Music Journals

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New England Conservatory · Williams Hall

Kevin Ahfat, piano

Kevin Ahfat

August 17, 2026 · Boston

Program

Robert Schumann

Kinderszenen “Scenes from Childhood” · Op. 15

Nikolai Medtner

Fairy Tale (Skazka) · Op. 51, No. 2

Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

J. S. Bach · Ferruccio Busoni

Chaconne in D minor · BWV 1004

Deeper insight

Pictures at an Exhibition

Modest Mussorgsky · composed 1874 · ten musical pictures

Written in memory of the artist Viktor Hartmann, the suite moves through an imagined gallery. Its returning Promenade changes as the listener changes between pictures.

Listen for

How the Promenade shifts the scale and character of each scene, then returns before the Great Gate of Kiev.

Connect the dots

Prélude, Fugue et Variation

Previous hearing · August 2025

Psychopomp Ensemble

NEC · ensemble arrangement

This performance · August 2026

Kevin Ahfat

Williams Hall · solo piano

How does the solo performance reshape the balance, pace and transitions you heard in the ensemble version?

Your reflection

Illustrative · private to you

What stayed with you?

“The final pages felt less like a grand arrival than a memory coming into focus—the silence afterwards was part of the piece.”

Your words remain beside this program, ready to meet the next performance.

Your programmes are
sitting in a drawer.
Bring the evenings back.

Photograph a programme or paste its text. Music Journals turns it into a concert you can revisit—then connects it with everything else you’ve heard.

Save the programme

Composer, performer, work, date and venue become a concert you can search.

Hear with deeper insight

Composition dates, context and focused listening cues arrive with the program.

Connect the dots

See who played it before, where you heard it and how this hearing felt different.

Your programmes aresitting in a drawer.Bring the evenings back.

Save the programme

Hear with deeper insight

Connect the dots

A real programme becomes a finished concert.

Kevin Ahfat

Your programmes aresitting in a drawer.Bring the evenings back.

Save the programme

Hear with deeper insight

Connect the dots

A real programme becomes a finished concert.

Kevin Ahfat

Your programmes are
sitting in a drawer.
Bring the evenings back.

Your programmes are
sitting in a drawer.
Bring the evenings back.