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The Chamber
Music at the Clark series for 2002-03 consists five concerts:
New Hollywood String Quartet, October 20
Borromeo String Quartet, November 3
Shanghai Quartet, November 17
Peabody Trio, March 9
Bartók Quartet, March 23
A concert by Quartetto di
Venezia, March 30,
is this year's offering in the Clark Recitals series.
Links
to the ensembles' own home pages are provided below,
with the concert announcements.
Illustration from
Universal Harmony; or, The Gentleman's and Ladies Social Companion
(1746).
From the Clark Library collection.
All concerts take place at the Clark Library.
The Clark is located at 2520 Cimarron Street,
in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.
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Reservations by Lottery:——
Extremely high demand and limited seating at the Clark require that reservations to concerts be made on the basis of prepaid, mail-in lotteries.
Deadlines for submissions to the reservations lotteries are posted on this page along with the descriptions of the concerts, and links to printable reservation-by-lottery forms for the fall 2002 concerts are provided (those for winter and spring 2003 will be added later). The forms will also be sent to subscribers, and made available at the Center, at least eight weeks before each concert. Reservations will be confirmed, or forms and checks returned by mail, in accordance with the schedules announced on the reservation forms.
Requests for additional information and for reservation forms should be addressed to the Center by e-mail () or by phone (310-206-8552).
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October 20 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
New Hollywood String Quartet
Clayton Haslop and Rafael Rishik, violins
David Walther, viola
Paul Cohen, cello
Of the original Hollywood String Quartet (1947-61), the Los Angeles
Times recently noted that it had been, "a landmark in Southern
California musical history...an ensemble of Hollywood studio players
that came to represent that breed's high instrumental achievement
and lofty artistic ideals.¨ Fifty years later, when the New Hollywood
String Quartet made its debut, critic Daniel Cariaga wrote, "It
was an auspicious and happy occasion during which the ensemble lived
up to its name. The four players produce music both beautiful and
immaculate, technically impeccable and artistically well considered.¨
Like their predecessors, the NHSQ members are outstanding recording
industry musicians, who have also distinguished themselves regionally,
nationally, and internationally as soloists and chamber musicians.
In keeping with the connection to Hollywood, the quartet has initiated
a commissioning project, which will involve contemporary composers
writing quartets inspired by great film scores. Randy Kerber is preparing
the first composition of the series, a piece based on Bernard Hermann's
scores for Alfred Hitchcock.
— Program —
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Quartet in D Major, K. 575, "Prussian¨
Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings, op. 11
Maurice Ravel, String Quartet in F Major
Admission fee: $20
Reservations lottery closes on September 20.
This concert has been made possible by the generous support of
the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles.
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November 3 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
Borromeo String Quartet
Nicholas Kitchen, violin
William Fedkenheuer, violin
Mai Motobuchi, viola
Yeesun Kim, cello
The youthful Borromeo String Quartet has performed at major venues and participated in important chamber music festivals throughout the world, winning numerous awards, including Chamber Music America's prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 1998, and Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award for 2001, given annually to rising artists. The New York Times has called the group "outstanding," and the Boston Globe terms it "simply the best there is. "
— Program —
Franz Josef Haydn, Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 64, no. 6
Béla Bartók, Quartet no. 4, Sz. 91
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130/133
Admission
fee: $20
The reservations lottery closed on October 1
This concert has been made possible by the generous support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles.
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November 17 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
A
Special Fund-Raising Event to Support
the Clark Library Chamber Music Endowment Fund
Shanghai Quartet
Within
four years of its formation at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983,
the Shanghai Quartet won two international competitions and embarked
on an extensive touring career. Today, this unusually refined and
musically distinct group is recognized as one of the leading quartets
of its generation. It appears regularly in the major music centers
of North America, Europe, and Asia, collaborating on occasion with
pianists Lillian Kallir, Joseph Kalichstein, Ruth Laredo, and Gerhard
Oppitz; flutist Eugenia Zuckerman; and cellist Yo-Yo Ma; among others.
