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Marlboro Music Festival second weekendRelease Date: Friday, July 11th 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For Further Information: Frank Salomon –802-258-9322 (frank@franksalomon.com) Tessa Chermiset – 802-254-2394 (vchermiset@marlboromusic.org)
VERMONT’S MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL’s SECOND WEEKEND OFFERS 22 RESIDENT ARTISTS IN WORKS FOR PIANO, STRINGS & WINDS BY BARBER, BARTOK, BRAHMS, MOZART & SCHUBERT ON SATURDAY, JULY 19 AT 8:30 PM & SUN. JULY 20 AT 2:30 PM
Friday 8:30 PM Concerts Scheduled for August 1 and 8 On Final Two Weekends
When Artistic Directors Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida sat down at the weekly scheduling meeting with their colleagues last Thursday, they were faced with the difficult task of choosing six works for the following weekend’s concerts from the twenty-three works proposed for performance. After three weeks of the kind of intensive rehearsals only possible at Marlboro, where 108 different pieces chosen by the participating musicians have been explored so far, works for piano, strings and woodwinds by Barber, Bartok, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert were chosen for the concerts on Saturday, July 19 at 8:30 PM and Sunday, July 20 at 2:30 PM. Twenty-two of the 75 artists in residence for the seven-week season will be heard in the two concerts.
Cornerstones for the two programs are two chamber music masterworks - the Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, Op. 99 with pianist Jonathan Biss, violinist David Bowlin and cellist Marcy Rosen on Saturday and the Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 which reflects the international character of the Marlboro community with Israeli pianist Matan Porot, violinist Viviane Hagner from Germany, violist Maya Papach, a native of South Bend, Indiana and David Soyer, the founding cellist of the Guarneri String Quartet which was formed at Marlboro in 1964. The Schubert was written in 1827, the year in which he also wrote the song cycle Winterreise and in which Beethoven died. 1861, the year in which Brahms wrote the G Minor Piano Quartet also marked the birth of operatic soprano Nelly Melba, who toured the United States in 1913 with legendary flutist and Marlboro co-founder Marcel Moyse.
Ticket information and programs may be obtained by calling 802-254-2394 or on Marlboro’s new website - www.marlboromusic.org with tickets priced from canopy area seats at $5 to inside seats at $15, $25 $ 30 and $35. Concerts continue on weekends through August 10th with special concerts on Friday, August 1 at 8:30 PM (the annual concert benefiting town organizations in the Marlboro College Dining Hall) and on Friday August 8th in the Persons Auditorium. Only canopy area seats remain for the concert on August 10th. Visitors may attend free open rehearsals in Persons Auditorium with schedules available by calling 802-254-2394 starting Mondays of each week and families may obtain tickets for children 8-19 at only $ 7.50 for all concerts in July and for Friday August 8th.
The Saturday, July 19th concert at 8:30 PM will open with a performance of the Mozart Quartet in C for Flute and Strings, K anh 171 with Joshua Smith, Principal Flute of the Cleveland Orchestra, violinist Soovin Kim of the Johannes Quartet, violist Jonathan Chu from Schenectady who plays with the St. Louis Symphony, Orpheus and other ensembles, and Priscilla Lee, cellist of the Trio Cavatina. Also to be heard will be the Bartok String Quartet No. 2, written over three years, 1915-17 when the composer was experiencing the hardships of World War I in Hungary. Performing artists will be violinists Yvonne Lam and Ida Levin (former first violinist of the Mendelssohn Quartet, both natives of Los Angeles, Mr. Chu and Israeli cellist Michal Korman.
The Sunday, July 20th 2:30 PM program opens with Samuel Barber’s 1956 composition for woodwinds Summer Music with flutist Smith, Jaren Philleo, oboist, originally from Fairbanks, Alaska and now Principal Oboe of the Louisiana Philharmonic, English clarinetist Sarah Beaty, Cincinnati Principal Bassoon William Winstead and Los Angeles horn player Benjamin Jaber. 1956 was a banner year for New York with the Yankees beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 4 to 3 in the World Series and also a vintage year for motion pictures with Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal, King Vidor’s War and Peace, the Bolshoi Theater’s Romeo and Juliet ballet and Otto Preminger’s Man with the Golden Arm.
The rarely-heard Mozart String Quartet in G, K. 387 completes the Sunday program with violinists Augustin Hadelich from Germany, Vera Beths from the Netherlands, Springfield, Illinois native violist Philip Kramp and cellist Susan Babini, originally from Detroit and now a teaching assistant at Juilliard and chamber musician in New York.
-Programs and performing artists for July 19 and 20 are as follows:
SATURDAY, JULY 19 AT 8:30 PM
Mozart Joshua Smith, flute Soovin Kim, violin Jonathan Chu, viola Priscilla Lee, cello
Bartók Yvonne Lam, violin Ida Levin, violin Jonathan Chu, viola
3—Marlboro Music Second
SUNDAY, JULY 20 AT 2:30 PM
Barber Joshua Smith, flute Jaren Philleo, oboe Sarah Beaty, clarinet William Winstead, bassoon Benjamin Jaber, horn
Mozart Augustin Hadelich, violin Vera Beths, violin Philip Kramp, viola Susan Babini, cello
INTERMISSION
Brahms Viviane Hagner, violin Maiya Papach, viola David Soyer, cello Matan Porat, piano |
