Current 2008 Performance Schedule
Sunday, September 14, at 3:00 p.m.
Musique on the Bluff: Carnival of the Animals
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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.
Sunday, September 21, at 3:00 p.m.
Musique on the Bluff: Perfectly Franck
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
Friday, October 10, at 12:20 p.m.
Cynthia Raim and David Allen Wehr, piano duet concert
Baltimore, Maryland
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
Sunday, October 12, at 3:00 p.m.
Cynthia Raim and David Allen Wehr, piano duet concert
Rose Window Concerts - Stratford, Connecticut
Same program as October 10, plus solos by Ravel (Raim) and Debussy (Wehr)
First Congregational Church, 2301 Main Street, Stratford, Connecticut
$10 minimum donation requestedFor directions, visit www.firstchurchstratford.org
Tuesday, October 14, at 7:00 p.m.
Cynthia Raim and David Allen Wehr, piano duet concert
Foulkeways, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Private concert
Thursday, November 6, at 8:00 p.m.
Recital - Ives Hall, Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, Connecticut
MUSICAL PICTURES
- Debussy: Preludes, Book One
- Utterback: Three Jazz Pieces
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
For ticket information and directions, visit http://www.wcsu.edu/newsevents/events.asp after Oct. 1
Monday, December 1, at 3:00 p.m.
Musique on the Bluff: The End of Time
A co-production with Celebration Messiaen (honoring the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth)
PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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.
Current 2009 Performance Schedule
Sunday, February 8, at 3:00 p.m.
Musique on the Bluff: Toot Suite
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Claude Bolling's Toot Suite for Trumpet and Jazz Piano was written for French trumpeter Maurice Andre, and is performed by jazz legends Sean Jones and Joe Utterback, with members of Catch-22, Duquesne University's faculty jazz guitar ensemble. David Allen Wehr brings to life the twelve character vignettes of Debussy Preludes, Book One, including "The Sunken Cathedral" and "The Maid with the Flaxen Hair."
Friday, April 3, at 8:00 p.m.
Recital - Salina, Kansas
In conjunction with the King Family Regional Young Artist Competition.
For further information, visit www.kingaward.com.
Tuesday, April 7, at 8:00 p.m.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninoff Festival
Duquesne University Faculty Recital
PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- David Allen Wehr, piano
- Anne Martindale Williams, cello
- Guenko Guechev, bass-baritone
- Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, op. 19
- Rachmaninoff: Two Romances for Voice and Piano
Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Cellist Anne Martindale Williams and David Allen Wehr team up for one of the all-time great cello-piano duos, the dreamy, Romantic, dazzling Sonata by Rachmaninoff, a work which challenges each of the performer to dizzying heights of technical virtuosity and emotional commitment.
$10 donation requested. For further information, visit www.music,duq.edu
Sunday, May 3, at 3:00 p.m.
Duo Recital: Clancy Newman, cello
and David Allen Wehr, piano
Private House Concert presented by
Connecticut Alliance for Music
- Debussy: Sonata
- Beethoven: Sonata no. 5 in D Major, op. 102, no. 2
- Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G Minor, op. 19
Newman and Wehr celebrate 10 years of collaboration with a knockout program of three of the cello-piano literature's most precious gems.
For information on membership, visit www.camusic.org.
Tickets are initially available to members and their guests; to be placed on a waitlist, e-mail alliance.for.music@snet.net
June 6-13
Sunflower Music Festival
Washburn University - Topeka, Kansas
Visit www.sunflowermusicfestival.org for more information.
July 8-12
Buzzards Bay Musicfest
Tabor Academy - Marion, Massachusetts
For more information, visit www.buzzardsbaymusicfest.org
Saturday, July 18
Cynthia Raim and David Allen Wehr, piano duet concert
Bradford, New Hampshire
Check back here for more details.