Violinist

Bestowing possibly the greatest music review in history, Joseph Haydn remarked to Leopold Mozart in 1785, “Before God and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name.” In this program, you will hear the exact quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that inspired these words, preceded by one of Haydn’s finest works that inspired Mozart to dedicate quartets to the elder master. French composers Reynaldo Hahn, Paul Dukas, Vincent D’Indy, and Charles-Marie Widor contribute colorful homages to Haydn, for solo piano, written on the hundredth anniversary of his death. Concluding the concert is a bracing juxtaposition of the defining giants of Impressionism, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, bringing their mutual respect—and perhaps even rivalry—to life on stage.

This concert is preceded by a free afternoon Prelude Performance at 5 p.m. by the 2022 International Program artists. Prelude programs will be announced in May.

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CONCERT PROGRAM V Admiration

Menlo School Campus

Music@Menlo presents its annual Chamber Music Institute Benefit Concert and Reception, offering the opportunity to hear distinguished alumni of the CMI in performance. Music@Menlo is delighted to announce the 2022 Chamber Music Institute Benefit in support of the Ann S. Bowers Young Artist Fund. The concert features Institute alumni, details about the upcoming Music@Menlo summer festival, and a dessert-and-wine reception with the artists. By attending, you will help to raise vital funds for outstanding young artists launching their chamber music careers.<br><br>The program features works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Amy Beach. Beach was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music; her <em>Gaelic Symphony</em>, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony published by an American woman.

 Benefit Concert and Reception

Stent Family Hall 

Among the summer festival’s most beloved events, Music@Menlo’s preconcert and afternoon Prelude Performances showcase the exciting young artists of the Chamber Music Institute. Representing a cornerstone of the festival’s educational mission, these concerts offer both veteran concertgoers and new listeners of all ages an unparalleled opportunity to discover great music. San Francisco Classical Voice has hailed the artists of the Chamber Music Institute as “musicians you will want to hear repeatedly in the coming years.”  Prelude Performances are free and open to the public, offering an ideal setting for new listeners and young audiences to discover great music and join in the festival experience. The 2021 Prelude Performances will be live-streamed to Music@Menlo’s website and Facebook page, and a limited number of in-person tickets will be available starting 9:00 a.m. on the day of the performances.

Prelude Performance I

Concert Program III begins with music by two of central Europe’s most distinct compositional voices. The program begins with Leoš Janá&ccaron;ek’s haunting Violin Sonata, followed by the riveting Sonata for Solo Cello by György Ligeti. These preface a beloved work by one of Western music’s most hallowed masters: Johannes Brahms’s String Sextet in B-flat, composed in his twenty-seventh year, rings with a grand sonority, affirming what Robert Schumann heard in the young Brahms’s chamber writing as “veiled symphonies.”

Angela Wee

Violinist

Events

Jul 26, 2022

CONCERT PROGRAM V Admiration · Music@Menlo

Mar 13, 2022

Benefit Concert and Reception · Music@Menlo

Jul 21, 2021

Prelude Performance I · Music@Menlo

Jul 18, 2021

Concert Program III · Music@Menlo

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