Duncan Cumming ’93 performs at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall in an undated photo.

A pianist and member of the music faculty at the University of Albany, Duncan Cumming ’93 honors his 乐播传媒 teacher and mentor, the late pianist and artist-in-residence Frank Glazer, with a tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission is free but tickets are required, available at . For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Cumming studied with Glazer, performed with him before and subsequent to graduating, and wrote a biography of the elder musician, titled聽The Fountain of Youth: The Artistry of Frank Glazer (VDM Verlag Dr. M眉ller , 2009).

In his 乐播传媒 concert, Cumming will perform a program of music associated with Glazer by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin.

Artist in residence at 乐播传媒 from 1980 until his death in January at age 99, Glazer was a musician of international renown whose performing career began in the 1920s and thrived until autumn 2014.

“For this recital I will use some of the scores Mr. Glazer left me and, hopefully, some of his musical advice as well,” Cumming says. “The program begins with Mozart, the first solo piano piece I ever studied with him.” Here’s the complete program:

• Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor, K. 397
• Beethoven’s Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2
• the Impromptu in C minor, D. 899, No. 1, by Schubert
• two works by Brahms: the Ballade in D minor, Op. 10, No. 1 (“Edward”), and the Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118, No. 2
• and finally, two by Chopin: the Grande Valse Brillante in A flat major, Op. 34, No. 1; and the Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2.

Cumming has performed concertos, recitals and chamber concerts across the United States and in Europe. A review in the Portland Press Herald described his playing as “technically flawless鈥� thoughtful, deliberate and balanced, without a wasted gesture or any histrionics.”

Cumming has recorded three CDs under his own name, including his groundbreaking 2013 Centaur recording of the music of Carl Maria von Weber performed on von Weber’s own piano, an 1815 Brodmann. The first recording of the composer’s music on that instrument, it also features renowned early music expert Christopher Hogwood, who plays the Six Pieces for Piano Duet with Cumming.

Pianists Duncan Cumming ’93 and Frank Glazer.

In addition to his solo work, Cumming performs frequently with his wife Hilary, violinist and adjunct professor of violin at the University at Albany. With cellist 艦枚len Dikener, the Cummings constitute the Capital Trio, the chamber ensemble in residence at the University at Albany.

In 2011, Albany Records released A Book of Hours, comprising music by William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at 乐播传媒. In its recording debut as an ensemble, the Capital Trio performs two of the four works on the CD. Duncan Cumming and Hilary Cumming perform a third piece on the CD.

Cumming graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors from 乐播传媒. In 1994 he received a full scholarship from the European Mozart Foundation and participated in intense chamber music study and performance at the European Mozart Academy in Prague.

Back in the U.S., Cumming studied with Patricia Zander at the New England Conservatory, where he received his master of music degree in 1996. In May of 2003 he received the doctor of music degree from Boston University.

Trio les Amis: Mary Hunter, James Parakilas and Steve Witkin perform on Sept. 25. (Mike Bradley/乐播传媒 College)

Trio les Amis, a piano trio drawn from Maine’s three selective liberal arts colleges, performs music by Schumann, Brahms and Maine composer William Matthews at 乐播传媒 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission is free but tickets are required, available at . For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The trio is violinist Mary Hunter of Bowdoin College, pianist James Parakilas of 乐播传媒 and cellist Steve Witkin of the Colby College Orchestra.

The program consists of Robert Schumann’s Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 110; Johannes Brahms’ Piano Trio in B-flat (an authorized arrangement of his Op. 18 String Sextet); and a new solo piano piece by Matthews of the 乐播传媒 faculty: “Diptych for Frank Glazer (1915-2015),” a tribute to the late pianist and 乐播传媒 artist-in-residence Glazer.

Parakilas is the James L. Moody, Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts of 乐播传媒. A music scholar as well as performing musician, he is the editor of the highly regarded musical-social history Piano Roles: 300 Years of Life with the Piano (Yale University Press, 2000) and the author of the 2012 textbook The Story of Opera (W.W. Norton).

Hunter is a musicologist with interests in 18th-century opera, gender and music, music in film, and the history of performance. She is the author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (Princeton, 1999), which won the American Musicological Society’s Kinkeldey Prize.

