CMS Inside Chamber Music Lecture: Elgar's Quintet in A minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, & Cello, Op. 84
$25
- Gilbert Kalish, piano
- Ani Kavafian, violin
- Kristin Lee, violin
- Paul Neubauer, viola
- Timothy Eddy, cello
- Bruce Adolphe, lecturer
Elgar called the first movement of his Piano Quintet "ghostly stuff." Is it really music about Spanish monks who were struck by lightning and turned into the strange and beautiful trees in a park near Elgar's home, as Lady Elgar wrote in her diary?
Join distinguished composer and public radio personality Bruce Adolphe for investigations and insights into masterworks performed during the Alice Tully Hall season. Inside Chamber Music lectures are beloved for their depth, accessibility, and brilliance. Each lecture is supported by live performance excerpts from the featured work.
About Gilbert Kalish, piano
As head of the performance faculty, Gilbert Kalish had done much to create the uniquely supportive and stimulating environment of Stony Brook's music department. Through his activities as performer and educator, he has become a major figure in American music making. A native New Yorker, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world’s most distinguished chamber ensembles. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th-century masterworks and new compositions.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/kalish_gilbert.htmlAbout Kristin Lee, violin
About Paul Neubauer, viola
Paul Neubauer's exceptional musicality and effortless playing led The New York Times to call him "a master musician." Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras globally.
http://www.paulneubauer.com/About Bruce Adolphe, lecturer
Resident lecturer and director of family concerts for CMS since 1992, Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown, much of whose output addresses science, history, and the struggle for human rights. His works are frequently performed by major artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Fabio Luisi, Joshua Bell, Daniel Hope, Angel Blue, the Brentano String Quartet, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, and over 60 orchestras worldwide. Among his most performed works are the violin concerto I Will Not Remain Silent, the violin/piano duo Einstein's Light, and Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto. Also an author and innovative educator, Bruce Adolphe has spent decades helping people to hear and enjoy music in extraordinary ways. He is the author of several books, including The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Listeners and Composers (3rd ed., 2021) and the chapter on composing in Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal (2019). Widely known for his weekly Piano Puzzler segment on American Public Media’s Performance Today, which has been broadcast since 2002, Mr. Adolphe is also the artistic director of the Off the Hook Arts Festival in Colorado, for which he brings scientists, visual artists, filmmakers, writers, and musicians together. He has been a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, visiting lecturer in the residential colleges at Yale, composer-in-residence and visiting scholar at the Brain and Creativity Institute in Los Angeles, distinguished composer-in-residence at the Mannes College of Music, and on faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Juilliard School.
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