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Chesapeake Music presents CHAMBER MUSIC F E S T I VA L 2021 at the Ebenezer Theater new home of Chesapeake Music JUNE 4–12 Experience the Extraordinary
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Originally the Ebenezer Methodist Church, completed in Festival. An eclectic mixture of the Aesthetic Movement
1856, 17 South Washington served the town’s Methodist and Victorian Gothic, the design is in keeping with
Episcopal congregration for over one hundred years until the time period of construction and resonates with
the merger of Easton’s three Methodist churches. Upon the original stained-glass windows and gothic arches
completion, it was described as a “monument of good throughout. The historic Bradbury & Bradbury “Jeffrey”
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with the intent to attract notable talent and further is complete with a state-of-the-art sound system to be
enhance Easton’s brimming arts and cultural scene. Upon enjoyed by performers and listeners alike for many years
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and renaming it The Ebenezer Theater.
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4 5TABLE OF CONTENTS
President’s Welcome......................................................................................................................... 9
Chamber Music Artistic Director Profiles..............................................................................10–11
Artist Profiles............................................................................................................................. 13–25
Festival Opening Extravaganza!: June 4.................................................................................... 27
Program Notes for June 4 Concert............................................................................................... 29
Dynamic Duos: June 5.................................................................................................................. 31
Program Notes for June 5 Concert......................................................................................... 33–35
Summer Nights: June 6................................................................................................................. 36
Program Notes for June 6 Concert............................................................................................... 37
Masterworks: June 10.................................................................................................................... 39
Program Notes for June 10 Concert............................................................................................. 41
Piano Spotlight: June 11............................................................................................................... 42
Program Notes for June 11 Concert............................................................................................. 43
Festival Finale: June 12................................................................................................................. 45
Program Notes for June 12 Concert............................................................................................. 47
Board of Directors and Thank You’s...................................................................................... 48–49
List of Advertisers........................................................................................................................... 50
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G ive Back Welcome to the 36th Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. We are delighted
that you chose to attend and promise you a superb musical experience.
Our Co-Artistic Directors, Marcy Rosen and Catherine Cho, have put together a
program of six concerts. You will hear masterworks of the classical chamber music
repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann, among others,
and a concert of solely duo performances that features a group of diverse composers:
Joseph Bologne, William Grant Still, William Bolcom, and Amy Beach. Other concerts
will spotlight Chesapeake Music’s Steinway & Sons concert grand piano. You can
be sure that Marcy and Cathy have selected music that will be pleasing to you, the
audience, and interesting to the musicians.
Many of the musicians are old friends, who have graced us with their talents over
and over again but, as always, there will be performers who are new to the Festival.
This year we will have the pleasure of hearing Molly Carr, a young violist, who was
featured as part of the Carr/Petrova Duo at our online Rising Stars Concert this past
February. We will also welcome Timothy Eddy, a founding member of the Orion String
Quartet and we are particularly pleased that for the first time, the Quartet will play
here as a group, performing the Beethoven C Major, Opus 59 No. 3. We are indeed
fortunate that our Artistic Directors assembled this marvelous group of performers
What is it that defines your passion for music who are internationally recognized and the recipients of many awards and prizes.
and how will you ensure that the music you love Of course, there will be several striking differences in our Festival this year. All of
the performances will be at the newly renovated and named Ebenezer Theater, the
continues for years to come? permanent home of Chesapeake Music. The theater houses our recently acquired
Steinway & Sons concert grand piano, the gift of a group of generous music
supporters. Use of the theater for our concerts and the location of our administrative
office are the gifts of Paul and Joanne Prager. The other major difference will be the
There are three simple ways that you can support need to limit our live audience and supplement it with live-streaming.
Chesapeake Music with gifts that give back: Finally, I want to thank our Executive Director, Don Buxton, his assistant, Leslie
Hamburger, our Festival Co-Chairs, their volunteers and our host families. The
• Include Chesapeake Music in your will or trust; Festival would not be possible without their hard work. I am particularly grateful to
• Make Chesapeake Music a beneficiary in your life insurance
our Sponsors and contributors for their support of the Festival and Chesapeake Music.
policy, IRA, 401(k), or other retirement plan; and So, sit back, whether in the Theater or your living room, and enjoy the
extraordinary experience.