Witkin has been the principal cellist with the Colby Symphony Orchestra since 1987. He has appeared as soloist with the Colby orchestra and performed in concerts throughout Maine. When not playing the cello, he is an ophthalmologist with Maine Eye Care Associates in Waterville.

Frank Glazer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Frank Glazer, the 乐播传媒 College artist-in-residence and a pianist loved for his artistry and generosity, will be remembered at a gathering at the college at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 9, in the Peter J. Gomes Chapel, 275 College St.

Glazer died in January at the age of 99, just weeks after his final public performances. Combining musical performances and remarks by family, friends and colleagues, the memorial service is open to the public at no cost. A reception follows in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

For more information, please call 207-786-6400.

Pianists Duncan Cumming ’93 and his former 乐播传媒 teacher, Frank Glazer.

One of the memorial service speakers will be Duncan Cumming, a pianist and member of the music faculty at the University of Albany. Cumming, who graduated from 乐播传媒 in 1993, studied with Glazer, and describes the older artist’s influence on his music and teaching as “monumental. It’s with me every day, every concert, every class and lesson I teach.”

Glazer’s musical vitality and bulletproof technique remained intact up until the end of his life. In 2009-10, he dedicated his 乐播传媒 performance season to the entire cycle of 32 Beethoven sonatas, learning several that he previously had not played. In autumn 2014, he performed three concerts with three different programs within eight days.

At the time of his passing, he was planning a February concert to mark his 100th birthday.

Born in Wisconsin in 1915, Glazer made his musical talent evident early on, giving his first public performance at the age of 13. In a sense, he was a musical bridge spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries: He studied with Artur Schnabel, a pianist known for his interpretations of the Viennese masters, as well as with Arnold Schoenberg, the modernist composer known for his atonal approach.

Frank Glazer addresses the 乐播传媒 Class of 2011 at Commencement. One of three honorary degree recipients, Glazer told the graduates: “If you have faith in your mission, your goal, your dreams, I urge you to remain true to this commitment, which is at the very core of your existence.” He lived those words. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Glazer made his New York debut in 1936 with a program that he would repeat 70 years later at 乐播传媒 to mark the anniversary. After his World War II military service, Glazer studied anatomy and piano technology as he developed a piano technique that ultimately allowed him to remain creatively robust throughout his long life.

In the early 1950s, Glazer’s performing career hit its full stride. That career brought him international acclaim and encompassed numerous recordings and premieres of contemporary music; his own television program in the 1950s; and countless solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the Maine-based New England Piano Quartette, of which he was a founder.

He taught at the Eastman School of Music for 15 years before coming to Maine with his beloved wife, Ruth Gevalt Glazer, in 1980. The couple’s projects in Maine included founding the Saco River Festival, in Cornish. Ruth Glazer died in 2006 at the age of 95.

Glazer arrived at 乐播传媒 at age 65, a time of life when many people are contemplating retirement. Glazer contemplated it, and rejected it. 鈥淚鈥檝e worked all my life to get to this point, where I like the sounds I hear,鈥� he said in 2006. 鈥淣ow is not the time to quit!鈥�

Internationally renowned as a musician, Glazer was also highly esteemed as a teacher and a friend, and he was cherished for his generosity with time, good humor and wisdom. At 乐播传媒, he established the Frank and Ruth Glazer Music Scholarship Fund to aid a music student at every year. He also donated his extraordinary collection of scores, recordings and papers to the college’s Ladd Library.

In 2012, he published the book A Philosophy of Artistic Performance (With Some Practical Suggestions), a collection of aphorisms and advice that Glazer had been amassing since the 1930s. His intention was to offer younger musicians a set of tools that would enable them “to find and evolve their own feelings about the art in music, instead of the mechanics of it,” he said.

“The mechanics of music anybody can teach, but the art is between the lines. Just like detectives use ultraviolet light to read invisible ink, our insight is the ultraviolet light we use to find the art.”

Frank Glazer, photographed at his home in Topsham, Maine, in 2006. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Frank Glazer

The death of Frank Glazer, renowned pianist, 乐播传媒 artist in residence and lecturer in music, on Jan. 13 at age 99 prompted coverage from a number of media outlets, including the .

