Ives sonata, jazz and harp music at UO

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November, 2004

Byline: The Register-Guard

Piano, jazz and harp concerts are scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave. For more information, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the UO music school weekdays, (541) 346-5678, or visit music.uoregon.edu.

Pianist Richard Zimdars

Today, Beall Hall

Guest pianist Richard Zimdars will give a lecture and a recital on the nostalgic Sonata No. 1 by American composer Charles Ives.

The sonata is mostly about outdoor life in late 19th century Connecticut villages. Ives described it as being inspired by "the family together in the first and last movements, the boy away sowing his oats in the ragtimes and the parental anxiety in the middle movement.''...