PRELUDES Ticket holders are invited to join us in The JAI an hour prior to performances to hear musical and historical insights through engaging interviews and fascinating lectures by our esteemed roster of scholars and experts. See the calendar on page 14 for the detailed schedule.
Dave Drexler
Michael Gerdes
Chair of Music History at the Colburn Conservatory of Music
Producer/Director of Jazz 88.3’s Jazz Live Series and host of Inside Art
San Diego State University’s Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras
Leah Rosenthal
Alex Ross
Jennifer Walker
La Jolla Music Society’s Artistic Director, Vice President of California Presenters
Music critic at The New Yorker, author, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Musicology at West Virginia University
Kristi Brown Montesano
Musical Preludes in The Baker-Baum Concert Hall Wednesday, August 3
Pelia Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp”
Saturday, August 6
Aestas Trio performs Tailleferre’s Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello and Wynona Yinuo Wang performs Selections from Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin
Wednesday, August 10
Aestas Trio performs Smetana’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Opus 15
Sunday, August 14
Pelia String Quartet performs Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Sz.85 & Allegro non troppo from Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73
Thursday, August 25
Aestas Trio performs Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (arr. for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann)
Friday, August 26
Pelia String Quartet performs Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major
JOIN US ONLINE! All Preludes will be available to view after the concert on LJMS.org. See page 2 for more information. 858.459.3728 • LJMS.ORG | 11