{"id":2006,"date":"2009-01-26T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:45:00","slug":"glazer-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/01\/26\/glazer-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Glazer piano concerts celebrate remarkable anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/Glazer_BEST.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Glazer \" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Glazer <\/p><\/div>\n<p>At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, 94-year-old pianist Frank Glazer\u00a0reprises the program that he played in his Carnegie Hall debut, 60 years ago to the day. The concert takes place at Bates College in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or <a href=\"mailto:olinarts@bates.edu\">olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An artist in residence at Bates since 1980, Glazer is a musician of international renown, still vital and active after decades of touring, composing, recording and teaching. The program that he revisits on March 4 spans four centuries, from the seldom-heard Chaconne in G major by 18th-century composer George Frideric Handel to a set of variations by Glazer&#8217;s near-contemporary Aaron Copland.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/media\/audio\/cmr\/Glazer%20USE.mp3\">Hear music by, and an interview with, Frank Glazer.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Glazer, of Topsham, has enjoyed\u00a0a career distinguished by numerous recordings, a television program in the 1950s and countless solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the New England Piano Quartette, of which he was a founder.<\/p>\n<p>He taught at the Eastman School of Music for 15 years before coming to Maine in 1980. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the long-running Saco River Festival in Cornish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-three-year-old pianist Frank Glazer, one of Maine&#8217;s best-known musicians, performs at Bates College in two concerts marking the anniversaries of important debuts in his long career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,32],"tags":[3666,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-frank-glazer","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93182,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/93182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}