The Huntington Library (San Marino, CA)
The beautiful, elegant Huntington Library hosts the two-time Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music in their Summer Festival. Be surrounded by the timeless beauty of the Huntington Library as the Ensemble plays works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Walter Piston, Claude Debussy, Lou Harrison, Franz Schubert, Carl Maria von Weber, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Johannes Brahms. See event description for program dates.
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The last date listed for Southwest Chamber Music 2007 Summer Festival at the Huntington was Saturday August 25, 2007 / 7:30pm. (view all dates)
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I am looking forward to go again next year.
It was nice, especially being out in the beautiful garden. The setting was somewhat odd; they wouldn't really let the unwashed masses on the lawn see the musicians. And they wouldn't allow to bring in picnic baskets. Quite a bummer.
Very disappointing - we purchased 2 tix in the lawn "section". Do not buy tickets for this! We couldn't hear the music because no one bothered setting up speakers - picture when you turn on classical music at home, leave the room and close the door behind you...it had that faraway, muffled sound because we were located down a hill and to the side, making it difficult to see anything either (instead, we could hear the sounds of others walking on the grass, walking down the stairs, whispering and people getting out of their chairs). Our program said we could take a stroll on the grounds during intermission, which to them, consisted of walking on the grass/lawn we were already located.
If you are a fan of chamber or classical music and you insist on coming here, spend the extra dollars for seats, which is obviously the audience these concerts were intended for. If you insist on a great musical experience on the lawn, attend the Festival on the Green at the Arboretum instead. Not only can you hear the concert for a lesser price, but you can bring food/beverages, candles, pillows, and whatever else you'd like along with the blanket allowed for the Huntington, making for a fun, romantic evening.
The Huntington is an oasis of art and culture set amidst 150 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants.
A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real e
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Grammy Award-winning ensemble Southwest Chamber Music will perform works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Walter Piston, Claude Debussy, Lou Harrison, Franz Schubert, Carl Maria von Weber, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Johannes Brahms. Our opening concert features a wonderfully melodic Suite that will introduce American audiences to Vietnamese composer Phuc Linh, who met Southwest Chamber Music during its recent tour to the Hanoi National Conservatory in Vietnam.
Southwest Chamber Music opens the 2007 Summer Festival with
Piston, Phuc Linh, and Beethoven on July 6 & 7
The 2007 Summer Festival opens with a neo-classic masterpiece from American icon Walter Piston, his Quintet for Flute & String Quartet. Southwest Chamber Music met composer Phuc Linh when the ensemble was in residence at the Hanoi National Conservatory in Vietnam. His melodic Suite for Winds & Strings receives its U.S. premiere. The concert closes with one of the first hits of Beethoven’s early career, the Septet for Winds and Strings.
Debussy, Harrison & Berio on July 20 & 21
The second program of the summer combines the French Impressionism of Claude Debussy with the 1960s world of Lou Harrison and Luciano Berio. Harrison’s elegiac work for harp and cello is contrasted with Berio’s Folksongs, commissioned by Mills College in Oakland and sung by soprano Elissa Johnston. Folksongs features texts from the United States, Italy, France, Sardinia, Azerbajian, Sicily and Armenia.
Beethoven, Schubert & Mozart on August 10 & 11
Revel in this bubbling concert of wind music with our Grammy Award-winning ensemble. The concert includes Mozart’s first acknowledged masterpiece, the Quintet for Piano & Winds, K. 452. In a twist of historic fate, the young Beethoven would model his own Quintet for Piano & Winds, Op. 16, on Mozart’s work. Soprano Elissa Johnston, clarinetist Jim Foschia, and pianist Ming Tsu team up for Schubert’s last song, the unforgettable Shepherd on the Rock.
Tchaikovsky, Weber & Brahms on August 24 & 25
A late summer concert of perfect beauty, the String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 of Johannes Brahms is a rich hued work featuring numerous opportunities for our ensemble to shine. Clarinetist Jim Foschia will take on the operatic pyrotechnics of von Weber’s Quintet for Clarinet & Strings. The concert opens with a piano piece of Tchaikovsky, Autumn Song, orchestrated for clarinet and strings by Japanese master Toru Takemitsu.
Performing this summer are: Lorenz Gamma, Mitchell Newman, Shalini Vijayan, violins; Jan Karlin, viola; Peter Jacobson, cello; Tom Peters, double bass; Lawrence Kaplan, flute; Jim Foschia, clarinet; Stuart Horn, oboe; James Atkinson, horn; Allen Savedoff, bassoon; Ming Tsu, piano; Andrea Puente, harp; Lynn Vartan and Jeff Olsen percussion; and Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor.
Two-time Grammy Award winner Southwest Chamber Music, founded in 1987, is one of the most active chamber music ensembles in the United States, presenting concert series at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Herbert Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles and a celebrated summer festival at The Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. The ensemble also offers Blendings: Music and Wine, one of the few regularly scheduled open rehearsal series in the nation at the Armory Center for the Arts in Old Pasadena. The ensemble provides weekly music education programs in the Los Angeles and Pasadena Unified School Districts through Project Muse in-school concerts and a Mentorship Program. Southwest Chamber Music takes its name from the Southwest Museum, the oldest cultural institution in Southern California. The ensemble has received two consecutive Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and 2004 for Volume I and Volume II of the complete Chamber Works of Carlos Chávez. Southwest Chamber Music's Composer Portrait Series on Cambria Master Recordings received a 2002 ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for a "landmark set of 12 compact discs featuring American music of our time."