"These players are outstanding....they should be playing...everywhere."
-
New York Times
CONCERT I
-
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Pre-Concert Talk
at 7:30 p.m. - Concert at 8:15 p.m.
Flying Fingers! Virtuoso String Quintets
Siete Canciones Espagnolas
Manuel de Falla
Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Piano*
Johannes Brahms
Caprice Basque
Pablo de Sarasate
Romanza Andaluza
Zigeunerweisen
A Capricious CHASE (Caprice No. 24)
Niccolo Paganini
All music arranged for
string quintet by
Stephanie Chase
*world premiere of this arrangement
Stephanie Chase,
violin; Harumi Rhodes, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola;
James Wilson, cello:
Kurt Muroki, double bass
Watch a live video from this concert!
PRESS ACCLAIM
Stephanie Chase
plays with "rich, passionate tone, dead-true
intonation throughout, and virtuosity galore.”
- Gramophone
Harumi Rhodes...gave
(Schoenberg's String Trio) a crackling,
visceral reading that held the audience in rapt
attention." - New York Times
“(Hsin-Yun
Huang's) tone was rich and earthy, and she
negotiated each phrase with remarkable agility and
expressive acumen.” - Chicago Tribune
James Wilson is “a recitalist with something to
say, and a commanding way of saying it.” - Los
Angeles Times
Kurt Muroki "is a brilliant player and performer
with a fantastic ear and technique that is
unsurpassed." - Homer Mensch, former New York
Philharmonic principal
Pre-Concert Talk
and Demonstration by
Bo Lawergren
and
Tomoko Sugawara at 7:30 p.m.:
An
Ancient Stringed Instrument Reborn: The Angular Harp
Christ & St. Stephen's Church
120 West 69th Street
New York, NY 10023
Admission at the door, $30 and $15 (students
& seniors),
requested contribution.
Doors open at 7:15 p.m. The pre-concert talk is included
in admission.
CONCERT II -
Friday, February 26, 2010
Pre-Concert Lecture
at 7:30 p.m. - Concert at 8:15 p.m.
Sound Travels Through Vienna
Sonata No. 2 for violin solo, Op. 115 (1948)
Ernst Krenek
Caprice Viennois (1910)
Fritz Kreisler
Four Pieces for violin and piano (1910)
Anton Webern
Clarinet Sonata, Op. 120 (1894)
Johannes Brahms
Klavierstücke No. 1, D. 946
(1828)
Franz Schubert
Sonata for violin and piano K305 (1778)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stephanie Chase, violin;
Jon Manasse, clarinet; William Wolfram, piano
PRESS ACCLAIM
Stephanie Chase
plays with "rich, passionate tone, dead-true
intonation throughout, and virtuosity galore.”
- Gramophone
"And there was a
heavenly moment when clarinetist Jon Manasse
fluttered above the duet like a cherub tumbling in
the clouds of a Mannerist painting." - Milwaukee
Journal
"Pianist
William Wolfram combined elegance and clarity in
his playing, with the virile, propulsive energy and
mercurial shifts of mood needed to make this music
come to life." - San Francisco Classical Voice
"I drink my wine where Beethoven
drank his!":
Johannes Brahms in Vienna
Styra Avins is a cellist,
musicologist, and the author of
Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
(Oxford University Press).
Christ & St. Stephen's Church
120 West 69th Street
New York, NY 10023
Admission at the door, $30 and $15 (students
& seniors),
requested contribution. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. The
pre-concert talk is included in admission.
CONCERT III
- Friday, April 16th, 2010 at 8:15 p.m.
THIS CONCERT WILL BE REPEATED ON
APRIL 18th AT 4 PM IN TROY, NY
The Friends of
Chamber Music
presents the Music
of the Spheres Society
on Sunday, April
18, 2010, at 4:00 p.m in
Kiggins Hall at the Emma
Willard School, 285 Pawling
Avenue (Route 66) in Troy,
NY.
Tickets
are $25 regular and $15
student. Call (518) 273-8135
for tickets or information,
or visit
www.friendsofchambermusic.org.
"Hope Hudson
was excellent in every way asthe New
Prioress(Dialogues of the Carmelites)
- New York Daily News
“heroic…the
ease and musicality with which (Darrett)
Adkins sailed through all four works was
stunning. Technical challenges did not seem to
faze him, and he played with a tone that
retained its richness and warmth.” - New York
Times
"Todd Crow
plays...with great elan, illuminating every note
and delivering breathtaking bursts of sheer
pianism...everyone who loves the piano should
hear this disc."
- Fanfare
Pre-Concert Talk
by
Richard Pearson Thomas at 7:30 p.m.: Race
to the Sky: Poetry and Music in Response to 9/11
Christ & St. Stephen's Church
120 West 69th Street
New York, NY 10023
Admission at the door, $30 and $15 (students
& seniors),
requested contribution. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. The
pre-concert talk is included in admission.
To learn more about the
Music of the Spheres Society,
please call (212) 877-4402.
All programs and artists are subject to change.
The Music of the
Spheres Society, Inc.
presents innovative programs of chamber music concerts, lectures, and
educational workshops that illuminate music’s historical, philosophical and
scientific foundations. It is non-profit, 501 (c)3 organization.
