A Recital of American Music

Dagenais Smiley, violin and UC Davis lecturer in music
with John Cozza, piano
Program
Amy Beach: Romance for Violin and Piano
Aaron Copland: Four Piano Blues​​​​​​​​
Samuel Barber: Canzone for Violin and Piano​​​​​​​​
George Gershwin: “Summertime / A Woman is a Sometime Thing”
Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Gershwin: “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
About the Program
This recital features 20th-century American music, with transcriptions by famed Russian-Lithuanian-American violinist Jascha Heifetz from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, as well as Samuel Barber’s own transcription of the second movement of his Piano Concerto.
a Shinkoskey Noon Concert​