• Take advantage of a Charitable Gift Annuity through our
partnership with Mid-Shore Community Foundation. Are you
considering remembering Chesapeake Music in your estate
plans? Phone or write Executive Director, Donald Buxton, Barry Koh
410-819-0380 or don@chesapeakemusic.org. President, Board of Directors
PO Box 461, Easton, MD 21601 • 410-819-0380 • ChesapeakeMusic.org
8 9Marcy Rosen Catherine Cho
Cello, Founder and Artistic Director Violin, Viola, and Artistic Director
Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival
MARCY ROSEN has established herself as Stern, among others, and with the Juilliard, Praised by the New York Times for her Hannover, and Queen Elizabeth
one of the most important and respected Johannes, Emerson, Daedelus and Orion “sublime tone,” CATHERINE CHO has International Violin Competitions. She has
artists of our day. Los Angeles Times music Quartets. She is a founding member of La appeared worldwide as a soloist with many judged international competitions and
critic Herbert Glass has called her “one Fenice as well as the Mendelssohn String orchestras, including the National, Detroit, taught master classes worldwide. She holds
of the intimate art’s abiding treasures” Quartet. With the Mendelssohn she was Buffalo, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, and a Master’s Degree from The Juilliard
and The New Yorker Magazine calls her “a Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina Aspen Chamber Orchestras. School, and she is a member of their violin
New York legend of the cello.” She has School of the Arts and for nine years As a recitalist and chamber musician, she and chamber music faculty as well as their
performed in recital and with orchestra served as Blodgett-Artist-in-Residence at has performed at New York’s Lincoln Community Engagement Seminar. She has
throughout Canada, England, France, Italy, Harvard University. Since first attending Center, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Casals taught at numerous Workshops and
Japan, the Netherlands, South America, the Marlboro Festival in 1975, she Hall in Tokyo, the Seoul Arts Center, the symposia, and she is also on the faculty of
Switzerland, and all fifty of the United has taken part in 25 “Musicians from Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the the Perlman Music Program. Devoted to
States. Sought after for her riveting and Marlboro” tours and has performed in Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York the cause of promoting peace through
informative Master Classes, she has been concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th, and 60th 92nd Street Y, the Gardner Museum in music, Ms. Cho was V.P. of
a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, anniversaries of the festival. Boston and at Ravinia in Chicago. With the Board of Musicians for Harmony for
the New England Conservatory, the pianist Mia Chung, she has performed the several years.
San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Since 1986, Ms. Rosen has been Artistic
Director of Chesapeake Chamber Music in complete cycle of Beethoven’s violin She is an artist member of Music for Food, a
Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul sonatas in the United States and Asia. musician-led initiative to fight hunger in
Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena Maryland and she is an artist member of
Music for Food, a musician led initiative to Ms. Cho has appeared at the Aspen, our local communities. Ms. Cho resides in
International Music Festival in Colombia. Brooklyn with her husband, Todd Phillips,
fight hunger in our local communities. Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, and
2018 saw the release of two new recordings Santa Fe festivals, among others. She has their son, Brandon, and their three cats,
from Bridge Records: The Complete Works A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, also appeared regularly at the Chesapeake Orso, Livie, and Ella. She is the stepmom of
for Cello and Piano by Felix Mendelssohn Ms. Rosen is currently professor of cello Chamber Music Festival since 1998. She is a Lia, Eliza, and Jason, and “Halmoni”
with the pianist Lydia Artymiw, and the at the Aaron Copland School of Music at founding member of the ensemble La (Korean grandma) to Baby Theo.
