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Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for Violin and Viola, K. 424 (1783)

Adagio—Allegro Andante cantabile Thema con variazioni: Andante grazioso

Sean Lee and Paul Neubauer

ALFRED SCHNITTKE (1934-1998)

Moz-Art for Two , after Mozart K. 416d (1976)

Sean Lee and Arnaud Sussmann CONCERT ONE Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for repeated in the biography of Mozart by Violin and Viola, K. 424 Georg Nissen, Constanze Mozart’s second husband) has, however, been called into The Chamber Music (1891-1953) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg. Died question by some scholars, including Society of Lincoln Center Quartet No. 2 in F major for Strings, December 5, 1791 in Vienna. Composed in Alfred Einstein, since it does not explain Saturday, May 28 at 11am Op. 92 (1941) 1783. Duration: 20 minutes why Mozart twice asked his father to Meeting House return the duos to him in December if Allegro sostenuto During a visit to his hometown of he intended to pass them off as the work Adagio Salzburg in 1782, Mozart planned to of another composer. Perhaps, after all, 1SEAN LEE VIOLIN Allegro renew acquaintance with old friends, he wrote them simply because he was ARNAUD SUSSMANN VIOLIN including Michael Haydn, director intrigued by the novelty of Haydn’s Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, of the orchestra and composer in the duos, and wanted to try his own hand VIOLA PAUL NEUBAUER Jeremy Berry and Estelle Choi archiepiscopal household, and the at the genre. They were announced for younger brother of Joseph Haydn of publication under their true author’s Calidore String Quartet Esterháza. Upon his arrival in Salzburg, name in 1788, but did not appear in print JEFFREY MYERS VIOLIN Mozart was distressed to find that until 1792, a year after Mozart’s death. Haydn had fallen ill, especially since the Mozart’s string duos provide about RYAN MEEHAN VIOLIN Archbishop had ordered a set of six duos as much delight as it is possible to derive from just two instruments. The B-flat VIOLA for violin and viola from him and was JEREMY BERRY threatening to dock Haydn’s salary if the Duo opens with a stately introduction in ESTELLE CHOI CELLO deadline for their delivery was not met. measured tempo that serves as preface Haydn had been able to finish only four to the fully realized of the of the pieces, so Mozart completed the Allegro. The movement’s development assignment for him by composing the section is particularly notable for the remaining pair (K. 423 and K. 424). All masterful canonic dialogues shared by six duos were written out in fair copy, the partnered instruments. The Andante, a movement of sweet, lyrical repose, is Please turn off cell phones and other inscribed with the name of Michael Haydn, and sent to the Archbishop with relatively short as notated, though Mozart electronic devices. Photographing, a flowery dedication. This nice story (first left open the possibility of an improvised sound recording, or videotaping this recorded by two of Haydn’s students and cadenza which could expand the music’s performance is prohibited. proportions by some tasteful interval of and Schubert inspired Schnittke’s earliest reputation. In 1989, he accepted a grant to an attentive mind and heart. time. The finale is an infectious theme attempts at composition. that allowed him to live in Berlin for a Schnittke wrote that in Moz-Art for and variations. When the Viennese paper ceased year, after which he settled in Hamburg. Two Violins “the polytonal effects sound operations in 1948, the Schnittkes returned During his later years, Schnittke was quite artificial and comical because Moz-Art for Two Violins, to Russia, where Alfred gained admittance invited regularly to attend performances of their quasi-falseness. Overall one after Mozart K. 416d to the October Revolution Music College of his works from Tokyo to Leipzig to is reminded of a country festival at Alfred Schnittke in Moscow; in the autumn of 1953, he Santa Fe, but he was limited in traveling which music of various types is heard Born November 24, 1934 in Engels, Russia. entered the Moscow Conservatory. His because of allergies, migraines, kidney simultaneously, performed in the Died August 3, 1998 in Hamburg, . early works gained him a reputation as disease, and three serious strokes suffered genuine, original manner by very sharp- Composed in 1976. Premiered in February a modernist, and he was accepted as between 1985 and 1994, though he witted amateur musicians. To be quite 1976 in Vienna by Gidon Kremer and Tatiana a member of the Composers’ Union proved remarkably resilient in carrying honest, this is above all a musical joke, Grindenko as soloists. Duration: 6 minutes following his graduation in 1958 as much on his creative work until his death in a humorous collage of Mozart’s music. to tame his avant-garde tendencies as to Hamburg on August 3, 1998. I was then especially concerned with Alfred Schnittke was born on promote his creative work. He tried writing In developing his own distinctive showing the playful atmosphere (which November 24, 1934 in Engels on the party-sanctioned pieces during the next musical speech, Schnittke sifted through is so common in Mozart’s music)—in Volga, in the Russian steppes, 500 miles few years—the 1959 cantata Songs of War a wide range of music, old and new, other words to create an image of this southeast of Moscow. He showed enough and Peace was his first published score—but and came to understand that he could characteristic feature of Mozartian musical ability to receive an audition the fit was uncomfortable on both sides, forge a style of personal expression that style.” Schnittke parodied the florid 18th- at the Central Music School for Gifted and during the 1960s and early 1970s, could encompass, perhaps might even be century literary style in his dedication: Children in Moscow in May 1941, when performances of his works were formed from, references to other music “Loose pages from an almost lost score but the following month the Germans officially discouraged, he devoted most of and other ages. “A mixture of styles by the Viennese Court Composer, invaded Russia, and the opportunity for his creative energy to scoring three or four which are worked with as they are,” he Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus early training vanished. In 1945, after films a year. In 1962, he started teaching explained, “not in the sense of a synthesis Theophilus