Schedule Of Events
House Concert: Polish Adventures
This program of music by Polish composers draws on a wide variety of influences near and far. Weinberg’s deep friendship with Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich looms large in his String Trio, along with echoes of Jewish, Gypsy, and Moldavian themes. Polish folk melodies and bucolic musical settings are also on the menu. The cornerstone of the evening, Szymanowski’s Mythes, presents three programmatic miniatures inspired by Greek mythology, with traces of French impressionism and the composer’s own travels in Sicily and North Africa.
PROGRAM
Mieczysław WEINBERG: String Trio, Op. 48
Karol SZYMANOWSKI: Mythes, Op. 30 for Violin and Piano
Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI: Five Bucolics, for Viola and Cello
Krzysztof PENDERECKI: Clarinet Quartet
Grażyna BACEWICZ: Quartet for Four Violins
ARTISTS
Chad Burrow (clarinet)
Amy I-Lin Cheng (piano)
John Bian, Minju Kim, Luri Lee, Christine Harada Li and Rita Wang (violin)
Edwin Kaplan and Hezekiah Leung (viola)
Nathan Chan and Nathaniel Pierce (cello)
