BRIGHTMUSIC CHAMPBER
ENSEMBER ANNOUNCES ITS
2018-19 CONCERT SEASON
Brightmusic Society of
Two exciting guest artists will take the stage with the Ensemble this season: Violist Miles Hoffman and violinist Aaron Berofsky. Hoffman, perhaps best known for his work with NPR, including “A Minute with Miles” and “Performance Today,” will appear in Concert 1 with the Brightmusic musicians. Hoffman is a graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School. He is the violist and artistic director of the American Chamber Players and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chamber Music at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University of Georgia. In Concert 2 we will hear acclaimed violinist Aaron Berofsky, professor of violin at University of Michigan and a performing and recording artist who has toured extensively in the United States and abroad. Berofsky, who has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today, is a notable interpreter of Beethoven’s violin works and will join the ensemble in presentation of works by the German master in an all-Beethoven program.
A
work on this season’s program is a perennial favorite among serious
music fans as well as many who are only casually acquainted with the
classics. Its given title means “a Little Serenade,” but it is better
known by its German title. It remains after 200 years one of the
Austrian composer’s most popular works. It was said, “Even if we hear
it on every street corner, its high quality is undisputed, an occasional
piece from a light but happy pen.” (Hildescheimer) Do you know its
German title? If you need a hint: It is translated into English
literally as “A Little Night Music.”
Concert 1 - Sept. 25 7:30 pm “Voilà: Viola” will feature works spanning three centuries and featuring NPR’s Miles Hoffman
(“A Minute with Miles”) on viola in a trio by Lowell Liebermann, short
pieces for clarinet, viola and piano by Max Bruch and Mozart’s String
Quintet in G major for two violins, two violas and cello. Six
Brightmusic Ensemble members will join Mr. Hoffman in the
season premier.
Photo: www.performingartsphotos.com
Concert 2 - Oct. 30 7:30 pm “Beethoven’s Vienna” celebrates the music that took the Austrian capitol by storm in the late 18th- and early 19th- centuries. This concert features a work from each of Beethoven’s three compositional periods, illustrating the evolution of one of history’s most influential composers. In performance with the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble will be renowned violinist Aaron Berofsky in the early-period “Spring” Sonata, the middle-period “Ghost” trio and a set of late variations.
Concert 3 - Jan. 15 7:30 pm “Russian Romantics”
presents a pair of works by Russian late romantics Sergei Rachmaninoff,
considered by many to be the greatest pianist of the 20th century, and
Sergei Taneyev, Rachmaninoff’s teacher of counterpoint at the Moscow
Conservatory. Seven ensemble musicians will present Rachmaninoff’s
sonata for cello and piano and a lush and lively piano quintet by
Taneyev.
Concert 4 - March 19 7:30 pm Get your reed fix here! “Reeds A-Plenty” presents an evening of six works for winds and piano. Six musicians will perform a wide-ranging mix of compositions from the late 18th- through mid-20th centuries by a diverse group of mostly-French composers, along with a Czech and Russian.
Concert 5 April 16 7:30 pm “Mozart: From Salzburg to Vienna” wraps up the regular season with the works of the prodigy from Salzburg, including perhaps his best-known and best-loved work, “Eine kleine Nachtmusik (“A Little Night Music). Join us for this enchanting all-Mozart evening. And it isn’t over yet: Watch for our eighth Summer Chamber Music Festival coming in June.
Brightmusic will present its 8th annual Summer Chamber Music Festival in June. Program, venue(s) and dates to be announced later in the season. Watch our website for updates. http://www.brightmusic.org. ;
ENSEMBER ANNOUNCES ITS
2018-19 CONCERT SEASON
Brightmusic Society of
Oklahoma Announces its
2018-19 Concert Season
Oklahoma City’s premier chamber ensemble celebrates its 16th year.
The Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma announces the 2018-19 concert season
of the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble, its 16th as Oklahoma City’s
premier chamber music ensemble. Five regular-season concerts and a
four-concert Summer Chamber Music Festival will be presented in Oklahoma
City’s beautiful and historic St. Paul’s Cathedral, recognized for its
acoustic richness.
Photo credit: www.performingartsphotos.com
Photo credit: www.performingartsphotos.com
Old Masters and New
Artistic Directors Chad Burrow and Amy I-Lin Cheng
have planned an engaging season featuring old masters, such as Mozart
and Beethoven, energized by 19th- and 20th- century composers, such as
Max Bruch and Sergei Rachmaninoff, with a few contemporaries thrown in
for good measure.
Guest Artists
Two exciting guest artists will take the stage with the Ensemble this season: Violist Miles Hoffman and violinist Aaron Berofsky. Hoffman, perhaps best known for his work with NPR, including “A Minute with Miles” and “Performance Today,” will appear in Concert 1 with the Brightmusic musicians. Hoffman is a graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School. He is the violist and artistic director of the American Chamber Players and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chamber Music at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University of Georgia. In Concert 2 we will hear acclaimed violinist Aaron Berofsky, professor of violin at University of Michigan and a performing and recording artist who has toured extensively in the United States and abroad. Berofsky, who has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today, is a notable interpreter of Beethoven’s violin works and will join the ensemble in presentation of works by the German master in an all-Beethoven program.
