show was entitled 'Paris'. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Music by Chaminade\, Debussy\, Boulanger\, Lewis and Porter
\nAnna Xaubet Piferrer\, Laura McLaughlin\, Maryia Vasiljeva and Aaron Russ

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This programme takes us on a voyage through the City of Light\, beginning with beautiful character pieces for piano duet by Cé\;cile Chaminade and two movements from Claude Debussy&rsquo\;s Suite Bergamasque including one of his most popular and enduring works\, &lsquo\;Clair de lune&rsquo\;. Lili Boulanger was only twenty when she wrote this set of variations on an original theme\, though tragically she died only four years later from tuberculosis having suffered from ill health throughout her life. She was the first female composer to win the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1913\, coincidentally the same year that Chaminade became the first female composer to be awarded the Lé\;gion d&rsquo\;Honneur. The programme concludes with two American impressions of Paris\, by the jazz pianist John Lewis and the celebrated songwriter Cole Porter\, who spent several years living in the French capital and whose first hit Broadway show was entitled &lsquo\;Paris&rsquo\;.

\n LOCATION:Triskel Arts Centre\, Tobin Street\, Cork City UID:e.2489.33975 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260531T124136Z URL:https://chamber.corkchamber.ie/events/details/afternoon-in-paris-cork-pianofest-recital-series-33975 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR