Hannah has been invited to present another lecture-recital, this time at the College Music Society's annual conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico! Her lecture is titled "Tin-Pan Alley and the Machine, Musical Transformation in George Antheil's Second Sonata for Violin, Piano, and Drums." Look for more updates and fun information as Hannah gets ready to present on Antheil's Second Sonata in October!
Check out a video of Hannah and Aimee performing Alfred Schnittke's amazing Piano Quintet a little while ago!
In just one week, Hannah and Aimee will be heading to Boston to present a lecture-recital on George Antheil's Third Sonata for Violin and Piano at the Society for American Music's 2016 National Conference. In this lecture, Hannah digs deep into exactly what makes this violin sonata such a succinct example of Antheil's early 1920s Parisian style.
Read MoreCheck out a few of the amazing shots Keitaro Harada took of Hannah and Aimee a couple weeks ago!
Just a taste from our recital last week, this is the final movement from Antheil’s Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano. You can hear some of the younger twenty-something Antheil even in this later work. His style clearly developed and matured in the intervening twenty years while still holding on to his iconic rhythmic character. Listen for a number of iterations of “Beautiful Dreamer” throughout the movement. Enjoy!
Hannah Leland, violin and Aimee Fincher, piano (February 2, 2016)