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2005-2006 Con Brio Performance Luncheon Concerts |
Jacqueline Schwab, Piano |
For this Con Brio Series concert at All Newton Music School, Jacqueline Schwab will perform her solo piano arrangements of vintage American music from the era of Mark Twain, including Stephen Foster and Civil War parlor songs, Victorian ballroom dances, hymns and spirituals, Scots and Irish airs and dance tunes, and ragtime. She may range further afield and play a tango or a Billie Holiday piece, too. In the words of film documentarian Ken Burns, “Jacqueline Schwab brings more feeling and intensity to music than anyone I know. Her playing is insistent, physical, heartfelt and ... unusually moving.” Schwab’s improvisations on vintage American music have been heard worldwide on ten of Burns' documentaries, including his Grammy award-winning Civil War and his Emmy award-winning Baseball series, as well as his recent Mark Twain and Horatio’s Drive. Schwab’s playing, in turns elegiac and sprightly, draws on classical, traditional folk, and improvisational roots. The New England Folk Almanac wrote she plays with “the jazz/classical improvisational spirit of Keith Jarrett and the touch of George Winston ....” She has performed music from Burns' Lewis and Clark series for President Clinton at the White House and has also performed a concert of music honoring Presidents of the USA for a special event at the Smithsonian. She has recorded and performed with many traditional musicians, including a long-standing partnership with her English dance music quartet Bare Necessities, as well as with Scottish fiddlers Alasdair Fraser and Laura Risk and Scottish singer Jean Redpath (including an appearance on A Prairie Home Companion). She has three solo recordings: “Mad Robin”, “Down Came an Angel”, and “Mark Twain’s America”. She has also recently completed a solo recording of Civil War-era music (Piano Disc label) to be played on modern digital pianos
Jacqueline Schwab Tickets are $18 including lunch. All seating is General Admission.
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