Pianist Glazer to perform four sonatas, from Mozart to Hindemith
Pianist Frank Glazer. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.
Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown, performs sonatas by Mozart, Weber, Hindemith and Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Admission is $10, available at . A limited number of free tickets will be available for seniors and students starting Oct. 22; please contact olinarts@bates.edu or 786-6163.
Glazer, of Topsham, has had a distinguished career that includes numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles. A student of Artur Schnabel and Arnold Schoenberg, he is at home in every style of music from Bach to contemporary.
He has concertized in more than 24 countries; appeared on his own television show for NBC stations; made more than 50 recordings and performed 30 world premieres. Glazer was a founding member of the Eastman Quartet, the Cantilena Chamber Players and Maine’s own New England Piano Quartette. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the long-running Saco River Festival in Cornish. Born in 1915, he has been an artist in residence at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ since 1980.
The program for the Oct. 25 consists of W.A. Mozart’s Sonata in G major, K. 283; Carl Maria von Weber’s Sonata No. 3, Op. 49; Paul Hindemith’s Sonata No. 2; and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata in Bb major, Op. 22.
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