Clarinetist

These unparalleled musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra explore music composed inside the world of specific cultures. The program includes one of Haydn’s best-known piano trios and Bartók’s Contrasts (filled with Hungarian and Romanian dance melodies), and closes with a later work of Brahms, one of the first works composed for an ensemble featuring clarinet.

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CSO Chamber Music at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The Wabash Avenue Music Collective presents a program characterized by strings but fortified by moments for clarinet and voice. Haydn’s String Quartet in D Minor, famous for its opening fifths, casts a melancholy spell, highlighting the expressive range of the strings. Mozart’s Quintet is a masterfully integrated chamber work in which individual strings occasionally sing out from center stage above the harmonious blend created by the clarinet. Featuring mezzo-soprano Sara Dailey in this performance, Raimi’s Runagate Runagate allows the human voice to do the same.

The Wabash Avenue Music Collective

Kehrein Center for the Arts

The first Asian musician ever appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—and now its longest-serving clarinetist—beloved SummerFest artist John Bruce Yeh joins Fellowship Artists Pelia Quartet for a delightful afternoon performance along with the Aestas Trio.

Encounter: Fellowship Artist Spotlight II

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

The complex textures and rich harmonies characteristic of Richard Wagner’s compositions had a magnetic force on the composers featured on this afternoon’s program. From Strauss’ lusciously scored and radiantly colorful Sextet from his opera Capriccio and a string version of Berg’s intense Piano Sonata to arrangements and works in honor of Wagner by his own father-in-law, Franz Liszt, this program is a testament to the dominant force of this Romantic master. The program ends with the rarely heard, lushly exuberant Sextet by Hungarian composer Ernst Von Dohnányi for strings, clarinet, and horn.

Join us for the Musical Prelude with the Pelia Quartet for their performance of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Sz.85

John Bruce Yeh

Clarinetist

Events

Apr 14, 2024

CSO Chamber Music at the University of Chicago · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

May 21, 2023

The Wabash Avenue Music Collective · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Aug 15, 2022

Encounter: Fellowship Artist Spotlight II · La Jolla Music Society

Aug 14, 2022

The Wagner Effect · La Jolla Music Society

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Clarinet in Clarinet Quintet by Brahms

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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