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Season 2017-2018 Foy Concert Hall Priscilla PaYne Hurd Campus for Music and Art MoraVian College Bethlehem, PA 18018 Cathedral Church of the Nativity 321 WYandotte Street Bethlehem, PA 18015 Faith United Church of Christ 5992 Route 378 Center ValleY, PA 18034 Program information and single ticket sales at www.cmsob.org Season 2017-2018 About the concerts The Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem inVites You to eXperience the performances of World-class ensembles as it celebrates its 66th anniVersarY With the 2017-2018 Season. We are priVileged to present a series of seVen concerts, Which include the highlY anticipated return of seVeral audience faVorites and a Warm Welcome to others for their first introduction to our audience. Five Friday evening concerts – three at Foy Concert Hall and two at Cathedral Church of the Nativity - will begin Gryphon Trio at 7:30 p.m. Two Sunday afternoon concerts – both at FridaY, September 15, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. Foy Concert Hall Faith United Church of Christ - will begin at 3:00 p.m. Schumann String Quartet We’re very pleased to have a special relationship with the FridaY, NoVember 3, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. Young People’s Philharmonic. Look for announcements Cathedral Church of the Nativity of their string and brass ensemble performances as Wister Quartet with Jennifer Montone, horn, “curtain warmers” a half hour before selected concerts. and Marcantonio Barone, piano SundaY, December 3, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. Concertgoers can enjoY significant saVings bY purchasing Faith United Church of Christ a full subscription for 7 concerts or packages of 4, 5 or Bennewitz Quartet 6 tickets. All tickets are fleXible and can be used at FridaY, FebruarY 9, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. anY concert. You might also consider purchasing a Foy Concert Hall subscription package as a gift for someone special. Lydian String Quartet Single tickets can be purchased at the door or online. SundaY, March 18, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. Faith United Church of Christ Mozart Piano Quartet We invite you to join us for our traditional post-concert FridaY, April 6, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. receptions, where you can enjoy refreshments as you Foy Concert Hall chat with the artists and fellow concertgoers. Borromeo String Quartet FridaY, April 27, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. Program information and single tickets Cathedral Church of the Nativity sales at www.cmsob.org Please note: all programs throughout the Season are subject to change. Schumann String Quartet Friday, November 3, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. Cathedral Church of the Nativity Bethlehem, PA 18015 The Schumann String Quartet is not named for Robert Schumann, nor Will the Lehigh ValleY audience be hearing anY Works bY Robert Schumann. Rather, the ensemble takes the name of three brothers from the Rhineland Who account for three-quarters of the decade-old quartet. Erik and Ken Schumann ansWer for the Violins and Mark Schumann for the cello. TheY are joined bY Violist Liisa Radalu, Who Was born in Gryphon Trio Estonia but greW up in GermanY. The ensemble has toured Friday, September 15, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. eXtensiVelY throughout Europe and Asia and began a three-Year Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College residencY at The Chamber Music SocietY of Lincoln Center Bethlehem, PA 18018 during the 2016-2017 season. TheY haVe Worked With and learned from some of the best: the Alban Berg Quartet, Artists-in-residence at the UniVersitY of Toronto, Where AleXander Lonquich, and Menahem Pressler, among them. indiVidual members also serVe on the music facultY, the GrYphon The quartet Won the Premier PriX at the 2013 Concours Trio is nearing the quarter-centurY mark together, While International de Quatuor a Cordes de BordeauX, the Jürgen constantlY eVolVing in performance and recordings of classical, Ponto Foundation chamber-music priZe in 2014, and—for their World, Latin, pop, and folk music genres. Through “cross genre 2015 CD recording of MoZart, IVes, and Verdi— the NeWcomer collaborations and multimedia performances,” the group is AWard 2016 of the BBC Music Magazine . The quartet likes to intent on nothing less than “redefining chamber music for the take Wild chances. “We reallY Want to take things to eXtremes, 21st centurY.” The trio has commissioned and premiered more to see hoW far the eXcitement and our spontaneitY as a group than 75 neW Works and Will be plaYing one of them for the take us,” middle brother Ken has eXplained. And the audience Lehigh ValleY concert: Dinuk Wijerante’s 2013 piece “LoVe plaYs a part in the eXcitement: “A Work reallY deVelops onlY in a Triangle.” The composer Writes, “ The Gryphon Trio With their liVe performance,” the group affirms. “That is the ‘real thing.’” staggeringlY diVerse resumé of