Robin Williams: Bridge, Brahms and Blue

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Robin Williams
Bridge, Brahms and Blue

Robin Holtz Williams is currently Chair of the Department of Music at the University of New Orleans. Originally from Kansas City, she began playing the piano at five. Her piano lessons laid the foundation for a lifelong pursuit of music both as a career and as personal fulfillment. Dr. Williams earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance at the University of Missouri - Kansas City and then studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she was awarded Masters and Doctorate degrees in Piano Performance.

Since joining the University of New Orleans faculty in 1990, she has been a frequent solo and chamber musician in New Orleans and the surrounding region....

Selections

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
A Fairy Tale (9:48)

1 The Princess (2:11)
2 The Ogre (1:22)
3 The Spell (3:10)
4 The Prince (3:05)

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

5 Rhapsody in Blue (15:10)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Händel, Op. 24 (29:44)

6 Theme (:56)
7 Var. 1 (:49)
8 Var. 2 (:42)
9 Var. 3 (:51)
10 Var. 4 (:47)
11 Var. 5 (1:16)
12 Var. 6 (1:20)
13 Var. 7 (:40)
14 Var. 8 (:43)
15 Var. 9 (1:37)
16 Var. 10 (:42)
17 Var. 11 (:51)
18 Var. 12 (:55)
19 Var. 13 (1:32)
20 Var. 14 (:41)
21 Var. 15 (:45)
22 Var. 16 (:40)
23 Var. 17 (:37)
24 Var. 18 (:57)
25 Var. 19 (1:20)
26 Var. 20 (1:15)
27 Var. 21 (:53)
28 Var. 22 (1:09)
29 Var. 23 (:43)
30 Var. 24 (:44)
31 Var. 25 (:48)
32 Fugue (5:13)

Cover art: Seraglio ©1987 John Clemmer
CD design by Diana Thornton, Crescent Music Services
Produced with the support of the University of New Orleans through the Virginia Kock Foundation
Year Released: 2006

For further information:
www.robinsmusic.net