— Chamber
Music at the Clark, 2003–04
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Chamber
Music at the Clark in Its Ninth Season
The Center and the Clark
are deeply grateful to all whose steadfast generosity has made
the continuation of our music series possible. Our key supporters
in this endeavor have been the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles,
Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Caron and Steven Broidy, Henry J. Bruman,
Richard Colburn and Lisa Kirk Colburn, the Edmund D. Edelman
Foundation for Music and the Performing Arts, and Elizabeth
and Gunter Herman.
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All concerts take place at the Clark Library.
The Clark is located at 2520 Cimarron Street,
in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.
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
individual concerts are provided as they become available. 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.
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October 12 (Sunday), 2:00
p.m.
Chamber Music at the Clark
Cellist David Finckel
and pianist Wu Han bring remarkable insight and outstanding
artistry to the repertoire for cello and piano. Of their recent
Wigmore Hall debut, the reviewer for Londons Musical Opinion
said: They enthralled both myself and the audience with performances
whose idiomatic command, technical mastery and unsullied integrity
of vision made me think right back to the days of Schnabel
and Fournier, Solomon and Piatigorsky. Such praise, from
presenters, the public, and the press, has placed Mr. Finckel
and Ms. Han in the top rank of international musicians. Their
Clark Library performance will feature their artistry applied
to the repertoire of the Romantic period.
P R O G R A M
Franz Schubert, Sonata
in A Minor, D 821, Arpeggione
Richard Strauss, Sonata in F Major, Op. 6
I N T E R M I
S S I O N
Sergei Rachmaninov,
Vocalise
Frédéric Chopin, Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65
R E C E P T
I O N
Reservations lottery
submission deadline: September 12
Admission: $20 per person
This
concert has been made possible by the generous support of the
Edmund D. Edelman Foundation for Music and the Performing Arts.
January 11 (Sunday), 2:00
p.m.
Chamber Music at the Clark
A
Special Fund-Raising Event to Support
the Clark Library Chamber Music Endowment Fund
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.
P R O G R A M
Hou Long,
Song of the Ch'in
Bedrich Smetana, String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor,
From My Life
I N T E R M I
S S I O N
Ludwig van
Beethoven, First String Quartet Op. 130/133
R E C E P T
I O N
Reservations deadline: December 8
Admission: $70 per ticket, $55 of which is tax-deductible
Reservation
form
This concert has been made possible by the generous
support of
Catherine and Ralph Benkaim.
January 25 (Sunday), 2:00
p.m.
Chamber Music at the Clark
The Ying Quartet is renowned
for its outstanding performances and for its expertise at
designing community outreach programs. The four siblings began
their career as an ensemble in 1992 in the farm town of Jesup,
Iowa, as the first recipients of a National Endowment for
the Arts grant to support chamber music in rural America.
While still in Jesup, the quartet earned the 1993 Naumburg
Chamber Music Award, and in the years since, it has established
an international reputation for excellence. The quartet performs
to widespread acclaim throughout north America, Europe, Australia,
Japan, and Taiwan; yet the express goal of reintegrating artistic
and creative expression into the fabric of everyday life continues
to guide the group in its choice of programs, audiences, and
venues.
P R O G R A M
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Quartet in D Minor, K 421
Béla
Bartók, Quartet No. 2
I N T E R M I
S S I O N
Pyotr Ilich
Tchaikovsky, Quartet No. 3 in E-flat Minor, Op. 30
R E C E P T
I O N
Reservations lottery
submission deadline: December 8
Admission: $20 per person
Reservation-by-Lottery Form
This concert has been made possible by the generous support of
Richard Colburn and Lisa Kirk Colburn.
March 28 (Sunday), 2:00
p.m.
