Music at Noon Anya Alexeyev, Sept 19, 2024

Sept. 10, 2024

September 19, 2024, 12 p.m.
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Anya Alexeyev, piano

TAPESTRY: Weaving a journey through musical traditions from around the world on classical piano

Ireland: Leprechaun's Dance by Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924) and Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Hungary: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs by Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

Bukovyna: from Songs of Bukovyna, selection by Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955)

China: Red Flowers Blooming Over the Mountain by Wang Jianzhong (1933-2016)

Finland: from Six Finnish Songs, selection by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

The Balkans: from Seven Balkan Dances, selection by Marko Tajčević (1900-1984)

Armenia: Keler Tsoler (Striding, Shining) by Komitas (1869-1935) and Saradjian (1919-1986)

Navajo, North America: The Navajo Piano, Vocable no.9 by Connor Chee (b. 1987)

Jamaica: Jamaican Medley by Eleanor Alberga (b. 1949)

We ask that patrons take photos only during intermission and/or after the show and refrain from recording audio or video unless otherwise announced at the beginning of the show.

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe (Anish-nah-bay) and Haudenosaunee (Hoe-den-no-show-nee) peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources and not to engage in conflict. From the Haldimand Proclamation of Oct. 25, 1784 this territory is described as: “six miles deep from each side of the river (Grand River) beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.” The proclamation was signed by the British wit​h their allies, the Six Nations, after the American Revolution. Despite being the largest reserve demographically in Canada, those nations now reside on less than five percent of this original territory.