Lecture by Richard Shuster Presented by Liszt Academy

Richard Shuster is Professor of Piano at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.

Theme of the lecture:

Chain of Circumstances for solo piano or piano four-hands (with optional dancer and/or interactive computer music) is conceived as a series of disparate, distinctive, and relatively static musical states. It is modular, open-form, non-linear, and recombinant, and is based on a scale that is symmetrical, palindromic and complementary to itself. Chain provides an ever-changing sonic canvas, which the pianist(s) may alter at will. In this lecture-recital, pianist Richard Shuster will present an analysis and perform the complete work.