Class of 1959 Presents A Recital of Dance Music For Piano On Friday March 20, 1998 7:30 PM In the Media Centre Auditorium |
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Dance of the Blessed Spirits *Second Ballet from Orpheus *Transcription by Sgambadi |
Gluck |
| Rigaudon | Ravel | |
| Menuet *From Le Tombeau Couperin |
Ravel | |
| Scherzo-Valse | Chabrier |
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Mazurka, Opus 30, Number 3 | Chopin |
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Mazurka, Opus 33, Number 2 | Chopin |
| Polonaise, Opus 44 | Chopin |
| Romanian Folk Dances *Joc Cu Bata *Braul *Pe Loc *Buciumeana *Poarca Romaneasca *Maruntel |
Bartok |
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Andaluza (Playera), Opus 5, Number 5 | Granados |
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Tango | Albeniz |
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Ritual Fire Dance | Falla |
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Juba | Dett |
| Sentimental Waltz | Ashforth | |
| Shepherd's Hey (English Morris Dance Tune) | Grainger |
| Robert Bonham graduated from
Woodstock School in 1959
and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree in pianoforte at the
Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He achieved a Master
of Music in Kansas Univeristy and moved on for his Ph.D. in
Comparative Arts, with an emphasis on visual arts, architecture
and music, at the Ohio University. He began teaching at Maryville College Tennessee in 1965, winning the Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1992. He taught Pianoforte, Music History, Art History, and Introduction to Fine Arts with an emphasis on Architecture, and the Freshman Seminar. Taking advantage of the location of Maryville College on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, he helped create the Maryville College experimential education "Mountain Challenge" program, regularly taking new freshmen on expeditions into the mountains before the beginning of school. He currently lives in a log cabin that he himself built with the assistance of students. |
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