Mozart. Composed by the the war, Harry Schnittke, a journalist, part-time at the Moscow Conservatory but as ‘poly-stylism,’ in which the various same, by his very own hand, in February got a job on a German-language (the Soviet officials would not grant him idioms appear to speak as individual of the year 1783, and after almost newspaper in Vienna published by the a full-time appointment), leaving little keys on a large keyboard.” Though two hundred years of neglect heard in occupying Russian forces. He brought opportunity for original creative work. In clearly products of the late 20th century, wondrous fashion in a dream by his most his family to the city the following year, 1972, he resigned from the conservatory to Schnittke’s compositions are essentially faithful pupil and most devoted admirer and there 12-year-old Alfred had the devote himself to composition. old-fashioned and Romantic in trying Alfredus Henricus Germanus Hebraeus world of music opened to him through Schnittke composed prolifically to create a sense of musical journey, of Rusticus of Moscow, on the night of his first piano lessons and attendance at during the following years, and by the emotions excited, of memories evoked, of February 23-24, 1976, and committed operas and concerts. The city of Mozart early 1980s, he had won an international communication from an insightful author to paper from what he heard with the greatest precision, and ornamented by The quartet’s opening movement means of small additions in accordance follows conventional sonata form, with taste of the present time.” though Prokofiev’s craggy, open-interval harmonies and virile, stamping rhythms Quartet No. 2 in F major for bring a bracing peasant vitality to the Strings, Op. 92 old city-bred structure. Three themes Sergei Prokofiev make up the exposition: a string of tiny, Born April 23, 1891 in Sontzovka, Russia. one-measure phrases with snapping Died March 5, 1953 in Moscow. Composed in rhythms; a melody of hammered notes 1941. Premiered on April 7, 1942 in Moscow that moves within in a tightly restricted by the Quartet. Duration: 20 minutes range; and a motive of broad gestures. The themes are aggressively worked out When the Germans invaded Soviet in the development section before being Russia in June 1941, Prokofiev and several recapitulated in compressed versions to other composers were evacuated from round out the movement. The second Moscow to Nalchik, the capital of the movement is music of double purpose. Its Karbardino-Balkaria Republic, in the opening paragraph, the quartet’s “slow northern Caucasus Mountains. “The movement,” is a nocturne based on a local Department of Arts people were Karbardinian love song, first sung by delighted to have a group of composers the cello above murmuring background staying in Nalchik,” he recorded in his figures. The center of the movement, autobiography. “The Chairman of the the “scherzo,” gradually increases in Arts Committee said to us, ‘Look here ... speed and becomes more dance-like as you have a gold mine of folk music in this the music suggests the strumming of a region that has practically been untapped. traditional Caucasian string instrument If you take advantage of your stay here known as the kemange. The movement’s to work up this material, you will be form is closed by the return of the lyrical laying the foundation of a Karbardinian strains from the opening section. The music.’ He went to his files, and brought finale revives Haydn’s old sonata-rondo out some songs collected by earlier form with some modern twists, the chief musical visitors to Nalchik. The material of which is the quotation of a joyous proved to be very fresh and original, and Karbardinian folk dance as the main before long we set to work. I settled on theme. The cello and viola then take up writing a string quartet, thinking that a fast, agitated figure that becomes the the combination of new, untouched accompaniment to the movement’s formal Oriental folklore with the most classical second subject, an anxious melody in of classic forms, the string quartet, ought longer notes given by the muted violin. to produce interesting and unexpected The opening dance theme returns, rondo- results.” Prokofiev selected a number of fashion, before a cello cadenza leads into authentic Karbardinian folk songs, and a ferocious development section. The began the quartet on November 2nd, recapitulation brings back the earlier finishing the score early the following materials as expected, but in reverse month, by which time his entourage had order, so that the dashing dance melody been transferred to Tbilisi as the Germans is held in reserve to bring the quartet to a closed in on Nalchik. Though some critics brilliant conclusion. criticized Prokofiev for overemphasizing the primitive qualities of his folk materials ©2016 Dr. Richard E. Rodda with “barbaric” harmonies and “strident” sonorities, the quartet’s premiere, given in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet on April 7, 1942, was a fine success. Pre-concert Lecture One Notes on the Program by Dr. Richard E. Rodda Saturday, May 28 at 3pm, Meeting House Patrick Castillo provides a structural analysis and historical context for the works to be Quartet No. 1 in D major for to bolster his reputation in the Russian performed in the Saturday evening concert. Strings, Op. 11 musical community. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky The quartet’s opening theme is an Born May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia. unusual and arresting construction of PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Died November 6, 1893 in St. Petersburg. soft, pulsing chords that seem to hover (1840-1893) Composed in 1871. Premiered on March 28, above any distinct meter, gently rising and 1871 in Moscow. Duration: 29 minutes falling in a manner that caused the work Quartet No. 1 in D major for Strings, at one time to be nicknamed “Accordion.” Op. 11 (1871) The New Year of 1871 found The music becomes more animated and Tchaikovsky, an established member of clearly metric in the transition to the Moderato e semplice the Moscow Conservatory faculty for second subject, a lyrical ensemble strain Andante cantabile five years and a composer of budding led by the viola. Delicate staccato scale Scherzo: Allegro non tanto e con fuoco genius, nearly broke. His salary at the fragments from the first violin begin the Finale: Allegro giusto school was hardly more than meager, exposition’s closing theme, and figure

