Double Bassist

No series featuring the music of Bach would be complete without his music for voice. Collaborating with the Savannah VOICE Festival to present Mark Delavan (who played Gianni Schicchi in the collaborative Puccini production at SMF 2015), the Bach Cantata in the first half is contrasted by a second half of songs by Copland and Weill. How interesting would it have been for Bach to have sat in the audience to hear the songs by Copland and Kurt Weill and to see his response?

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Philip Dukes & Friends IV: The Voice of Bach, A Musical Salute

Trinity United Methodist Church

Some 200 years after Bach’s death, 20th Century composers were still heavily inspired by the Baroque Era and the compositional techniques used (fugue, counterpoint, etc.), Stravinsky being one such composer. The fact that this will unquestionably still be the case in 2050, makes Bach’s music an eternal inspiration.

Philip Dukes & Friends III: Bach’s Eternal Inspiration

Savannah Cultural Arts Center

The expressive splendor that Messiaen drew from his religious mysticism and devotion to nature is on full display in his epic 12-movement work From the Canyons to the Stars. In one of our most powerful musical offerings of the season, conductor Alan Gilbert leads a star-studded performance that features an ensemble of 40 musicians and four soloists: pianist Kirill Gerstein, Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr, New York Philharmonic Associate Principal Percussionist Daniel Druckman, and Metropolitan Opera Principal Percussionist Gregory Zuber. The remarkable work—inspired by the landscape of southwestern Utah—was written in celebration of the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence, and we offer it here, in celebration of our 50th season.

Alan Gilbert Conducts Messiaen

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Kirill Gerstein, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists, joins forces with conductor Alan Gilbert and 21 Festival musicians to give the Festival’s first-ever performance of Ligeti’s magnificent Piano Concerto, a masterpiece of originality as witnessed in the composer’s treatment of rhythm, harmony, and more. The renowned pianist Juho Pohjonen joins a string quartet of musicians for Elgar’s late-Romantic Piano Quintet, known for its gorgeous second movement, and dazzling violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Jessica Lee open the program with duos by Bartók.

Ligeti Piano Concerto

New Mexico Museum of Art

This two-work program opens with Beethoven’s sophisticated and innovative Septet—an early composition that remained an inescapable hit throughout the composer’s lifetime—and it closes with Tchaikovsky’s blockbuster Piano Trio in A Minor, which, for this performance, spotlights the virtuosic talents of pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, violinist Chad Hoopes, and cellist Eric Kim.

Double Bassist

Leigh Mesh

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Apr 11, 2024

Philip Dukes & Friends IV: The Voice of Bach, A Musical Salute · Savannah Music Festival

Apr 9, 2024

Philip Dukes & Friends III: Bach’s Eternal Inspiration · Savannah Music Festival

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