Listen now | Our performance of Henriëtte Bosmans’ Impressions, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Listen now | Today, The Piano Histories podcast will share the history of Henriëtte Bosmans’ Impressions, as well as the history of the Netherlands. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Listen now | Our performance of George Gershwin’s Three Preludes, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro.  Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

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Listen now | Our performance of Ernest Bloch’s Poems of the Sea, B. 46, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro.  Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

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Listen now | Our performance of Edward MacDowell’s Sea Pieces, Op. 55, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Listen now | Today, The Piano Histories Podcast will detail the history behind Edward MacDowell’s Sea Pieces, Op. 55, as well as part of the history of the People’s Party. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Our performance of Florence Price’s The Goblin and the Mosquito, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Today, The Piano Histories Podcast will detail the history behind Florence Price’s The Goblin and the Mosquito, as well as part of the history of the United States & the Harlem Renaissance. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Our performance of Stravinsky’s Tango, 1940, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro.  Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Composer Igor Stravinsky, born in Russia, would settle in America in 1940. But before that, there were his multiple United States tours. The first would take place in 1925, and during this tour, he would travel to New York City, the place where he would come to settle in 1940. The second tour would take place in 1935, and the third in 1937. And his tours would coincide with a very important time in American history: the Great Depression. But things would improve by the time Stravinsky settled...

Our performance of Granados’ Goyescas, Op.11, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. This performance includes an excerpt from Movement II, Coloquio en la Reja Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Enrique Granados was born in Lleida, a city in Catalonia, Spain, but the journey of his musical career would take him all the way to New York City in the United States. The city, and indeed, places around America, were experiencing great changes due to the rise of the Progressivism, which changed the country for years to come. And World War I would also begin during this time, which affected Europe greatly. Tied to Granados’ eventual trip to New York City was his piano suite, Goyescas. This...

Our performance of Chaminade’s Marche Américaine, Op.131, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. This performance includes an excerpt from the Marche Américaine. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Cécile Chaminade was a female composer who had the chance to tour the New World, America. Her career was an illustrious and notable one, and she had success all across Europe. And her time in America happened to coincide with a very important time for the history of America. The Progressive Era had begun, and the early 20th century was full of American women fighting for their rights, and making a difference in the lives of those around them. Today, The Piano Histories Podcast will detail the...

Our performance of the piano part in Shostakovich’s Sonata No. 2, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. This performance includes an excerpt from Movement I of the Sonata. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

In the midst of the time of Stalin’s Russia, composer Dmitri Shostakovich, unlike many of his contemporaries, was still living in Russia. And as a result, he would experience hardship and musical censorship within Stalin’s Russia. This is tied to the history of Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata No. 2, and its representation as an act of compliance against the music of Stalin’s Russia. Today, The Piano Histories Podcast will finish our saga on the Russian Revolution, and tell a story of Shostakovich...

Our performance of the piano part in Ella Adayevskaya’s Sonata Greca, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. This performance includes excerpts from Movement I - Proëmion. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Ella Adayevskaya is a Russian composer who lived in an uncertain time—the time of the Russian Revolution. It was a time when peasants refused to give their crops to the government, soldiers mutinied from the fields of battle, and one man and his ideals would rise up to rule over all. This man, Vladimir Lenin, would cause Russia to be thrown into a new age of terror, one that would resonate for years to come. Today, The Piano Histories Podcast will share the history of Ella Adayevskaya, as...

Our performance of the piano part in Julie Weissberg’s Two Songs, Op.2, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. This performance includes No.2 of the Two Songs. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Julie Weissberg was a Russian composer who lived in the time of the Russian Revolution, an event which shook Russia to its core. And Weissberg, naturally, experienced the effects of the Revolution first-hand. The Revolution caused Russia to be filled with starving people, both peasants and soldiers alike, and caused the people of Russia to be in desperate need to aid. And in this time of vulnerability, one man and his beliefs would swoop in and change Russia for a long time to come. Today,...

Our performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s Six Pieces for Piano, Op.52, played by our host and pianist Eliana Zebro. This performance includes an excerpt from No.2- Rondo. Get on the email list at pianohistories.substack.com

Sergei Prokofiev is a composer who lived quite a life, as a Russian living in a tumultuous time—the time of the Russian Revolution. Due to this, he was quite well-traveled, and his work as a composer took him to places around the world.  In each place, his career would take great strides as he took on commissions for new works and collaborated with other creative visionaries to create a fantastic musical experience. And in 1930 to 1931, he crafted his Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 52, which is a...