The Philadelphia Camerata perform this Saturday, March 17, 7pm at St Paul’s Parish Episcopal Church in Chestertown as part of the Kent Chamber Music Series. The quartet is made up of Rebecca Harris, violin, Michael Strauss, viola, Charles Forbes, cellom and Yuko Izuhara Gordon, piano.
The program will include Mozart’s Piano Quartet #2 in Eb Major, Ernst von Dohnanyi’s Trio for Violin, Viola and Violoncello Opus 10, and the Piano Quartet in A Major, Opus 26 by Brahms.
From the program notes: Tonight’s program weaves together music from three centuries. Mozart, Brahms and Dohnanyi composed in radically different styles, classical, romantic and 20th century post-modern. Think architecturally, and it’s like walking down a boulevard with mansions from three different centuries. We have the compact, classically spare but rococo ornamentations of Mozart’s construction. Then, we will enjoy the equally compact postmodern combination of elements combined in the 20th century home by Dohnanyi (nothing too dissonant, of course; in postmodernism, the artist is free to combine all elements from the past with the freedom of the present). After intermission, we can explore the voluminous spaces of the romantic palace built by Brahms.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
7 pm
Tickets at the door – $15
St. Paul’s Church,
Sandy Bottom Road
Chestertown, MD 21620
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