Duquesne University, PNC Recital Hall Mary Pappert School of Music,
$10 donation suggested
Program: The White Peacock (Griffes), Estampes (Debussy), Nocturne in F-Sharp Major/Heroic Polonaise (Chopin), Candlelight Blues/Deep River/Dr. Joe's Long-fingered Ragtime Special (Utterback), Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
For more information, visit www.music.duq.edu
University of Tulsa, Tyrrell Auditorium
For more information, visit www.cas.utulsa.edu/music/events/
University of Tulsa, Tyrrell Auditorium
For more information, visit www.cas.utulsa.edu/music/events/
Brahms’s love affair with the clarinet brought him out of retirement to compose two works, the Clarinet Trio, op. 114, and the Clarinet Quintet, op. 115. Their autumnal qualities complement the program’s two gentle Songs with Viola, op. 91.
In a special pre-concert program at 2:15 p.m., music students from Duquesne University explore the “Muhlfeld connection,” the relationship between Brahms and Richard Muhlfeld, the foremost clarinetist of the composer’s era.
PNC Recital Hall, Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne University
$10 Donation suggested
Program: Sonata in D Major, op. 137, no. 1 (Schubert), Sonata in C Minor, op. 30, no. 2 (Beethoven), Fratres (Arvo Part), Sonata no. 3 in C Minor, op. 45 (Grieg)
For more information, visit www.music.duq.edu
Palace Theater
Grieg Piano Concert in A Minor
For more information, visit www.westmorelandsymphony.org
PNC Recital Hall, Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne University
$10 donation suggested
Program: Trout Quintet (Schubert), with Jeff Turner, double bass, Marylene Gingras-Roy, viola, Rachel Stegeman, violin, David Premo, cello
For more information, visit www.music.duq.edu
Washburn University
For more information, visit www.sunflowermusicfestival.org
Concerts on July 9 (soloist in Bach Concerto in D Minor), 10 (Chamber Music) and 12 (Chamber Music)
For more information, visit www.buzzardsbaymusicfest.org
An all-star cast, featuring international concert pianist Cynthia Raim, performs Saint-Saens' beloved "Grand Zoological Fantasy" in its original version for two pianos and chamber orchestra. The Rev. Sean Kealy, C.S.Sp., provides narration, and cellist Anne Martindale Williams performs her famous interpretation of "The Swan." The program also includes Franck's melodious Sonata for Violin and Piano and Ravel's intricate Le tombeau de Couperin for piano.
Virtuosa Barbara Nissman tackles Ravel's fiendishly difficult "Gaspard de la nuit" and Guenko Guechev and David Allen Wehr present four songs Ibert wrote for the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin to sing in the 1930's French movie version of "Don Quixote," leading to the controversial, white-hot passion of Franck's Piano Quintet
Works by Bizet (Children's Games), Rachmaninoff (Four Duets, op. 11, nos. 1-4), Utterback (Two for Two) and Schubert (Marche militaire no. 1)
For directions, visit http://www.ccbcmd.edu/directory/essex/index.html
Community College of Baltimore County-Essex
7201 Rossville Blvd.
Baltimore, Maryland
Same program as October 10, plus solos by Ravel (Raim) and Debussy (Wehr)
First Congregational Church, 2301 Main Street, Stratford, Connecticut
$10 minimum donation requestedPrivate concert
MUSICAL PICTURES
For ticket information and directions, visit http://www.wcsu.edu/newsevents/events.asp after Oct. 1
Messiaen's monumental "Quartet for the End of Time" was written while the composer was in a German POW camp during World War II. Saturated with Catholic mysticism and visions of the Apocalypse, it shows Messaien's obsessions with birdcalls, music as color and complex rhythms, and is truly one of the masterpieces of 20th-century music. The program also includes the early Variations for Violin and Piano, written for the composer's wife, a violinist herself.