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Mining Hidden Treasures
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Gildenhorn Recital Hall, College Park, Maryland
Friday, 5 October 2007, 8:00 pm
Pre-concert lecture begins at 7 pm, School of Music lecture hall room 2200
Where else are you going to hear an Eisler Nonet, Sirota’s “A Sinner’s Diary”, Sierra’s latest cello
sonata, and the luminously ethnic bass quintet of Dvořák? The colorful extended family includes flutist Alice Weinreb,
clarinetist Paul Cigan, bassoonist Samantha Brenner, trumpeter Chris Gekker, violinist, James Stern, bassist
Anthony Manzo, percussionist Lee Hinkle, pianist Audrey Andrist, and the Left Bank Quartet.
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Hanns Eisler |
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Nonet Nr. 2, (1941) for flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, three violins
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Roberto Sierra |
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Sonata for Cello and Piano (2001) |
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Robert Sirota |
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A Sinner’s Diary (2005), for flute/piccolo, two violas, cello, percussion, and piano |
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Antonín Dvořák |
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String Quartet in E Minor (“From My Life”) (1876) |
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Bellwethers of the 20th Century
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Terrace Theater, Washington, D.C.
Saturday, 17 November 2007, 7:30 pm
The discovery in a Philadelphia seminary of Beethoven’s piano four-
hand manuscript of the Grosse Fuge (pictured on our home page)
electrified the music world in 2005. You will hear this revolutionary work
performed twice—first by pianists Audrey Andrist and Colette
Valentine then by the Left Bank Quartet, who will also present the entire
Opus 130. Stravinsky himself performed his two-piano version of the
riot-inducing Rite of Spring with none other than Debussy.
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String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 (1826) |
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Beethoven |
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Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major, Op. 134
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Stravinsky |
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Rite of Spring, played as a two-piano arrangement (1913) |
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Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major, Op. 133 (string quartet) |
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Darkness and Light
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Terrace Theater, Washington, D.C.
Sunday, 13 January 2008, 2:00 pm
A mini-retrospective of Kurtág’s ravishing music for string quartet
is set against the darkly strange and wonderful “Death’s Death” by
Hindemith. Balancing these beautifully are Brahms’s opulent last
string quartet and a Sunday afternoon. The concert features mezzo-
soprano Delores Ziegler and the Left Bank Quartet.
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György Kurtág |
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Hommage à Mihály András (1977), for string quartet |
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György Kurtág |
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6 Moments musicaux, Op. 44 (2005), for string quartet |
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Paul Hindemith |
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Des Todes Tod (1922), for female voice, 2 violas, and 2 cellos |
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Johannes Brahms |
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Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 67 (1876) |
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Frank Conversations and Intimate Letters
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Gildenhorn Recital Hall, College Park, Maryland
Saturday, 8 March 2008, 8:00 pm
Pre-concert lecture begins at 7 pm, School of Music lecture hall room 2200
The soul-baring program, culminating with Janácek’s unabashedly
“Intimate Letters,” includes a lush Finzi oboe quintet, a poignant
oboe-piano suite by Haas, and Kirchner’s unflinching Piano Trio II.
Featured artists are Mark Hill, oboe, Audrey Andrist, piano, and the
Left Bank Quartet.
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Gerald Finzi |
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Interlude, Op. 21 (1936) for oboe and string quartet |
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Leon Kirchner |
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Trio II for violin, cello and piano (1993) |
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Pavel Haas |
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Suite for Oboe and Piano (1929) |
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Leos Janácek |
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String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters” (1928) |
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