and he often lent sizable chunks of it to prominently both in the development Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, even more impoverished friends, and section and as decorating arabesques Jeremy Berry and Estelle Choi then had to turn around and borrow when the pulsing main theme returns in some money for himself. His only large the recapitulation. After the second and compositions to that time—Romeo and closing themes are recalled, an excited coda, also based on the scale fragments, CONCERT TWO (1906-1975) Juliet and the First Symphony—had met with just limited success, and provided closes the movement. little promise of future royalties. His The second movement, the well-known The Chamber Music Prelude and Scherzo for String , superior at the conservatory, Nikolai Andante cantabile, is built from two themes. Op. 11 (1924-25) Society of Lincoln Center The first is a folksong that the composer Rubinstein, suggested that his young Saturday, May 28 at 5pm collected during a visit to his sister’s Prelude: Adagio colleague (Tchaikovsky was 31 at the country estate in Kamenka (Ukraine) in Meadow View Barn Scherzo: Allegro molto time) stage a concert entirely of his own compositions both to raise some funds the summer of 1866. The words of the 2 old tune, titled Vanya, hardly could be PIANO Jeffrey Myers, Sean Lee, Ryan and to bring his music before the public. WU HAN less appropriate to Tchaikovsky’s lovely Meehan, Arnaud Sussmann, Jeremy Tchaikovsky dreamed of presenting VIOLIN SEAN LEE Berry, Paul Neubauer, Estelle Choi an orchestral performance, but he had hymnal setting: “Vanya sat on the sofa neither the repertory nor the finances and smoked a pipe of tobacco.” In her ARNAUD SUSSMANN VIOLIN and David Finckel to support such a venture, so he settled biography of the composer, Claire Lee VIOLA instead on a chamber concert for which Purdy provided a few additional lines of PAUL NEUBAUER INTERMISSION he would compose a new string quartet text: “Late at night sat Ivan, Sadly on DAVID FINCKEL CELLO as the evening’s opening number. The the divan; In his hand he held a glass of rum; There he drowned his sorrow, SERGEI IVANOVICH in D major, the first chamber Calidore String Quartet work of his maturity and the first major There forgot tomorrow; Dreamed of love (1856-1915) and happiness to come!” The second JEFFREY MYERS VIOLIN string quartet by a Russian composer, was written quickly and, apparently, easily, theme, given by the violins above a Quintet in G minor for Piano, Two Vio- VIOLIN pizzicato accompaniment, is entirely of RYAN MEEHAN lins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 30 (1910-11) and premiered at his concert in Moscow on March 28, 1871 by the Russian Tchaikovsky’s own invention. VIOLA JEREMY BERRY The Scherzo, strongly rhythmic and Introduzione: Adagio mesto— Musical Society Quartet. Though the ESTELLE CHOI CELLO Allegro patetico hall was not completely filled, the income colorfully harmonized, is reminiscent of Scherzo: Presto was sufficient to relieve Tchaikovsky’s a fiery peasant dance. The central trio is most immediate financial distress, and made from two contrasting musical strains: Please turn off cell phones and other Largo Finale: Allegro vivace the publicity from the event, aided by the short, regular, two-measure phrases played electronic devices. Photographing, presence and kind words of the well- by the upper strings over a drone in the sound recording, or videotaping this Wu Han, Arnaud Sussmann, Sean Lee, known novelist Ivan Turgenev and some cello; and a syncopated, cross-rhythm line performance is prohibited. Paul Neubauer and David Finckel flattering reviews in the press, did much given in unison by violin and viola. The sonata-form Finale takes as its of two small stoves, made the bad air Quintet in G minor for composing, and writing a treatise on main theme a leaping, dance-like motive, stifling hot by the end of the performance. Piano, Two Violins, Viola, counterpoint that still serves as an given softly at first and later repeated with Then the doors were flung open to let the and Cello, Op. 30 important text on the subject in Russia’s great exuberance; the complementary crowd out and to air the hall before the Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev music schools. He was elected to honorary subject is a lyrical, wide-ranging viola next show, and cold damp drafts swept Born November 13, 1856 in Vladimir- membership in the Russian Musical melody. The materials are treated through the house. Down in front, below na-Klyazme, Russia. Died June 6, 1915 in Society in 1913, but confessed to being with a conversational counterpoint the screen, sat Dmitri, his back soaked Dyudkovo, near Moscow. Composed in embarrassed by the fuss attendant upon in the development section before a with perspiration, his near-sighted eyes in 1910-11. Duration: 45 minutes his installation ceremony. In April 1915, recapitulation and a coda that call for their horn-rimmed glasses peering upwards Taneyev stood in the rain at the funeral an almost symphonic breath of sonority to follow the story, his fingers pounding Sergei Taneyev, one of the most of his former student Alexander Scriabin, bring the quartet to a close. away on the raucous upright piano. Late prodigiously talented musicians of late contracted pneumonia, and died of a at night he trudged home in a thin coat Imperial Russia, was born in 1856 in the heart attack on June 6th. Prelude and Scherzo for String and summer cap, with no warm gloves or Vladimir district, 100 miles northeast of Taneyev’s G minor Piano Quintet of Octet, Op. 11 galoshes, and arrived exhausted around Moscow, into the family of a cultured 1910-11 opens with a somber introduction Dmitri Shostakovich one o’clock in the morning.” The taxing and affluent civil servant. (An uncle, that contains the work’s thematic seeds. A Born September 25, 1906 in St. Petersburg. job sapped his strength and health, but Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, born trilled chord, a freshening of the tempo, Died August 9, 1975 in Moscow. Composed in Shostakovich still eked out a little time six years earlier in St. Petersburg, gained and the presentation of the agitated main 1924-25. Duration: 10 minutes to sketch a First Symphony that would some notoriety as a composer in the theme mark the start of the movement’s serve as his graduation exercise following Russian nationalist vein.) Sergei had his sonata form; the tender subsidiary subject, Shostakovich entered the Leningrad completion of his conservatory studies first piano lessons at age five, and entered in a brighter key, is largely entrusted Conservatory in 1919 as a student early in 1925. In December 1924, he set the Moscow Conservatory before his to the piano. The development works of piano, composition, counterpoint, aside the symphony to write a movement tenth birthday; he studied piano there upon the exposition’s ideas a variety of harmony, and . He was 13. for in memory of his friend, with Nikolai Rubinstein and composition treatments, from dramatic to ruminative, His father died three years later, leaving the young poet Volodya Kurchavov. The with Peter Tchaikovsky, whose steadfast before a full recapitulation of the earlier a widow and children with no means of following July, after his family had scraped friend, trusted confidant, and respected themes and a fiery coda round out the support, so Dmitri’s mother, a talented together sufficient resources to extricate critic he became. (Taneyev gave the movement. The Scherzo takes as the amateur musician and an unswerving him from his celluloid purgatory so that he Moscow premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Piano materials for its outer sections a march- believer in her son’s talent and the benefits could complete the gestating symphony, Concerto No. 1 in December 1875). like theme and a mercurial strain in of his training at the conservatory, took Shostakovich added a Scherzo to the earlier Upon his graduation in May 1875, scintillating rhythms; a lyrical, rhapsodic a job as a typist to provide the necessities Prelude to create the Two Pieces for String Taneyev became the first student to win central episode provides formal contrast for the family. She constantly sought help Octet, Op. 11, which were issued by the gold medals in both performance and and expressive balance. The Largo revives from official sources to sustain Dmitri’s State Publishing House in 1927. composition from the school, and when the old Baroque technique of passacaglia career, but by the autumn of 1924, it Though modest in scale and scoring, Tchaikovsky resigned from the faculty in by draping a continuous flow of music became necessary for the young musician the Prelude and Scherzo for Octet encompass 1878, Taneyev, 22, took his place teaching across a constantly repeating scalar to find work despite the press of his studies an almost symphonic range of expressive harmony and orchestration. He soon phrase, most often heard descending in and the frail state of his health. (He spent states. The Prelude takes as the outer added piano and composition instruction the bass, though occasionally inverted. several weeks in 1923 at a sanatorium sections of its three-part form (A–B–A) to his duties, and in 1885, he became The finale comprises two large structural to treat his tuberculosis.) Victor Seroff a somber Adagio, whose stark harmonic the conservatory’s director. He resigned paragraphs: the first is tense and tightly described Shostakovich’s new job: as progressions and imitative passages as director in 1889 to give more time compressed; the second, which recalls pianist in a movie house. “The little theater recall Bach’s eponymous compositions. to composition, but continued to teach themes from the first movement, is was old, drafty, and smelly,” wrote Seroff. At the center of the movement lies counterpoint until 1905, when he left expansive and optimistic, and brings the “It had not seen fresh paint or a scrubbing an animated paragraph with much in protest over the repressive discipline quintet to a jubilant close. for years, the walls were peeling, and the conversational interchange of motives meted out to the students involved in dirt lay thick in every corner. Three times among the participants. The Scherzo, one disturbances at the school sparked by the ©2016 Dr. Richard E. Rodda a day a new crowd packed the small house; of Shostakovich’s most determinedly revolutionary movement then sweeping they carried the snow in with them on modernist creations, reflects the period Russia. He withdrew into a reclusive their shoes and overcoats. They munched of avant-gardism that flourished briefly existence in a primitive house in the food that they brought with them, apples in Soviet art before Stalin came to power distant suburbs of Moscow, receiving and sunflower seeds that they spat on the in 1927. The music is cheeky and brash, students and friends (who ignored the floor. The heat of the packed bodies in overflowing with insouciant dissonance and sign claiming “Sergei Ivanovich is not at their damp clothes, added to the warmth youthful energy. home” to find, usually, a warm welcome), Notes on the Program by Dr. Richard E. Rodda (1770-1827)

Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano, Op. 12, No. 2 (1797-98)

Allegro vivace Andante piu tosto allegretto Allegro piacevole

Arnaud Sussmann and Wu Han

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)

Quartet in D major for Strings, Op. 44, No. 1 (1838)

Molto allegro vivace CONCERT THREE Menuetto: Un poco allegretto Andante espressivo ma con moto Presto con brio The Chamber Music Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, Society of Lincoln Center marks the 19th-century duo sonata. Jeremy Berry and Estelle Choi Sonata in A major for Violin and Sunday, May 29 at 11am Piano, Op. 12, No. 2 The Op. 12 Sonatas are products of 3Meeting House Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven’s own practical experience as Born December 16, 1770 in . Died both pianist and violinist, an instrument March 26, 1827 in Vienna. Composed in he had learned while still in Bonn and on PIANO WU HAN 1798. Duration: 17 minutes which he took lessons shortly after settling ARNAUD SUSSMANN VIOLIN in Vienna with the noted performer (and, Beethoven took some care during later, great champion of his chamber Calidore String Quartet his first years after arriving in Vienna music) Ignaz Schuppanzigh. In view of from his native Bonn in November their gestating friendship, it was fitting VIOLIN JEFFREY MYERS 1792 to present himself as a composer that Schuppanzigh and the composer presented one of the Op. 12 Sonatas at a RYAN MEEHAN VIOLIN in the day’s more fashionable genres, one of which was the sonata for piano public concert benefiting the singer Josefa JEREMY BERRY VIOLA nominally accompanied, according to the Duschek on March 29, 1798. The A major Sonata opens with a CELLO taste of the time, by violin. Mozart had ESTELLE CHOI addressed the form in 42 works, some teasing two-note motive that tumbles of which moved beyond the convention downward through the piano’s range that expected the keyboard to dominate to constitute the first movement’s main the string instrument toward a greater theme and set the playful mood (one equality between the partners. Beethoven of Beethoven’s rarest emotions) for Please turn off cell phones and other continued on this tack so decisively that, what follows. A melody buoyed upon electronic devices. Photographing, despite their conservative structure and a surprising harmonic excursion, sound recording, or videotaping this idiom, his first three string sonatas, Op. emphasized by accented notes, provides performance is prohibited. 12 of 1798, presage the full parity that the gateway to the second subject, a phrase professionally successful musicians of the The opening movement of the D 19th century. His career showed none of major Quartet, brilliant, virtuosic, and the reverses, disappointments, or delays nearly orchestral in sonority, is energized that were the rule for the other great by a lusty impetuosity and rhythmic verve Romantic composers; indeed, it was that seem about to burst the Classical precisely the overwork and exhaustion to simplicity of its sonata form. The first meet the demands for his presence and violin introduces the movement’s main his performances that led to his untimely theme, a bounding melody begun with death at the age of 38. The most intensely a quickly ascending phrase that in busy time of his life was ushered in by his earlier decades would have been called a appointment in 1835 as the administrator, “rocket motive.” The movement’s vigor music director, and conductor of the slackens only briefly for the presentation Leipzig concerts. In very of the complementary theme, a hymnal short order, he raised the quality of melody in a slightly sad minor tonality. musical life in Leipzig to equal that of any The development section, based on the city in , and in 1842 he founded main theme, makes prominent use of the the local conservatory to maintain his “rocket motive.” With only a brief respite standards of excellence. He toured, guest to allow for the recall of the second conducted, and composed incessantly, theme, the high level of energy carries and on March 28, 1837 took on the through the recapitulation to the end of additional responsibilities of family life the movement. when he married Cécile Jeanrenaud. “A As a foil to the powerful opening conscientious chronicle of Mendelssohn’s Allegro, Mendelssohn placed next not next few years [after 1835] would merely the expected vivacious scherzo but a weary the reader,” noted the late George gentle Menuetto. The outer sections of the Marek in his biography of the composer. movement are lilting and graceful, while “It would link work with more work, string the central trio is marked by ceaseless success after success, place tribute next flowing ribbons of eighth notes. The to tribute, and enumerate an ever larger tenderest sentiments of the quartet are register of acquaintances and friends.” touched on in the bittersweet Andante. The The first child of the Mendelssohns’ music is disposed in sonatina form (sonata marriage, Carl Wolfgang Paul, was without a development section): the lyrical born on February 7, 1838. (Felix had main theme is given by the violin above a completed the E-flat Quartet, Op. 44, discreet pizzicato accompaniment in the No. 3 just the day before.) Cécile fell lower strings; the second theme, again seriously ill after the delivery, however, initiated by the violin, employs a sustained of snappy descending, neighboring tones things like this when they met at Assisi, and the following months were an note in the cello and an undulating that is first cousin to the main theme. and which Beethoven alone could put into anxious time for the family. By June, counterpoint in the inner voices as Transformations of all three themes music, as he did so many conversations, she had recovered sufficiently for background. The spirited finale was occupy the development section. The each lovelier than the other.” The finale is Mendelssohn to fulfill his commitment to inspired by the fiery Italiantarantella . recapitulation provides another hearing of an elegant rondo whose expressive nature conduct at the Lower Festival in the thematic material before the movement is indicated by its heading: piacevole— Cologne, but he hurried back to Leipzig, ©2016 Dr. Richard E. Rodda ends, almost in mid-thought, with an airy agreeable and pleasant. collected his growing brood (the couple coda spun from the main theme. Jelly had five children during the ten years d’Aranyi (1893-1966), the distinguished Quartet in D major for Strings, of their happy marriage), and spent Hungarian violinist who inspired Ravel’s Op. 44, No. 1 the summer in Berlin. It was there that Tzigane in 1924, left a charming word- he composed a setting of the Psalm 95, picture of the images conjured for her Born February 3, 1809 in Hamburg. Died B-flat Cello Sonata, Andante and Presto by the plaintive second movement: November 4, 1847 in Leipzig. Composed in agitato for Piano, and D major Quartet, “The Andante has the most touching and 1838. Duration: 30 minutes Op. 44, No. 1. The completed score of wonderful dialogue. I can only imagine the quartet was dated July 24, 1838. that St. Francis and St. Clara spoke of Mendelssohn was among the most Pre-concert Lecture Two Notes on the Program by Dr. Richard E. Rodda Sunday, May 29 at 3pm, Meeting House Patrick Castillo provides a structural analysis and historical context for the works to be performed in the Sunday evening concert.

