Chamber Music Society Of Detroit Presents The Orion String Quartet And Windscape
The concert marks the debut appearance of Windscape with the Chamber Music Society of Detroit.
- Detroit, MI (1888PressRelease) January 15, 2011 - Artists/Date/Concert Location
Orion String Quartet and Windscape
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8:00 PM
Seligman Performing Arts Center
Located on the campus of Detroit Country Day School
22305 West 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills
-Artist Bios-
For the Orion String Quartet's bio, please see: http://www.orionquartet.com/bio.htm or http://www.kirshdem.com/artist.php?id=orionstringquartet
For Windscape's bio, please see: http://www.franksalomon.com/artist.php?aid=9
-Repertoire-
Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Arranged for string quartet and wind quintet by Samuel Baron
-Sponsor-
Co-sponsored by Fifth Third Bank
-Unique Features of this Concert-
-This concert marks the debut appearance of Windscape, a quintet formed in 1994 by five eminent woodwind soloists, on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit series.
-This concert marks the premiere performance of Bach's complete The Art of Fugue on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit series. The performance is notable in several ways:
-The manuscript of Bach's The Art of Fugue does not specify a particular instrumentation, and over the years the work has been performed by a variety of instrumental combinations. The unique arrangement being performed at this concert for string quartet and wind quintet was made in the early 1960's by Samuel Baron (1925-1997), founding flutist of the New York Woodwind Quintet and artistic director of the Bach Aria Group.
-Like many of Bach's later masterworks, The Art of Fugue stands as an exploration in depth of fugal techniques and structure; Bach's genius is seen in the extraordinary wealth of invention he applies as he takes a single theme and uses it as the thematic and architectural basis for a concert-length work.
-Because of its scope and because Bach worked on the piece during the last months of his life, it is often regarded as a summing-up of his life's work.
-Pre-Concert Dinner: Bacco Ristorante, with special reduced dinner price for CMSD ticket-holders, 6:00 - 7:15 PM
-Special Features of Seligman Performing Arts Center-
-Free Parking
-Easy Accessibility
-Intimate Chamber Music Venue (seats 724)
-Excellent acoustics; Kirkegaard Associates, acoustician
-Special Offering by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit-
Society Café open before the concerts and during intermission with support from Sweet Lorraine's and Cadillac Coffee
-Upcoming Concerts: Chamber Music Society of Detroit 2010-2011 Season-
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Zuill Bailey, Cello
Piers Lane, Piano
Mendelssohn: Concert Variations
Schumann: Fantasiestücke
Roberto Sierra: Suite de canciones y danzas
Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19
Pre-Concert Talk with Zuill Bailey, 6:45 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Nash Ensemble of London
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478
Bax: Oboe Quintet
Britten: Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and String Trio, Op. 2
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
Pre-Concert Talk with Steven Rings, 6:45 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Jorge Federico Osorio, Piano
Beethoven: Variations in F major, Op. 34
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Granados: Spanish Dances, Nos. 1, 2 & 5
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Morgenstern Trio
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award Concert
Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101
Pre-Concert Talk with Steven Rings, 6:45 - 7:30 PM
-Ticket Purchase Information-
-Single tickets to all concerts: $43 - $75; students $25.
-By phone: Chamber Music Society of Detroit Ticket Service: 248-855-6070
-Online: www.ComeHearCMSD.org
HOUR Detroit and dbusiness are the media sponsors for the 2010-2011 season.
For further information about the 2010-2011 concert season, please visit the Chamber Music Society of Detroit web site at www.ComeHearCMSD.org.
The Chamber Music Society of Detroit is a non-profit organization committed to presenting the highest quality chamber music performed by musicians of international stature in acoustically outstanding venues. The Chamber Music Society of Detroit is recognized locally, nationally and internationally for the high caliber of its presentations.
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