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CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS
March 8, 2009: New York Recital, Park Avenue United Methodist Church, Park Avenue at 86th Street, New York, NY. Details TBA
April 2, 2009: Recital on Les Arts George V Series, The American Cathedral, Paris, France, Program TBA
April 5, 2009: Recital on the Atelier Concert Series, The American Church, Paris, France
April 7, 2009: Third recital, Paris, France, TBA
July 10 and 12, 2009: Joining Schrade family in 2 family concerts at Sevenars Music Festival in Worthington, MA., duos and solos. Details TBA
August 9, 2009 (4PM): Dvorak Piano Quartet with the Enso Quartet, Sevenars Worthington, MA.
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CD RELEASE
Rorianne Schrade's 2008 CD entitled "Homage to Chopin" is now released. To order, please visit CDbaby.com or www.amazon.com.
Some early responses to it are out:
"Schrade plays precisely, expressively, and seemingly effortlessly…this lovely recording is heartily recommended.”
© 2008 Classical Voice of New England, Inc.
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MISCELLANEOUS "OLD NEWS":
WORLD PREMIERES
Sunday February 10, 2008, Rorianne Schrade joined other prizewinners from Concert Artists Guild in performances of world premieres by composers of the Long Island Composers Alliance at the Park Avenue United Methodist Church in New York City. Ms. Schrade performed works by Paul Hefner and Avraham Sternklar.
February 17, at 3:00 PM, she joined CAG winners in a second LICA concert at the Patchogue Theatre in Long Island. www.patchoguetheatre.com.
KOSCIUSZKO RECITAL
Sunday, September 23, 2007, 5:30 PM, Rorianne Schrade performed a program honoring Chopin at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. The program included:
Chopin's Preludes, Op. 28 (complete), Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Chopin, Op. 22, Hommage à Chopin (Etude) by Nicolas Flagello, and a Chopin-Godowsky Etude arrangement.
BILLBOARD:
October 16, 2006 the article below listed Rorianne Schrade's Strauss CD as reaching #11 on the Billboard Classical charts among some very exciting company!!
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http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5406.html
Elizabethan Singer-Songwriter John Dowland Tops the Charts at Last (Thanks to Sting)
By Matthew Westphal
16 Oct 2006
John Dowland, one of the most widely admired songwriters of Elizabethan England, finally has a hit record on the Billboard charts, some 380 years after his death, according to a report in The Independent of London.
Songs From the Labyrinth, Deutsche Grammophon's recent release of Dowland songs and lute music as performed by the rock star Sting (with lutenist Edin Karamazov), has reached no. 1 on Billboard's UK classical chart; more noteworthy still is that the disc is sitting at no. 24 on the pop album chart, competing against rock, rap, rhythm-and-blues and all other genres.
Songs From the Labyrinth also made its debut on Billboard's US classical chart last week, its first week in release in this country, at no. 24.
There are five other new arrivals on the classical chart this week. Top among them, at no. 5, is Serenada Schizophrana, the first-ever concert work for orchestra by Danny Elfman, best-known as the composer for director Tim Burton's films, from Batman to Beetlejuice, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Arriving at no. 11 is pianist Rorianne Schrade's recording of music by Johann Strauss II as transcribed for keyboard by Ernst von Dohnányi, Carl Tausig, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and other composers.
Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective, a budget-priced five-CD collection of music by Steve Reich released in honor of his 70th birthday, has landed at no. 13 in its first week on the chart. Moments of Passion, a collection of arias and songs sung by Plácido Domingo (most associated with concerts he has given at such large-scale sporting events as the World Cup), arrives on the chart at no. 20. A new recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 and Piano Quartet by Christoph Eschenbach (performing as both conductor and pianist) and the Philadelphia Orchestra is at no. 25.
Joshua Bell's Voice of the Violin continues in the top slot for the fifth consecutive week, while Paul McCartney's oratorio Ecce Cor Meum remains at no. 2, where it debuted last week.
Musical theater vocalist Sarah Brightman's Diva: The Singles Collection made no. 1 in its first week on the Billboard classical crossover chart.
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