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Sextet for Strings from Capriccio, Op. 85 (1939-41)

Arnaud Sussmann, Sean Lee, Paul Neubauer, Jeremy Berry, Estelle Choi and David Finckel

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

Quintet in G minor for Two Violins, Two , and Cello, K. 516 (1787) CONCERT FOUR Allegro The Chamber Music Menuetto: Allegretto Society of Lincoln Center Adagio ma non troppo Adagio—Allegro Sextet for Strings from the works of Mozart, Wagner, Gluck, and Sunday, May 29 at 5pm Capriccio, Op. 85 Verdi, and he even included fragments Meadow View Barn Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, Jeremy Richard Strauss from some of his own compositions. 4 Berry, Paul Neubauer and Estelle Choi Born June 11, 1864 in Munich. Died (One of the joys of this opera for the knowledgeable listener is the identification VIOLIN September 8, 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. ARNAUD SUSSMANN Composed in 1939-41. Premiered on October of the many musical allusions.) Regarding SEAN LEE VIOLIN INTERMISSION 28, 1942 in Munich, conducted by Clemens the words/music controversy, which is the Krauss. Duration: 11 minutes true subject of the opera, Strauss wrote, PAUL NEUBAUER VIOLA “The battle between words and music has been the problem of my life from the DAVID FINCKEL CELLO FELIX MENDELSSOHN Capriccio was Richard Strauss’ last (1809-1847) operatic venture, and, like the valedictory beginning, and I leave it with Capriccio as a question mark.” Calidore String Quartet works of other great composers—Haydn’s ctet in flat major for trings p oratorios, Verdi’s Falstaff, Elgar’s Cello In his New Encyclopedia of the Opera, VIOLIN O E- S , O . JEFFREY MYERS 20 (1825) Concerto—it not only summarizes a David Ewen offered the following précis lifetime of stylistic achievement, but also of Capriccio: “The almost actionless RYAN MEEHAN VIOLIN Allegro moderato ma con fuoco addresses concerns that the accumulation libretto [set in a chateau in late-18th- JEREMY BERRY VIOLA Andante of years could not dim. For Strauss in century France] is little more than a this masterful opera, those concerns discussion as to which is more significant CELLO Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo ESTELLE CHOI Presto were two: one was the cataloging of his in opera, the words or the music. greatest musical loves; the other was a Flamand, the musician, becomes the Sean Lee, Ryan Meehan, Jeffrey consideration of the essential dilemma of spokesman for the music; Olivier, the Please turn off cell phones and other Myers, Arnaud Sussmann, Jeremy all vocal music—the relative importance poet, for the words. Both are emotionally electronic devices. Photographing, Berry, Paul Neubauer, David Finckel of words and music. To demonstrate involved with the Countess Madeleine. sound recording, or videotaping this and Estelle Choi the music that he held in highest regard, When LaRoche, a producer, plans a performance is prohibited. Strauss quoted in the score snippets from series of entertainments to celebrate the Countess’ birthday, she suggests refusal to hide their disgust with the Though he tried to economize by 614) for the wealthy Hungarian amateur that Flamand and Olivier collaborate, Nazi leadership had made their position moving from his spacious apartment violinist Johann Tost. They were the last using for their material the day’s in Garmisch difficult when their Jewish in the Schullerstrasse (now a Mozart pieces of chamber music that he wrote. happenings and themselves as principal daughter-in-law and her children were museum known as the “Figaro House”) In its turbulent, proto-Romantic characters. When they leave to write their threatened with ostracism. The governor to a smaller flat at 224 Landstrasse, he emotionalism, compact form, and ‘entertainment,’ the Countess (looking of Vienna, Baldur von Schirach, assured could not abandon his taste for fine harmonic daring, the G minor Quintet in a mirror) asks herself which man she Strauss that he would shelter the family clothes and elegant entertaining, and he has frequently been compared to the prefers. She comes to the conclusion that if they would make no further public took on debts, several of which were to Symphony in that same key (No. 40, both interest her equally. Her conclusion anti-Nazi remarks. In appreciation, the textile merchant Michael Puchberg, K. 550) composed a year later. Though is Strauss’ answer to the problem that Strauss allowed the sextet to be performed a fellow Mason. On April 2, 1787, an the quintet’s closing movement finally opened the opera: in opera, the words privately at Schirach’s house on May 7, announcement signed and music have equal importance.” 1942. Despite this particular kindness, by Mozart appeared in The libretto—probably the best Schirach was sentenced to 20 years the Wiener Zeitung stating Strauss ever had except for Der imprisonment for war crimes by the that he was offering for Rosenkavalier—was written by the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. sale by subscription three conductor Clemens Krauss under the The sextet brings Strauss’ opulent new quintets “finely and microscopic scrutiny of the composer, harmonic palette and rich instrumental correctly written” which though several other writers, notably textures to his stylized recreation of would be available at Stefan Zweig, also contributed ideas to elegant Rococo chamber music. In the Puchberg’s establishment the finished book. The plot was based opera, the music begins before the stage in the Hohe Markt after on a libretto by Abbaté Giovanni Casti is revealed. As it continues, the curtain July 1st. The intention was titled Prima la musica, poi le parole (First the rises to show the characters listening apparently that Puchberg Music, Then the Words), which had first to the music played by an off-stage would keep the proceeds been set by in 1786 as ensemble as the musician Flamand’s to repay a debt. To create a one-act opera that was premiered as birthday offering to the Countess. The the promised trio of works part of the double bill at the Schönbrunn words of Michael Kennedy about the (18th-century publishing Palace in Vienna with Mozart’s The complete opera apply equally well to this practice demanded that Impresario. Zweig suggested the topic to beautiful sextet: “Capriccio is Strauss’ most instrumental works usually Strauss as early as 1934, but composition enchanting opera. It is also the nearest be issued in sets of three, six or twelve), achieves a tonality that Alfred Einstein was not begun until 1939; the score was he came to unflawed perfection in a work Mozart created anew the Quintets in C characterized as a “disconsolate major,” completed on August 3, 1941. The setting of art. It is an anthology or synthesis major (K. 515) and G minor (K. 516), and the unshakable focus of this magnificent is an elegant palace near Paris in 1775, of all that he did best, and it is as if he arranged the magnificent Wind Octet in musical canvas is deep pathos bordering the time when the operatic reforms of put his creative process into a crucible, C minor (K. 388) for five strings (given on tragedy. The