Sonatas of Richard Strauss and Edvard Queens College, also serving as Artistic Fenice and a former member of the When she is not performing or teaching,
Grieg with pianist Susan Walters. Director of the Chamber Music Live concert Johannes String Quartet. she enjoys baking, practicing yoga, catching
series. She also serves on the faculty at the up with her booklist, gardening, and
Ms. Rosen has collaborated with the Mannes College of Music in New York City. A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant,
Ms. Cho won top prizes at the Montreal, knitting!
world’s finest musicians, including Leon
Fleisher, Richard Goode, Andras Schiff, The Michael and Ella Bracy Cello Chair
Mitsuko Uchida, Jonathan Biss, Peter is held by Marcy Rosen, Founding Artistic
Serkin, Marc-Andre Hamelin and Isaac Director
10 11J. Lawrie Bloom Molly Carr
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fine Italian meats, cheeses, pastas, F E ST I VA L MOLLY CARR is the violist of the award-
olives & olive oils winning Carr-Petrova Duo, featured in
J. LAWRIE BLOOM is guessing that we can Chesapeake Music’s inaugural Rising Stars
all agree that 2020 was a very strange year. (virtual) concert in February, and the Iris Trio.
panini sandwiches for lunch
Planning to retire on June 30, 2020, he was Praised for her ”intoxicating” (NYT) and
honored with a commission by Riccardo Muti “ravishing” (STRAD) performances of “silken
prepared meals to go finesse with gritty vibrancy” (Gramophone),
and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and
performed “Ophelia’s Tears” by Nicolas Bacri she enjoys a diverse musical career as recitalist,
open 7 days chamber musician, educator, and artistic director.
February 20–23, 2020, Riccardo Muti conducting.
Those turned out to be his last concerts with She has received numerous international prizes,
the CSO, ending a 40 year tenure when the including the Primrose International Viola
orchestra shut down due to the pandemic. Competition. In October 2018, Ms. Carr was
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a founding member of the Civitas Ensemble guest faculty in major festivals, from Music@
in Chicago. In addition Lawrie is an Artist Menlo to Malboro and Prussia Cove (England).
Performer for Buffet Crampon USA, and She has collaborated with such renowned artists
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Lawrie has presented master classes all over Orion and American Quartets.
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at Northwestern University for 28 years. He has was released in 2019 to critical acclaim.
taught for Digital Clarinet Academy this year, “Magical” (Fanfare Magazine). In 2020, the
Iris Trio released “Hommage and Inspiration”
trying like everyone to figure out how to best
with works by Schumann, Mozart, Kurtag and
utilize Zoom to help young clarinet players.
Weiss. “Superb […] a five-star stand-out release”
In 1980 Sir Georg Solti invited Lawrie to join (Fanfare). Next will be a multi-album with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in the Enescu Competition Grand Prize Winner, Josu
position of Clarinet and Solo Bass Clarinet. de Solaun, featuring the complete piano and
In that position he has toured the world, string chamber music of George Enescu on the
with more than 2 dozen trips to Europe, 5 NAXOS label.
to Asia, and appearances in Australia, and Ms. Carr is also the founder and artistic director
India. He can be heard on CSO recordings of of the award-winning nonprofit Project: Music
a vast repertoire. Previously, he held similar Heals Us, which exists to bring the Arts to
appointments with, notably, the Orchestra marginalized communities. Ms. Carr serves
of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Phoenix, on the Viola Faculties of the Bard College
Vancouver and Cincinnati Symphonies. Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School’s
Precollege Program, and Musical Arts Madrid
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Artist Award, her self-titled debut album and Mozart, Ravinia, Aspen, Santa Fe, Marlboro,
accompanying recital tour was praised for Lockenhaus, Spoleto, and Sarasota music
“sincerity, intensity” and “individual voice” festivals. He has also won prizes in numerous
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Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Marinus Ensemble, Mr. Eddy is currently professor of cello and
and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. chamber music at The Juilliard School and, until
recently, New York’s Mannes College of Music.
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PIANO PIANO
Lithuanian pianist IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE’s ROBERT McDONALD has performed
powerfully and intricately crafted performances extensively as a soloist and chamber musician
have earned her critical acclaim throughout throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and
the United States and Europe. Her ability to South America. He has appeared with major
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has led critics to describe her as possessing recital partner for many years to Isaac Stern and
“razor-sharp intelligence and wit” (Washington other distinguished instrumentalists.
