Solo Piano Works by American Women: Character Sketches CD: Pianist Nanette Kaplan Solomon performs music for piano by Victoria Bond, Tania Leon, Jane Brockman, Ruth Schonthal, GwynethWalker, Marga Richter, and Judith Lang Zaimont. Leonarda Catalog #LE334. Total Time 73:15 Leonarda Home Page. Composers' bios. Musician's bio. Program notes. MP3s can be downloaded. CDs are $15.99 + shipping & handling. Order Form

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Reviews: Performance and CD: "Nanette Solomon's playing is expert and nuanced, recorded sound excellent." American Record Guide. *  "Her splendid technique is combined with a fine musical sense of rhythm and phrasing. I was also delighted with her exquisite use of color and tone. She plays with assurance and sensitivity...[This CD is] highly recommended. Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota. *  Bond: "offers the easy folksy appeal of cowboy ballads and ragtimey blues" American Record Guide. *  León: "a brief, dense synthesis of American, Latin and international styles. After one echoing note produced by holding a string inside the instrument, the work combines what sounds like serial tone rows with touches of Latin dance rhythms, stride piano and blues in a thick, moody jumble. It is quick, intense and highly personal." New York Newsday. *  Brockman: "[It] weaves themes of Wagner, Schoenberg and Mussorgsky into a Debussyian texture, making the four composers the 'characters' sketched in the work...Brockman unifies the mottoes with her own similar motives. The second sketch's whirling upper-register trills and four-note cells are especially effective, and Solomon plays them with commendable color and clarity." IAWM Journal (International Alliance of Women in Music). *  Schonthal: "It is a charming suite, whose moods and rhythms find sympathy in Solomon's colorful playing." IAWM Journal. *  Walker: "Open-hearted, with clear harmonic identity, cleverly laid out for the instrument and as gratifying for the ears as for the fingers. There's more than a hint of Samuel Barber here, which is no bad thing." Fanfare. *  Richter: "An effective mood piece expressing both resignation and anger (Exequy) Pan Pipes. *  "Aphoristic explorations of motivic material." (Fragments) Fanfare. *  Zaimont: "replete with dandy tunes, poetically rendered moods, and more than enough sumptuous pianistic color and variety to make them great favorietes with performaners and audiences alike." Lehman, American Record Guide

Recording: Recording and post production: Marnie Hall. Recorded in the recital hall at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, May, 1992.DDD. Support: This recording is made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. This recording is made possible by a grant from The Slippery Rock Foundation, Inc. Music Publishers: Bond: Seesaw Music Corp.; León: (Leon) Peer-Southern; Brockman: Arsis Press, distributed by Colla Voce; Schonthal: FuroreVerlag.Kassel@t-online.de; Richter: Exequy: Contact Leonarda.com for information; Richter Fragments: Carl Fischer; Walker: E. C. Schirmer Music; Zaimont: Vivace Press. Cover Painting: Jacquelyn Thunfors, © Jacquelyn Thunfors, 1993. For information about her works, call 203-254-8594 or fax 203-256-1394 in Connecticut. Graphic Design: Marnie Hall. © Leonarda Productions, Inc., 1994. All rights reserved. CDs made in the USA.

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