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. 407 Schubert Fantasie in F Minor for piano 4 hands, D. 940 Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 Mozart Piano Quartet Friday, April 6, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College Bethlehem, PA 18018

Lehigh Valley lovers of chamber music who have become fans of the Orpheus Quartet through that group’s frequent appearances at Lafayette College may recognize the Mozart Piano Quartet’s violinist Mark Gothoni, who also plays with the Orpheus. In fact, each of the four MPQ artists have amazingly active and enormously successful individual careers as soloists and members of other world-class ensembles. They must manage their lives through time warps, because the Mozart Piano Quartet follows a touring schedule that regularly circles Lydian String Quartet the globe at apparently mach speed. The group’s demanding Sunday, March 18, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. 2018 US tour, of which our CMSOB concert is a part, will be Faith United Church of Christ immediately followed by an equally robust Asian tour. MPQ Center Valley, PA 18034 performed across South America two years ago, and Europe, well, that’s just a walk in the park for this peripatetic foursome. The Lyds, as they are affectionately known, were formed in The ensemble began its collective career in Germany in 2000, 1980, drawn from the Music Department at Brandeis though with somewhat different personnel. Currently, besides University, where they remain in residence today. Early in the group’s history, it was mentored by Robert Koff of the Gothoni, who is a Finn, the group consists of violist Hartmut Juilliard String Quartet and quickly garnered a number of Rohde, cellist Peter Hörr, and pianist Paul Rivinius. One of significant awards, including the Naumberg Award for Rivinius’ side gigs is playing with his three brothers in the Excellence in Chamber Music in 1984. Now, extensive world- Rivinius Piano Quartet. Meanwhile, back at the Mozart Piano wide touring, several personnel changes, and 29 recordings Quartet, the accomplished ensemble has been reaping awards later, the Lydian is still “among the world’s best quartets” and accolades globally and regularly turning out critically (Chicago Sun-Times ). Founding member and second violin acclaimed CDs. The group’s broad repertoire mixes standard Judith Eissenberg, widely recognized for her chamber music works with what the MPQ calls “undiscovered pearls of expertise, founded and directs MusicUnitesUs, a Brandeis- musical history,” for which they confess a passion. The Lehigh based program of intercultural understanding through music. Valley program reflects this mixture, and the performance Joshua Gordon, who joined the ensemble at cello in 2002, promises to deliver the passion. practices and teaches the physics of cello-playing using the imagery of baseball and points out that the Hungarian word for cello is gordonka . While violist Mark Berger, who became PROGRAM a Lyd in 2014, confesses a special interest in playing and com - posing new music, the most recent member of the ensemble Schumann Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 (as of Fall 2016), first violin Andrea Segar, pursues her own Alfred Schnittke Piano Quartet, Op. 13 (1988) Scherzo interest in century-old violin and piano music through (after Mahler) “The Decade Project” at the Maybeck Studio. Four strong Sergei Taneyev Piano Quartet in E Major, Op. 20 individuals, the Lyds together, in the words of Sunil Freeman writing for The Washington Post , “[reveal] a fire that makes all timeless music forever contemporary.”

PROGRAM Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12 Janá ek String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters" Beethčoven String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 Photo Credit: Richard Bowditch Directions Foy Concert Hall Priscilla Payne Hurd Campus for Music and Art Moravian College South Campus at Main and Church Streets, Bethlehem PA, 18018

FROM THE NORTH Follow Route 378 South to the Center City Exit (#3). Turn left onto Third Avenue; then turn left Borromeo String Quartet onto West Broad Street. Turn right onto Main Street and Friday, April 27, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. continue south, through the light beyond the Hotel Bethlehem. Foy Concert Hall will be on your left. Cathedral Church of the Nativity Bethlehem, PA 18015 FROM THE SOUTH Follow Route 378 North to the Main Street Exit, which is just north of the Lehigh River. At the end The Borromeo String Quartet—founded by Curtis Institute of the bridge, turn right onto students in 1989, so approaching its 30th anniversary—was Main Street. Foy Concert Hall among the first to bring digital technology into its practice and and parking lot will be on performance and continues to commission and premiere new your left. works and re-configure old ones, as reflected in the program for PARKING Lighted parking lots the CMSOB concert, a near repetition of the group’s October are adjacent to the Foy 2017 concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring the New York premiere Concert Hall and under the Hill- of first violin Nicholas Kitchen’s arrangement for string quartet to-Hill Bridge. City parking of selections from Book I of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier garages are located at Walnut and the world premiere of a work co-commissioned by Carnegie Street and North Street. Hall, Currier’s Lullaby and Etude . Ensemble-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Taos School of Music summer program, in 2007 the Borromeo played Death and the Maiden for the very first American museum podcast, which emanated from the Gardner, venue for the oldest museum concert series in the U.S. The quartet regularly and enthusiastically mixes media, genres, epochs, and instruments. Founding members (and hus - band and wife) Kitchen and Yeesun Kim play the Goldberg Del Gesu violin and a 1576 Peregrino Zanetto cello, respectively. Second violin Kristopher Tong, who joined the ensemble in 2006, plays the A. J. Fletcher Stradivarius; and Mai Motobuchi, with the quartet since 2000, plays a 1988 Moes and Moes viola. Winner of many prestigious awards and grants, the Borromeo String Quartet has been called “a fearless ensemble” by FOY Gramophone magazine and “simply the best there is” by The CONCERT Boston Globe . HALL

PROGRAM J. S. Bach Well-Tempered Clavier selections (Arr. N. Kitchen) Sebastian Currier Lullaby and Etude (2017) Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op 13 “Ist es wahr?” Directions Subscription Cathedral Church of the Nativity Subscribe and SAVE! We offer several cost-saving subscription 321 Wyandotte Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015 options listed in the table below. In addition, concertgoers aged 25 and younger will enjoy complimentary admission to all of our The Cathedral is located on Wyandotte Street (Route 378) just concerts. Subscription tickets can be used at any concert during the south of the Hill-to-Hill Bridge in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. season. Your subscription tickets will be available at the ticket desk PARKING The Cathedral’s upper lot is accessed from Wyandotte Street. The lower lot (with elevator access to the at Foy Concert Hall from 6:30 p.m. until 7:20 p.m. before the first Cathedral) is accessed from Third Street. On-street metered concert on September 15, 2017. If you are unable to attend this parking is available on streets surrounding the Cathedral— concert, your tickets will be mailed to you before October 1. Third Street, Fourth Street, and the 400 block of Wyandotte Single tickets purchased online or at the door are $27. Street. An off-street lot at Fourth and Wyandotte Street has also been made available for concert parking. Please print clearly For further information, see www.nativitycathedral.org. Name

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