-Piano Lessons By Lauralee-

Spring Piano Recital 2018
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Saturday, May 5th, 12pm.

Liam Hood Billy in the Lowground – Traditional
w/Natalie Hood
Arran Boat Song – Traditional
Linus & Lucy – Vince Guaraldi

Aaron Couvillion Surprise Symphony – J. Haydn
Swinging Cats – C. Goldston
Yankee Doodle – Traditional

Henry Couvillion Tick-Tock the Jazz Clock – B. Boyd
Watercolors – P. Keveren
Racing Towards Home – K. Beard
Rockin’ the Blues -E. McLean

Molly Wirschem Hungarian Rhapsody – F. Lizt
Sneaky Business – M. Mier

Josephine Wheat Clockwork Ballerina – C. Tsitaros
Surfboard Boogie – M. Mier
How Far I’ll Go (Moana) – Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hana Honkola Fur Elise – L.V. Beethoven
I Need U – BTS arr. Dori Piano

Marija Wunnike Entertainer – S. Joplin
Russian Sailor Dance – R. M. Giliere
Ashokan Farewell – J. Ungar

Natalie Hood Feather Theme (Forest Gump) – Alan Silvestri
Prelude #1 in C Major – J.S. Bach

Christmas Piano Recital 2017
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Friday December 15th, 6pm.

Josephine Wheat Joy to the World – M. Mier
Don’t Wanna Leave You Blues – M. Mier

Liam Hood Jingle Bells – arr. M. Mier
Silent Night – arr. Liam Hood

Molly Wirschem March – P. I. Tchaikovsky
Etude – L. Schytte

Hana Honkola Kiki’s Delivery Service – Joe Hisaishi
The Snowman – Howard Blake

Marija Wunnike Go Tell it on The Mountain – M. Mier
City of Stars – Justin Hurwitz

Natalie Hood In The Pine Forest – P. I. Tchaikovsky

-Piano Lessons By Lauralee-

Spring Piano Recital 2016
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Saturday May 13th, 5 p.m.

Josephine Wheat    Just Struttin’ Along – M. Mier

Martha Mier is an independent piano teacher and composer of piano pieces. She resides in Lake City, Florida, where she moved after graduating with honors from Florida State University.
Aside from her skills and duties composing and teaching, she is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, the Florida State Music Teachers Association, and the National Guild of Piano teachers, and is internationally recognised as a composer, teacher and arranger. She also takes part in many competitions in Florida as an adjudicator.[1]

Spring – A. Vivaldi

The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works. Unusually for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems  that elucidated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a narrative element.

Liam Hood        March – A. Diabelli

Diabelli was born in Mattsee near Salzburg, then in the Archbishopric of Salzburg. A musical child, he sang in the boys’ choir at Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn. By the age of 19 Diabelli had already composed several important compositions including six masses.
Diabelli was trained to enter the priesthood and in 1800 joined the monastery at Raitenhaslach, Bavaria.[1] He remained there until 1803, when Bavaria closed all its monasteries.
In 1803 Diabelli moved to Vienna and began teaching piano and guitar and found work as a proofreader for a music publisher. During this period he learned the music publishing business while continuing to compose. In 1809 he composed his comic opera, Adam in der Klemme. In 1817 he started a music publishing business and in 1818 he formed a partnership with Pietro Cappi to create the music publishing firm of Cappi & Diabelli.

Blackberry Blossom – Traditional
Blackberry Blossom” is a fiddle tune in the key of G Major.[1] It is classified as a “breakdown” and is popular in old time, bluegrass and Celtic traditional circles.

The tune has been added to over 250 tune books.

Just Struttin’ Along – M. Mier

Aaron Couvillion    Let’s Get Silly – B. Kreader
Merrily We’re off to School

Hana Honkola    The Black Pearl – K. Badelt arr. Hana Honkola

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 American fantasy swashbuckler film based on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney theme parks and part of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer.[3] The story follows pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) as they rescue the kidnapped Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from the cursed crew of the Black Pearl, captained by Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who become undead skeletons at night.

Secret Agent – P. Jutras

Marija Wunnicke    The River Flows in You – Yivuma arr. Marija Wunnicke
In The Mood – G. Miller
“In the Mood” is a popular big band-era #1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. It topped the charts for 13 straight weeks in 1940 in the U.S. and one year later was featured in the movie Sun Valley Serenade. The first recording of “In the Mood” was released by Edgar Hayes and his Orchestra in 1938

Natalie Hood        Fur Elise – L.V. Beethoven

Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor for solo piano, commonly known as “Für Elise” is one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most popular compositions. It is usually classified as a bagatelle, but it is also sometimes referred to as an Albumblatt.
The score was not published until 1867, 40 years after the composer’s death in 1827. The discoverer of the piece, Ludwig Nohl, affirmed that the original autographed manuscript, now lost, was dated 27 April 1810.

Rhapsody on a Theme on Paganini – S. Rachmaninoff

The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, (Russian: Рапсодия на тему Паганини, Rapsodiya na temu Paganini) is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is written for solo piano and symphony orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto. The work was written at his Villa, the Villa Senar, in Switzerland, according to the score, from July 3 to August 18, 1934. Rachmaninoff himself, a noted interpreter of his own works, played the solo piano part at the piece’s premiere at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 7, 1934 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

Lauralee Honkola     Arabesque #1 – C. Debussy

The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.
Although quite an early work, the arabesques contain hints of Debussy’s developing musical style. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes through music. His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time.[1] Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote:[2]
“that was the age of the ‘wonderful arabesque’, when music was subject to the laws of beauty inscribed in the movements of Nature herself.”

My band the Jakelegs will be performing on the main stage Friday, January 20th at 7pm, and teaching a workshop on traditional string band music on Saturday, January 21st at 2:45pm. Hope to see you there!

Christmas Piano Recital 2016
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Saturday December 12th, 1 p.m.
Christmas Classics, Favorites from the “Nutcracker” Suite and more

Josephine Wheat    Deck the Halls – Traditional
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer – Johnny Marks
O Little Town of Bethlehem – L. Redneer & P. Brooks

Liam Hood        Take Me Out To The Ball Game – A. Von Tilzer
Silent Night – J. Mohr & F. Gruber
March – P. I. Tchaikovsky

Lucy Wheat        Santa Baby – J. Javitis & P. Springer

Molly Wirschem    Dance of the Reed Flutes – P. I. Tchaikovsky
Just Struttin’ Along – M. Mier

Hana Honkola    God Rest Ye Merry Gentelmen – Traditional arr. M. Mier
Surfboard Boogie – M. Mier

Marija Wunnicke    Deck the Halls – Traditional arr. M. Mier
Red Rose Rendezvous – M. Mier

Natalie Hood        In The Pine Forest – P. I. Tchaikovsky arr. by B. Johnson
Sligo Creek – D. Noveck

Laurel Sulliven     Waltz in A minor – F. Chopin

Check out this version of Mary Did You Know?

Anchorage Folk Festival