Charles Ives: The Complete Sonatas for Piano
Stephen Drury, piano

First Sonata

• Adagio con moto
• Allegro moderato; “In the Inn”
• Adagio
• “not for the lilies lying back in soft dress-circle cushion to lap up pretty velvet sound with their soft ears”; Allegro
• Andante maestoso

Three Page Sonata

* intermission *

Sonata #2, “Concord, Mass. 1840 – 1860”

• Emerson
• Hawthorne
• The Alcotts
• Thoreau

Pianist STEPHEN DRURY, in concert

Pianist and conductor STEPHEN DRURY has performed throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Barbican Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and from Arkansas to Seoul. A champion of contemporary music, he has taken the sound of dissonance into remote corners of Pakistan, Greenland and Montana.
He teaches at New England Conservatory, where he has directed festivals of the music of John Cage, Steve Reich, and (in 2010) Christian Wolff.