Dvořák features in our Symphonic Series this week and also here in our Chamber Series with his gorgeous Terzetto — a rich and complex trio famously composed in just one week. We pair it with a lively string quartet by Bartók. One of his first published pieces, the quartet pulses with rhythmic energy and momentum.

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From Antonín Dvořák to Béla Bartók

Benaroya Hall

To parallel our celebrations of Symphony Hall’s 125th anniversary, frequent guest pianist Randall Hodgkinson joins the Chamber Players for a program featuring composers active at the time of the hall’s opening in 1900. Amy Beach and Charles Martin Loeffler were both prominent in Boston’s musical community at the turn of the last century. Charles Koechlin and Camille Saint-Saëns represent two generations of Parisian music, while Mahler (and his younger colleague Schoenberg) were both active in Vienna.

Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900

New England Conservatory of Music

This lively program highlights the wind quintet as a centerpiece of chamber music, akin to the string quartet in tonal balance, depth, and versatility. Enhanced by piano and string collaborations, these ensembles create a variety of rich, colorful soundscapes. In addition to familiar faces, renowned German clarinetist Sebastian Manz makes a Music@Menlo debut, alongside pianist Sahun Sam Hong.

Winds of Change

Menlo School Campus

"Laurel sounds, part two. And again, old and new, familiar and rediscovered, are mixed together. Instruments begin to sing, transforming into Mozart's Papageno, Konstanze and Tamino. We meet the American Charles Martin Loeffler, born in Berlin in 1861, whose compositions mainly contain traces of Debussy, Franck and Chausson, but also a little Eastern European folk music. We marvel at the late romantic reed songs of Wagner fan August Klughardt, in which a lot of Fauré can be heard. And we discover Dora Pejačević, daughter of a Croatian count and a Hungarian baroness: a composer who later lived mainly in Dresden and Munich and whose style is close to that of Rachmaninoff. Finally, we also get to know the cellist and composer Alfredo Piatti, who lived in London for a long time and for whom Mendelssohn - so it is said - wanted to write a cello concerto. This never happened; this was probably not due to Piatti, who only died in 1901 at the age of 79.

winner of the ARD Music Competition

Hunting Hall

Schwetzingen Castle

Steven Beck, Michelle Farah, and Laura Sacks play Loeffler, Liszt, and Klughardt

Bargemusic

Death has many faces. Appearing as comforter, seducer, sadist. It shines in the dark and hides in the light.

Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible turned three Maeterlinck plays into a poetic meditation on the power of death: L’intruse shows a mother, struggling to survive childbirth. While most of her relatives fail to grasp the seriousness of the situation, her blind grandfather’s the only one to register the arrival of an invisible stranger. Intérieur starts with a young woman’s suicide. Two men, expected to break the news to her family, wonder whether it wouldn’t be kinder to hide the bitter truth. La mort de Tintagiles harks back to a dismal fairy tale: an old Queen lures her grandson Tintagiles back to her kingdom, to murder him. He puts up a fight, helped by his sisters, but vanishes without trace in his grandmother’s mysterious castle.

L’invisible

Oper Frankfurt

MSM Faculty Recital: Thomas Lausmann, piano, and Shmuel Katz, viola, with Eve Gigliotti, mezzo-soprano

Manhattan School of Music

Like Mozart, Maurice Ravel excelled in every genre he touched, and his single string quartet is considered among the greatest composed. And when speaking of favorite quartets, no one would leave out the famous Adagio from Samuel Barber’s 1936 quartet, performed in this program by rising stars of the classical scene, the Viano String Quartet. Charles Martin Loeffler’s recently-discovered octet also provides a unique, American reflection on Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, also featuring the harp.

Concert Program Iii Quartets And Harps (Livestream)

Festival – Day 5

Tucson Convention Center

Manhattan School of Music’s public programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

POSTPONED: MSM Faculty Recital: Shmuel Katz, viola and Thomas Lausmann, piano

**Event Description: ROCO Connections: Blossoms**

Join us for a captivating evening as ROCO’s Connections Series continues on January 27, 2024, in collaboration with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Rienzi house museum. The concert will take place at 5:00 PM in the glorious ballroom of the Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, located on Kirby Drive.

This special event, now at capacity, will feature a stunning program including Charles Loeffler's "Rhapsodies" and the world premiere of Nicky Sohn's "Colors of Life’s Garden," inspired by the plants and flowers in the 4.4-acre Rienzi Garden. The evening will also include performances of Margaret Bonds' "Troubled Water," Rebecca Clarke's "Morpheus," and Alyssa Morris' "Four Personalities: Yellow."

The concert will be performed by distinguished artists:
- Alecia Lawyer, oboe
- Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
- Audrey Andrist, piano

Although tickets are no longer available for in-person attendance, you can still join us online for a free livestream of the event on ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, and A440.live. For those interested in joining the waiting list, please contact us at email protected or call 713-665-2700.

This event is proudly sponsored by the Texas Commission on The Arts. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to experience a blend of classical and contemporary music in a beautiful setting.

**Program:**
- Nicky Sohn: Colors of Life’s Garden (World Premiere Commission)
- Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
- Rebecca Clarke: Morpheus
- Alyssa Morris: Four Personalities: Yellow
- Charles Loeffler: Two Rhapsodies, for Oboe, Viola, and Piano

**Location:**
Rienzi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Rienzi Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Kirby Drive, Houston, TX, USA

**Livestream:**
Available for free on ROCO.org, Facebook, YouTube, and A440.live

For more information, visit our website or contact us directly. We look forward to sharing this musical celebration with you!

ROCO Connections: Blossoms

Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Chamber Music: Landscapes

Walk Festival Hall

Lauded for the elegance and power of his playing, Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Oboe Philippe Tondre debuts on our series in the company of two Philadelphia favorites: Roberto Díaz—the President and CEO of the Curtis Institute of Music and former principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra—and pianist Amy Yang, a “jaw-dropping pianist who [steals] the show… with effortless finesse” (Washington Post).

Charles Martin Loeffler

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 19, 2026

Družecký, Loeffler, & Widor · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Past events

Nov 4, 2025

From Antonín Dvořák to Béla Bartók · Seattle Symphony

Oct 5, 2025

Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900 · Boston Symphony Orchestra

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