Sun. Nov. 3, 2024 2p.m.
Terrace Theater
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Runtime
approx. 80 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission
Program
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Justin Burgess, baritone
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Leah Arsenault Barrick, flute
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Nurit Bar-Josef, violin
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Marissa Regni, violin
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Daniel Foster, viola
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David Hardy, cello
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Lambert Orkis, piano
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756–1791) - Flute Quartet in D major, K. 285 (14')
- i. Allegro
- ii. Adagio
- iii. Rondo
- Samuel Barber
(1910–1981) - Dover Beach for baritone and string quartet (9')
Intermission
- Johannes Brahms
(1833–1897) - Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (43')
- i. Allegro non troppo
- ii. Andante, un poco Adagio
- iii. Scherzo: Allegro
- iv. Finale: Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo
*This work is part of The Cartography Project
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Meet the Artists
Program Notes
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in D major, K. 285
During his stay in Mannheim at the end of 1777, Mozart met “a gentleman of means and a lover of all the sciences,” a Dutch surgeon named Ferdinand Dejean, who numbered among his accomplishments a certain ability on the flute. Dejean had heard of the 21-year-old musician’s extraordinary talent for composition from a mutual friend, Johann Baptist Wendling, the flutist with the Mannheim orchestra, and he commissioned Mozart to write three concertos and at least three quartets with strings for his instrument. Since he was, as always, short of money, Mozart accepted the proposal to help finance the swing he was then making through Germany and France in search of a permanent position. The next leg of the journey was to lead from Mannheim to Paris, and these flute pieces would help pay the bills.
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach for Baritone and String Quartet
Two important loves were continually evident in the life and music of Samuel Barber: the love of great literature and the love of the singing voice. Barber was a sensitive, cultured, and discriminating reader (in English, French, German, and Italian) of the best literature throughout his life, and he translated a number of those works into music. The Overture to The School for Scandal, one of his most frequently performed works, was, he noted, “suggested by Sheridan’s comedy.” Knoxville: Summer of 1915 was based on the words of James Agee. Shelley, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Matthew Arnold, James Joyce, and A.E. Housman inspired other pieces. Barber came by his love of the human voice almost as part of his birthright. His aunt was the great Metropolitan Opera contralto Louise Homer, a frequent stage partner of Caruso, and her visits to the family home (with her husband, the art song composer Sidney Homer, who strongly encouraged his nephew’s musical interests) and recital performances of some of Barber’s early songs became a lasting influence on the young musician.
Johannes Brahms: Quintet for Piano and String Quartet in F minor, Op. 34
When Brahms ambled into his favorite Viennese café one evening, so the story goes, a friend asked him how he had spent his day. “I was working on my symphony,” he replied. “In the morning I added an eighth note. In the afternoon I took it out.” The anecdote may be apocryphal, but its intent faithfully reflects Brahms’ painstaking process of creation, which is seen better perhaps nowhere than with the F minor Piano Quintet.
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Program
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Justin Burgess, baritone
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Leah Arsenault Barrick, flute
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Nurit Bar-Josef, violin
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Marissa Regni, violin
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Daniel Foster, viola
-
David Hardy, cello
-
Lambert Orkis, piano
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756–1791) - Flute Quartet in D major, K. 285 (14')
- i. Allegro
- ii. Adagio
- iii. Rondo
- Samuel Barber
(1910–1981) - Dover Beach for baritone and string quartet (9')
Intermission
- Johannes Brahms
(1833–1897) - Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (43')
- i. Allegro non troppo
- ii. Andante, un poco Adagio
- iii. Scherzo: Allegro
- iv. Finale: Poco sostenuto - Allegro non troppo
*This work is part of The Cartography Project
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