BEETHOVEN AND JOPLIN with Konstantin Soukhovetski

About this event

TIME AND HARMONY CONCERT SERIES

in collaboration with

GRAND PIANO SERIES

presents

BEETHOVEN AND JOPLIN

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.

Joplin — Maple Leaf Rag

Joplin — The Cascades

Clarence “Pine Top” Smith — Boogie Woogie

Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111

From Sanctuary of the Arts