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BARGEMUSIC Unique floating concert hall— in residence to the community at large all year long.

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“It doesn’t take long to hear what makes Bargemusic the perfect chamber music hall… ” —Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

“Bargemusic—New York’s favorite floating concert hall.” —Anne Midgette, The New York Times w

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Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn w www.bargemusic.org W w Reservations W Call: 718.624.2083 in the office or 718.624.4061 on the Barge. Seats are assigned in order of phone call or email. Email: [email protected] Ticket Prices: Regular: $35 / Enhanced: $40 Seniors: $30 (Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays) / Full-time Students: $20 Special concerts as listed, for everyone. Purchase tickets at the concert by cash or check only, please. Ask about group sales. Credit Cards by Phone: Purchase tickets with MasterCard or VISA, only by telephone at 718.624.2083. Cancellations: Please let us know before the concert if you cannot attend so that your seat can be reassigned. If you have already paid by check or credit card, you may donate your tickets for a tax deduction. We are not able to refund payments. w Directions W Bargemusic is in Brooklyn on the Fulton Ferry Landing near the Brooklyn Bridge See map online at www.bargemusic.org. By Subway: From Manhattan, ride in the rear of the A train to High Street station in Brooklyn. (From Brooklyn, ride in the front of the train). Use the FULTON STREET EXIT. Walk downhill on Cadman Plaza West to the East River, 3 blocks. For the F train, exit at the York Street station; right on Jay to Front Street. Go left on Front Street; turn right at Old Fulton St. and walk downhill to the river. Or take the 2 or 3 train to Clark Street station; walk west on Clark Street to Columbia Heights; turn right; walk downhill to the end of the street. Bargemusic is on the left in the river. Weekend delays are possible (MTA Info: 718.330.1234 or www.mta.info). By Car: From Manhattan, use the Brooklyn Bridge and take the first exit in Brooklyn (marked BQE), right lane. Continue right, then turn left at light on Old Fulton Street and descend to the East River. Bargemusic is left of the Bridge. From Long Island, take the Long Island Expressway westbound to the BQE towards Brooklyn / Staten Island. Use the Cadman Plaza / Brooklyn Bridge exit; turn right onto Old Fulton Street and continue to the East River. Bargemusic is to the left of the Bridge. From Brooklyn, take Atlantic Ave. Turn on Clinton Street and go to the end. Turn left on Cadman Plaza West and drive along the park. Turn left on Old Fulton Street and continue down to Bargemusic in the East River. Free parking is available in the parking lot on Furman Street, nearby. By Bus: In Brooklyn, take the B-25 to Furman Street (last stop). Or transfer from many buses (like B-41, B-38) to B-25 at Borough Hall. By WaterTaxi: Schedule varies. Call 212.742.1969 for information.

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Olga Bloom, Founder & Chairman Mark Peskanov, President / Artistic & Executive Director Board of Directors Olga Bloom • David Bottoms • Joseph Coyne Dr. Geza von Habsburg • Mark Peskanov • Rita Sloan Sara Taylor, Business Manager Katya Mihailova, Assistant to the Director Heather Hegewald, Bargemusic Staff Yumi Thomas, Bargemusic Staff Philip Heary, Volunteer Calligrapher www.bargemusic.org w

Dear Hearts, Surely you agree that the astonishing intellectual and emotional stamina of Mark Peskanov is revealed in these calendars all the weeks of the years.

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Olga Bloom

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All are welcome. The program is announced at the concert. Performances last about 1 hour with no intermission. Seating is not reserved. Saturday, March 8 at 1 pm Saturday, March 29 at 1 pm Saturday, April 19 at 1 pm Saturday, May 10 at 1 pm

“Over the years, Bargemusic has become the most reliably consistent venue in the city. There is simply never a poor concert here. And considering that they mount over 200 performances a year that is really saying something.” —Fred Kirshnit, The New York Sun March 2008 w NEW on March 9 • Sunday, 4 pm March 21 • Friday, 8 pm www.bargemusic.org! See listing above for Wednesday, Student tickets are $15 March 5 Here and Now: American Mark Peskanov’s Blog Contemporary Music Series March 11 • Tuesday, 8 pm Weekly “Behind the scenes at Osvaldo Golijov Mariel for Cello Bargemusic”—observations Tickets are $50 ($25 students) and Marimba (1999) and stories about performances Telemann Overture of the Ancient David Kechley Colliding Objects: and Modern Nations in G Major Interactions for Piano and and musicians at Bargemusic: Concerto for Mandolin and Strings Percussion (2007) www.bargemusic.org/blog in d minor William Bolcom Capriccio for Cello Concerto for Flute in a minor March 1 • Saturday, 8 pm and Piano (1985) Vivaldi Concerto No. 2 for Flute Felipe Lara Arupa for All Bach Cello Suites in g minor, RV 439, Op. 10:2, Unaccompanied Cello (2003) Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 “La Notte” Williams Chamber Players Suite No. 2 in d minor, BWV 1008 Gabellone Concerto for Mandolin Ronald Feldman, Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009 with Violins and Bass Obbligato, Doris Stevenson, Piano (gimmo 88) Steuart Pincombe, Cello Matthew Gold, Percussion J.S. Bach Concerto for Keyboard and March 2 • Sunday, 4 pm Strings in d minor, BWV 1052 March 22 • Saturday, 8 pm All Bach Cello Suites Durante Concerto No. 8 in A Major, March 23 • Sunday, 4 pm Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV “La Pazzia” Beethoven Piano Trio No. 8 in B-Flat 1010 Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico Major, WoO 39 Suite No. 5 in c minor, BWV 1011 di Vicenza Brahms Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Giancarlo De Lorenzo, Conductor Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV Piano in e minor, Op. 38 Elena Contin, Flute 1012 Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Cecilia Loda, Mandolin Major, D. 898, Op. 99 Steuart Pincombe, Cello Elena Rossi, Piano Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Violin March 5 • Wednesday, 8 pm March 13 • Thursday, 8 pm Amy Sue Barston, Cello Beethoven Serenade in D Major for Jazz Night Olga Vinokur, Piano Flute, Violin and Viola, Op. 25 Howard Alden, Guitar March 26 • Wednesday, 8 pm Behzad Ranjbaran Fountains of Gene Bertoncini, Guitar Fin for Flute, Violin and Cello, Filippo Gragnani Nocturnes (World Premiere), Commissioned by March 14 • Friday, 8 pm Raffaele Calace Serenata Malinconica, Bargemusic (2008)* Masterpieces of Russian Music from Op. 120 Mozart Flute Quartet No. 1 in the 19th and 20th Centuries Katsumi Nagaoka Kaze D Major, K. 285 Songs and Arias by Glinka, Bartolomeo Bortolazzi Tema IV with Mozart Divertimento in E-Flat Major Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and others variations in A Major, Op. 10 for Violin, Viola and Cello, K. 563 Nikita Storojev, Bass (Gold Medal Carlo Aonzo Ali for Flying Julie Scolnik, Flute Winner of the 1978 International Handel Aria—“Lascia ch’io pianga” Mark Peskanov, Violin Tchaikovsky Competition) from “Rinaldo,” HWV 7 Maurycy Banaszek, Viola Tatiana Stepanova, Piano Enrico Marucelli Valtzer Fantastico Adrian Daurov, Cello March 15 • Saturday, 8 pm Carlo Aonzo, Mandolin *This is the fifth of six commissioned Rene Izquierdo, Guitar works awarded to us by the New York March 16 • Sunday, 4 pm State Music Fund established by the Schubert Sonatina for Violin and March 28 • Friday, 8 pm New York State Attorney General Piano in D Major, D. 384, March 29 • Saturday, 8 pm Op. 137, No. 1 March 6 • Thursday, 8 pm March 30 • Sunday, 4 pm Jazz Night Michael Hirsch Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello (2001) Tickets are $40 ($25 students) The Ted Rosenthal Trio (NY Premiere) Beethoven String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5 March 7 • Friday, 8 pm Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in c minor, Op. 101 Daniel Ott Blue Water for Violin, See listing above for Wednesday, Piano and String Quartet Mark Peskanov, Violin (World March 5 Commissioned by Daniel Gaisford, Cello Premiere), Bargemusic (2008)* March 8 • Saturday, 8 pm Olga Vinokur, Piano Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in Tickets are $40 ($25 students) March 20 • Thursday, 8 pm d minor, D. 810, “Death and the Fauré Piano Quintet No. 1 in Tickets are $40 ($25 students) Maiden” d minor, Op. 89 Jazz Night Shanghai Quartet Greg Sandow Quartet for Anne (2001) Weigang Li, Violin Franck Piano Quintet in f minor, M7 Josh Roseman’s Water Surgeons Yi-Wen Jiang, Violin Jacob Garchik, Trombone and Accordion Honggang Li, Viola Fine Arts Quartet Curtis Hasselbring, Trombone and Ralph Evans, Violin Nicholas Tzavaras, Cello Guitar and Efim Boico, Violin Josh Roseman, Trombone and Bass Yuri Gandelsman, Viola Mark Peskanov, Violin Tyshawn Sorey, Trombone and Drums Doris Stevenson, Piano Wolfgang Laufer, Cello Barney McAll, Electronics and *This is the sixth of six commissioned Christina Ortiz, Piano works awarded to us by the New York State Music Fund established by the New York State Attorney General April 2008 w

April 3 • Thursday, 8 pm April 12 • Saturday, 8 pm April 19 (continued) Jazz Night April 13 • Sunday, 4 pm Efrem Podgaiz Sonata for Clarinet Don Friedman, Piano Mozart String Quartet No. 15 in Solo d minor, K. 421 (K. 417b) Bernstein Sonata for Clarinet and April 4 • Friday, 8 pm Dvorak String Quartet No. 12 in Piano (1942) All Six Bach Sonatas and Partitas F Major, Op. 96, “American” Anton Dressler, Clarinet for Solo Violin Bartok String Quartet No. 6 in John Novacek, Piano Ivan Zenaty, Violin D Major, Sz. 114, BB 119 April 20 • Sunday, 4 pm April 5 • Saturday, 8 pm Vertigo Quartet* Aaron Copland Vitebsk: Study on a Jose-Maria Blumenschein, Violin Tickets are $50 ($25 students) Jewish Theme for Violin, Cello and Johannes Dickbauer, Violin Piano (1928) Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Lily Francis, Viola Op. 49 bis (Quartet No. 1, Nicholas Canellakis, Cello Jindrich Feld Erinnerung an Mozart für Zauberflöte solo (Recollection orchestral version) *Bargemusic Quartet in Residence. Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in of Mozart for Magic Flute Solo) Partially supported by the National (2001) C Major, Op. 48 Endowment for the Arts Frank Martin Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Ballade for Flute and (arr. for string orchestra by Yuli April 16 • Wednesday, 8 pm Piano (1939) Turovsky) In Celebration of Gregor Lowell Liebermann Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 23 (1987) I Musici de Montreal (Montreal Piatigorsky’s 105th Birthday Chamber Orchestra) Brahms Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Peteris Vasks Landscape with Birds Yuli Turovsky, Artistic Director and Piano in G Major, Op. 78 for Solo Flute (1980) Conductor Haydn Divertimento for Cello and Dvorak Piano Trio No. 3 in f minor, Piano in D Major (transcr. by Op. 65 April 6 • Sunday, 4 pm Piatigorsky) Clavier Trio Tommaso Vitali Chaconne in Chopin Nocturne in c-sharp minor, Arkady Fomin, Violin g minor for Violin and Piano Op. posth. (transcr. by Piatigorsky) Jesus Castro-Balbi, Cello Mozart Sonata No. 27 for Violin and Piatigorsky Prayer for Solo Cello (in David Korevaar, Piano Piano in G Major, KV. 379 homage to Ernst Bloch) and Ilze Urbane, Flute Schumann Sonata No. 1 for Violin Weber Adagio and Rondo for and Piano in a minor, Op. 105 Harmonium in F Major, J. 115 April 24 • Thursday, 8 pm Prokofiev Five Melodies for Violin (transcr. by Piatigorsky) Jazz Night and Piano, Op. 35 bis (1925) Arensky Piano Trio No. 1 in d minor, Pärt Fratres for Violin and Piano Op. 32 Rob Schwimmer, Piano and Theremin (1977/80) Mark Peskanov, Violin April 25 • Friday, 8 pm Chausson Poeme, Op. 25 Evan Drachman, Cello Tickets are $50 ($25 students) Doris Stevenson, Piano Helena Baillie, Violin Rossini Sonata No. 1 for Strings in Julian Riem, Piano April 17 • Thursday, 8 pm G Major (circa 1804) April 9 • Wednesday, 8 pm Jazz Night Puccini “Crisantemi” (1890) Haydn String Quartet No. 23 in Judy Carmichael Trio Donizetti Quartet No. 3 for Strings f minor, Op. 20, No. 5, FHE Chris Flory, Guitar in c minor No. 47, Hob. III:35 Mike Hashim, Saxophone Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Op. 8 Wolf Italian Serenade for String Judy Carmichael, Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Major, Quartet in G Major (1887) RV 269, “La Primavera” (Spring) April 18 • Friday, 8 pm Britten Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Concerto No. 2 in g minor, Op. 36 Mozart Sonata for Violin and Piano RV 315, “L’estate” (Summer) in F Major, KV 376 (374b) Vertigo Quartet* Concerto No. 3 in F Major, Jose-Maria Blumenschein, Violin Mendelssohn Sonata No. 24 for RV 293, “L’autunno” (Autumn) Johannes Dickbauer, Violin Violin and Piano in F Major Concerto No. 4 in f minor, Lily Francis, Viola (1838) RV 297, “L’inverno” (Winter) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Sonata in Three Nicholas Canellakis, Cello Mark Peskanov, Violin Solo *Bargemusic Quartet in Residence. Movements for Violin and Piano Partially supported by the National (1973-1974) I Virtuosi Italiani Endowment for the Arts Strauss Improvisation from Sonata for Alberto Martini, Conductor and Violin Violin and Piano in E-Flat Major, April 26 • Saturday, 8 pm April 10 • Thursday, 8 pm Op. 18 Jazz Night Tchaikovsky Melodie, Op. 42, No. 3 April 27 • Sunday, 4 pm Michael Marcus Quartet Waltz Scherzo, Op. 34 Tickets are $50 ($25 students) “Tribute to Tony Scott” Emanuel Borok, Violin Vivaldi Overtures to "Dorilla in Michael Marcus, Bb Clarinet Cullan Bryant, Piano Tempe," RV 709, "Arsilda Regina John Austria, Piano di Ponto," RV 700 and "La Verita Jessie Crawford, Bass April 19 • Saturday, 8 pm in Cimento," RV 739 Jay Rosen, Drums Devienne Sonata No. 1 for Clarinet Galuppi Concerto in g minor April 11 • Friday, 8 pm and Piano in C Major (circa Albinoni Sinfonia in F Major 1790’s) Tartini Concerto for Violin in See listing above for Wednesday, Brahms Sonata No. 1 for Clarinet A Major, D. 96 April 9 and Piano in f minor, Op. 120 Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Op. 8 (see Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and listing above for Friday, April 25) Piano, Op. 184 Mark Peskanov, Violin Solo Alexander Tcherepnin Sonata in One I Virtuosi Italiani Movement for Clarinet and Piano, Alberto Martini, Conductor and Violin Op. posth. 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May 2 • Friday, 8 pm May 10 • Saturday, 8 pm May 23 • Friday, 8 pm Solo and Four-Hand Piano Works May 11 • Sunday, 4 pm Haydn Piano Sonata No. 59 in E-Flat by Mozart and Schubert Mozart Piano Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Hob. 16:49 Valida Suk, Piano Major, K. 254 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in Oksana Yablonskaya, Piano Haydn Piano Trio No. 31 in f minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” Debussy Two Preludes from Book II: May 3 • Saturday, 8 pm G Major, Hob. XV:32 Beethoven Piano Trio No. 5 in Ondine, Brouilliards Jean Francaix Trio for Violin, Viola D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost” Rachmaninoff Two Preludes: and Cello in C Major (1933) Op. 32, No. 5, Op 23, No. 2 Mark Peskanov, Violin Dohnanyi Serenade for String Trio in Barcarolle in g minor, Op. 10, C Major, Op. 10 Raman Ramakrishnan, Cello Steven Beck, Piano No. 3 Dvorak Piano Quartet No. 2 in Brahms Variations on a Theme by E-Flat Major, Op. 87 May 15 • Thursday, 8 pm Paganini, Op. 35, Book II Andy Simionescu, Violin Jazz Night Elena Ulyanova, Piano Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Viola Ken Peplowski, Clarinet and Tenor Matt Haimovitz, Cello Saxophone May 24 • Saturday, 8 pm Benjamin Hochman, Piano Greg Cohen, Bass May 25 • Sunday, 4 pm May 4 • Sunday, 4 pm May 16 • Friday, 8 pm Student tickets are $15 Student tickets are $15 Here and Now: American May 17 • Saturday, 4 pm Here and Now: American Contemporary Music Series Contemporary Music Series Your Choice Concert Series Music of David Del Tredici Terry Riley G-Song (1980) Mark Peskanov and Steven Beck have Grand Trio for Violin, Cello and performed all of these pieces together, John Cage Piano (2001) Variations II (1961) and now they would like for you to Justin Messina New Work (2008) Love Addiction for Baritone and choose the program. Pick four sonatas Piano (1997/2007) Roscoe Mitchell 9-9-99 (The Card (one by each composer), and vote Version) (1999) when you purchase a ticket. One Chris Pedro Trakas, Baritone Annie Gosfield Lightheaded and sonata by each composer will be Mark Peskanov, Violin Heavyhearted (2002) selected according to the popular vote. Scott Kluksdahl, Cello The resulting programs will be David Del Tredici, Piano FLUX Quartet announced at the concerts. Please see Tom Chiu, Violin Bargemusic’s online calendar May 29 • Thursday, 8 pm Conrad Harris, Violin (www.bargemusic.org/calendar.html) Jazz Night Max Mandel, Viola or call for the complete program Liz Magnus, Piano Dave Eggar, Cello listings. Choose from the complete May 8 • Thursday, 8 pm sonatas for violin and piano by J.S. May 30 • Friday, 8 pm Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Student tickets are $15 Jazz Night Brahms. Here and Now: American Jim Gailloreto, Saxophone Mark Peskanov, Violin Contemporary Music Series Fred Hersch, Piano Steven Beck, Piano Hand to Hand/Mano a Mano: A May 9 • Friday, 8 pm May 18 • Sunday, 4 pm Program of Innovative Works for Piano Solo and Four Hands Tickets are $40 ($15 students) Tickets are $40 ($15 students) Here and Now: American Virgil Thomson Synthetic Waltzes Here and Now: American (1925) Contemporary Music Series Contemporary Music Series Mario Lavista Simurg (1980) Jim Gailloreto American Complex Music of Paul Schoenfield (World Premiere)* Steven Burke Alchemy (2007), Partita for Violin and Piano (2002) Justina with Strings (World Premiere) Four Souvenirs for Violin and Admit One George Crumb Celestial Mechanics Piano (1990) (Makrokosmos IV) (1979) Bad Clowns Excerpts from Five Days from the Maurice Ravel La Valse (1920) Shadow Puppets Life of a Manic-Depressive for (transcr. By Lucien Garban) Wayne Shorter Witch Hunt Piano Four Hands Split Second Piano Ensemble Café Music for Violin, Cello and Infant Eyes Marc Peloquin, Piano Piano (1987) John Coltrane Giant Steps Roberto Hidalgo, Piano Thelonious Monk Well You Needn't Opus Two May 31 • Saturday, 8 pm ’Round Midnight William Terwilliger, Violin Andrew Cooperstock, Piano Kodaly Duo for Violin and Cello, Jazz String Quintet and Op. 7 Jim Gailloreto, Soprano Saxophone Allison Eldredge, Cello Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in Katherine Hughes, Violin Paul Schoenfield, Piano Carol Kalvonjian, Violin A-Flat Major, Op. 110 Benton Wedge, Viola May 22 • Thursday, 8 pm Piano Trio No. 2 in G Major, Jill Kaeding, Cello Jazz Night Op. 1 *Sponsored by Chamber Music ndy Simionescu, Violin Dayna Stephens, Tenor Saxophone A America's New Works Grant Denis Brott, Cello Dahveed Behroozi, Piano Claude Frank, Piano Gary Wang, Bass Tim Bulkley, Drums “Audiences are engulfed by Bargemusic performances.” —Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times w d n a l r a G

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Generous contributions from the following corporations and foundations support our concerts every week throughout the year.

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Libby Holman Foundation Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation Martha Zales Trust Anderson-Rogers Foundation, Inc. M & H Sommer Foundation Anonymous (4) Nathan & Lena Seiler Family Foundation Arnhold Foundation The New York State Music Fund established by Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund the New York State Attorney General Bagby Foundation for Musical Arts New York Community Trust, Inc. Barbara Lee Family Foundation Phyllis Fox & George Sternlieb Foundation Barbara & Robert Prieskel Fund Reuben & Jane Leibowitz Foundation Barkei Family Fund Ridgefield Foundation Carnegie Corporation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Constans Culver Foundation Sam Spiegel Foundation Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth Foundation Stella & Charles Guttman Foundation, Inc. 14-18 Fulton Servicing, Inc. Van Slyke Family Fund Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund These concerts are supported in part by public Golden Rule Foundation funds from The New York City Department of Henry & Lucy Moses Fund, Inc. Cultural Affairs and The New York State Council Hersh Family Fund on the Arts Ilse Nelson Fund Irene Diamond Fund, Inc. Isaacson Draper Foundation James G. and Carolyn H. Andress Fund John N. & Gillett A. Gilbert Family Fund Kanter Plaut Foundation