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Jon Manasse Boston Cello Quartet Julian Schwarz Jon Nakamatsu Martin Beaver Amit Peled Cypress String Quartet Stephanie Chase Yeesun Kim Curtis on Tour Emerson String Quartet Natasha Paremski Noreen Polera Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Dennis & Yarmouth Wellfleet & Provincetown Cotuit & Orleans Chatham Wellfleet Wellfleet Cape Cod Gala July 21, Wellfleet 7:30pm July 29, Orleans 7:30pm July 31 7:30pm Sunday, July 27 ~ 6pm Curtis On Tour features a string chamber Boston Cello Quartet Jon Manasse, CLARINET Blaise Déjardin Adam Esbensen Join us for a festive evening at our orchestra performing Antonio Vivaldi’s iconic Emerson String Quartet Cape Cod Gala! Featuring music by The Four Seasons paired with Ástor Piazzolla’s Mihail Jojatu Alexandre Lecarme tango masterpieces Cuatro Estaciones W.A. MOZART Overture to The Abduction from the Eugene Drucker, VIOLIN Philip Setzer, VIOLIN the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo. Cocktails Seraglio Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) Lawrence Dutton, VIOLA Paul Watkins, CELLO at 6, music at 6:45 followed by a full F. MENDELSSOHN Scherzo from A Midsummer buffet dinner. featuring celebrated Curtis alumna violinist Night’s Dream J. HAYDN String Quartet in G Minor; Opus 20 No. Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94). C. DEBUSSY Reverie 3, Hob. III.33 Jon Manasse, CLARINET D. POPPER Suite for Two Cellos, Opus 16 W. A. MOZART Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and The proceeds from this concert will help fund Jon Nakamatsu, PIANO E. CHABRIER España, rapsodie pour orchestra Strings, K. 581 Luis Ortiz, PIANO the restoration of the late 18th-early 19th J. WILLIAMS Theme from Angela’s Ashes century “Church Bass” that has been in the L. v. BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Minor, Opus 95 Gordon Goodwin, COMPOSER M.A. SANLIKOL The Blue Typhoon (“Serioso”) Wellfleet Congregational Church for many L. ANDERSON Fiddle-Faddle DVORÁK Three Slavonic Dances for Piano Four- years. B. DÉJARDIN Variations on a New World Hands, from Opus 46 P. D’RIVERA Bandoneón [from The Cape Cod August 5, Cotuit 7:30pm August 6 7:30pm Individual Underwriters To Date August 8 7:30pm Files] Clyde & Ellie Claus Martin Beaver, VIOLIN Amit Peled, CELLO Martin Beaver, VIOLIN G. GOODWIN Four Views for Clarinet and Felice Coral Julian Schwarz, CELLO Noreen Polera, PIANO Julian Schwarz, CELLO Piano (2012) Richard & Susan Hamilton Natasha Paremski, PIANO Natasha Paremski, PIANO J. S. BACH Suite No 1 in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello BWV 1007 Lee L. Kane Jon Nakamatsu, PIANO Jon Nakamatsu, PIANO M. KOPYTMAN Kaddish for Cello and Piano Linda B. Miller I. STRAVINSKY Suite Italienne for Cello and Piano J. TURINA Trio No. 2 in B Minor for Violin, Cello and Piano S. TSINTSADZE Five Folk Pieces for Cello and Piano (1950) Regina Mullen S. RACHMANINOFF Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36 J. BRAHMS Sonata No. 1 in G Major for Piano and S. RACHMANINOFF Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Martin & Florence Reif Richman F. MENDELSSOHN Trio in D Minor for Violin, Cello and Violin, Op. 78 Piano, Opus 19 Carol Ridker Piano, Opus 49 L. v. BEETHOVEN Trio in G Major for Piano, Violin Nicholas & Shelley Robinson and Cello, Opus 1 No. 2 Mr. & Mrs. Burton Staniar Jon Manasse Edward & Nancy Stavis Jon Nakamatsu Cultural Center of Cape Cod August 11, Provincetown August 12, Cotuit 7:30pm 307 Old Main Street 35th Anniversary Celebration August 15, 7:30pm South Yarmouth Cypress String Quartet 7:30pm Cypress String Quartet Cecily Ward, VIOLIN Cecily Ward, VIOLIN Stephanie Chase, VIOLIN F. KREISLER Praeludium and Allegro for Violin Tom Stone, VIOLIN Tom Stone, VIOLIN Nicholas Kitchen, VIOLIN and Piano (“Pugnani”) G. CRUMB Sonata for Solo Cello (1955) Ethan Filner, VIOLA Ethan Filner, VIOLA Yeesun Kim, CELLO C. DEBUSSY Syrinx (for solo flute), L. 129 (1913) Jennifer Kloetzel, CELLO Jennifer Kloetzel, CELLO Laurence Lesser, CELLO J. HOROVITZ Valdemosa (No. 2 from “Two J. HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Opus 76, No.5 Carol Wincenc, FLUTE Majorcan Pieces”) F. SCHUBERT String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703 (“Largo”) (“Quartettsatz”) Tomoko Nakayama, PIANO G. FAURÉ Morceau de concours (1898) E. SCHULHOFF Divertimento for String Quartet Sam Sanders Award Winner G. DINICU Hora staccato (1906) E. RUEHR String Quartet No. 6 (2012) for Todd (1914) Donovan M. RAVEL Tzigane (1924) A. DVORÁK String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 51 Gordon Goodwin Luis Ortiz A. DVORÁK String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 51 F. MENDELSSOHN Trio in C Minor for Piano, Violin and Cello, Opus 66 August 17, Dennis 3pm August 19, Cotuit 7:30pm August 20 7:30pm August 22 7:30pm Join us after the concert for Elizabeth Mann, FLUTE Elizabeth Mann, FLUTE Julia DeRosa, OBOE Escher String Quartet The Borromeo String Quartet Pedro Diaz, OBOE Liam Burke, CLARINET our first CCCMF Beach Party Pot Luck! Pedro Diaz, OBOE Adam Barnett-Hart, VIOLIN Nicholas Kitchen, VIOLIN Daniel Gilbert, CLARINET Laura Weiner, HORN Joseph Anderer, HORN Nanci Belmont, BASSOON Aaron Boyd, VIOLIN Kristopher Tong, VIOLIN Joseph Anderer, HORN Bass Hole/Gray's Beach, Cynde Iverson, BASSOON Pierre Lapointe, VIOLA Mai Motobuchi, VIOLA Cynde Iverson, BASSOON Daniel Gilbert, CLARINET Yarmouth Port ~ 5:30 PM. Dane Johansen, CELLO Yeesun Kim, CELLO Jon Nakamatsu, PIANO Jon Nakamatsu, PIANO L.v. BEETHOVEN Trio in G Major for Piano, Flute F. SCHUBERT String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, F. POULENC Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1962) F. MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Everyone is invited! Bring friends, and Bassoon (1783), WoO 37 Opus 13 D. 887 L. v. BEETHOVEN Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano, T. BLUMER Sextet (“Original Theme with family and food to share! Space A. ZEMLINSKY String Quartet (“Suite”) No. 4, A. 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