Post) and as “an artist of commanding technique, He has participated in the Marlboro, Casals
refined temperament and persuasive insight” and Lucerne festivals, the Chamber Music
(New York Times). In 2006, she was honored as a Society at Lincoln Center, and has broadcasted
recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. for BBC Television worldwide. He has
Ieva’s Alban Berg Tribute CD was released to appeared with the Takas, Vermeer, Juilliard,
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2014 album Returning Paths: Solo Piano Works by His discography includes recordings for Sony
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regularly gives solo recitals in New York, Chicago, ASV, and CRI. Mr. McDonald’s prizes include
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She made her orchestral debut with the Chicago
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Competition, the top prize at the William Kapell
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has since performed with orchestras in Rio de Schallplatten Critics Award.
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16 17Tara Helen
O’Connor Peggy Pearson
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TARA HELEN O’CONNOR is a charismatic Oboist PEGGY PEARSON is a winner of the
performer noted for her artistic depth, brilliant Pope Foundation Award for Outstanding
technique and colorful tone spanning every Accomplishment in Music. Lloyd Schwartz,
Suzanne Brigham Residential Design musical era. Recipient of an Avery Fisher Career
Grant, a two-time Grammy nominee and the first
who received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for
Criticism, called her “my favorite living oboist.”
Remodeling and New Construction wind player chosen to participate in the Bowers Peggy has performed solo, chamber and
Program, she is now a Season Artist of the orchestral music throughout the United States
PO Box 1047 St. Michaels, MD 21663 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A Wm. and abroad. She is principal oboist with the
S. Haynes flute artist, Tara is a regular participant Boston Philharmonic and solo oboist with the
410.745.6877 brigham.suzanne@gmail.com at music festivals, including Santa Fe Chamber Boston-based Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra,
sbresidentialdesign.com Music, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Festival an organization that has performed all of the
of the Bluegrass, Spoleto USA, Chamber Music cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. She is also a
Northwest, Mainly Mozart, Rockport Music, member of the Bach Aria Group. According to
Manchester Music, Great Mountains (Korea), Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe, “Peggy
Bravo Vail Valley! and Chesapeake Music. Pearson has probably played more Bach than
Along with her husband Daniel Phillips, she is any other oboist of her generation; this is
the newly appointed Co-Artistic Director of the music she plays in a state of eloquent grace.”
Music from Angel Fire Festival in New Mexico. Ms. Pearson was the founding director of, and is
oboist with, Winsor Music, Inc., and a founding
Tara is a member of the woodwind quintet member of the ensemble La Fenice.
Windscape, the legendary Bach Aria Group,
and is a founding member of the Naumburg She has toured internationally and recorded
Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble. extensively with the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra, and has appeared with the Boston
E A S T O N She has premiered hundreds of new works and
has collaborated with the Orion String Quartet, Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber
St. Lawrence Quartet and Emerson Quartet. She Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s as
has appeared on A&E’s Breakfast for the Arts, principal oboist, the Chamber Music Society of
Live from Lincoln Center and has recorded for Lincoln Center, and Music from Marlboro. In
Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics, Koch addition to her freelance and chamber music
International, CMS Studio Recordings with the activities, Peggy Pearson has been an active
exponent of contemporary music. She was a
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and
fellow of the Radcliffe Institute in contemporary
Bridge Records.
music, and has premiered numerous works,
Tara is Associate Professor of Flute, Head of the many of which were written specifically for her.