Reporter Bob Keyes spoke to Jim Parakilas, the Moody Family Professor of Performing Arts, who said:

鈥淗is physical presence changed over the years but his playing remained unbelievable. He was so fast and spectacular. What happened over the years 鈥� he didn鈥檛 have the strength and speed that he had when he was younger, but instead there was a kind of translucence to his playing where you could hear everything. The message of the music came out with a kind of simplicity that was unmistakable.鈥�

Keyes also quoted one of Glazer’s students, Duncan Cumming ’93, now a concert pianist and assistant professor of music at the University at Albany:

鈥淗e played with the strength and virtuosity of a man half his age or a third his age, but with the experience of a man 99 years old…. He just got better and better and better, because he worked at it for so much longer than anyone in the history of the world.鈥�

Deborah Hansen ’89

Deborah Hansen ’89 was quoted at the top of a story about sparkling wines. Reminiscent of the old spaghetti commercial, the story suggests that every day can be sparkling wine day.

“Wine professionals are happy to recommend sparkling wines for New Year鈥檚 Eve, but are even more thrilled when customers ask about these quaffs beyond Jan. 1,” writes correspondent Ellen Bhang.

Hansen, the chef-owner-sommelier of Taberna de Haro in Brookline, “thinks wine drinkers should follow the example of Catalan residents of northeastern Spain,” Bhang writes, who “enjoy the sparkler cava any time of day.”

Says Hansen, “It鈥檚 common to have a glass in the afternoon when friends come over.”

Hansen suggests a couple of cavas, including Reserva de la Familia, a “brut nature” from family-owned Juve y Camps, located in the region of Penedes, near Barcelona.

鈥淥nly 6 percent of cavas made are grower cavas,鈥� Hansen explains, noting that enthusiasts should look for these special pours because they offer 鈥渃haracter, verve, and pedigree,鈥� unlike the large commercial brands.

Graham Safford ’15

Graham Safford ’15 scored his 1,000th career point in 乐播传媒’ 60-55 victory over Brandeis University on Jan. 6 in Alumni Gym. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

鈥淗e is, no question, the most competitive kid that I鈥檝e ever coached, worked with, been around,鈥� 乐播传媒 men’s basketball coach Jon Furbush ’05 tells the, which published a story about how point guard Graham Safford ’15 has worked through the death of his father, of cancer, four years ago on Christmas Day.

鈥淚 think it was a sign that, on Christmas Day, it eased all his pain and he was able to go to a better place,鈥� Safford tells BDN reporter Pete Warner, who writes that “having been confronted with the fragility of life, Safford committed himself to seizing the day.”

Safford, from Hampden, Maine, is one of four 乐播传媒 captains. He scored his 1,000th career point on Jan. 6 in the Bobcats’ victory over Brandeis at Alumni Gym.

鈥淓very time I play, I want to give everything I鈥檝e got out there. That pertains to all aspects of life.鈥�

Bill Hiss ’66 and Valerie Wilson Franks ’98

An excerpt of Lani Guinier’s book The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America published in 聽includes mention of the 2014 report by Bill Hiss ’66 and Valerie Wilson Franks ’98 that found that standardized tests do not accurately predict college success. She quotes Hiss and Franks:

鈥淢any of us who have spent our careers as secondary and university faculty and administrators find compelling the argument that 鈥榳hat students do over four years in high school is more important than what they do on a Saturday morning.鈥欌��

President Spencer

Late in 2014, Clayton Spencer was quoted by on the Obama plan to rank the nation’s 5,000-plus colleges and universities according to various metrics, including graduation and retention rates; the ability of their graduates to pay back their student loans; and the schools鈥� accessibility to low-income and first-generation students.

Reporter Douglas Belkin notes that “few in academia believe there is an equitable way to rate so many schools; they say whatever variables are selected will necessarily skew the ratings in that direction.”

Spencer says that “you just cannot compare [the broad variety of schools] coherently…. You need to compare them in a mission-specific way.鈥�

Paper masks used in shaman rituals of the Yao people of Vietnam. From the Museum of Art exhibition “How to Make the Universe Right.”