On the occasion of its tenth anniversary as Quartet-in-Residence at
the University of Richmond, the Quartet premiered a new work by Bright
Sheng, commissioned especially for the event by the University and
the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C. Under the auspices of Delos International,
the Shanghai Quartet has built an extensive discography offering traditional
string quartet repertoire as well as unconventional cross-cultural
and best-selling “cross-over” classical fare.
— Program —
Joaquin Turina, La oración del torero, op. 34
Hugo Wolf, Serenade in G Major, "Italian Serenade¨
Dmitri Shostakovich, Quartet no. 3 in F Major
Franz Schubert, Quartet no. 14 in D Minor, D.
810,
"Death and the Maiden¨
Tickets are $65 per person ($50 tax-deductible)
and are available on a first come, first served basis.
Reservations are due by October 14.
This concert has been made possible by the generous support of
Catherine and Ralph Benkaim.
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March 9 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
Peabody Trio
Violaine Melançon, violin
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Seth Knopp, piano
The Peabody Trio established itself as an ensemble with a professional feature in 1989, when it won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Since then the group has performed in major cities throughout North America and more recently has begun appearing in Israel, earning acclaim along the way for its interpretations of piano trio classics as well as for its renditions of contemporary compositions. The trio is especially committed to new music and to this end has worked with Shulamit Ran, Zhou Long, Bright Sheng, Charles Wuorinen, and Leon Kirchner, among others. To a busy schedule of concerts, winter and summer, the group adds pedagogical duties at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival in Putney, Vermont.Festival in Putney, Vermont.
— Program —
Gabriel Fauré, Piano Trio in
D Minor
Alfred Schnittke, Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in B-flat Major, op. 97, "Archduke"
Admission fee: $20
The reservations lottery closes on February 3.
This concert is supported by the
Clark Library Chamber Music Endowment Fund,
originally established by Henry J. Bruman, Professor Emeritus, UCLA.
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March 23 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
Bartók Quartet
The Bartók Quartet, renowned for the tonal beauty, clarity, and directness of its playing, and for its extraordinary sense of ensemble, is considered one of the great string quartets of the world. The quartet members first came together in 1957, at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, adopting the name Komlos Quartet for their nascent ensemble. In 1963, after winning several major chamber music prizes in Europe, the group assumed the name, Bartók Quartet, in honor of the illustrious twentieth-century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The Quartet is equally at home with repertory from all periods, but it is perhaps most acclaimed for its performances of works by its illustrious namesake, one of which will be heard at the Clark.
— Program
—
Franz Josef Haydn, Quartet
in G Major, op. 77, no. 1
Béla Bartók, String Quartet no. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet in E Minor, op. 59, no. 2, "Razumovsky"
Admission fee: $20
The reservations lottery closes on February 18.
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This
concert has been made possible by the generous support of the
Edmund D. Edelman Foundation for Music and the Performing Arts.
The
concert tour of the Bartók Quartet is sponsored by
the Hungarian Cultural Center, New York.
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March 30 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.
— Clark Recitals Series —
Quartetto di Venezia
— cosponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles —
Andrea Vio and Alberto Battiston, violins
Luca Morassutti, viola
Angelo Zanin, cello
The Quartetto di Venezia, now more than a decade old and familiar to chamber music audiences in Europe, North and South America, Japan and South Korea, unites four musicians who were students together at the Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory in Venice, Italy. The ensemble’s unique artistic personality derives from its conceptions of quality of sound, bowing technique, and vibrato, as well as from the emphasis given to individual instruments within the fabric of any particular composition. The group acknowledges artistic indebtedness to two major European string quartet traditions: the one Italian, associated with the Quartetto Italiano and with the teaching of Piero Farulli; the second, Central European, represented by the Végh Quartet and with the guidance of members Sándor Végh and Paul Szabo.
— Program
—
Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartet
in D Minor, op. 76, no. 2
Igor Stravinsky, Three Pieces for String Quartet
Giacomo Puccini, String Quartet, "I Crisantemi"
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in C Major, op. 59, no. 3 "Razumovsky"
Admission fee: $20
The reservations lottery closes on February 24.
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the
UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies:
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