The Music of Mrs. H.H.A. Beach, or 'Methods Peculiar to Brahms'

Pianist Larry Todd and violinist Katharina Uhde present a lecture recital exploring the music of Amy Beach and her place in American music. Light reception following.

Amy Beach (1867-1944) was a child prodigy, concert pianist, and self-taught composer. Considered part of the Second New England School of composers or the Boston Six, she composed solo piano music, lied, chamber music, as well as large scale works for orchestra and chorus.

Join us in this journey into the music of Amy Beach, an American composer of the late 19th-early 20th century. Larry Todd and Katharina Uhde will perform selections drawn from the Violin Sonata and Romance for violin and piano, and the piano solo "Dreams."

Katharina Uhde is an Assistant Professor of Violin and Musicology at Valparaiso University, Indiana. She holds two doctorates, a DMA from the University of Michigan (2009) and a PhD from Duke University (2014), where she completed a dissertation on Joseph Joachim under R. Larry Todd. Katharina has published score reviews and has an article entitled "Joseph Joachim's Abendglocken Op. 5: a Musical Daguerreotype" in Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Cambridge) 12.2 (Dec. 2015).

R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor of Music and former chair of the Music Department at Duke. Among his books are Mendelssohn: A Life in Music and Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn. A graduate of Yale University, he studied piano at the Yale School of Music and with the late Lilian Kallir.