乐播传媒 Museum of Art

The reviewed the exhibition of shaman scrolls and聽an extensive array of ceremonial objects developed and curated by the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art and premiered here in 2014.

How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of the Shaman in Vietnam and Southern China is now at the University of California鈥揝anta Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Research by Trian Nguyen, a 乐播传媒 assistant professor of art and the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies, forms the scholarly foundation for the show.

His research, says the Independent, affords a “fascinating glimpse of the intensity required” to keep alive for millennia the ritual shamanistic traditions.

乐播传媒 Museum of Art director Dan Mills curated the exhibition in conjunction with Nguyen and Barry Kitnick of Santa Barbara, from whose collection the show was assembled.

“Startrails,” a 2011 inkjet print by Yuichi Takasaka, is one of the astrophotographs in the exhibition “Starstruck.”

Meanwhile, another exhibition developed by the 乐播传媒 museum continues to collect stars on its crown.

罢丑别听Philadelphia Inquirer says that seeing Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography, now showing at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., is among the top five things to do in the region.

of Trenton, N.J., quotes Anthony Shostak, the curator of education at 乐播传媒 museum who organized the show:

The images 鈥渁re nothing less than overwhelming鈥攄epicting humbling, glorious delights that are often invisible to both the naked eye and even the telescope, and are revealed only through photographic means.鈥�

Frank Glazer, a pianist internationally known for his artistry and dedication, beloved for his generosity and celebrated for his artistic longevity, died on Jan. 13 at age 99.

He was a longtime 乐播传媒 artist in residence and lecturer in music.

Frank Glazer sits for a portrait on Feb. 8, 2014, at 乐播传媒, prior to a piano performance in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall celebrating his 99th birthday. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Born in Wisconsin on Feb. 19, 1915, Glazer gave his concert debut on a vaudeville stage in Milwaukee in 1927, embarking on a musical career that remained vital and creative until the final weeks of his life.

Glazer鈥檚 final public performance was Nov. 7 at 乐播传媒, featuring music of Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert. He had hoped to celebrate his 100th birthday in February with special concerts at the college and at the Boston Athenaeum.

Funeral plans have not been announced.

“From the first time I met him, one of the most amazing things that I found about him was his generosity,”聽 former Glazer student聽Duncan Cumming ’93 said in a 2006 interview.

“There was never a clock with Mr. Glazer.”

Cumming, now a concert pianist and assistant professor of music at the University at Albany, wrote the biography The Fountain of Youth: The Artistry of Frank Glazer. “There was never a clock with Mr. Glazer.”

Virtually any conversation with Glazer glittered with musical lore. He had played vaudeville in his teens; had his own television show during the early 1950s, that medium鈥檚 golden age; and, with his wife, Ruth, co-founded a concert series in Maine during the state鈥檚 1970s cultural renaissance.

Frank Glazer, photographed at home in Topsham, Maine, in 2006. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

In the 1930s he studied with both Artur Schnabel, a leading interpreter of the Viennese masters, and with Arnold Schoenberg, whose atonal compositions were the antithesis of Viennese lyricism. A champion of contemporary composers, Glazer nonetheless devoted one of his late recordings to the showy salon pieces that were in fashion during his youth.

It was all part of the same life to him, says music department colleague James Parakilas, the college’s Moody Family Professor of Performing Arts. Glazer embodied the continuity of musical life聽鈥� something particularly valuable for students, to whom, say, American composer Aaron Copland 鈥渟eems as old as Bach,鈥� Parakilas says. 鈥淔rank knew Aaron Copland. That allowed him to put things in perspective.鈥�

“We are dealt a certain hand. But we have a lot to say about how we play the game.”

Glazer received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from 乐播传媒 in 2011 honoring 鈥渢he faithfulness he has shown to the demands and to the beauty of his art鈥� and recognizing 鈥渁 musician who has reconciled the single-minded pursuit of excellence with the generosity and empathy of a teacher eager to share the fulfillment you have found.鈥�

鈥淚 believe it serves no useful purpose to compare oneself with another person. Each of us is unique,” Glazer told the Class of 2011. “We are dealt a certain hand at birth over which we have no control. But we have a lot to say about how we play the game.”

