The Music House: Donna Coleman
October 20 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Donna Coleman, pianist
“Concord, Mass., 1840-60”
The Second Pianoforte Sonata by Charles Edward Ives
commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer
Coleman’s adaptation of Ives’s monumental opus presents each movement of the Sonata with
excerpts from the writings of the four authors for whom the movements are named and from Ives’s own Essays Before a Sonata
I Emerson
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Emerson
II Hawthorne
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
“The Celestial Railroad” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Feathertop” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Hawthorne
III The Alcotts
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: The Alcotts
IV Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods and Journals by Henry David Thoreau
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Thoreau
Epilogue
Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: Epilogue
