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.

Kristi Brown Montesano

Chair of Music History at the Colburn Conservatory of Music

Leah Rosenthal

La Jolla Music Society’s Artistic Director, Vice President of California Presenters Dave Drexler

Producer/Director of Jazz 88.3’s Jazz Live Series and host of Inside Art

Alex Ross

Music critic at The New Yorker, author, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship Michael Gerdes

San Diego State University’s Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras

Jennifer Walker

Assistant Professor of Musicology at West Virginia University

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

Wednesday, August 10 Sunday, August 14 Aestas Trio performs Tailleferre’s Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello and Wynona Yinuo Wang performs Selections from Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin Aestas Trio performs Smetana’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Opus 15

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

Friday, August 26 Aestas Trio performs Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (arr. for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann) 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.