by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Thursday, July 14
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $75.00 Concert Member)*
Conductors:
Peter Oundjian
John Adams
Guest Artists:
Samuel Adams
Tessa Lark, violin
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
The legendary John Adams, 2022 composer-in-residence and co-curator of this week’s programs, shares the podium with Music Director Peter Oundjian in this can’t-miss concert, beginning with a commissioned work by Timo Andres, an exceptional composer personally selected by Adams. Adams’ own orchestral masterpiece City Noir brims with cinematic lyricism and yearning melodies. “The music should have the slightly disorienting effect of a very crowded boulevard peopled with strange characters,” says Adams, “…the kind who only come out very late on a very hot night.” John Adams’ son Samuel is a formidable composer in his own right, and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow; his lyrical and haunting Chamber Concerto gives violinist Tessa Lark an opportunity to shine.
Program:
Timo Andres, world premiere commission
Samuel Adams, Chamber Concerto
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John Adams, City Noir
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Friday, July 29
Doors: 6:00 PM
Concert: 6:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*
Conductor:
Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Guest Artist:
Gabriela Montero, piano
Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day — the pianist for whom it was written initially declared it “absolutely unplayable.” Luckily Tchaikovsky ignored this criticism, published his concerto, and unveiled what has become one of the most famous piano concertos of all time. Pianist Gabriela Montero brings her “monster technique and thrilling tone” (Seattle Times) to this concerto. Principal Guest Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni returns to conduct Prokofiev’s masterful Fifth Symphony. “I conceived of [Symphony No. 5] as glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit . . . praising the free and happy man,” said Prokofiev of the uplifting symphony he composed against the backdrop of WWII. Mussorgsky’s haunting and beloved Night on Bald Mountain opens this all-Russian program.
Program:
Modest Mussorgsky, Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23
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Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5, Op. 100
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, July 5
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $62.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Takács Quartet, artists-in-residence
Grammy Award-winning Takács (pronounced Takach) Quartet is world renowned for their “chamber music playing of overwhelming intensity” (The Guardian). The Boulder-based ensemble opens the 2022 Robert Mann Chamber Music Series with Haydn and Dvořák’s final complete works for quartet, coupled with Coleridge-Taylor’s extraordinary Fantasiestücke, composed within a year of Dvořák’s work.
Program:
Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Fantasiestücke for String Quartet, Op.5
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Antonín Dvořák, String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Thursday, July 7
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $80.00 ($22.00 – $77.00 Concert Member)
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
Guest Artist:
Jan Lisiecki, piano
Music Director Peter Oundjian begins a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki, whom Oundjian calls “one of the greatest piano talents of all time.” Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto was written as a showpiece for the composer as the aspiring pianist was first making a name for himself in Vienna. The high-spirited Third Piano Concerto was not complete when Beethoven first performed it—his panicked page-turner later recalled many empty pages strewn with “a few Egyptian hieroglyphs wholly unintelligible to me.” Beethoven played the solos mostly from memory. This program also begins a three-concert exploration of Vaughn Williams’ most enduring works in celebration of the composer’s 150th birthday, beginning with his profoundly moving Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for string orchestra.
Program:
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, July 26
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $65.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra
This installment of the Robert Mann Chamber Series begins with Mozart’s jaunty First Flute Quartet, followed by the brief but profound Movement for String Trio by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Dvořák’s complex Terzetto in C, written for two violins and viola, begins with lyrical sweetness and develops gorgeous drama along the way. The autumnal feeling behind Brahms’ lauded Clarinet Quintet ends this program with a stunning sunset of music.
Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Movement for String Trio
Antonín Dvořák, Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74
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Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
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