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Part I

Abram Kreeger Lecturer

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 17, 1999

Unauthorized recording or photography is prohibited.

B. D. Nationality

1900s Josef Hofmann 1876 1957 Poland

1910s Wilhelm Backhaus 1884 1969 Germany Ferrucio Busoni 1866 1924 Italy Eugene D' Albert 1864 1932 Scotland

Leopold Godowsky 1870 1938 Poland

Ignacy Paderewski 1860 1941 Poland

1920s Harold Bauer 1873 1951 England

Alfred Cortot 1877 1962 France Emo Von Dohnanyi 1877 1960 Hungary

Ignaz Friedman 1882 1948 Poland

Ossip Gabrilowitsch 1878 1936 Russia

Percy Grainger 1882 1961 Austria

Josef Lhevinne 1874 1944 Russia

Vladimir de Pachmann 1848 1933 Russia SergeiRaclunaninoff 1873 1943 Russia Moriz Rosen thal 1862 1946 Poland Emil Von Sauer 1862 1942 Germany

1930s Claudio Arrau 1903 1991 Chile Bela Bartok 1881 1945 Hungary Jorge Bolet 1914 1990 Cuba Edwin Fischer 1886 1960 Switzerland Walter Gieseking 1895 1956 Germany Vladimir Horowitz 1903 1989 Russia Misha Levitzki 1898 1941 Russia Benno Moisietwitsch 1890 1963 Russia Guiomar Novaes 1896 1979 Brazil Egon Petri 1881 1962 Germany Sergei Prokofiev 1891 1953 Russia Artur Rubinstein 1887 1982 Poland Artur Schnabel 1882 1951 Poland

1940s Simon Barere 1896 1951 Russia Alexander Brailowsky 1877 1976 Russia Robert Casadesus 1899 1972 France Shura Cherkassky 1911 1995 Russia Jeanne-Marie Darre 1905 1999 France Rudolf Firkusny 1912 1994 Czechoslovakia Grigory Ginzburg 1903 1961 Russia Clara Haskil 1895 1960 Rumania Myra Hess 1895 1965 England Eileen Joyce 1912 1991 Tasmania William Kapell 1922 1953 U.S. Wilhelm Kempf£ 1895 1991 Germany Oscar Levant 1906 1972 U.S. Dinu Lipatti 1917 1950 Rumania Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli 1920 1995 Italy Rosita Renard 1894 1949 Chile (Cutler) Solomon 1902 1988 England Vladimir Sofronitsky 1901 1961 Russia Maria Yudina 1899 1970 Russia

plus a special guest pianist peiforming LIVE

ABRAM KREEGER Lecturer

I am the marketing and sales manager of the Harid Conservatory School of Music at Lynn University and have been

fortunate to enjoy an intense and diverse background in music. The interest really began during my undergraduate years at

the University of Rochester (NY), where I frequented the Eastman School of Music and its music library. After completing

my bachelor degree in psychology and serving as the editor for the Eastman section of the campus newspaper, I entered the

manager-in-training program at Spec's Music's original store in Coral Gables. Having worked in the classical music

department intermittently throughout semester breaks during college, I developed an even greater interest in classical music

and expanded my recording collection.

While working for Spec's Music, I happened to begin offering music appreciation classes in one of the more intriguing

of places, the Dade Correctional Facility in Florida City. It was there that I had the opportunity to test music appreciation

presentations with an audience least likely to value it. It became apparent that certain techniques in presentation were more

effective in presentations and discussions than others.

While working at Spec's Music, my exposure to music increased dramatically. Where else better to learn m ore about

music than to listen to it often in upwards of forty hours a week and to be able to purchase recordings for 30% off? I must

credit my father, Julian Kreeger, for my being able to have the privilege of working for Spec's (as he had to be one of their

most frequent customers in the days of LPs). The interview, when I first began there, had one question "when do you want

to start, when are you available?"

The next chapter of my life was entry into the M.B.A. program, once again at the University of Rochester. While

completing my degree in marketing, I had the good fortune of convincing the student government to allow me to present a

series of concerts featuring Eastman School of Music students. It was at this time that I could enjoy firsthand working with

musicians in creating programs audiences could enjoy. My first job just after graduation in the classical music business was

be the role of marketing manager for the New World Symphony.

After two seasons with the New World Symphony, I met Harid's former director Kate Ransom and landed in Boca

Raton. Having first becoming introduced to Boca Raton and the Conservatory in particular when I applied for the job here,

it has been a wonderful place to be as a music lover.

This year, I created "The Piano Lover Network," a web site devoted to promoting piano music and the pianists

themselves. In the next few days, I will be proud to release a compact disc featuring Tao Lin (staff accompanist at Harid) in

music by Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms.

Josef HOFMANN

FEATURED RECORDINGS (excerpts from:)

Chopin Piano. Concerto No. 2, II (VAI)

Wilhelm BACKHAUS Beethoven Les Adieux Sonata, IV (Grammofono)

Sergei RACHMANINOFF Schubert Impromptu, op. 90 no. 4 (RCA)

Alfred CORTOT Chopin Nocturne, opus 9 no. 2 (EMI)

Artur SCHNABEL Beethoven Piano Sonata, op. 2 no. 2, N (EMI)

Vladimir HOROWITZ Liszt Paganini Etude No. 2 (APR)

Walter GIESEKING Debussy Prelude Book I, No. 8 (EMI)

Benno MOISIEWITSCH Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, II (Koch)

Simon BARERE Blumenfeld Emde for the ... (APR)

William KAPELL Liszt Mephisto Waltz (RCA)

Dinu LIPATTI Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (EMI)

INTERMISSION

RECOMMENDED RECORD STORES

Borders Glades Rd. and 441

Tower Records www.rowerrecords.com

Berkshire Record Outlet (best bargains under $10) www.berkshirerecoudet.com

~The Harid Conservatory ~ s,hool ol '.\h1'1e .u Lynn Lnl\cr>: ly

President Vice President

Dean

Donald E. Ross Nancy A. McGinn

Roberta Rust

1999-2000 FACULTY & STAFF

Strings

Sergiu Schwartz VIOLIN

Michael McClelland VIOLA

Johanne Perron CELLO

Shigeru Ishikawa DOUBLE BASS

Winds

Laura Gilbert FLUTE

John Dee OBOE

Paul Green CLARINET

Anhur Weisberg BASSOON

Brass

Gregory Miller FRENCH HORN

Richard Sroelze! TRUMPET

Stephen Rawlins TROMBONE

Matthew K. Brown TUBA

Percussion

Michael l'arola PERCUSSION

Piano

Roberta Rust PIANO

Theory

Thomas McKinley MUSIC THEORY

Professors, Instructors, & Accompanists

Jodie DeSalvo, INSTRUCTOR AND STAFF ACCOMPANIST

Phillip Evans, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Dianne Garvin, INSTRUCTOR

Elizabeth Holland Tomlin, INSTRUCTOR AND STAFF

ACCOMPANIST

Claudio Jaffe, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE

LYNN MUSIC PREPARATORY

Tao Lin, STAFF ACCOMPAN IST

Music Library

Sue Richman, MUSIC LIBRARIAN

Jean Olasky, LIBRARY ASSISTANT

Hannelore Schleu, LIBRARY ASSISTANT

Administrative Staff

Abram Kreeger, MARKETING AND SALES MANAGER

Paula Linder, CONCERT MANAGER

Peg Martorella, GRANTS COORDINATOR

Barbara Whitt, ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN