THE CHAMBER MUSIC THE FESTIVALCHAMBER MUSIC OFFESTIVAL THE OF THE BLUEGRASSBLUEGRASS https://irm.shakervillageky.org/ irmnet/Res/ResMain.aspx KEEP IN TOUCH #shakervillageky The 2016 Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass featuring The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center THE 2016 CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF THE BLUEGRASS the artists presented by Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Wu Han, piano Join CMS Artistic Directors David Sean Lee, violin Finckel and Wu Han for special Arnaud Sussmann, violin performances in the Meeting House and the Meadow View Barn. Paul Neubauer, viola Chamber music enthusiasts will enjoy David Finckel, cello two educational lectures, led by a representative from Lincoln Center, that Calidore String Quartet thoroughly cover the history of each Jeffrey Myers, violin piece of music being performed. Ryan Meehan, violin Jeremy Berry, viola DISCOVERY STARTS HERE Great discoveries call for great explorers and Estelle Choi, cello today, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is reconnecting its vibrant campus to inspire a new community of adventurers, learners, makers, doers and supporters. The Historic Centre, The Farm and The Preserve are centers of exploration, jumping-off points for experiences built to ignite your trailblazing spirit. Learn more at shakervillageky.org. *Please turn off cell phones and other electronic devices. WANT MORE? Check out more than 250 programs, events and other moments of discovery online! Continue to check shakervillageky.org as programs and events will be added throughout the year! Become a member to receive free admission and other benefits all year long. Notes on the Program by DR. RICHARD E. RODDA WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) 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 VIOLINS, 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 SERGEI PROKOFIEV (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 sonata form 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, Germany. 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.