September 17, 2023

Music Box

September 17, 2023

Teruyo Petrocelli and Cathryn Wilkinson, Piano

Jubal Joslyn, Tenor

Cathryn Wilkinson, Organ

Prelude

 Music for Piano, Four Hands

Slavonic Dances, Opus 46……Antonín Dvořák

II. Allegretto scherzando (moderately quick, and playful)

IV. Tempo di minuetto (in the tempo of a minuet)

VII. Allegro assai (very lively)

Offertory

Organ Postlude

Toccata in C Major……Bohuslav Černohorský

 

Doubling the impact of ten fingers, twenty fingers capture the full brilliance and expansive range of our lovely Steinway piano in today’s prelude music.  Czech composer Antonín Dvořák originally wrote the Slavonic Dances for piano, four-hands.  They became so popular that he eventually scored the music for full orchestra, and a few years later, composed a second set.  Among Dvořák’s best-known compositions, the music is based on Dvořák’s re-creation of idioms and rhythms characteristic of folk dances from his native Bohemia.  And if this music makes you joyful enough to smile, or even tap, feel free!