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“CHAMBER MUSIC IN ART SPACES”
Sunday, November 2, 2008
3:00 pm
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
535 Means Street NW, Atlanta
www.thecontemporary.org
Advance Seats:$20 Adults, $10 Students
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Convenient public parking
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"ETHNIC & ECCENTRIC"
KHACHATURIAN Trio for Clarinet, Violin, Piano
IVES Piano Trio
BARTOK String Quartet no. 2, Opus 17
Paula Peace, piano • Laura Ardan, clarinet • Justin Bruns, violin
John Meisner, violin • Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello
We open our 33rd season with an "Art Spaces" concert at the dynamic Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, renowned for their multi-disciplinary commitment to the arts. Beginning the program is Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's exotic and ethnic Trio of 1932, a work rich in colors and swirling rhythms and which includes variations on an Uzbek folk tune. Charles Ives, one of America's most original – even eccentric -composers, worked on his Piano Trio during the first decade of the 20th century. He embedded numerous American tunes (such as "Marching Through Georgia," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Rock of Ages") into this profound and richly lyric masterpiece. Reflective, barbaric, folk music inspired – Hungarian Bela Bartok's 2nd Quartet dates from wartime 1917 and is the most frequently performed of his ground-breaking string quartets.
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“CHAMBER MUSIC IN SACRED SPACES”
Sunday, January 11, 2009
3:00 pm
Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Kellett Chapel
3434 Roswell Road NW, Atlanta
Suggested Donation of $20 Adults, $10 Students
Advance Seats: Click for Online Ticket Purchase
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“FRANZ, LUDWIG & JOHANNES”
SCHUBERT Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock)
(soprano, oboe, piano)
BEETHOVEN String Trio in G Major, Opus 9, no. 1
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 60
Paula Peace, piano • Arietha Lockhart, soprano
Elizabeth Koch, oboe • Justin Bruns, violin
Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello
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We are delighted to present our "Sacred Spaces" concert this season at Peachtree Presbyterian's truly special Kellett Chapel. We begin the program featuring the golden voice of soprano Arietha Lockhart in Franz Schubert's "Shepherd on the Rock" extended song with piano, this time in a beautiful arrangement with oboe rather than the customary clarinet. Ludwig van Beethoven (who will be featured on each of our 2009 concerts) will be spotlighted in his magnificent G major string trio, an early work of beautiful melodies and muscular energy. Concluding the program is Johannes Brahms' C minor Quartet for Piano and Strings, renowned for its gorgeous Adagio movement and tragic temperament.
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SPIVEY HALL
Sunday, March 1, 2009
3:00 pm
Spivey Hall
Clayton State University, Morrow
Tickets $25: Click for Online Ticket Purchase
Box Office 678 466 4200
Students Half Price with ID.
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“TOUR DE FORCE”
BEETHOVEN Serenade in D Major, Opus 25 (flute, violin, viola)
POULENC Trio (oboe, bassoon, piano)
KORNGOLD Piano Quintet, Opus 15
Paula Peace, piano • Elizabeth Koch, oboe • Christina Smith, flute • Carl Nitchie, bassoon
Justin Bruns, violin • John Meisner, violin • Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello
We begin our annual concert at the renowned Spivey Hall with Beethoven's Serenade for flute, violin and viola – a jewel of classical grace and wit and a real showpiece for each instrument. Frenchman Francis Poulenc excelled in his chamber works for winds and this popular trio for oboe, bassoon and piano is brimming with flash and panache. Anchoring the program is the first-rate quintet for piano and strings by Viennese composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. This ultra-romantic work features both poetic and heroic writing and is a virtuosic tour de force for all five performers.
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“CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE TAVERN”
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Tavern opens for British Pub menu at 6:15 pm,
Concert begins at 7:30 pm
Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern
499 Peachtree Street, Atlanta
Box Office www.shakespearetavern.com and 404 874 5299
$20 Adults, $10 Students
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Convenient parking located across the street at Crawford Long Hospital
Bring your parking ticket to theatre for discount coupon
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| "LICKS & LEGACIES"
HERZOGENBERG Trio for Oboe, Horn & Piano
KRAMER Atlanta Licks (1984)
(flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano)
Commissioned & premiered by the ACP
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in Bb Major, Opus 130
Paula Peace, piano • Christina Smith, flute • Elizabeth Koch, oboe
Laura Ardan, clarinet • Richard Deane, horn
Justin Bruns, violin • John Meisner, violin • Catherine Lynn, viola • Brad Ritchie, cello
We are proud to inaugurate “Chamber Music at the Tavern” with an evening ranging from the fun and jazzy to profound genius of late Beethoven. Our audience is invited to enjoy – beginning at 6:15 pm - the British pub menu and libation at the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern. Or just come for the 7:30 pm concert downbeat. The program begins with a fresh and romantic trio for the unusual combination of oboe, horn and piano by little known Heinrich von Herzogenberg, a contemporary and friend of Brahms. ACP proudly presents again – after too long – "Atlanta Licks" by distinguished American composer Jonathan Kramer. This innovative sextet was commissioned, premiered and recorded by the Atlanta Chamber Players in 1984 and features exciting solo "licks" with strong jazz overtones. After intermission and the Tavern's popular apple crisp, we turn to some of music's most beloved repertoire – the late string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven. The Bb Quartet, Opus 130, features some of Beethoven's most appealing writing for strings, ranging from the serene and sublime to jocular and high-spirited. Its "Cavatina" movement is regarded as some of Beethoven's most achingly beautiful and personal writing.
(Food and drink are not included in the concert ticket price. Seats are general admission.)
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