2026 SEASON
Music Style: New Music
Mark Robson performs an evening of original compositions as a portrait of the artist. Featured highlights include Mark’s own “24 Preludes for the Left Hand”, the etude “bLACK/wHITE”, “Ceci n’est pas une Cage“, selected arrangements based on plainchant and spirituals, and a world premiere composition.
PROGRAM
Boston Court—Mark Robson, pianist and composer (b. 1957)
Menuet (1973)
Rhapsody in Dement (1972)
Jeux rouges, from Hommage à Scriabine (1977)
Musique à emporter (1982)
Ni…ni
Nocturne (d’après “Fabric” de Henry Cowell)
Augbareich
Thinking of Pat
24 Preludes for the Left Hand (1989-94), excerpts
E major—Trapeze (1991)
E minor—Arachne’s Dream (1994)
B minor—“Do not go gentle into that good night” (1991)
Noises, sounds and sweet airs (2003)
Puer natus est nobis (1996)
Divinum mysterium (2024)
bLACK/wHITE: etude for octaves (2019)
Intermission
“The time has come to speak of love”: melodrama, text excerpted
from The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers (2018)
Lynda Sue Marks-Guarnieri, recitant
Ceci n’est pas une Cage, for piano and toy piano: melodrama,
with text by John Cage from Themes and Variations (2012)
“Les feuilles mortes”–Joseph Kosma, arr. by M. Robson (2016/2026)
Souvenir d’une nuit claire: méditation de Noël (2020)
Litany (2009)
Deep River (2024)
Amazing Grace (2020)
Alleluia “Vir dei Benedictus” (2021)
