Beethoven and Joplin — Narrative Musicales

Event Grand Piano Series Narrative Musicales Beethoven and Joplin Konstantin Soukhovetski , piano Joplin — Maple Leaf Rag Joplin — The Cascades Clarence "Pine Top" Smith — Boogie Woogie Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 Expect the unexpected. In this Narrative Musicale, Konstantin Soukhovetski traces Beethoven's surprising influence on the American musical imagination — from Scott Joplin's ragtime to the birth of boogie-woogie. How does a rhythm, a gesture or a harmonic cadence travel across the Atlantic and reappear a century later in an entirely new world? You'll find out. Improvisation abounds as this multimedia performance reveals hidden musical connections across time, geography and culture. American music emerges as a quintessential expression of the New World — vibrant, multicultural, rebellious and original — while the Old World reveals itself as an unexpected laboratory for musical disruption. Narrative Musicales is presented in collaboration with Grand Piano Series , an indepdendent nonprofit organization.