music

chamber music ~

From East to West—Radical &

Conservative Modern Styles

Works by Gabriel Fauré, the Hungarian master Bartók, the Russian-Parisian Stravinsky, and the Americans Samuel Barber and Ned Rorem

March 22 , 2009
Sunday @ 3:00 p.m.

Tickets
$15 for adults, and $10 for seniors, students, youth, military, and teachers

A major work for strings and piano by Gabriel Fauré forms the starting point for an exploration of contrasting forms of musical radicalism and conservatism in the 20th century. The sources of this music will range from the pre-modern folk traditions of Eastern Europe to the aspirations and complexities of American artistic life after the end of World War Two.

BPA’s January 18 and March 22 Chamber Music programs both feature performances by young Island musicians including Donna Adele Horning and Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall, who have participated in the Bainbridge Performing Arts music program since they were in grade school and now are preparing to leave for college. Adult musicians include mezzo-soprano Barbara Hume performing Rorem’s settings of poems by Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and others.