C.K. Williams and Richard Goode
Grammy-winning pianist Richard Goode and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams are set to present a collaborative performance at Princeton University.
The poet and pianist will alternate, with Williams giving his poetic take on the pieces Goode performs.
The program includes work by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Bach and Janáček. Williams plans to recite several of his poems, including “Yours,” “My Mother’s Lips,” and “Invisible Mending.”
Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music.
Goode is an exclusive Nonesuch artist, and has made more than two-dozen recordings, including the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, the complete Partitas by J.S. Bach, and solo and chamber works of Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Busoni, and George Perle. His recording of the Brahms sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman won a Grammy Award.
C. K. Williams was born and grew up in and around Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in philosophy and English. He has published many books of poetry, including Repair, which was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, The Singing, which won the National Book Award for 2003, and Flesh and Blood, the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1987.
The performance is scheduled for 3 p.m. March 9 at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall. A pre-concert talk between Richard Goode and C.K. Williams, moderated by professor Jeff Dolven, is set for 2 p.m.
Ticket princes range from $45 to $20 for general admission. Student tickets are $10 to $5.
More information is online at princetonuniversityconcerts.org.
