{"id":15511,"date":"2013-10-27T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15511"},"modified":"2013-10-27T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T12:19:18","slug":"today-canadian-piano-music-gets-a-moment-of-glory-from-everett-hopfner-at-hart-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/10\/27\/today-canadian-piano-music-gets-a-moment-of-glory-from-everett-hopfner-at-hart-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Canadian piano music gets a moment of glory from Everett Hopfner at Hart House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hopfner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15514\" alt=\"hopfner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hopfner.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hopfner.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hopfner-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Toronto&#8217;s Hart House, once a core presenter of concerts in Toronto, has let its Sunday-afternoon presentations at Hart House drift into irregularity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And it seems that the really promising ones usually coincide with something pianistically alluring up Philosopher&#8217;s Walk at Koerner Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Today, while I sit listening to Yuja Wang&#8217;s sold-out recital on Bloor St., 2013 Eckhardt-Grammat\u00e9 National Music Competition winner, Manitoba native Everett Hopfner, gives a mostly-Canadian recital in the Great Hall at Hart House.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, the concert is free.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian composers continue to write music for solo piano, but one almost never hears any of it outside of competitions. Here&#8217;s a chance &#8212; and I think this is a really strong programme by composers who know a thing or two about telling a story in music, not just giving the pianist new ways of creating a sonic splash.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Hopfner is scheduled to play, starting at 3 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hallucinations<\/em> (2013) by Randolph Peters<br \/>\n<em>Hidden Voices<\/em> (2003) by Kotoka Suzuki<br \/>\n<em>Preludes and Afterthoughts: Fantasy-Transcriptions on Chopin\u2019s Preludes, Op. 28<\/em> (2009-11) by Douglas Finch<br \/>\n<em>Pas \u00e0 Pas<\/em> (1985) by Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts<br \/>\n<em>Vertigo Beach: \u00c9tudes pour piano \u00e0 Tom Verlaine<\/em> (2007) by Nicole Liz\u00e9e<br \/>\n<em>Sunflower Sutra<\/em> (1999) by American Jerome Kitke<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Toronto&#8217;s Hart House, once a core presenter of concerts in Toronto, has let its Sunday-afternoon presentations at Hart House drift into irregularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,19,36,38,39,47,63],"tags":[6451,616,4057,4055,4056,2460,6468,2769],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hopfner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-42b","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15513,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions\/15513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15511"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}