Featuring Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2, which combines dramatic intensity with moments of lyric beauty and humor. The work’s expansive scale and emotional depth helped redefine the string quartet, pushing the genre beyond its Classical roots.
Performing are: Doori Na and Jane Chung (violin), Susan Rotholz (flute),
David Creswell (viola), and Eliot Bailen (cello).
In a nod to America 250, the program also includes String Trio No. 1 by Joseph Antes (1740-1822), one of the earliest American-born chamber music composers and a contemporary of Franz Josef Haydn. He is also the maker of perhaps the earliest surviving bowed string instrument made in America, a violin from 1759 – now housed in the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth, PA.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
CLASSICAL CLASSICS
Friday, July 10 , 7:30 pm
Merryall Center, New Milford, CT
Haydn, Mozart, Antes, Beethoven
Doori Na and Jane Chung (violin), Susan Rotholz
(flute), David Creswell (viola), Eliot Bailen (cello).
TWILIGHT REFLECTIONS
Friday, August 14, 7:30 pm
Merryall Center, New Milford, CT
Saturday, August 15, 5:30 pm
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
Beach, Barber, Respighi, Schubert
Mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy, Susan
Rotholz (flute), Victoria Lewis (violin), Jane Chung
(violin), Richard Wolfe (viola), Eliot Bailen (cello).
AMERICAN GENIUS
Immigrant Composers
Friday, September 4, 7:30 pm
St. Andrew's Church, Kent, CT
Saturday, September 5, 7:30 pm
St. John's Church New Milford, CT
Bernstein, Stravinsky, Bartók, Dohnanyi
Alan Kay (clarinet), Susan Rotholz (flute),
Eric Reed (French horn), Michael Roth
(violin), Sarah Adams (viola), Eliot Bailen
(cello), Margaret Kampmeier, piano.
Not Your Typical Chamber Ensemble.
From Beethoven to Bluegrass, from Rhapsody in Blue to up-and-coming composers – for over four decades, Artistic Director Eliot Bailen’s creative vision has engaged and inspired audiences throughout the region and close to your home.
Showcasing Broadway luminaries like singer Liz Callaway, our roster of extraordinary musicians and next generation stars like violinist Doori Na and saxophonist Eddie Barbash is what we all look forward to each season.
Our musicians – not only make beautiful music – but consistently deliver on their mission to perform a diverse range of music with an approach that is intimate, including free concerts for children, families and seniors, as well as enrichment programs created for kids in our local school systems.