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| Teddy Robie and James Shields met as students at The Juilliard School of Music at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in the heart of New York City. They began playing music together in 2004 while there, and have performed together regularly since then. They were always on the practice room floor at Juilliard practicing, and eventually got into the habit of running into each other's practice rooms to show their new "favorite" moment in a work of Bach or Brahms, and eventually played a few recitals at Juilliard together. When Shields first came to Albuquerque, Robie joined him for a few concerts, and eventually won over other performers and audience members in the Albuquerque area. Since then Robie visits his friend in Albuquerque and performs with groups like Chatter and the Church of Beethoven. | ||
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Sonata Opus 120 No. 2 in E-flat Major I. Allegro amabile
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Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Opus 5 
Berg was born on February 9, 1883, in Vienna and died there on December 24, 1933. Just as his life bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so his music combines the fervid expressivity of Post-Romanticism with new, advanced compositional techniques. Although Berg’s music is limited to a scant fifteen mature compositions, his ability to integrate the older style with the modern musical concepts in a profound and sensitive way assures him a place among the great composers of our time. Born into a well-to-do merchant family, he showed a keen interest in music and embarked on the traditional piano lessons at an early age. Despite rather meager musical preparation, he started composing when he was fifteen, producing about eighty songs and a number of piano duets over the next four years. They were intense and unashamedly emotional, showing a strong affinity for such Austro-German composers as Mahler, Wagner, Brahms, and Richard Strauss. At nineteen, Berg began six years of study with Arnold Schoenberg, his only composition teacher, and by far the most important musical influence, giving the young Berg a solid grounding in basic compositional skills. Notes adapted from Melvin Berger's Guide to Chamber Music.
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Sonata for Piano Op. 1 I. Allegro ~<^>~ |
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Sonata Opus 120 No. 1 in F Minor I. Allegro appassionato |
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Brahms was born May 7,1833 in Hamburg and died April 3, 1897 in Vienna. His two sonatas, Opus 120 are scheduled to be played at this concert (see last piece). The sonatas themselves are highly distinctive one from the other. They were published in 1895 and are his final completed chamber works. They were originally conceived for clarinet and piano, but were arranged both for violin and piano, and for viola and piano by the composer. Brahms has left us the singularly unified masterpiece of two sonatas in one opus. The absolute mastery over form, content and style is manifested so happily in these sonatas. They are final testaments of their composer’s immortal legacy to humankind.