quintet’s drama is joined Gluck had the words/music controversy refining away coarseness, bombast, and the curious Köchel number of 406). The with the first gesture of the opening consuming the city’s intellectual circles. excess of vitality.” quintets were completed in April and movement, a portentous main theme of Strauss intended Capriccio (subtitled “A May during a hectic interruption in the broken phrases, sighing chromaticism, and Conversation Piece for Music”) to be Quintet in G minor for composition of Don Giovanni (those same unsettled emotion presented by the high a refined entertainment for his friends Two Violins, Two Violas, weeks saw Mozart’s only meeting with strings without a supporting foundation rather than a popular theater piece—“no and Cello, K. 516 Beethoven when the 16-year-old Bonn in the bass. The darker instruments then work for the public, only a fine dish for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart musician came to Vienna for a fortnight take over the theme, which is subjected to connoisseurs,” was his assessment. He was Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg. Died of lessons, and the death of Papa Leopold considerable chromatic modification before surprised therefore, and certainly pleased, December 5, 1791 in Vienna. Composed in Mozart in Salzburg), but the number leading to the formal subsidiary subject, at the excellent success that Capriccio 1787. Duration: 34 minutes of subscribers was so small that Mozart a sad strain given by the violin above the enjoyed at its premiere in Munich on placed another ad in the Viennese press throbbing accompaniment of the lower October 28, 1942 under Krauss’ baton. The year 1786 was the of on June 25th. This, too, was largely strings in the somber tonic key of G minor. The lovely string sextet that serves Mozart’s career in Vienna. Perhaps ignored, and the project was dropped, The music modulates only grudgingly as the introduction to Capriccio was first because of intrigue but more probably though Artaria & Co. brought out K. 515 to the structurally contrasting tonality of heard six months before the work’s official because the geometrical expansion of in 1789 and K. 516 a year later. Mozart B-flat major, though the new key does premiere. In 1942, Strauss and his wife deep expression in his newest music did returned to the string quintet form in nothing to mitigate the premonitory moved to Vienna from their Bavarian not suit the fickle taste of the Viennese, December 1790 and April 1791 with nature of the music. The development home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Their his local popularity began to wane. works in D major (K. 593) and E-flat (K. section is tightly woven and argumentative, and bridges to a full recapitulation of 1825. Premiered in October 1825 in Berlin. a decade of experience and a sizeable by lines from Goethe’s Faust: Floating cloud the themes from the exposition, which Duration: 30 minutes catalog of music to his credit, the octet’s and trailing mist, O’er us brightening hover: The maintain their gloomy demeanor to the brilliance and originality are phenomenal. rushes shake, winds stir the brake: Soon all their end of the movement. It was with the Octet for Strings, The octet is splendidly launched by a pomp is over. With its almost violent changes of composed in 1825 at the tender age wide-ranging main theme that takes the The closing movement, a dazzling dynamics, its halting rhythmic motion, of 16, a full year before the Overture first violin quickly through its entire tonal moto perpetuo with fugal episodes, recalls and its grim expression, the second to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s range; the lyrical second theme is given in Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony (C major, movement is the least dance-like of Dream, that the stature of Mendelssohn’s sweet, close harmonies. The development K. 551) in its rhythmic vitality and minuets. Though the central trio section genius was first fully revealed. He wrote section, largely concerned slips into the key of G major, it offers only the work as a birthday offering for his with the subsidiary tentative respite from the movement’s violin and viola teacher, Eduard Rietz, subject, is relatively brief, pervasive sense of foreboding. The and premiered it during one of the and culminates in a sonatina-form Adagio, whose pathos is household musicales in October of that swirling unison passage heightened by the muted sonorities of year that the Mendelssohns organized that serves as the bridge to the strings, is among the most moving to showcase young Felix’s budding gifts; the recapitulation of the essays in Viennese Classicism, “far more Rietz participated in the performance and earlier melodic materials. probing, more emotional than any other young Felix is thought to have played one The following slow movement in all of Mozart’s music,” of the viola parts. (Rietz and his family Andante, like many according to John N. Burk. The finale remained close to Mendelssohn. Eduard’s slow movements in consists of two broad musical chapters. brother, Julius, succeeded Mendelssohn Mozart’s instrumental The first is a deeply felt, G minor Adagio, a as director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus compositions, was touching cavatina for the violin that serves concerts upon the composer’s death in created not so much as as the preamble to the second section, 1847, and edited his complete works for the fulfillment of some which follows without pause. The music publication in the 1870s.) The scoring of particular formal model, that closes the quintet is a lovely rondo the octet calls for a double string quartet, but as the ever-unfolding whose G major brightness does not so though, unlike the work written in 1823 realization of its own much dispel the troubling music that has for the same instrumentation by Louis unique melodic materials come before as cast it into bold relief. Spohr (a friend of the Mendelssohns and and world of sonorities. The movement contrapuntal display, simultaneously a regular visitor to their family programs), is tinged with the delicious, bittersweet whipping together as many as three Octet in E-flat major for which divides the eight players into two melancholy that represents the expressive themes from the finale and a motive from Strings, Op. 20 antiphonal groups, Mendelssohn treated extreme of the musical language of the Scherzo during one climatic episode in Felix Mendelssohn his forces as a single integrated ensemble, Mendelssohn. the closing pages. Born February 3, 1809 in Hamburg. Died a veritable miniature orchestra of strings. The composer’s sister Fanny noted that November 4, 1847 in Leipzig. Composed in Even allowing that Mendelssohn, by age the feather-stitched Scherzo was inspired ©2016 Dr. Richard E. Rodda 16, was already a veteran musician with Described as “the epitome of confidence debut recording of quartets by Mendelssohn and finesse” (Gramophone magazine) and and Haydn. Additionally, the Calidore “a miracle of unified thought” (La Presse, will release an album on Editions Hortus Montreal), the Calidore String Quartet later in 