TRANSCRIPT: June 10, 2020
MID-WEEK MUSICAL INTERLUDES #6

Hi, my name is Melissa Givens, Assistant Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and I'd like to welcome you to “Mid-Week Musical Interludes,” our podcast series featuring an array of glorious new and not-so-new works as recently performed by faculty, guests and students of Pomona College. For more information on the music from our podcasts please visit us at pomona.edu/musicpodcast, and music podcast is all one word.

Versatile keyboard artist Genevieve Feiwen Lee combines music for harpsichord and for piano this week. She opens the podcast with an excerpt from her concert earlier this year and offers the first movement, La Visionaire (the visionary), from François Couperin’s harpsichord suite number 25. From there, she will move to the piano in a performance of the last movement of Beethoven’s Sonata in E Major, opus 109. This movement is a theme and variations and unusually marked with the German phrase, Gesangvoll mit innigster Empfindung, loosely translated to “In a singing style, with most deeply – felt expression.”

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE PODCAST:

Both works were recorded in Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music located on the campus of Pomona College, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont, CA.

The Couperin is from Ms. Lee’s recital in February 2020
The Beethoven is from Ms. Lee’s recital in November 2015


Read about Genevieve Feiwen Lee at https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/genevieve-f-lee