Upcoming Concerts
Tuesday February 16 at 7:30 pm at The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum: "Mozart and More" (celebrating the 254th anniversary of Mozart's birth).
Music for violin, viola, and piano by WA Mozart, Robert Schumann, Robert Fuchs, and Charley Gerard. Regino Madrid, violin, Derek Smith, viola, and Carl Banner, piano. $20 at the door, $15 students, seniors, and advance sales; children 12 and under free with parents. (This concert is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County).
Saturday February 27 at 7:30 pm at River Road Unitarian Church,
6301 River Road, Bethesda MD 20817: Benefit Concert for Minority Scholarships. Regino Madrid, violin, Carl Banner, piano. Music of Mozart, Franck, and Brahms. Admission $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
Sunday March 21 at 7:30 pm at The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum:
“Springsongs” In Memory of Albert and Betryce Prosterman.
Duets, songs, and arias for soprano and mezzo soprano (with clarinet obbligato) by Brahms,
Dvorak, Handel, Mozart, including the Moravian Duets of Antonin Dvorak;
"Sports et Divertissements" by Erik Satie. Elizabeth Kluegel, soprano, Karyn Friedman, mezzo soprano, Ben Redwine, clarinet, Leslie Prosterman, poet/narrator, and
Carl Banner, piano. $20 at the door, $15 students, seniors, and advance sales; children 12 and under free with parents. (This concert is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County).
Saturday April 24 at 2:00 pm at Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring Arts Center's Theatre 1, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival. "Music of Heroes": Suite for clarinet by Viktor Kalabis (US premiere), Trio in Bb Op. 97 by Ludwig van Beethoven ("the Archduke"), "Dear Landlord" by Bob Dylan, Sonata #7 by Viktor Ullmann. Ben Redwine, clarinet, Regino Madrid, violin, Charlie Powers, cello, Carl Banner, piano. Free admission. (This program is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and by the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Ruzickova Foundation).
Upcoming at The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum:
Dates to be announced:
April 2010: "Music of Heroes": Music of Ullmann, Kalabis, Dylan, and Beethoven.
May 2010: Brahms' birthday concert.
June: "What the Women Say": Music of women composers, including Rebecca Clarke, Libby Larsen, Amy Beach, Tina Davidson.
July 2010: The Jaime Porras memorial concert: Music by Spanish and South American composers, including
Albeniz, Granados, and Piazzolla.
September 2010: "In a Turkish Mood"
Music of Turkish composers, including A. Adnan Saygun, Baris Perker, and Ulvi Cemal Erkin
October 2010: Quartets of Brahms and Fauré
November 2010: “Music by Our Friends”: Ulf Grahn, John Stephens, Blair Goins, Maurice Saylor, Lawrence Heinen, Masatoshi Mitsumoto.
December 8, 2010: “Grassroots” Chamber music with folk and pop roots.
Andrew Stiller – “The Water is Wide, Daisy Bell”
Frank Martin – “Piano Trio on Popular Irish Melodies”
Libby Larsen - “Slang” for clarinet, violin, & piano
Charley Gerard – “The Godfather of Soul”
January 2011: “Music of the Holocaust Era”: in partnership with musicologist Bret Werb of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Music of Ullmann, Krasa, Schulhoff, Smit, and Laks.
February 2011: “Viola, Clarinet, Piano”: Shostakovich viola sonata, Libby Larsen viola sonata, Jean Francaix Trio, Menotti Trio