{"id":25032,"date":"2010-04-07T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25032"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:24:30","slug":"fountain-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/07\/fountain-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum's tribute to pianist Glazer precedes Beethoven sonata series finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Duncan<\/a><\/p>\n

Admirers of 95-year-old pianist Frank Glazer will be treated to a double dose of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College artist in residence on Friday, April 9.<\/p>\n

At 6:15 p.m., former Glazer student Duncan Cumming explores Glazer’s long career and musicianship in a talk titled Frank Glazer: Fountain of Youth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Then, at 7:30, Glazer himself offers the final installment of his season-long review of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas.<\/p>\n

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Both events take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, 75 Russell St. Admission is free, but separate tickets are required for the talk and for the concert. For more information contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.<\/p>\n

Glazer is a musician of international renown whose professional career began during the 1930s. He has dedicated most of his ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ performances this season to a chronological review of all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. The April 9 program comprises the Ops. 109, 110 and 111 sonatas.<\/p>\n

Cumming<\/a>, a pianist and member of the music faculty at the University of Albany, graduated from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ with highest honors in 1993. He studied with Glazer at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, 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.”<\/p>\n

Organized in sections that he likens to a sonata’s movements, Cumming’s talk about Glazer will cover myriad aspects of the elder musician’s life and work, and may include a sample Glazer piano lesson and readings from Glazer’s letters.<\/p>\n

Asked to summarize Glazer’s contribution to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Cummings noted that this “little corner of the world has had the chance to see one of the great pianists during what has now become, incredibly, his longest career stop — even though it began at age 65.”<\/p>\n

Glazer maintains an active performing career at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and away. Asked about characteristics of Beethoven’s music that particularly strike him, Glazer points to the composer’s imagination — one so fertile that he rarely needed to reuse an idea.<\/p>\n

Beethoven had “the ability to extend a simple idea and have it continue and evolve,” Glazer says. “He also had such a sense of proportion that, at the point when you are just about to become bored, he changes.”<\/p>\n

Glazer, of Topsham, has taught at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ since 1980. His career includes numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the New England Piano Quartette, of which he was a founder. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the Saco River Music Festival, held for many years in Cornish, Maine.<\/p>\n

Cumming’s talk about Glazer will be based on his 2009 book, The Fountain of Youth: The Artistry of Frank Glazer<\/em> (VDM Verlag). Cumming is a Maine native, born in Presque Isle and raised in Wiscasset.<\/p>\n

In 1994, he received a full scholarship from the European Mozart Foundation to study and perform at the European Mozart Academy in Prague. He received a master’s degree in 1996 from the New England Conservatory, and in 2003 earned a doctorate from Boston University.<\/p>\n

Cumming has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in both the United States and Europe. In 2009, he received a grant to record music of Mozart and Weber on Weber\u2019s own 1812 Brodmann fortepiano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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