Paul Berkowitz, Faculty Recital: Robert Schumann
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Date & Time
Fri, Apr 17 7:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Address (map)
UCSB, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, Music, Building,UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070
Venue (website)
Lotte Lehmann Concert (UCSB)
The University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Music invites the campus community and the public to enjoy an evening with Paul Berkowitz, Faculty Recital: Robert Schumann — Fantasy Pieces and other stories.
Experience Paul Berkowitz, Faculty Recital: Robert Schumann — Fantasy Pieces and other stories on Friday, April 17, 7:30 PM at the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Faculty pianist Paul Berkowitz picks up where he left off after his performances of Robert Schumann’s Humoreske in 2024 and Fantasie in 2025 (soon to be released together as a CD and streaming album for Meridian Records).
He continues on April 17 with an entire evening of Schumann piano music in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, spanning the composer’s life. Opening with a group of five early evocative short pieces from Bunte Blätter (Colored Leaves), op. 99, he follows with one of Schumann’s most beloved collections, the eight Fantasiestücke, op. 12, displaying Schumann’s dual personalities – the dreamy poet and exuberant extrovert – in full flood. Mr. Berkowitz will then perform the hardly known late second set of three Fantasiestücke, op. 111, reflecting Schumann’s soul at its most troubled in music of astonishing imagination. The recital will conclude with the warm and tender Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), op. 82, a virtual song cycle for solo piano, epitomizes the Romantic approach to nature.
