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July 25, 7:30pm
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Iowa, This is Houston, do you copy? (part 2) LOUISE FARRENC: PIANO QUINTET NO. 2 IN E MAJOR, OP. 31 (1840) ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: PIANO QUINTET (2011) Two piano quintets in the manner of Schubert’s Trout (violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano) are featured on our final concert of the 2020 season. Audiences from our 2019 season may remember our performance of Farrenc’s First Piano Quintet Op. 30 (composed during the same year) and the influences of Schubert and Mendelssohn on Farrenc’s musical style. One-hundred and seventy years later, the Piano Quintet of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich present a very different way of using this same combination of instruments. The first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, this blues-tinged work goes so far as to not only utilize the same Schubertian instrumentation but also references Schubert with a movement titled “The moody Trout”.
The van Haydn Ensemble
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Ingrid Hunter, violin
Max Geissler, cello
Emily Madonia, violin Yvonne Smith, viola
Hunter Capoccioni, double bass Brian Suits, piano
July 24, 7:30pm
5 Beethoven at 250 Years and 9000 Miles
BEETHOVEN: SONATA IN A MAJOR, OP. 12 NO. 2 (1798) SONATA IN A MINOR, OP. 23 (1801) Some composers greatly benefit from the increased spotlight and celebration of a major anniversary milestone. Not so with Beethoven. A composer whose works surely echo through the concert halls and practice rooms of the world on a daily basis, Beethoven is synonymous with transcending music that speaks to something more. Probably one of the most viral videos of 2020 comes from a Danish Orchestra performing a socially distanced “Ode to Joy” from his Ninth Symphony. This concert presents two violin sonatas from early in Beethoven’s career coming to you from a violin/piano duo based in Kuala Lumpur. Timothy Peters is a native Iowan and performed with CVCM in 2011. Growing up in Iowa City, Mr. Peters is now Principal Second Violin of the Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa
Malaysia Philharmonic in Kuala Lumpur. Streaming from his studio across the Pacific, Mr. Peters is joined by his frequent collaborator Malaysian pianist Loo Bang Hean.
July 20, 7:30pm
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From Florida with Love RACHMANINOFF: TRIO ÉLÉGIAQUE NO. 1 IN G. MINOR (1892) SHOSTAKOVICH: PIANO TRIO NO. 2 IN E MINOR, OP. 67 (1944) Ross Monroe Winter, David Bjella, and Hannah Sun make up the Orlando Piano Trio. The program features two works from very different periods in Russian history and culture. Rachmaninoff ‘s first piano trio is a youthful and opulent one-movement work. A student’s homage with clear references to his teacher and mentor Tchaikovsky. Conversely the second trio of Shostakovich comes during the prime of his life and is filled with what we often associate with the composer, namely with the. struggles of war, politics, and cultural oppression. Together, their two trios make a powerful pairing of masterworks that will leave you breathless . Ross Monroe Winter, violin Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa
David Bjella, cello Hannah Sun, piano
July 19, 3:00 Duo Pangelica JACQUES PRESS: POLKA IN C BERNARD ANDRES : LA RAGAZZA RUSSELL HOWLAND: CONTEMPLATING LOTUS BLOSSOMS MAURICE RAVEL: LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN ALAIN MARGONI: DANSE ANCIENS ET DANSE MODERN LUIGI BOCCHERINI: FANDANGO
Our afternoon matinee performance
Members of the American Harp
Jacquelyn Venter, harp
this season comes from a California
Quartet came from all corners of the
Ellie Choate, harp
based harp duo. Jacquelyn Venter,
United States, but as the two
(Cedar Falls native) is joined by her
resident members from California, it
This concert will be live-streamed at
friend and co-presenter Ellie Choate
felt only natural to also form a duo.
A440.live/artists/Iowa
for a program of original and
Part of Duo Pangelica’s mission is to
transcribed works for two harps. Duo
play works that are written
Pangelica was formed in 2014, after
specifically for harp or transcribed
Jacquelyn and Ellie were involved in
and unpublished by harpists.
founding and playing together in the American Harp Quartet.
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July 18, 7:30pm Iowa, This is Houston, do you copy? (part 1)
Our second program features
transatlantic radio transmission.
music from the first decades of the
The transmission was simple; only
20th century. The reason behind
the morse code for the letter “s”
the presentation of works from this
repeated over and over. However,
period is inspired by the idea of
over the coming decades radio
live-streaming and how it is
would forever alter the landscape
currently transforming our cultural
of how we communicate news and,
landscape. In 1901, the same year
in our case, music. From our perch
as the featured String Quintet of
in Houston vocalists Teresa Procter
Sergei Tanayev, the scientific
(Decorah native) and Kyle
partnership of Guglielmo Marconi
Albertson (Ankeny native) will
and George Kemp sat atop of a hill
communicate infinitely more
in Newfoundland, Canada and,
elaborate librettos and fill out the
with a telephone receiver and a
program with two intimate works
wire antenna that was kept aloof by
for solo voice and string quartet.
a kite, successfully heard the first
RESPIGHI: IL TRAMONTO (1914) BARBER: DOVER BEACH, OP. 3 (1931) TANAYEV: STRING QUINTET IN G MAJOR, OP. 14 (1901) KYLE ALBERTSON, BASS-BARITONE TERESA PROCTER, MEZZO-SOPRANO THE VAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE INGRID HUNTER, VIOLIN EMILY MADONIA, VIOLIN YVONNE SMITH, VIOLA MAX GEISSLER, CELLO HUNTER CAPOCCIONI, DOUBLE BASS Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa
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July 17, 7:30pm Hammer + Bow ANDY AKIHO: KARAKURENAI (2007) SHAWN E. OKPEBHOLO: DISTANCE (2016) GABRIELA ORTIZ: ATLAS PUMAS (1995) ROBERT HONSTEIN: AN ECONOMY OF MEANS (2016) SHERIDAN SEYFRIED: BLUES TRAIN (2015)
TARA LYNN RAMSEY AND KYLE FLENS ARE BOTH MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO BASED NEW MUSIC GROUP ‘ENSEMBLE DAL NIENTE’ AND
TARA LYNN RAMSEY, VIOLIN KYLE FLENS, PERCUSSION Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa
COLLABORATE FREQUENTLY ON CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS. Our season opening program
Violinist Tara Lynn Ramsey (Cedar
features a diverse group of
Falls native) joins forces with
composers who are writing for
percussionist Kyle Flens to
today’s world. Many of them are
introduce us to this varied and
both performers and composers
exciting program of contemporary
who write concurrently for
repertoire for violin and percussion.
themselves while sharing and
Each work shows how today’s
selling their compositions to
composers are reacting to the world
others. While the program features
around them, mixing their cultural
primarily North American
background with modern
composers it also showcases
techniques to reflect their thoughts
composers of divergent
and feelings on contemporary
backgrounds in terms of race,
society.
gender, and geography.
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