Lakes Area Music Festival Announces 2020 Season Update
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Arts News & Opportunities For YOU! 2020 SEASON UPDATE Join the Lakes Area Music Festival for their 12th Annual Season July 31 - August 16 The talented team at Lakes Area Music Festival is taking COVID in stride. With their their keen style and resources bringing beautiful music via Facebook Live. The music selected for their new series fits within a theme of Contrasts. Contrasts is honoring the paradox between the isolation and despair of the present times with the joy that music can brings and connects us together. Over the coming weeks LAMF will welcome a small group of principal artists to collaborate at Tornstrom Auditorium in streaming concerts which you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Each concert will be accessible via Facebook Live. LAMF looks forward to broadening their audience this summer during a time when music and art are needed more than ever. Visit the Lakes Area Music Festival website for more information on the upcoming season. Voices of Youth Friday, July 31st 7:30 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live Dmitri Shostakovich and George Enescu each made their mark as young people by writing a string octet at the age of 18. The complex texture of a double string quartet gives life to the youthful energy evident in both of these early masterpieces. Each of these works points to its composers' future endeavors: Shostakovich with angst and fearless intensity and Enescu with eclectic joy. The sensual Légende, by Enescu and played by Tchaikovsky competition prizewinning trumpeter, Ansel Norris, serves as a palate cleanser alongside these wild acts of youthful exuberance. Dmitri Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet Suliman Tekalli, Win Lee, Miran Kim, and Ravenna Lipchik, violin Samantha Rodriguez and Olivia Chew, viola Joseph Johnson and Austin Fisher, cello George Enescu:Légende for Trumpet and Piano, Ansel Norris, trumpet Timothy Lovelace, piano Enescu: String Octet in C major Suliman Tekalli, Win Lee, Miran Kim, and Ravenna Lipchik, violin Samantha Rodriguez and Olivia Chew, viola Joseph Johnson and Austin Fisher, cello COFFEE Q&A Friday, July 31 | 10 a.m. Central Join festival violinist Suliman Tekalli for an informal morning chat prior to this performance. A Night At The Opera Saturday, August 1st 7:30 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live Opening weekend continues with a grand night of arias featuring Metropolitan Opera star, tenor David Portillo. Joined by guests from opera companies around the globe, you'll enjoy famous tunes and performers' favorites in this Night at the Opera. COFFEE Q&A Saturday, August 1st | 10 a.m. Central Join Mr. Portillo for an informal morning chat prior to this performance. Giving Thanks Sunday, August 2nd 2 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live Beethoven's wrote his String Quartet Op. 132 late in life, after recovering from a near-fatal illness. This "Holy Song of Thanksgiving" is a profoundly personal reflection on mortality and one of the most revered monuments of the chamber music repertoire. Resilience in the face of hardship and directly facing death are also two essential elements of the Black experience. Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone, Dashon Burton, will offer one of the musical monuments of the USA: African American spirituals. James Weldon Johnson: Crucifixion Harry T. Burleigh:My lord what a morning Uzee Brown, Jr.: Ain't a that good news, This River Margaret Bonds: You can tell the world Dashon Burton, bass-baritone Stefano Flavoni, piano Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 132, Heiliger Dankgesang Suliman Tekalli and Ravenna Lipchik, violin Olivia Chew, viola Austin Fisher, cello COFFEE Q&A Sunday, August 2 | 10 a.m. Central Join Seattle Symphony violist Olivia Chew for an informal morning chat prior to this performance. Imagining America Wednesday, August 5th 7:30 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live The descendant of American slaves, British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was fascinated by the New World. His buoyant Nonet for strings, winds, and piano is presented here alongside another composer with an appreciation of Black American music: Antonin Dvořák, whose kaleidoscopic Piano Quintet will feature Van Cliburn and Tchaikovsky competition prize-winner Kenny Broberg, piano. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet for Strings, Winds, and Piano Wyatt Underhill, violin Samantha Rodriguez, viola Joseph Johnson, cello Paul Macres, bass Titus Underwood, oboe Gabriel Campos Zamora, clarinet Andrew Brady, bassoon Dominic Rotella, horn Henry Kramer, piano Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 Wyatt Underhill and Felicity James, violin Olivia Chew, viola Austin Fisher, cello Kenny Broberg, piano COFFEE Q&A Wednesday, August 5 | 10 a.m. Central Join Atlanta Symphony bassoonist Andrew Brady for an informal morning chat prior to this performance. City of Angels Friday, August 7th 7:30 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live Many great composers have brought their talents to the silver screen, especially in the 1930's, when a wave of European Jewish refugees shaped Golden Age of Hollywood. Prior to his exodus from Austria to LA, Erich Korngold wrote a Piano Quintet which foreshadows the lush glitz and glam of his career to come. Philip Glass' third string quartet, written for film, and Ennio Morricone's 'Gabriel's Oboe' from The Mission complete this exploration of identity and nationality. Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3, Mishima Win Lee and Miran Kim, violin Samantha Rodriguez, viola Joseph Johnson, cello Ennio Morricone: 'Gabriel's Oboe' from the Mission Joseph Johnson, cello Kenny Broberg, piano Erich Korngold: Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15 Wyatt Underhill and Sarah Grimes, violin David Auerbach, viola Joseph Johnson, cello Kenny Broberg, piano COFFEE Q&A Friday, August 7 | 10 a.m. Central Join cellist Joseph Johnson for an informal morning chat prior to this performance. Paradox of Praise Saturday, August 8th 7:30 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live Grammy award-winning bass-baritone, Dashon Burton opens this program with a mixed set of art song and German lieder, featuring selections from Schumann's Dichterliebe (Poet's Love) and Margaret Bond's incisive settings of Langston Hughes. Paired with Felix Mendelssohn's second piano trio, with a final quotation of the Psalm 100 Doxology, this production explores praise and rejection. Franz Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen Florence Price: Night Margaret Bonds: Three Dream Portraits Robert Schumann: Selections from Dichterliebe Dashon Burton, bass-baritone, Stefano Flavoni, piano Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor Wyatt Underhill, violin Joseph Johnson, cello Henry Kramer, piano COFFEE Q&A Saturday, August 8 | 10 a.m. Central Join a Festival artist for an informal morning chat prior to this performance. Suites FRANÇAISES Sunday, August 9th 2 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live The French dance suite has been one of composers' favorite genres for centuries. The variety and contrasts inherent to this form - from sensuous sarabands to jaunty gigues - makes them a perfect platform to highlight individual style. From one of the first published female composers, Élizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and Johann Sebastian Bach to modernists like Camille Saint- Saëns and György Ligeti, we explore the simple charm of dance music. Johann Sebastian Bach: 'Prelude' from Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor Keiran Campbell, cello Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: Pièces de clavessin, from Suite in A Minor Elliot Figg, harpsichord Jean-Philippe Rameau: Le Rappel des Oiseaux Henry Kramer, piano György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet Alicia McQuerrey, flute Kevin Pearl, oboe JJ Koh, clarinet Catherine Chen, bassoon Jaclyn Rainey Camille Saint-Saens: Septet for Trumpet, Strings, and Piano Ansel Norris, trumpet Ravenna Lipchik and Felicity James, violin Olivia Chew, viola Austin Fisher, cello Paul Macres, bass Timothy Lovelace, piano COFFEE Q&A Sunday, August 9 | 10 a.m. Central Join Naples Philharmonic trumpeter Ansel Norris for an informal morning chat prior to this performance. Requiem Wednesday, August 12th 7:30 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live Valerie Coleman and Caroline Shaw are two of the great living American composers. Coleman's Requiem Milonga offers a haunting, mournful vignette, while Shaw's By and By uses texts and textures from southern Appalachian folk music to create an ecstatic meditation on death and the afterlife. Mozart's Wind Serenade in E-flat then brings us from death to rebirth, with a solemn fanfare leading to cheerful Minuets, an intimately expressive Adagio, and festive finale. Valerie Coleman: Requiem Milonga Alicia McQuerrey, flute Henry Kramer, piano Caroline Shaw: By and By Suliman Tekalli and Ravenna Lipchik, violin Olivia Chew, viola Austin Fisher, cello John Taylor Ward, baritone Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wind Serenade No. 11 in E-flat Major Titus Underwood and Kevin Pearl, oboe Gabriel Campos Zamora and JJ Koh, clarinet Andrew Brady and Catherine Chen, bassoon Jaclyn Rainey and Dominic Rotella, horn COFFEE Q&A Wednesday, August 12 | 10 a.m. Central Join a Festival artist for an informal morning chat prior to this performance Reflection Friday, August 14th 7:30 p.m. Accessible via Facebook Live This introspective evening begins with the transcendent simplicity of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror), followed by the world premier of a new dance choreographed by Amsterdam-based House of Makers. Featuring Queen Elizabeth Competition-winning pianist, Henry Kramer, this newly created ballet weaves together works of Erik Satie, John Adams, and Maurice Ravel. Derrick Spiva Jr.'s innovative and haunting American Mirror rounds out the program and is sure to be another season highlight. Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel Samantha Rodriguez, viola Henry Kramer, piano BALLET Erik Satie: Sarabande No. 3 John Adams: China Gates Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean House of Makers Matthew Pawlicki-Sinclair, choreography Henry Kramer, piano About: House of Makers comprises of Sterre van Rossem (writer), Matthew Pawlicki-Sinclair (dancer/choreographer) and Peter Leung (choreographer).