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| Enjoy sipping complimentary wine while relaxing to music of the Masters, played on this 1903 Steinway grand piano in the Music Room. The Steinway is a six-foot, three-inch Model A with ivory keys, built in New York. The first owner was the prominent newspaper publishing Blauvelt family of New Jersey. Rebuilt in 1996 by Kalman Detrich and Steinway in New York, March 11, 2003 was this instrument's 100th birthday. The large fenestrated pocket doors behind the piano, stunningly ornamented with stained and etched glasswork, open to The Dining Room. |
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| Evening gown of black silk, heavily ornamented with tiny faceted jet beads interwoven in lace, worn by ancestor Miss Alice Jenkins of Elgin Plantation, Natchez, to the Jenny Lind concert in 1851. Generously donated to Stone House in 2008 by Polly A. Stone, who inherited it in 1997. |
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| Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849). Ref: Wikipedia. |
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| Rosewood piano with ivory keys, brass sconces and inlay by Antoine Bord, Paris 1856. Bord's instruments were built for him by the Pleyel factory. |
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| Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Ref: Wikipedia. |
Mozart · Schubert · Beethoven · Wagner · Mendelssohn · Haydn
Enjoy a Private Classical Piano Performance by a Graduate of Two Prominent American Conservatories, along with Complimentary Wine, followed by a Tour of the Unique Stone House. To make an inquiry, email musicroom@bellsouth.net.
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| Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869), New Orleans composer of Pasquinade. Ref: Wikipedia. |
About the Performer
Joseph Stone holds a Bachelor of Music and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York; and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, both degrees in clarinet performance. Piano also was studied privately for the Bachelor’s degree at the Eastman School. A professional clarinetist for over 20 years, his extensive musical career featured solo performances of Claude Debussy's Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra with the Rochester Philharmonic in the Eastman Theatre, and the Mozart Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in New York City's Alice Tully Hall and at Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus. His chamber music appearances in New York at Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall, and at the Library of Congress and the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. among others, presented premiere performances of works by composers such as Karel Husa, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Jacob Druckman, George Perle, John Cage and Roberto Sierra, garnering enthusiastic praise from critics in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post; other performances on tours across the United States, in Canada and Puerto Rico received excellent reviews locally. Chamber music residencies were served at New York's Hunter College and the Americas Society/Center for Inter-American Relations. Orchestral appearances as principal clarinetist include a Carnegie Hall performance of Alberto Ginastera's Variaciones Concertantes, the North American premiere of Rossini's Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra, the Wagner Society Festival at Princeton University, orchestral concerts with solo pianists Andre Watts and Marianne McPartland, and many years with The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players and Opera Northeast. In summer 2006 he returned to Rochester for piano studies with Howard Spindler, Chair, Piano Department, Eastman Community Music School.
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| Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Ref: Wikipedia. |
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| Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Ref: Wikipedia. |
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Contents of this page © 2007 Joseph Britton Stone.
This music program with wine is complimentary for Stone House B&B guests.
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