Wind Department and Coordinator of Classical
Peggy Pearson has been on the faculties at the
Music Studies at Purchase College. She is also on
Bach Institute (a collaboration between Winsor
HERTRICH OF EASTON IS PROUD TO SUPPORT CHESAPEAKE MUSIC the faculty of Bard College, the Contemporary
Music, Emmanuel Music and Oberlin College),
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18 19Treasure the Moment, Daniel Phillips Todd Phillips
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Violinist DANIEL PHILLIPS enjoys a versatile TODD PHILLIPS is the violinist and founding
career as an established chamber musician, solo member of the highly acclaimed Orion String
artist, and teacher. A graduate of Juilliard, his Quartet. He made his solo debut with the
major teachers were his father, Eugene Phillips, Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of 13. He has
Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Nathan Milstein, since performed as guest soloist with leading
Sandor Vegh, and George Neikrug. He is a
orchestras throughout North America, Europe
founding member of the 34-year-old Orion String and Japan including the Orpheus Chamber
Quartet, which is in residence at New York’s
Anna C. Larkin Mannes College of Music and performs regularly
Orchestra, of which he has been a member
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Ravinia, Santa Fe, Marlboro and Spoleto
Competition, he has performed as a soloist
Festivals, and with the Chamber Music Society
with many orchestras, including the Pittsburgh,
Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix, San Antonio, and of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music at the 92nd
Yakima symphonies. He appears regularly at the St Y and New York Philomusica. His experience
Spoleto USA Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music as a frequent leader of the Orpheus Chamber
Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Chesapeake Orchestra has led to guest appearances as
Chamber Music Festival, and has participated in conductor/leader with chamber orchestras
the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, worldwide. He has collaborated with such
England since its inception and recently returned renowned artists as Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo,
to the Marlboro Music Festival. Along with his Peter Serkin and Pinchas Zukerman and has
wife Tara Helen O’Connor, he is the newly- participated in eighteen “Musicians from
appointed Co-Artistic Director of Music From Marlboro” tours.
Angel Fire. He also serves on the summer faculty Mr. Phillips has recorded for the Arabesque,
of the Heifetz Institute and the St. Lawrence Delos, Deutsche Grammophon, Finlandia, Koch
String Quartet Seminar at Stanford. He was a International, Marlboro Recording Society, New
member of the renowned Bach Aria Group and York Philomusica, RCA Red Seal and Sony
has toured and recorded in a string quartet for Classical labels. He serves on the violin and
SONY with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, chamber music faculties of New York’s Mannes
and Yo-Yo Ma.
College of Music, Rutgers University, Manhattan
A judge in the 2018 Seoul International Violin School of Music, Bard College Conservatory of
Competition, he is a professor at the Aaron Music and Cleveland Institute of Music. He lives
Copland School of Music at Queens College and in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, violinist
on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, Catherine Cho, and is the father of Lia, Eliza,
Bard College Conservatory, and The Juilliard Jason and Brandon, and grandfather of Theo.
School. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen
O’Connor, on Manhattan’s upper west side. Mr. Phillips plays a violin made by Samuel
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of the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio and has Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and
appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and toured
in Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Cologne. He has with the Brandenburg Ensemble throughout
performed with the chamber music societies the United States and Japan. His festival
of Boston and Philadelphia, and at numerous credits include Mostly Mozart, Aspen,
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from Marlboro, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida
in performances of the complete Mozart Piano A recipient of the prestigious Coleman
Trios. As a member of the Johannes Quartet he Chamber Music award and a former member
collaborated with the Guarneri String Quartet on of the Galimir Quartet, he is currently a
a tour including premieres of works by Bolcom member of the renowned group TASHI and
and Salonen. the piano quartet OPUS ONE. Mr. Tenenbom
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23Orpheus and St. Luke’s ensembles, and soloed
with orchestras in Germany, Russia, China, the
In the summer of 2019, the
Netherlands, Czechia, and Brazil. Orion String Quartet returned
to the Santa Fe Chamber Music
In 2009 she was the onstage pianist in the
Broadway production of Moises Kaufman’s Festival, with which it has
Diane Walsh award-winning play 33 Variations (starring enjoyed a long association,
PIANO Jane Fonda), during which she performed to perform three programs
Beethoven’s Variations on a Waltz of that included music by
The award-winning Steinway Artist DIANE Diabelli. She was also featured in three other Schubert, Mozart and Kreisler.
WALSH has given solo and chamber music productions of the play at Washington’s In the 2019-20 season, the
concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Arena Stage, the La Jolla Playhouse and the Quartet appeared with the
South America, Europe, Russia, China and Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, for a total Chamber Music Society of
New Zealand. Highlights include recitals at of over 200 performances.
Lincoln Center in October
Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Diane has been happily coming to Chesapeake
Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium and Miller with a program of Haydn
Music since the festival’s second season. Other and Mozart. The Quartet also
Theater in New York, the Kennedy Center summer chamber music festivals where she has
in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, performed with Chamber
performed include Marlboro, Bard, Portland,
Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw Santa Fe and Skaneateles; she also led the Music Pittsburgh (Currier’s
in Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Great Hall in Etudes and Lullabies along
St. Petersburg, and Dvorak Hall in Prague.