Glazer made his New York City debut in 1936 at Town Hall, and his orchestral debut as soloist three years later with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Koussevitzky. His career hit its stride in the 1940s after a two-year effort to reinvent his piano technique. This study produced a relaxed, economical style central to both Glazer鈥檚 artistry and his astonishing musical longevity in a field where hand problems are endemic.

“I don鈥檛 know what retirement means,” Frank Glazer often said. “I鈥檝e worked all my life to get to this point, where I like the sounds I hear.鈥� (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Glazer began teaching at the Eastman School of Music in 1965, and in 1977 came to 乐播传媒, where he became an artist in residence in 1980.

Over the course of long career, he played countless solo, chamber ensemble and orchestral concerts; composed music; made more than 60 recordings, including two released by 乐播传媒 in 2010; hosted his own television program in the 1950s; and, in Maine, co-founded the New England Piano Quartette and the Saco River Music Festival.

Parakilas said in 2006 that 鈥渕usic has a power in Frank’s life that he wants to let other people in on. And it鈥檚 the same whether they鈥檙e in the audience, or having a lesson, or in a class that he鈥檚 addressing. It鈥檚 always there.鈥�

Last November, Glazer himself told Tom Porter of Maine Public Radio that “like an actor studying Hamlet or Macbeth, the older you get and more you do it, the more you see in it, and you wonder why you didn’t see that last time, or five years ago.”

鈥淚 don鈥檛 know what retirement means,” Glazer often said. “I鈥檝e worked all my life to get to this point, where I like the sounds I hear.鈥�

Pianist and 乐播传媒 artist-in-residence Frank Glazer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

With composers Franz Schubert and Joseph Haydn in common, back-to-back concerts at 乐播传媒 College’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall feature renowned pianist Frank Glazer and the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra.

Artist-in-residence Glazer performs music by Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. Admission is $15, available at . Free tickets for a limited number of students and seniors 65-plus become available Nov. 5 at .

Associate Professor of Music Hiroya Miura directs the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra in a program of Verdi, Haydn and Schubert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. Admission is free, but tickets are required, available at .

Note: Some published listings carry an incorrect time for the orchestra concert. 7:30 p.m. is correct.

The Olin Arts Center Concert Hall is located at 75 Russell St. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Glazer’s program comprises Beethoven’s Six Bagatelles, Op. 126; Haydn’s Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI/27; and Schubert’s Sonata in D major, Op. 53, D. 850 (鈥淕asteiner鈥�).

Hiroya Miura conducts the 乐播传媒 College orchestra. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Glazer, born in 1915, continues to thrive in a performing career that began in 1928. In celebration of his 100th birthday, the college plans a celebration and recital for Glazer on Feb. 7 of next year.

An artist in residence at 乐播传媒 since 1980, Glazer taught previously at the Eastman School of Music and has performed throughout the world with leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The orchestra’s program consists of: Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” Overture; Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 in D major; and Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor聽 (“Unfinished”).

“Verdi’s overture, like many opera overtures, gives us a plate full of amuses-bouches from his opera with juicy tunes and dramatic sections,” says Miura. “In a similar vein, I always thought both Haydn and Schubert are incredible storytellers.

“Haydn’s music swings back and forth between humor and intense drama, while Schubert’s lyrical melodies take us to unexpected places with his harmonic twists and turns.”

The Channel 6 TV news magazine 207 profiles pianist Frank Glazer, 乐播传媒’ remarkable 99-year-old artist in residence.

“Ninety-nine? I can’t believe it,” Glazer says. “It’s as though it’s thrust upon you all of a sudden. Especially if you feel like I do, like 35 inside.”

This Saturday, Glazer performs with 乐播传媒 colleague James Parakilas, the Moody Family Professor of Performing Arts, for a performance with the聽乐播传媒 College Orchestra in a program including a Mozart concerto for two pianos.

Leyla McCalla, singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.

In three separate musical performances the weekend of Feb. 7-9, 乐播传媒 presents Maine’s best-known pianist, an evening of music by Austrian composer Hanns Eisler and a concert by singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla, all in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Soprano Karyn Levitt and pianist Eric Ostling perform Eisler songs, including settings for lyrics by German poet Bertolt Brecht, in translations by renowned playwright Eric Bentley at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7. Admission is free, but tickets are required (see below).

