JACQUELINE SCHWAB - LIVE IN CONCERT

 

 WHO: Ken Burns’ pianist Jacqueline Schwab — LIVE IN AN INTIMATE CONCERT PERFORMANCE

WHAT: Solo piano concert. Schwab will draw from her repertoire of vintage American music, featuring 19th and early 20th century vintage American music, including Stephen Foster and Civil War song tunes from North and South, Victorian ballroom dance tunes, Scots and Irish songs and dance tunes brought over by settlers, hymns and spirituals, ragtime and more.

WHEN: Thursday, November 1 at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:15 p.m for a wine and cheese reception

WHERE: Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum gallery, 120 N. Main St. in Hannibal

TO PURCHASE TICKETS: On sale Sept. 17, cost is $25. Seating is limited in the gallery. 

Contact Mai Conrad at 573-221-9010, ext. 401 or stop by the museum gallery at 120 N. Main St. in Hannibal.

THE PERFORMANCE: Schwab will perform on Ossip Gabrilowitsch’s grand piano, one of the museum’s most valued artifacts. Gabrilowitsch was a composer and conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He married Clara Clemens in 1909.

THE ARTIST: Schwab performs on more than a dozen Ken Burns’ documentaries, including his Grammy award-winning “Civil War,” his Emmy award-winning “Baseball,” “Lewis and Clark,” “Mark Twain,” “The War,” and “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” She will be heard on Burns’ “Dust Bowl,” premiering Nov. 17, 2012. Jacqueline has three solo recordings, “Mad Robin,” “Down Came an Angel” and “Mark Twain’s America,” and recordings from duo “Celtic Dialogue.”