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Second Sunday Concert Series (Oak Park, IL)

 

Celebrating Maud Powell: Musical Visionary and America’s First Great Violinist

Sara Su Jones, violin
Tatyana Stepanova, piano

Sunday, September 13, 2026
3:00 PM

 

FREE admission (and free street parking near the church)
United Lutheran Church of Oak Park

409 Greenfield St

Oak Park, IL 60302

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Our concert (with illuminating commentary between pieces) will pay tribute to the incredible Maud Powell, an Illinois native who was the first great American-born violinist. We'll perform works dedicated to her as well as works arranged or performed by her, and our program will also feature the types of composers Powell championed: American composers, Black composers, female composers, and living composers.

 

Facebook event page with program details

Concert series website

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Program:
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Scherzo in C minor (from the “F-A-E” Sonata), WoO 2 (1853)
Clara Schumann (1819–1896): Three Romances, op. 22 (1853)
     I. Andante molto
     III. Leidenschaftlich schnell
Amy Beach (1867–1944): Romance, op. 23 (1893)
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), arr. Maud Powell: III. Musette from King Christian II Suite, op. 27 (1898)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921): The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals, arranged for violin and piano (1886)
Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944): Capriccio, op. 18 (1890)
Florence Price (1887–1953): Adoration (1951) and Elfentanz (Elves’ Dance) (undated)
Clarence Cameron White (1880–1960): Levee Dance, op. 27, no. 4 (1927)
Clarice Assad (b. 1978): Emotiva (2020)
Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981): Hexapoda: Five Studies in Jitteroptera (1940)
     1. “Gut-Bucket Gus”
     3. “Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes”
     5. “. . . Till Dawn Sunday”

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