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Jack Yarbrough (@JackYarbroughMusic) Thomas Feng, pianos March 21, 2024 Barnes Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Program notes: tinyurl.com/23skxuta Special thanks to: Xak Bjerken, Blank Forms, Bill Dietz, Coral Douglas, Laurel Gilmer, Lawrence Kumpf, Emily Manzo, the Maryanne Amacher Foundation, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Benjamin Piekut, and Stefan Tcherepnin Au...

Thomas Feng, piano May 2, 2023 Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY it's not a note-perfect performance, but I wanted nonetheless to offer an alternative interpretation of the piece to those currently floating around online. there is a romantic warmth to these harmonies and sonorities, and the arching melodies really "sing". I hope something of this "heat" - at times even searing - comes...

for my dear friend, richard valitutto 12/31/2020 recorded 1/1/2021 ithaca, ny

0:00 I. Moderato con rubato - Poco allegretto - Grave 2:14 II. Andante 3:18 III. Andante - Lento 6:51 IV. Andantino - Adagio 8:09 V. L’istesso tempo 9:26 VI. L’istesso tempo - Vivace 11:37 VII. Adagio 15:28 VIII. Andante 18:20 IX. Adagio 20:42 X. Grave 22:13 XI. Andante 23:13 XII. Vivo - Meno mosso - Molto vivace 24:10 XIII. Adagio - Moderato con rubato - Grave "The direct impetus for writing t...

"Crimson Orchid" was "...created spontaneously while at the ivory keys" by Halim El-Dabh in 2005, and transcribed by Thomas Feng (not spontaneously at all) between October 2021 and January 2023.

Alan Feinberg, piano Partitions, for piano, was composed in 1957 at the instigation of Joseph Prostakoff, for his collection "New Music for the Piano", for which the participants were urged to display, in a short piano composition, the present state of their art. Even the title of the work was induced by such an invitation, for the partitioning of the constituent, registrally defined contrapunt...

composed and performed by Charles Mingus, summer 1963 transcribed by Thomas Feng, fall 2020 in commemoration of Charles Mingus's centenary (April 22, 2022), I thought I would share my transcription of his "spontaneous composition" for piano, "Myself When I Am Real". I confess I don't know Mingus's music very well, but this piece of his (and the record it's from) have been the site of many retur...

0:00 - Perry, "Prelude for Piano", from manuscript 1:57 - Perry, "Prelude for Piano", edited by H. Walker-Hill 3:56 - Marino, "Slender Threads (Homage to Julia Amanda Perry)" Each half of my recital program began with a performance of Julia Perry's "Prelude for Piano" - there exist currently two versions with significant differences between them. One is a copy of Perry's manuscript, rather spar...

Thomas Feng, piano performed live(-streamed), May 2021 Lincoln Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Playing for Time 0:00 About Time 2:50 Milton Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and professor. He developed a highly parameterized approach to composition, often described as “total serialism”, and was a pioneer of electronic music. He is also the author of the (in)famous e...

April 27, 2021; piano, pre-recorded ambience, and video recorded in Ithaca, NY Eve's program note: “A Solemn Shyness” is a piece for piano and ambience inspired by a fragment of text Emily Dickinson wrote on the program of a concert she may or may not have attended in June 1873. "Of our deepest delights there is a solemn shyness" "The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste" The music ...

video from Britney Spears's Instagram (2/5/2021) music by Milton Babbitt ("Duet", 1956) Thomas Feng, piano

transcribed and performed by Thomas Feng recorded March 7, 2021 Ithaca, NY special thanks to Xak Bjerken and Michelle Cann source recording: ua-cam.com/video/CAW3D4o_ebA/v-deo.html

key change inspired by "So Cold You're Hurting My Feelings" Valentine's Day, 2021 Ithaca, NY

PROGRAM BOOKLET: tinyurl.com/y26mm5n8 0:00 Opening credits 0:51 The Homeless Wanderer (Guèbrou) 8:56 Of Being: I. (Praetorius) 16:49 Enough Holes (Beglarian) 19:41 Of Being: II. (Praetorius) 25:40 Green Tea Farm (Hiromi) 30:07 Of Being: III. (Praetorius) 32:41 Of Being: IV. (Praetorius) 38:29 Glass Houses No. 6 (Southam) 43:28 Closing acknowledgements

Diamanda Galás - You Don't Know What Love Is (transcription)

Mark Carlson - Sweet Nothings

Tui St. George Tucker - Second Quartertone Lullaby

Tui St. George Tucker - Quartertone Carol

Horațiu Rădulescu - Capricorn's Nostalgic Crickets

Alvin Lucier - Nothing is Real

Thomas Feng - trace of hope (variations)

14 performances of "Caténaires" by Elliott Carter at the same time stretched to the same length

Party for One (Carly Rae Jepsen cover)

Thomas Feng - A Flame Out of Focus

Thomas Feng - Essence (text by Helen Hofling)

Connie Converse - Vanity of Vanities (transcription)

Esperanza Spalding - Tell Him (transcription)

Rebecca Saunders - Shadow

Thomas Feng - String Quartet