Chamber Music at the
Clark
The Jerusalem
Trio, founded in Israel in 1989, and shepherded
to fame under the auspices of the late Isaac Stern's
Jerusalem Music Centre, enjoys a stellar reputation
as Israel's leading piano trio. Its performances are
especially notable for the manner in which they unite
thoughtful insight with passion. Whether in Japan, Australia,
and New Zealand, or in Europe and Israel, or in North
and South America, this combination of artistic traits
thrills audiences as well as critics. The Trio maintains
a steady schedule of recitals in venues such as Avery
Fisher Hall in New York, the Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal
in Berlin, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, and the Melbourne
Symphony Hall in Australia; it also appears at summer
music festivals such as the Banff in Canada, the Dubrovnik
in Croatia, the Insel Hombroich in Germany, and the
Kfar Blum in Israel. Recordings may be found on the
JMC and DOREMI labels. Trio members, Roi Shiloah (violin),
Ariel Tushinsky (cello), and Yaron Rosenthal (piano),
teach at the Rubin Music Academy and the Jerusalem Hebrew
University.
P R O G R A M
Josef
Haydn, Trio in A Major Hob: XV, No. 18
Johannes
Brahms, Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op.
101
I N T E R M I
S S I O N
Dmitri
Shostakovich, Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67
R E C E P T
I O N
Reservations
lottery submission deadline: February
23
Admission: $20 per person
Reservation-by-Lottery
Form
This concert has been made possible by the
generous support of the
Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles.
April 4 (Sunday), 2:00
p.m.
Chamber Music at the Clark
With the palpable excitement
of their performances, Conrad Muck (violin), Daniel Bell (violin),
Friedemann Weigle (viola), and Henry-David Varema (cello) of
the Petersen Quartet have earned critical acclaim and
a loyal following around the world. Founded in 1979 at the Hochschule
fόr Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, the Quartet was guided in
its development as an ensemble by mentors such as the Amadeus
Quartet, Sαndor Vιgh, and Thomas Brandis. During its five years
as the quartet-in-residence at Radio Berlin, the group recorded
CDs with Capriccio Records, covering repertoire from the eighteenth
century to the twentieth. International competition awards include,
most notably, Prague (1984), Evian (1985), Florence (1986),
and the ARD Competition in Munich (1987). The Quartet today
performs regularly in illustrious venues such as Berlin's Philharmonie,
Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Wigmore Hall, and Paris's
Louvre. Its North American tours have taken it coast to coast.
The 2004 season will see the Quartet inaugurating a series of
concerts at the Philharmonie in Essen, featuring specially commissioned
new music.
P R O G R A M
Franz Schubert, Quartet
in E-flat Major, D. 87
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Quartet No. 4
I N T E R M I
S S I O N
Edvard Grieg, Quartet
in G Minor, Op. 27
R E C E P T
I O N
Reservations lottery
submission deadline: March 1
Admission: $20 per person
Reservation-by-Lottery
Form
This
concert has been made possible by the generous support of
the
Ahmanson
Foundation of Los Angeles.
April 18 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.
Chamber Music at the Clark
A critic of the
Los Angeles Times not long ago described the
piano trio Triple Helix as "clearly something
special," musicians whose performance display "splendid
musical chemistry[,] virtually perfect dynamic balance,
a firm collective sense of rhythm, and a fervor and
authority when needed." The Boston Globe described
the group more succinctly, as simply "the livest live
music in town." Such accolades and the performances
that have called them forth have placed Triple Helix
among the best of the piano trios to be heard today.
The group was formed in 1995 when internationally acclaimed
musicians Lois Shapiro (piano), Bayla Keyes (violin),
and Rhonda Rider (cello) decided to join forces. Together
these musicians serve as artists-in-residence at Wellesley
College, where their lectures and concerts are enthusiastically
received. Individually, they also serve on the faculties
of other Boston-area universities. They have elected
to dedicate Triple Helix to the exploration of
new music and have already premiered seven works especially
commissioned for them.
P R O G R A M
Bright
Sheng, Four Movements for Piano Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No.1
I N T E R M I
S S I O N
Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in A Minor
R E C E P T
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Reservations
lottery submission deadline: March 15
Admission: $20 per person
Reservation-by-Lottery
Form
This concert has been made possible by the generous support of
Elizabeth and Gunter Herman.
For additional information contact the
UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies:
310-206-8552 or
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