Skaneateles Festival as artistic director. To ORION STRING QUARTET with music by Haydn,
date she has released eighteen recordings of
Diane has appeared with the San Francisco, repertoire spanning four centuries. She taught Kreisler and Beethoven) and
Indianapolis, Austin, Rochester, Delaware, at Mannes College of Music in New York City The ORION STRING QUARTET is one of the at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Syracuse, Springfield, New Bedford, American, for 32 years, and now lives in Maine with her leading chamber music ensembles on the (including Dvořák’s String Sextet in A Major,
and Portland symphonies, toured with husband, the writer Richard Pollak. classical music scene today. Admired for the Op. 48 along with violist Kim Kashkashian
diverse nature of programming that and cellist Marcy Rosen).
juxtaposes masterworks of quartet literature During the Quartet’s 30th-anniversary
with key works of the 20th and 21st season in 2017-2018, the group celebrated at
centuries, the Orion remains on the cutting principal chamber music series throughout
edge of programming through commissions North America. They held the position of
from composers ranging from Chick Corea to Quartet-in-Residence for 27 years at Mannes
Wynton Marsalis and a creative partnership School of Music.
with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company. The members of the Orion String The Orion String Quartet was established
Quartet—violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd in 1987 and takes its name from the
Phillips, brothers who share the first violin Orion constellation as a metaphor for the
chair equally, violist Steven Tenenbom, and personality each musician brings to the
cellist Timothy Eddy—have worked closely group in its collective pursuit of the highest
with illustrious musicians, such as Pablo musical ideals.
Casals, Sir András Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, “The persuasive power of [their] performance
Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Peter Serkin, came from the exquisiteness and eloquence
members of the ensemble TASHI, and the the four players brought their lines...but
Beaux Arts Trio, as well as the Budapest, it also came from how all of them phrased
Végh, Galimir, and Guarneri String Quartets. together—and, it seemed, breathed together.
The Orion String Quartet are Artist The Orion Quartet is a configuration of
Members of the Chamber Music Society of particular sensitivity and bravado.”
Lincoln Center. —The New York Times
24 25FRIDAY, JUNE 4 AT 7:30 PM
Festival Opening Extravaganza!
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Trio in G Major, K. 496
(1756–1791) Allegro
Andante
Allegretto
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Catherine Cho,
Marcy Rosen
Anton Webern Langsamer Satz
(1883–1945) Langsam, mit bewegtem Ausdruck
(Slowly with feeling)
W. THOMAS FOUNTAIN Peggy Pearson, Catherine Cho,
PHILIP E. L. DIETZ, JR. Francesca dePasquale, Molly Carr,
Peter Stumpf
KAREN M. KALUDIS
JOHN M. EGLSEDER
INTERMISSION
SHARON M. VANEMBURGH
ALEXIS E. KRAMER
Antonín Dvořák Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major,
DAVID J. BAINES (1841–1904) Opus 87
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was highly resistant to this technique, which,
Piano Trio No. 2 in G Major, K. 496 to the early 20th century ear, was generally
unwelcome. Despite that initial resistance,
1786 was an important year for Mozart: his the tonal emancipation of serialism still
Marriage of Figaro premiered in May; in reverberates today.
March, two great piano concertos, K 488 in A Webern eventually became very influential
major and K 491 in C minor appeared; in July, in the world of music theory, but many years
the piano Trio in G major was completed. before that occurred the composer went hiking
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line. Predictably, Mozart expanded this form,
giving the pianoforte a more serious role A number of letters from Dvořák’s publisher,
while warming up its relationship with the Simrock, state that fourteen years have
accompanying strings. Mozart soon acquired passed since he wrote his last piano quartet.
his own pianoforte and the mechanics of the “You promised me this a long time ago,” the
e x p e r i e n c e | s avo r | r e a l i z e new instrument allowed the keyboard parts publisher grumbled. “Well! How is it faring?”
he wrote for his piano trios to be more Thus admonished, the composer went to
demanding. They were, most likely, intended work and soon the quartet was practically
to display—at his Vienna concerts —the composing itself. “My head is full of it. If only
composer’s own exceptional abilities. one could write it immediately! It’s going
unexpectedly easily and melodies are coming
Anton Webern to me in droves!” Once begun, the Piano
Langsamer Satz Quartet was completed in the weeks between
July and August 1889.
