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TODD CROW, Music Director
Tuesday evenings at 8:15 p.m. At the Neighborhood House on Main Street in
The Shanghai Quartet opens the series on July 21st with a program featuring Krzysztof Penderecki's String Quartet No. 3, a work recently commissioned by the Shanghai Quartet in honor of the composer's 75th birthday. On July 28th, the Miami String Quartet will perform quartets by Haydn (on the 200th anniversary of his death) and Mendelssohn (on the 200th anniversary of his birth), and will be joined by violinist Kyu-Young Kim and pianist/music director Todd Crow in Ernest Chausson's massive Concert in D major for piano, violin, and string quartet. The August 4th program, which concludes with Smetana's G minor Piano Trio, will feature guest artists violinist Stephanie Chase, cellist Mark Shuman, and mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart.The Borromeo String Quartet performs a program on August 11th to include Beethoven's String Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131, and the season closes on August 18th with the Brentano String Quartet playing two Beethoven quartets along with Bach's Keyboard Concerto in A major with Todd Crow. Other composers to be heard this summer are Mozart, Dvořák, Grieg, and Bloch. The festival aims to present chamber music at its best in an intimate setting. Much of the aura, which is both informal and serious, is due to the ambiance of the Neighborhood House, whose fine acoustics and old world charm add much to the intimacy of communication upon which chamber music thrives.
MARGO BAILEY, ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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