2016, with music by Hindemith, meet the artists has established an international reputation Milhaud, Stravinsky, de la Presle, and Toch for its informed, polished, and passionate commemorating the World War I Centennial. a select number performances. The Calidore String Quartet Advocates of contemporary music, the of highly gifted is currently artists-in-residence and visiting Calidore String Quartet has performed young artists— faculty at (SUNY) Pulitzer-prize-winning composer Caroline individuals and and was appointed to the ensembles—who roster of the Chamber embody the great Music Society Two program performance for the 2016-19 seasons. traditions of the Recipient of a 2016 Borletti- past while setting Buitoni Trust Fellowship, new standards for the Calidore String Quartet the future. has won grand prizes in CMS produces virtually all the major U.S. its own recordings chamber music competitions, on the CMS including the Fischoff, Studio Recordings Coleman, Chesapeake, and label, which Yellow Springs competitions has been highly and captured top prizes praised for both at the 2012 ARD Munich the artistry and International String Quartet the recorded Competition and Hamburg sound of the International Chamber The Chamber Music Society of eclectic range of Music Competition. The Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven repertoire it has released. These recordings are Calidore String Quartet constituents of Lincoln Center for the sold on-site at concerts in New York, on tour, regularly performs Performing Arts, the largest performing and through the CMS website as well as online throughout , Calidore String Quartet arts complex in the world. Along with retailers such as iTunes. The newest media Europe, and and has other constituents such as the New York innovation, CMS Live!, offers recordings debuted in such prestigious Philharmonic, Ballet, Lincoln available only by download of extraordinary venues as Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, Shaw’s Entr’acte, Patrick Harlin’s Birdsongs for the Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, live performances, chosen by CMS artistic ’s Kumho Arts Hall, and Schneider City Dweller, and Prometheus by Mark Grey. CMS has its home at Lincoln Center. CMS’ directors David Finckel and Wu Han from Concerts at Mannes College in New York. The Calidore String Quartet recently performance venue, Alice Tully Hall, has among each season’s many concerts. CMS also Highlights of the quartet’s 2015-16 season conducted residencies at the University of received international acclaim as one of the has a broad range of historic recordings on the include its debut at , Ladies’ Michigan School of Music and at Chamber world’s most exciting venues for chamber music. Arabesque, Delos, SONY Classical, Telarc, Morning Music Club (Montreal), New York Music Connection in Columbus, Ohio. In CMS presents chamber music of every Musical Heritage Society, MusicMasters, and City Town Hall, performances of the complete January 2014, the Calidore joined the faculty instrumentation, style, and historical period Omega Record Classics labels. Selected live Mendelssohn quartet cycle at the East Neuk of the Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber in its extensive concert season in New York, CMS concerts are available for download Festival (UK), and performances of the Music Institute at the Colburn School. Most its national and international tours, its many as part of Deutsche Grammophon’s DG Mendelssohn Octet with the Emerson Quartet recently, the Calidore was selected by the recordings and national radio broadcasts, its Concerts series. at Princeton and Stony Brook universities. Saint Lawrence String Quartet to conduct broad commissioning program, and its multi- In 2004, CMS appointed cellist David Summer 2015 was filled with important a two-week outreach residency of over 20 faceted educational programs. Demonstrating Finckel and pianist Wu Han artistic directors. debuts including Festspiele Mecklenburg- performances in the San Francisco area. the belief that the future of chamber music They succeed founding director Charles Vorpommern, East Neuk Festival, Ottawa Formed in 2010 at the Colburn School lies in engaging and expanding the audience, Wadsworth (1969-89), Fred Sherry (1989-92), Chamber Music Festival, Music Mountain, of Music, the Calidore has studied closely CMS has created programs to bring the art and (1992-2004). and the Mostly Mozart Festival. The Calidore with such luminaries as the Emerson Quartet, of chamber music to audiences from a wide Through its Watch Live series, CMS live String Quartet returned as quartet-in- David Finckel, Andre Roy, Arnold Steinhardt, range of backgrounds, ages, and levels of streams approximately 30 chamber music residence at the Bellingham Festival of Music Günther Pichler, Gerhard Schulz, Heime musical knowledge. The artistic core of CMS concerts and events a season to a worldwide (WA) and the Innsbrook Institute Summer Müller, Guillaume Sutre, Gabor Takacs- is a multi-generational, dynamic repertory audience online. These streams are free to the Music Academy and Festival (MO), as well as Nagy, Paul Coletti, Ronald Leonard, and the company of expert chamber musicians who public and are available on demand for an a return to the Great Lakes Chamber Music Quatuor Ebène. Using an amalgamation of form an evolving musical community. As part additional 24 hours after the broadcast. View Festival (MI). “California” and “doré” (French for “golden”), of that community, the CMS Two program the complete schedule of Watch Live events at In February 2015, the Calidore String the ensemble’s name represents a reverence discovers and weaves into the artistic fabric www.ChamberMusicSociety.org. Quartet released its critically-acclaimed for the diversity of culture and the strong Deutsche Grammophon release recorded live Beethovenhalle orchestras. Mr. Neubauer at Alice Tully Hall, features David Finckel, performs in a trio with soprano Susanna Wu Han, Daniel Hope, and Paul Neubauer Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. performing the piano quartets of Brahms, He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók Schumann, and Mahler. (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Recipient of the 2016 Avery Fisher Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Career Grant, violinist Sean Lee is one of Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, today’s most exciting classical artists, with and Tower. A two-time Grammy nominee, he performances hailed by as has recorded on numerous labels including “breathtakingly beautiful.” His debut album Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red on EMI Classics reached the top 20 classical Seal, and Sony Classical. He is on the faculty bestsellers on iTunes. Having received prizes of The and Mannes College. in the Premio Paganini International Violin Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Competition and the Young Concert Artists Grant, Arnaud Sussmann has distinguished International Auditions, he has appeared as himself with his unique sound, bravura, and a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony, Utah