EPSG:4326

Lyris Quartet with pianist Robert Thies

Los Angeles Harbor College

Pacific Unitarian Church

2220 Arts & Archives — Chamber Concert I

2220 Arts + Archives

2220 Arts & Archives — Electroacoustic+ Concert

This Vienna/LA double portrait pairs Schoenberg’s delightful Presto in C Major with Schubert’s Quartetsatz in C minor. His debt to Schubert is heard in Transfigured Night. Solo piano works illustrate the composer in LA. Eldon Rathburn’s Schoenberg vs. Gershwin: A Tennis Match portrays close friends and tennis partners. The Canadian film composer won the LA Philharmonic Orchestra Young Artist Award in 1945 for which Schoenberg was a judge. Erich Zeisl’s Pieces for Barbara were composed for his young daughter who married Schoenberg’s son Ronald. Ernst Krenek, who emigrated in 1938, composed the witty and heartfelt George Washington Variations. Set to Lord Byron’s protest of tyranny, Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon, composed during WW II, extols Washington.

Transatlantic

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Lyris Quartet

Schoenberg revered Wagner whose piano Elegy introduces the expressionist moods of Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11, Schoenberg’s first important piano work. The passion of Berg’s Piano Sonata Op. 1, a single movement ripe with Wagnerian chromaticism follows. Lyris Quartet performs Webern’s zingy Five Pieces of String Quartet. Then Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble, with David Bloom conducting, gives the world premiere of Peter Knell’s Arkhipov Synthesis, based on his gripping tale of apocalypse averted. This program is part of the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music — 100+ music institutions showcase forward-looking voices with new works written within the past five years.

Perilous Balance

New Albion

Similar/Contrary I

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2220 Arts & Archives — Chamber Concert I

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