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SUMMARY:American Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:The opening program of the Friends of Chamber Music Fifty-First Season celebrates American Landscapes across three unique works. Barber’s youthful Serenade Opus 1 announces a remarkable compositional voice\, already brimming with signature lyricism. Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet is a towering achievement of American Romanticism — brooding and passionate. We close with Dvořák’s “American” Quintet\, composed during his celebrated time in the United States\, a sunlit\, folk-infused work that stands as one of chamber music’s most consequential creations — lighting the way into the New World. \nChad Hoopes\,violin\nDanbi Um\,violin\nMasumi Rostad\,viola\nScott Lee\,viola\nHyeyeon Park\,piano\nDmitri Atapine\,cello
URL:https://follytheater.org/event/american-landscapes/
CATEGORIES:The Friends Of Chamber Music Kansas City
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SUMMARY:Art of the Piano: Gabriela Montero
DESCRIPTION:The spellbinding Gabriela Montero brings a program shaped by the many voices of Spain: from the courtly sonatas of Soler and Scarlatti to the poetic nationalism of Granados\, Albéniz\, Mompou\, and Alicia de Larrocha\, and finally to the Spanish-inspired worlds of Chopin and Liszt. Venezuelan-born and internationally celebrated as both a pianist and an improviser\, Montero has been praised by The New York Times for her “brilliant\, wonderfully imaginative performances.” This program traces the evolution of Spanish-influenced piano music across two centuries\, encompassing clarity\, elegance\, color\, dance\, rhythm\, and virtuoso display — the many shades of Spain.
URL:https://follytheater.org/event/art-of-the-piano-gabriela-montero/
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SUMMARY:Bach’s Musical Offering
DESCRIPTION:The Friends presents a fascinating program in collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. An exceptional cast of seven artists\, including harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss\, one of today’s foremost interpreters of Bach\, offers a rare performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering — a work that stands at the summit of contrapuntal art. Written in 1747 on a theme given to Bach by Frederick the Great\, the collection unfolds as a series of ricercars\, canons\, and a trio sonata\, each exploring the expressive and intellectual possibilities of a single musical idea. The program continues with music by Johann Sebastian’s sons — Johann Christian\, Carl Philipp Emanuel\, and Wilhelm Friedemann — revealing how this extraordinary musical legacy evolved from one generation to the next\, and how each son defined himself in relation to their father’s immense example. \nKenneth Weiss\, harpsichord\nBella Hristova\, violin\nSean Lee\, violin\nMatthew Lipman\, viola\nDmitri Atapine\, viola\nSooyun Kim\, flute\nJames Austin Smith\, oboe
URL:https://follytheater.org/event/bachs-musical-offering/
CATEGORIES:The Friends Of Chamber Music Kansas City
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SUMMARY:Art of the Piano: Sir Stephen Hough
DESCRIPTION:Sir Stephen Hough brings to the Art of the Piano a recital built around the idea of the Klavierstück\, the short piano piece in its many forms. From Schubert and Brahms\, where the miniature becomes concentrated lyricism\, to Schoenberg and Stockhausen\, where it turns inward\, compressed\, and experimental\, the program traces how composers used brevity to achieve striking freedom and intensity. At its center stands Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata\, expanding that same keyboard imagination onto a monumental scale\, while Schumann’s Carnaval transforms the miniature into a sequence of vivid character pieces. The evening closes with Hough’s own arrangement of a Mary Poppins suite\, adding a final note of wit and charm. A MacArthur Fellow as well as a celebrated pianist\, composer\, and writer\, Hough has been praised by The Arts Desk for combining “open-hearted virtuosity” with “a sense of an inner world beyond the notes.”
URL:https://follytheater.org/event/art-of-the-piano-sir-stephen-hough/
CATEGORIES:The Friends Of Chamber Music Kansas City
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SUMMARY:Espressivo! Piano Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Espressivo! Piano Quartet unites distinguished chamber musicians from two generations: violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson\, long celebrated for their work in the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio\, join pianist Anna Polonsky and violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt in a program that moves from Classical poise to contemporary reflection and Brahmsian intensity. Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major opens the evening with one of the defining works of the genre. At the center stands Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Joy Steppin’\, a FCMKC co-commission written for the ensemble and shaped around the idea of joy as a sustaining and hard-won human force. Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G minor closes the program with sweeping drama and gypsy abandon.
URL:https://follytheater.org/event/espressivo-piano-quartet/
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