Music Trivia Quiz
A
work on this season’s program is a perennial favorite among serious
music fans as well as many who are only casually acquainted with the
classics. Its given title means “a Little Serenade,” but it is better
known by its German title. It remains after 200 years one of the
Austrian composer’s most popular works. It was said, “Even if we hear
it on every street corner, its high quality is undisputed, an occasional
piece from a light but happy pen.” (Hildescheimer) Do you know its
German title? If you need a hint: It is translated into English
literally as “A Little Night Music.” Season Overview
Concert 1 - Sept. 25 7:30 pm “Voilà: Viola” will feature works spanning three centuries and featuring NPR’s Miles Hoffman
(“A Minute with Miles”) on viola in a trio by Lowell Liebermann, short
pieces for clarinet, viola and piano by Max Bruch and Mozart’s String
Quintet in G major for two violins, two violas and cello. Six
Brightmusic Ensemble members will join Mr. Hoffman in the
season premier.Photo: www.performingartsphotos.com
Concert 2 - Oct. 30 7:30 pm “Beethoven’s Vienna” celebrates the music that took the Austrian capitol by storm in the late 18th- and early 19th- centuries. This concert features a work from each of Beethoven’s three compositional periods, illustrating the evolution of one of history’s most influential composers. In performance with the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble will be renowned violinist Aaron Berofsky in the early-period “Spring” Sonata, the middle-period “Ghost” trio and a set of late variations.
Concert 3 - Jan. 15 7:30 pm “Russian Romantics”
presents a pair of works by Russian late romantics Sergei Rachmaninoff,
considered by many to be the greatest pianist of the 20th century, and
Sergei Taneyev, Rachmaninoff’s teacher of counterpoint at the Moscow
Conservatory. Seven ensemble musicians will present Rachmaninoff’s
sonata for cello and piano and a lush and lively piano quintet by
Taneyev. Concert 4 - March 19 7:30 pm Get your reed fix here! “Reeds A-Plenty” presents an evening of six works for winds and piano. Six musicians will perform a wide-ranging mix of compositions from the late 18th- through mid-20th centuries by a diverse group of mostly-French composers, along with a Czech and Russian.
Concert 5 April 16 7:30 pm “Mozart: From Salzburg to Vienna” wraps up the regular season with the works of the prodigy from Salzburg, including perhaps his best-known and best-loved work, “Eine kleine Nachtmusik (“A Little Night Music). Join us for this enchanting all-Mozart evening. And it isn’t over yet: Watch for our eighth Summer Chamber Music Festival coming in June.
So Much Music! So Little Money!
Membership Subscription. Season passes for all five Regular-Season concerts AND all
four concerts of the Summer Chamber Music Festival are available for a
Membership Subscription of $100/person, a remarkable bargain for NINE
concerts by some of the most distinguished musicians from Oklahoma and
beyond. That’s only $11.11 per concert!
Avoid the lines! Enter your Membership Subscription on our website, Brightmusic.org, and your season pass card will be mailed to you. Or get yours at the door at the first concert. And please consider making an “over and above” tax-deductible contribution to help keep ticket prices affordable for all and continue our policy of free admission for students and children, since they are the future of chamber music.
VIP Treatment: Season members can present their season pass as they pick up their program (bypass the admissions desk) for immediate admittance.
Single Concert Admission: Tickets available at the door, $20 each. Children are free, as are students and active-duty military personnel, with ID.
Avoid the lines! Enter your Membership Subscription on our website, Brightmusic.org, and your season pass card will be mailed to you. Or get yours at the door at the first concert. And please consider making an “over and above” tax-deductible contribution to help keep ticket prices affordable for all and continue our policy of free admission for students and children, since they are the future of chamber music.
VIP Treatment: Season members can present their season pass as they pick up their program (bypass the admissions desk) for immediate admittance.
Single Concert Admission: Tickets available at the door, $20 each. Children are free, as are students and active-duty military personnel, with ID.
BrightNews Briefs
Season ticket price increase: Season subscriptions
are now $100 per person. This is the first time we have raised the
cost of season membership since we began to offer them in 2011, and we
were reluctant to increase prices now. To insure the financial security
and longevity of Brightmusic, however, an increase is necessary. That
still comes out to only $11.11 per concert, a remarkable value
considering the caliber of the musicians and the performances. We hope
you will understand and continue to support Brightmusic. By the way,
under current tax law, the membership payment itself is not tax
deductible. Any over-and-above contribution continues to qualify as a
deductible charitable contribution for tax purposes.
Answer to the Music Trivia Quiz
Many
of us knew Mozart’s beloved "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (“A Little Night
Music”) from our earliest childhood. The work was not published until
about 1827, long after the composer’s death in 1791. Mozart’s destitute
young widow, Constanze, took a bundle of Mozart’s unpublished
compositions to a publisher hoping to generate some badly-needed
cash. This cherished masterpiece was among those manuscripts. There
is a possible missing movement, but we are grateful for the four
charming movements we DO have of this timeless treasure.
Summer Chamber Music Festival VIII June 2019
Brightmusic will present its 8th annual Summer Chamber Music Festival in June. Program, venue(s) and dates to be announced later in the season. Watch our website for updates. http://www.brightmusic.org. ;
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