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Southwest Chamber Music: Grammy-Winning Ensemble Plays Ives, Mahler, Schubert
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More Details About This Event: Charles Ives, Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting
Lorenz Gamma, violin & Ming Tsu, piano Franz Schubert, The Shepherd on the Rock, D. 965 Elissa Johnston, soprano, Jim Foschia, clarinet, Ming Tsu, piano Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4 in G major (arr. Erwin Stein) Elissa Johnston, soprano, Larry Kaplan, flute, Stuart Horn, oboe, Jim Foschia, clarinet, Lorenz Gamma & Shalini Vijayan, violins, Jan Karlin, viola, Peter Jacobson, cello, Tom Peters, double bass, Ming Tsu & Axel Schmitt, piano, Namhee Han, harmonium, Lynn Vartan & Ken McGrath, percussion, Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor. Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music, one of the most active chamber music ensembles in the nation, concludes its 21st season of Musical Imagination and Color with a program featuring music of Charles Ives, Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler. The program opens with Charles Ives’ Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting. This sonata for violin and piano, written between 1911-16, is a reflection and remembrance of the children’s services at the out-door summer camp meeting, held in farm towns in Connecticut. Schubert’s songs are amongst the most precious, jewel-like compositions in Western music. Soprano Elissa Johnston, clarinetist Jim Foschia, and pianist Ming Tsu team up for Schubert’s last song, the beautiful Shepherd on the Rock. The concert closes with a transcription of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major by Erwin Stein. This symphony was transcribed in the 1920s for performances only at Arnold Schoenberg’s Society for Private Performances in Vienna because, at the time, Mahler’s music was highly despised by his contemporary public, critics, and most musicians. Schoenberg’s influence was extremely important in carrying the Mahlerian torch forward. Soprano Elissa Johnston will be featured alongside the Grammy-Award winning musicians of Southwest Chamber Music. About Southwest Chamber Music: 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.
About Colburn School of Performing Arts: The Colburn School of the Performing Arts moved into its current 65,000-square-foot facility across from the Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles in 1998. The school's 415-seat Zipper Hall is acoustically one of the best performance spaces in the Los Angeles area. |
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