Webern’s name will always be associated
with that of Arnold Schoenberg, his teacher Dvořák, by this time, was a mature and
and mentor. Along with Alban Berg and innovative composer with an exceptional
others who constituted the core of the ability to introduce originality into the
inspired catering 2nd Viennese School, Webern followed classical form, his access to stunning
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28 29SATURDAY, JUNE 5 AT 7:30 PM
Dynamic Duos
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Joseph Bologne, Sonata No. 3 in A Major for two violins
Chevalier de Saint-Georges Francesca dePasquale and Catherine Cho
(1745–1799)
William Grant Still ‘’Mother and Child’’ from the Suite for
(1895–1978) violin and piano
Catherine Cho and Diane Walsh
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag
(b. 1938) Peggy Pearson and Ieva Jokubaviciute
Amy Beach Romance for violin and piano, Opus 23
(1867–1944) Catherine Cho and Diane Walsh
INTERMISSION
Robert Schumann Six Studies in Canon Form, Opus 56 for
(1810–1856) one piano, four hands (trans. Georges Bizet)
Nicht zu schnell
Mit innigem Ausdruck
Andantino
Innig
Nicht zu schnell
Adagio
Robert Schumann Bilder aus Osten (‘’Pictures from the East’’),
Opus 66 for one piano, four hands
Lebhaft
Nicht schnell und sehr gesangvoll zu spielen
Im Volkston
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Ieva Jokubaviciute and Diane Walsh
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Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
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Sonata No. 3 in A Major for two violins The clean lines and natural dignity of
The composer was born Joseph, the son Johnson’s work have made their way into
of George Bologne de Saint-Georges, a this warm and melodic composition.
planter in the French colony of Guadeloupe William Grant Still is known as the Dean of
and Anne, (known as ”Nanon”), his wife’s African-American composers. He was first
Senegalese slave. in many things: the first African-American to
A gifted child, he was taken to France when conduct a major symphony orchestra in this
he was seven years old to be educated in country; the first to have an opera produced
a boarding school. By his 17th year, young by a major company in the United States;
Joseph had become a renowned champion and the first to have an opera televised over
in both fencing and horsemanship and a national network. In the 1930s he wrote
on graduating from the Academie Royale the scores for several movies and later for
Polytechnique, he was made a Gendarme du television shows. In all, he wrote over 150
roi and a chevalier. compositions including operas, ballets,
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Bolcom’s poignant Graceful Ghost Rag she was largely self-taught. Still only in her
(1970), dedicated to the memory of his father, early thirties in 1910 when her husband
is one of 22 rags Bolcom wrote between died, she soon resumed her concert career
1967 and 1993. He took his inspiration from and never ceased creating the numerous
African American musicians including Scott distinguished works that are performed all
Joplin and Eubie Blake. over the world.
Amy Beach Robert Schumann
Romance for violin and piano, Opus 23 Bilder aus Osten (“Pictures from the East”)
Opus 66 for one piano, four hands
On July 6, 1893, at the Women’s National
Congress in Chicago, Amy Beach joined Although Schumann was increasingly
her friend and fellow musician violinist engulfed by mental illness, he maintained an
Maud Powell, in the first performance of admirable work ethic. Despite maddening
the Romance. The audience “cheered to the tinnitus, a terror of high places, and phobias
echo” when the piece was finished and called about metal objects such as keys and cutlery,
for a repeat performance. A contemporary he continued to work at his piano conjuring
review states that as Maud was playing the up the luscious harmonies and complex tonal
encore the music slipped off her music stand, structures that make his music a continuing
but having memorized it, “the beautiful source of delight.
