Music of Stefan Wolpe, vol. 7 <BR> BRIDGE 9452As a child Stefan Wolpe studied the violin and the piano, and by his teens he wished to become a concert pianist and composer. His life transformed when, at the age of 18, he visited the Bauhaus at Weimar and sat in on the Preliminary Course of the painter and progressive educator Johannes Itten. Throughout his life Wolpe maintained that art has the power to transform the individual and society. This remarkable collection of Wolpe's music for

Scott Perkins

Stravinsky's droll and sinuous "Tango"

It might seem odd that a man so full of life and loves and friends could be thought of as a loner

George Crumb's Ghosts of the Alhambra is a song cycle based on poems of Lorca

The Berceuse’s caressing accompaniment and long cantabiles sound as if originating from two different pianos

Du denkst mit einem

an excellent pianist and champion of contemporary music

Bug-Mudra for Two Guitars

Lazy Andy Ant  (1947) (Text by Helen Fletcher)

It All Adds Up

“Be Patient”

Trembling Air