The program highlights works of the French baroque with music by François Couperin and his contemporaries. Couperin, called Le Grand, wrote masterful music evoking the sensibilities of the French court.
Reservations Required! Email (themusichouse@suddenlink.net) Concert includes wine tasting with hors d'oeuvres Program Contemplation (1902) Henriette Renie (1875–1956) Vltava (The Moldau) from Ma Vlast, op. 43 (c. 1874) Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) trans. Hanus Trneček (1858–1914) Papillon (1908) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) arr. Keziah Thomas Chansons de Mai, Op. 40 (1897) Alphonse Hasselmans (1845–1912) Intermission and Wine Tasting Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (1999) Kevin Kaska (b. 1972) With Scott Brier, piano
Two of North Carolina’s veteran bluegrass musicians-- Hank Smith on Banjo and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw on fiddle-- join forces with some of the most versatile musicians in the Carolinas to create modern, American, acoustic music featuring the full range of their talents as composers and arrangers. Currently they are on tour promoting their sixth album, Paper Lanterns, featuring a classical string quartet. Elizabeth Ivy Wilson, violin I - John O'Brien, violin II - Gabriella Potter, viola - Zack May, cello Suggested donations: $20 per concert minimum Students-what you can afford, please just attend The Music House never covers costs! Donations above the suggested are most appreciated!
Jessie Wright Martin, mezzo-soprano, Patrick Howle, baritone, John O’Brien, piano The Italian Song Book demonstrates Wolf’s ultimate in compositional refinement. The first volume (22 songs) was composed in 1890-91; the second (24 songs), in 1896. It is interesting how the style remained so consistent over such a long period of time. A year later, the composer entered an asylum where he died in 1903. The music is profound in its sheer simplicity. The original Italian text is from a collection of hundreds of rispetti, veloti, retornelli, popular ballads, songs in folk-style, Corsican songs, and death laments. In 1860 it was compiled and translated into German by Paul Heyse, a popular poet and author. Because the authors of the original Italian poems are anonymous, Wolf was able to put much more of himself into the music, as there was no revered shade of a great poet effecting his thought and feelings. In dividing the songs between the sexes, many of the serious love-songs are for the man, while the woman exhibits moods of scorn, resentment, or humorous tolerance of her lover’s (or lovers’) defects. Hugo Wolf did not set the order of the songs and the songs do not tell a story per se. The […]
John O’Brien, 2nd violin Kirsten Swanson violin, Meredith Harris, viola, Christopher Nunnally, cello The Music House String Quartet returns this summer with an exciting program: Beethoven Opus 18, No. 6, Shostakovich No. 8 Blueprint by Greenville native Caroline Shaw.
Nina Ferrigno, piano, Catherine, violin, Jennifer Lucht, cello The dynamic Calyx Piano Trio returns to the Music House with special guest Nancy Dimock, Principal oboist of the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Their exciting and innovative program of Czech chamber music features the riveting rhythms of Bedrich Smetana and Bohuslav Martinu alongside the innovative harmonies of Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka and his contemporary J. S. Bach. A popular ensemble at Music House concerts, the Calyx Trio features pianist Nina Ferrigno (Director, Missouri Chamber Music Festival), violinist Catherine French (member, Boston Symphony) and cellist Jennifer Lucht (Director, Carolina Chamber Music Festival/member Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra). The ensemble has performed on major series including the Boston Symphony’s Prelude Series and the Morrison Artist Series (San Francisco State University) with commissions supported by the Barlow Foundation and Chamber Music America.
The Vivaldi Project Elizabeth Field, violin - Allison Nyquist, violin & viola - Stephanie Vial, cello
Donna Coleman’s worldwide recognition encompasses award-winning recordings, major prizes in international competitions, concert tours around the planet, and invitations from music schools on four continents for teaching and performance residencies. She is renowned for her interpretations of the music of Charles Ives, with two acclaimed recordings on the Et’cetera label, one of which, the "Concord" Sonata (KTC 1079) received France’s Diapason d'Or upon release. In his review, Christian Tarting wrote, “This Second Pianoforte Sonata . . . finds here its most convincing recorded version, due to its assertion, the assurance in its manner of effectively carrying out each detail, its analytical finesse.” Her half-century of research and study of Charles Ives and his music has been guided and supported by John Kirkpatrick, Curator of the Ives Collection of manuscripts at Yale University and pianist who gave the first complete performance of the “Concord” Sonata in 1939, by William Masselos, who gave the first performance of the Piano Sonata No.1 in 1948, and by Lou Harrison who copied that sonata from Ives’s manuscripts. In addition to performances and recordings of nearly all of Ives’s repertory for the solo piano, Coleman has performed and taught the Trio, the violin sonatas and other […]
Concert includes wine tasting with hors d'oeuvres. Harpist, Executive Director, and educator, Christina Brier, performs harp as a soloist, orchestra member, and chamber musician throughout the coastal North Carolina region and beyond. She is principal harpist of the Wilmington Symphony, Carolina Philharmonic, and Opera Wilmington Orchestra. She also performs frequently with the North Carolina Symphony. Christina presents chamber music in a variety of settings. W. Scott Brier is a pianist and educator in Wilmington, NC. He performs as a pianist with the Wilmington Symphony and Grace Baptist Church.
