Series opens
classic piano
to a mateurs
By Jeff Randall
Senior Reporter '
Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. Dah
dah-dah-dah-dah-dah. Doh-doh-doh
doh. Da-da dee-dee-dee-dee dum-dum.
Even if“Chopsticks” is all you ever
learned on the piano, a Nebraska Pub
lic Radio Network seminar could help
you learn to appreciate the instrument.
The three-part seminar, entitled
“The Piano,” will take place Sept. 14,
21 and 28 at the network’s studio in
Lincoln, said Michele Peon-Casanova,
event organizer. The seminar also will
be viewed live at 10 satellite downlink
sites throughout Nebraska.
But, Peon-Casanova said, partici
pants at the downlink sites will not be
idle viewers.
“It will be a truly interactive expe
rience for everyone,” she said. “No
matter where they are, they can ask
questions and make comments direct
ly to the performers.”
Nebraska Public Radio-sponsored
events such as this one are designed to
eliminate some of the elitist stereo
types many people have about classi
cal music and its listeners, Peon
Casanova said.
I hope this seminar will help the
participants realize that classical mu
sic is accessible to everyone,” she said.
Nicole Narboni, visiting professor
of piano, will host the seminar, which
will include discussions, question-and
answer sessions and classical piano
performances. Mark Clinton and Paul
Barnes, co-chairmen of die UNL pi
ano department, and David C. Neely,
assistant professor of violin/viola, will
also participate in the event.
Preparation for the event involves
practice, research and more practice,
Narboni said.
“We’ll all do our best to show up as
ready as possible for any questions that
may arise,” she said. “Hopefully, we’ll
be able to call upon the knowledge we
as professors should have in this type
of situation.”
The first part of the seminar will
feature husband-and- wife pianists
Clinton and Narboni, who have been
collaborating since 1986.
Their portion of the seminar is titled
“The Dynamic Duo” and will feature
keyboard duets and four-hand pieces
by composers such as Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms
and Felix Mendelssohn. Clinton and
Narboni will discuss the complexities
of performance in general and of duo
performance in particular.
“We want to reveal the joys and
challenges of performing on stage with
another pianist,” Narboni said, “be
cause it really is an entirely different
experience when compared to solo
performance.”
oames will be featured in the sec
ond portion of the seminar, “Samuel
Barter and the Dance of History: The
Complete Solo Piano Music.”
He will explore the relationship
between history and music as he per
forms pieces by Frederic Francois
Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven as
well as American folk music.
“1 want people to walk away with
die idea that all human beings are
connected to history in some way,”
Barnes said. “Music is not created in a
void, it is always related to the com
poser’s or performer’s surroundings.”
The final portion of the seminar,
“Music for Violin and Piano,” will
feature Neely in a combined lecture
and performance of violin-piano duo
works by Joseph Haydn, Mozart and
Beethoven. Neely also will discuss the
violin’s evolution as a musical instru
ment.
Those interested in participating in
the seminar should contact Peon
Casanova at Nebraska Public Radio
Network. The registration fee is $25
and die deadline for registration is
Sept 1.
“The great part about this whole
seminar is that you don’t lave to be an
expert to attend or even to contribute to
die discussion,” Peon-Casanova said.
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