PREVIEW NOTES

Julietta Curenton, flute; Marietta Simpson, mezzo‐; Lydia Brown, piano Sunday, March 9 – 3:00PM Philadelphia Museum of Art

Program in A Major found) is in the form of a trio sonata for alto soloist with Philippe Gaubert solo violin and a piccolo playing in unison above a Born: July 4, 1879 in Cahors, France staccato piano continuo. Died: July 8, 1941 in Paris, France Composed: 1917 Cantata BWV 79, Gott ist unser Sonn und Schild First PCMS Performance Johann Sebastian Bach Duration: 15 minutes Composed: 1725 First PCMS Performance The work, dedicated to Gaubert’s mentor Paul Taffanel, Duration: 5 minutes opens with a lyrical first movement. The second is written in a slow compound meter that is followed by a BWV 79 (God is a light and a shield) is one of two faster middle section before returning to tempo one. cantatas Bach composed for the Reformation Festival, The last movement is rather mysterious in nature. The an important event in the Lutheran calendar. The alto conclusion of the work is a recapitulation of the slow, aria, which follows the opening chorus, is a paraphrase pastoral introduction, completing its cyclic form. of the same psalm verse, but the triumphant mood of the chorus is here replaced one of devotion. Passacaglia for Solo Flute, Op. 48, No. 2 Ernő Dohnányi Feathers and Wax Born: July 27, 1877 in Bratislava, Slovakia Amanda Harberg Died: Feburary 9, 1960 in New York, NY Philadelphia Premiere Composed: 1959 First PCMS Performance Acclaimed composer, and Philadelphia native, Amanda Duration: 9 minutes Harberg composes music that continually engages audiences and performers alike. Feathers and Wax was Written the year before his death, the Passacaglia was written for Julietta Curenton in 2013. Hungarian composer Ernő Dohnányi’s last completed composition. Flute Sonata Bohuslav Martinů Cantata BWV 103, Kein Arzt ist ausser Dir zu finden Born: December 8, 1890 in Polička, Czech Republic Johann Sebastian Bach Died: August 28, 1959 in Liestal, Switzerland Born: March 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany Composed: 1945 Died: July 28, 1750 in Leipzig, Germany Last PCMS performance: Jeffrey Khaner, 2000 Composed: 1723 Duration: 20 minutes First PCMS Performance Duration: 4 minutes Written shortly after Martinů’s Symphony No. 4, theis sonata opens with an energetic and melodic movement Bach’s BWV 103 Ihr werdet und heulen (You shall be filled with the composer’s characteristic syncopations. A weeping and wailing) was composed for the Jubilate melancholy, songful Adagio follows, and the work ends Sunday, or the third Sunday after Easter. The cantata is with an intricate, lively Allegro poco moderato featuring scored for , and alto soloists, chorus, and a a theme derived from the song of the whippoorwill. small orchestra. The third movement aria Kein Arzt ist ausser Dir zu finden (Besides you is no doctor to be Selection of Spirituals TBA