Concerts during the 2011-12
Reflections Series at WMP Concert Hall
will take place on these evenings:
Season Opener: DIVINE INSPIRATION OR INTELLIGENT DESIGN?
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 @ 7:30pm
How could Beethoven write one of his wittier, more spirited sonatas for violin and piano as he was struggling with his growing deafness? Are works by the deeply spiritual Olivier Messiaen and Arvo Pärt heaven sent? How personal is Lera Auerbach's Ballet for a Lonely Violinist? And how did Aaron Copland, a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn, find a way to so authentically capture the sounds of the American West? The opening program of the 2011-2012 Reflections Series season visits the age-old question of where inspiration comes from, but also asks: "does it matter?" with pianist Jonathan Feldman.
About the concert....
New York Times on Friday September 17th: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/arts/music/gil-morgenstern-at-wmp-concert-hall-review.html
IN SO MANY (MUSICAL) WORDS...
Wednesday, Nov.16, 2011 @ 7:30pm
The second program on the Reflections Series compares and contrasts composers' expressive needs and their resulting musical vocabularies. J.S. Bach took 100 measures to be satisfied with his Fugue in g minor for Solo Violin; Anton Webern needed only 9 measures in a movement from his Four Pieces for Violin and Piano. Lukas Foss wrote four times as much material as György Kurtág did for similarly inspired works based on folk melodies. And what about Brahms? Was his expansive, almost symphonic, Sonata for Violin and Piano in d minor written by "a giftless bastard" (Tchaikovsky) or by a "sentimental voluptuary; a composer with the brains of a third rate village policeman" (Shaw)?
A TRIO OF DUOS
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 @ 7:30pm
A Trio of Duos reunites violinist Gil Morgenstern and cellist Darrett Adkins, whose recording of duos by Zoltán Kodály and Maurice Ravel shot to the top of the classical charts when it was first released on the Engine Company Records label in 2008.The CD was a New York Times Critic's Choice in which Morgenstern and Adkins were hailed as "brilliant and musically curious artists." It was the No. 1 classical CD for over a month on eMusic.com, the largest online store for independent music in the world, and was one of the top ten best selling classical music albums on Amazon.com. The program will also include the violin and cello duos of Reinhold Glière.
SHADES OF RAVEL
Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 @ 7:30pm
The final concert of the 2011-2012 Reflections Series season explores the colors of Maurice Ravel's musical palette. The program includes music by the jazz pianist Bill Evans who is often considered a direct descendant of the French school that included Ravel and Debussy; Germaine Tailleferre, a student of Ravel's and the only female composer in the group known as Les Six; and Amy Beach, the lone female composer of the group known as the Boston Six. The concert will end with Ravel's iconic Trio for violin, cello and piano.
Admission: $35, $15 (students)
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A subscription to all four performances is now available for just ($125/$50 for students) by calling 212-582-7536 or emailing: admin@wmpconcerthall.com
Watch previous Reflections Series concerts online: www.youtube.com/reflectionsseries
For more information:
www.gilmorgenstern.com
www.reflectionsseries.com