profound musicianship. Minnesota’s Pioneer Symphony, Orchestra Del Teatro Carlo Felice, Press writes, “Sussmann has an old-school sound David Finckel Paul Neubauer Westchester Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, reminiscent of what you’ll hear on vintage and the Juilliard Orchestra. As a recitalist, he recordings by Jascha Heifetz or Fritz Kreisler, has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, a rare combination of sweet and smooth that Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lincoln can hypnotize a listener.” A thrilling young Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, Festival di musician capturing the attention ofPeter classical Kolkay Carro Paganiniano, and Wiener Konzerthaus. critics and audiences around the world, he has A former member of Chamber Music Society appeared on tour in Israel and in concert at Two, he has performed with The Chamber Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Dresden Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Music Festival in Germany, and the Phillips Hall, as well as on tour at the LG Arts Center Collection in Washington, DC. He has been in Seoul, Korea, the St. Cecilia Music Center, presented in recital in Omaha on the Tuesday and the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. Musical Club series, New Orleans by the Mr. Lee currently teaches chamber music Friends of Music, Tel Aviv at the Museum of at the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard Art, and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. He School, and joined the violin faculty of the has also given concerts at the OK Mozart, Perlman Music Program in 2010. He performs Moritzburg, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, La Jolla on a violin originally made in 1999 for violinist SummerFest, Mainly Mozart, Seattle Chamber Ruggiero Ricci, by David Bague. Music, Bridgehampton, and the Moab Music Sean Lee Arnaud Sussmann Violist Paul Neubauer’s exceptional festivals. Mr. Sussmann has performed with musicality and effortless playing led theNew many of today’s leading artists including Itzhak support it received from its home, Los Angeles, violinist Philip Setzer. David Finckel served York Times to call him “a master musician.” Perlman, Menahem Pressler, Gary Hoffman, California, the “golden state.” The Calidore as cellist of the nine-time Grammy Award- This season he will record the Aaron Jay Shmuel Ashkenasi, Wu Han, David Finckel, Jan String Quartet aims to present performances winning for 34 Kernis Viola Concerto with the Royal Vogler, and members of the Emerson String that share the passion and joy of the string seasons. In 1997 David Finckel and Wu Northern Sinfonia in the United Kingdom, a Quartet. A former member of Chamber Music quartet chamber music repertoire. Han launched ArtistLed, ’s work he premiered with the St. Paul Chamber Society Two, he regularly appears with CMS in Co-artistic director of the Chamber first musician-directed and Internet-based Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, New York and on tour, including performances Music Society, cellist David Finckel was recording company, whose 18-album catalogue Chautauqua Symphony, and Idyllwild Arts at ’s Wigmore Hall. named Musical America’s 2012 Musician of has won widespread critical praise. Along Orchestra in 2014. A solo album of music Co-artistic director of the Chamber Music the Year, one of the highest honors granted with Wu Han, he is the founder and artistic recorded at Music@Menlo will also be Society, pianist Wu Han is among the most to musicians from the music industry in director of Music@Menlo, ’s released this season. At Alice Tully Hall, he esteemed and influential classical musicians the US. He leads a multifaceted career as a acclaimed chamber music festival and institute, will premiere Joan Tower’s Purple Rush for solo in the world today. She was named Musical concert performer, recording artist, educator, artistic director for Chamber Music Today in viola, a CMS commission and the fourth work America’s 2012 Musician of the Year, one of administrator, and cultural entrepreneur Korea, and in 2013, inaugurated a chamber Ms. Tower has composed for him. Appointed the highest honors granted to musicians from that places him in the ranks of today’s most music workshop at Aspen Music Festival and principal violist of the New York Philharmonic the music industry in the US, and has risen influential classical musicians. He has been School. Under the auspices of CMS, David at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with to international prominence through her hailed as “one of the top ten, if not top Finckel and Wu Han lead the LG Chamber over 100 orchestras including the New York, wide-ranging activities as a concert performer, five, cellists in the world today” (Nordwest Music School. The first American student Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; recording artist, educator, arts administrator, Zeitung, Germany). As a chamber musician, of Rostropovich, David Finckel serves on National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San and cultural entrepreneur. In high demand he appears extensively with duo partner the faculty at The Juilliard School and Stony Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician, pianist Wu Han and in a piano trio alongside Brook University. Piano Quartets, a 2015 and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Wu Han has appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious venues, career as a composer, and performs extensively performer, writer, and as duo partner with cellist educator. His music has David Finckel. Wu Han been featured at festivals has also established a and venues throughout reputation for her dynamic the and and innovative approach internationally including to the recording studio: Spoleto Festival USA, in 1997, Wu Han and June in Buffalo, the Santa David Finckel launched Fe New Music Festival, ArtistLed, classical music’s Interlochen Center for the first musician-directed and Arts, Berklee College of Internet-based recording Music, Bavarian Academy company, whose catalogue of Music in Munich, of 18 albums has won Nuremberg Museum of widespread critical Wu Han Contemporary Art, and acclaim. Along with David the Havana Contemporary Finckel, she is the founder and artistic director Music Festival. His vocal chamber music is of Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival featured on The Quality of Mercy, a forthcoming and Institute and serves as artistic director release from Innova Recordings. He is for Chamber Music Today in Seoul, Korea. variously active as an explicator of music to a In 2013, she inaugurated a chamber music wide range of listeners. He has provided liner workshop at Aspen Music Festival and School and program notes for numerous recording with David Finckel, and under the auspices labels and concert series: most prolifically for of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley for which he served as artistic administrator for more than VISIT SHAKERVILLAGEKY.ORG ten years. 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