Happy 99th! Pianist Frank Glazer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Pianist Frank Glazer, artist in residence at 乐播传媒, gives a special 99th-birthday concert featuring music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8. Following the performance, a reception and toast will be held on the Olin stage in his honor.

Admission to the show is $10 (see below) but 50 free tickets are available for students and seniors (65-plus) as of Feb. 3.

Closing the weekend is McCalla, a singer-songwriter touring in support of her debut album, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9. Admission to the show is $15. Free tickets are available to a limited number of students and seniors (65-plus).

Pianist Eric Ostling and soprano Karyn Levitt perform Eric Bentley’s translations of songs by Bertolt Brecht collaborator Hanns Eisler.

Free tickets for all three performances are available through . Paid tickets are available through . For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Learn more about these concerts:

• ‘Eric Bentley’s Brecht-Eisler Song Book’
• Frank Glazer’s 99th Birthday Celebration
• Leyla McCalla

Daniel Chong.

乐播传媒 College presents violinist Daniel Chong and pianist Frank Glazer at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Apr. 26, at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission for this Olin Arts Alive concert is $12 for the general public, available at . Free tickets are available for the first 50 seniors and students; reserve by emailing olinarts@bates.edu. For more information, please call 207-786-6163.

The program consists of music by J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy and C茅sar Franck.

The founding first violinist of the , Chong has concertized extensively as soloist and chamber musician throughout the world. Chong’s and the quartet’s awards and prizes include the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009-2011 season, and top prizes at the Concert Artists Guild Competition, Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.

His recordings with the Parker Quartet can be heard on the Zig-Zag Territoires and Naxos labels. Their recording of the complete quartets by Gy枚rgy Ligeti won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.

Pianist Frank Glazer. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College.

The 98-year-old Glazer, of Topsham, has had a distinguished international career that began in the 1920s and has included numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the Saco River Music Festival, held for many years in Cornish, Maine.

Glazer has been an artist in residence at 乐播传媒 since 1980. He recently finished a season of concerts revisiting his favorite music from three decades of performing at the college. In 2012, he released the book, A Philosophy of Artistic Performance (With Some Practical Suggestions), a collection of aphorisms and advice that he has been amassing since the 1930s.

Frank Glazer in 2006. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College.

Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown, became an artist in residence at 乐播传媒 College in 1980. This academic year, the 97-year-old musician performs an entire season of programs comprising his favorite music from his 30-plus years of concertizing at the college.

The autumn half of the series begins with a Sept. 14 performance in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is $10 per concert or all eight programs at $65 per seat, available at batestickets.com. Proceeds benefit the Frank & Ruth Glazer Scholarship Fund.

A limited number of free tickets are available for seniors and students; contact olinarts@bates.edu or 786-6163.

Featured this year on American Public Media鈥檚 popular program The Story, Glazer, of Topsham, has had a distinguished international career that includes numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the Saco River Music Festival, held in Cornish, Maine.

“In past seasons, Frank has actively embraced the opportunity to perfect and present pieces that are new to him,” explains Seth Warner, manager of the Olin concert hall. But after three decades at 乐播传媒, Glazer agreed with Warner that “it would be best if he could trade this quest for the new for the thrill of rediscovering some of his most cherished works.”

Here’s the autumn schedule of Glazer concerts:

• 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14: Music by Handel, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven 鈥� the “Path茅tique” sonata.
• 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12: Schoenberg’s “Six Short Pieces,” along with music by Schubert, Brahms and Chopin.
• 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9: Ravel’s “Valses nobles et sentimentales,” along with music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin.
• 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2: Music by Franck, Weber, Gershwin, Barber, Copland and Brahms.

Glazer’s energy remains a source of amazement and inspiration for those around him. In June, he published the book A Philosophy of Artistic Performance (With Some Practical Suggestions), a collection of aphorisms and advice that he has been amassing since the 1930s.

“I’ll tell you what makes Frank truly exceptional,” says Warner. “It’s that the time and energy he devotes to his music is equally reflected in the love and effort he puts into the human connections and relationships in his circle, both those at 乐播传媒 and those that look back over nine decades.”