thread of melody moved on and on for Miss The “East” evoked in these musical sketches
Powell had made it her own in every sense.” was inspired by a translation from the Arabic
Amy Beach composed the Romance for that by Friedrich Rückert of a book of poetry by
occasion and dedicated it to the violinist. Al-Hariri of Basra. In 1826 this book of fifty
The extraordinary talents of Amy Beach poems—full of clever rhymes and wordplay,
were kept within careful bounds while her a format known as saj’—had become very
husband, a physician considerably older, was popular with German readers.
alive. Although she had been an acclaimed Although Schumann did not set the actual
concert pianist, as a married woman her poetry to music, he invoked the rich
concerts were limited to one per year and she atmosphere that suffused the poems.
was always listed as Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, the He wrote in his preface to Opus 66 that
only title deemed appropriate at that time. he owed its character to Hariri, and he
It is possible that, deprived of a life of concert compared the hero of the poems, Abu Seid,
tours, Amy Beach was able to direct all her to Till Eulenspiegel, the folkloric German
energy into studying composition, in which mischief-maker.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 6 AT 5:30 PM
Joseph Haydn The composer thought very highly of his
Summer Nights three Opus 9 string trios calling them “the
Trio in F Major for oboe, cello, and piano
Q Hob. XV:17 best of my works.” Certainly, this final
venture into the string trio form raised
Marianne Genzinger, the dedicatee of this the genre to new levels of complexity.
piece, was the aristocratic and cultivated wife The composer’s friend, violinist Ignaz
Joseph Haydn Trio No. 30 in F Major for oboe, cello, and of a physician in Vienna and mother of six Schuppenzigh, who went on to premiere
(1732–1809) piano Hob. XV:17 children. She met Haydn in 1789 and they many of Beethoven’s compositions for string
Allegro formed a close friendship. At the Genzinger’s quartet, gave the first performance.
Finale: Tempo di menuetto he found a pleasant retreat presided over by
Peggy Pearson, Marcy Rosen, Diane Walsh
a cultivated woman who took a keen interest Robert Schumann
in each of his new compositions while still Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 47
finding the time to cook his favorite dishes.
Ludwig van Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Opus 9 No. 3 At the Haydn residence there was no such For Robert Schumann the year 1842 was the
(1770–1827) Allegro con spirito congeniality, since Frau Haydn cared nothing year of chamber music. Within the space of
Adagio con espressione for music and appeared to care little for him. a few months Schumann wrote three string
Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace quartets, a piano trio, a piano quintet, and
Finale: Allegro ma non troppo A number of rare musical sketches written
finally, the Piano Quartet Opus 47.
in Haydn’s own hand suggest that he
Francesca dePasquale, Molly Carr, may have intended for the initial Allegro Having purchased the quartets of Mozart
Peter Stumpf of the Trio to have a far more complex and Beethoven, Schumann studied up on
development than the version he eventually theory complaining to his wife Clara of
Robert Schumann Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 47 sent to his publisher. However, the impulse having to ‘work all the time on counterpoint
(1810–1856) Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo was restrained and the Trio in F Major, a and fugue.’ Evidently, it was time well spent.
Scherzo: molto vivace - Trio 1 - Trio ll charming and intimate work, retained its Shortly after completing the Piano Quintet
Andante cantabile initial simplicity. in E-flat Major, Opus 44, he began work on
Finale: vivace the Piano Quartet, Opus 47. Although they
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Francesca dePasquale, Ludwig van Beethoven share the same year and the same key, the
Molly Carr, Marcy Rosen String Trio in C minor, Opus 9 No. 3 two compositions are very different, Opus
47 being the more traditional with more
The third and final of the Opus 9 trios is both contrapuntal material.
intense and passionate. In the composer’s Although the Quartet is dedicated to
development it could be seen as part of the his patron, the Russian cellist Matthew
preparation for his string quartets, which he Wielhorsky, Schumann always had Clara in
This concert is generously sponsored by
continued to write for the rest of his life. mind, and it was Clara who first performed
Elizabeth Koprowski
Herbert and Patrice Miller Opus 9 is dedicated to Count Johann Georg it in Leipsig on 8 December 1844.
Anna and Gilbert Snow von Browne, a Viennese patron of Irish
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support. descent. During his first years in Vienna
Beethoven dedicated several works to this
patron who once, in a thoughtful gesture,
Artists and program selections are subject to change. presented Beethoven with a horse.
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