Arlen / Haertzen / Levin - American Avenues - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In the 1930s an international chain reaction of disparate elements led to a creative collision in the U.S.A growing sense of the AMERICAN in American music burst into full flower as Vienna met Hollywood and classical met jazz. This album celebrates this amazing development in American music. Growing up in the Boston area, Helen Chang Haertzen studied under Bo Youp Hwang and Roman Totenberg. She attended Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, the Salzburg Mozarteum and the San Francisco Conservatory. Her principal teachers also included Szymon Goldberg, Felix Galimir, Ruggiero Ricci and Camilla Wicks. Haertzen was a prizewinner of the Karol Lipinski-Wieniawski Competition in Poland. In 2017, the Minnesota State Arts Board awarded her the Artist Initiative Grant. She is joined on this by Denis Evstuhin, Silver Ainomae, and Oleg Levin. Album Tracks 1. Preludes~I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso 2. Preludes~II. Andante con moto e poco rubato 3. Preludes~III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso 4. Spiritual Deep River 5. Porgy and Bess~It Ain't Necessarily So 6. Piano Trio~I. Adagio non troppo-Piu mosso-Allegro vivace 7. Piano Trio~II. Tempo di Marcia 8. Piano Trio~III. Largo-Allegro vivo e molto ritmico 9. Sure on This Shining Night Op. 13, no. 3 10. Day Music selections~Pearls 11. Day Music selections~Billet Doux 12. Day Music selections~Extreme Leisure or Gallows Revisited 13. Day Music selections~Bats 14. Day Music selections~Another Ground 15. Souvenir D'Amérique, Op. 17 16. Over the Rainbow