collaborations, are no strangers to music that is about the meeting of cultures, or about blurred boundaries betWeen What sounds improVised and What does not. PROGRAM I Was utterlY thrilled to haVe this opportunitY to Write for them!” Haydn String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5 The Canadian ensemble, tWice a Winner of Canada’s Juno Barber String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11 AWards, also boasts some American connections: Violinist Schubert String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804 Annalee Patipatanakoon is a graduate of Indiana UniVersitY and the Curtis Institute and pianist Jamie Parker earned his master’s “Rosamunde” and doctor’s degrees at Juilliard. Both are artistic adVisors to OttaWa’s annual Chamberfest, for Which cellist Roman BorYs serVes as artistic director. For the past seVen Years, the trio has taken its propensitY for collaboration and innoVation to the people through Listen Up! , inVolVing Whole communities in composing their oWn Works for piano trio and choir. Our FoY Hall audience maY not be required to compose or sing but are likelY to be treated to “music-making at its most communicatiVe” [The Toronto Star ], a “big, bold, almost orchestral performance” [The Los Angeles Time s], and “dYnamics of unusual depth and VarietY” [ The Washington Post ]. PROGRAM Haydn Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Hob. XV:29 Dinuk Wijerante LoVe Triangle Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 Bennewitz Quartet Friday, February 9, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College Bethlehem, PA 18018 Founded in 1998 at the AcademY of Performing Arts in Prague and praised bY critics for a “fierY temperament,” performance-Wise, the BenneWitZ Quartet has traVeled the World for nearlY tWentY Years, appearing eVerYWhere from London’s Wigmore Hall to the Seoul Art Center and from the MusikVerein in Vienna to NeW York’s Frick Collection. The Wister Quartet with Queen of Spain has presented the quartet With an aWard, and Jennifer Montone, horn, and the group Won the Osaka competition in 2005 and Premio Paolo Borciani in 2008. So the ensemble can hardlY be accused Marcantonio Barone, piano of parochialism. Yet its members readilY confess to a patriotic Sunday, December 3, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. loVe of “ma Vlast” (mY countrY, mY homeland), the title of the Faith United Church of Christ famous set of sYmphonic poems composed bY Bed ich Smetana, Center Valley, PA 18034 their CZech countrYman. Indeed, the ensemble is nařmed for the CZech Violinist Antonin BenneWitZ and seeks to “actiVelY The Wister Quartet, noW in its 30th Year, is an old friend, fa - promote CZech music including eXcellent and unjustlY neglected miliar to and popular With loYal CMSOB audiences after 10 composers.” The Lehigh ValleY audience Will hear them plaY preVious appearances across 26 seasons. Yet giVen its fondness Works bY eXcellent and justlY Valued CZech composers, DVo ák for collaboration (indeed, it is part of a larger performing col - as Well as Smetana—With a diVertimento bY MoZart throWnř in laboratiVe called 1807 & Friends), it brings a fresh look and for good measure. The heftY BenneWitZ discographY features sound With each highlY anticipated Visit. This time its guests another CZech composer—Janá ek—as Well as DVo ák and are Jennifer Montone, GrammY Winner and principal horn of Smetana and the Hungarian comčposer Bartók. The 2ř015 NaXos the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Marcantonio Barone, a pi - release of the quartet’s recording of DVo ák’s quartets, op. 51 anist in demand With orchestras nationallY and internation - and op. 106 Was an editor’s choice of theř magaZine Harmonie . allY. The quartet is named in honor of Frances Anne Wister, founder of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Volunteer Commit - tees, and the orchestra is a common denominator among all PROGRAM siX performers coming to the Lehigh ValleY this season. Mozart DiVertimento in D Major, K. 136 Barone made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 1972 at the Smetana String Quartet no.1, E Minor, age of 10. In addition to Montone, three of the Wister four “From MY Life” haVe been associated full-time With the Philadelphia Orchestra Dvorák String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106 during some or all of the past fiVe decades; and the fourth, Vi - olist Pamela FaY, has been a regular orchestra substitute. First Violin NancY Bean Was assistant concertmaster, and LloYd Smith Was assistant principal cellist before both recentlY re - tired. The Versatile DaVYd Booth, Wister’s second Violin, joined the orchestra’s strings in 1973, later also assuming the roles of harpsichordist and second keYboard plaYer, moVing among piano, celesta, harmonium, organ, sYnthesiZer, and ac - cordion. For the Lehigh ValleY concert, hoWeVer, he Will limit himself to onlY three instruments: Viola, piano, and Violin. PROGRAM Marcel Duo for Violin and Cello Farago Mozart Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, K.