Violinist

A Little Fun celebrates music’s power to express the depths of profundity and the height of absurdity in a program that unashamedly combines the sublime with the ridiculous. Well-behaved all the way to its conclusion, Joseph Haydn’s quartet nick-named The Joke plays a cunning prank on the audience, not to be revealed in advance! Jumping centuries, Charles Ives’s only piano trio combines transcendental serenity in its outer movements with the self-proclaimed outrageousness of its scherzo, titled TSIAJ (This Scherzo is a Joke). The twentieth-century Russians Alfred Schnittke and Dmitry Shostakovich supply potent doses of ironic humor, and Haydn gets the last word with a clever arrangement for chamber ensemble of his Surprise Symphony, so nicknamed on account of a single, outrageous note.

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 VI A Little Fun

Menlo School Campus

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.”

Yeri Roh

Violinist

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Jul 28, 2022

CONCERT PROGRAM VI A Little Fun · Music@Menlo

Jul 21, 2021

Prelude Performance I · Music@Menlo

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