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No Admission Charge, No Reservations Required
All Concerts begin at 3:00pm, doors open at 2:30pm
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Dallas Museum of Art
Horchow Auditorium
1717 N. Harwood
Dallas TX 75201
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February 25, 2012
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This dynamic program begins with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Duo No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Viola, K.423 and Bohuslav Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H.313 'Duo No.1' performed by Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Principal Second Violinist Angela Fuller and DSO Associate Principal Violist Ann Marie Hudson. The concert concludes with Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra by Lou Harrison. Ms. Fuller will be joined by the entire percussion section of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra - Dan Florio, Doug Howard, Brian Jones, Ron Snider - and Jon Lee, Director of the Percussion Ensemble at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Harrison's Concerto which requires a stage filled with multiple gongs, tam tams, tuned flower pots, brake drums, bass drum and tom toms will be conducted by Paul Phillips, Professor of Music and Music Director of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra at SMU.
March 17, 2012
Dallas debut of the Wyeth String
Quartet, principal string musicians of
the Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra
April 28, 2012
Music of Haydn, Beethoven and Smetana performed by
Dallas Symphony cellist Jolyon Pegis and violinist
Maria Schleuning with pianist Liudmila Georgievskaya
May 19, 2012
6th Annual Charles Barr Memorial Concert
feature award-winning pianist Kyle Orth
Past Performances 2011-2012 Season
October 15, 2011 Dallas Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet
Members of the Brass Quintet include Dallas Symphony Orchestra principal players Ryan Anthony (trumpet), Kevin Finamore (trumpet), Gregory Hustis (horn), John Kitzman (trombone), and Matthew Good (tuba). The music presented at this free concert will include compositions written during the past 400 years starting with the Renaissance composer William Byrd and continuing with Bach, Holst, Wagner, and the 21st century music of Kevin McKee. The program will conclude with brass quintet arrangements of Duke Ellington’s music. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet recently recorded this program for release on CD later this season.
November 19, 2011 Chamber Music Charm
The program opens with Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12, No 1. performed by Jing Wang, Concertmaster of The Dallas Opera Orchestra and pianist Jeewon Lee. The duo is joined by cellist Jolyon Pegis, a member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, for a performance of one of the jewels in chamber music literature - Brahms' Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B Major for violin, cello and piano. Ms. Lee is an award-winning pianist from Houston, TX and serves on the pre-college piano faculty at Rice University.
January 21, 2012 University of North Texas Quintet
The program for this concert includes baroque musical selections of Scarlatti arranged for quintet by James Ryon, Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, Damase’s 17 Variations for wind Quintet and Aires Tropicales by Paquito D’Rivera. University of North Texas Faculty Woodwind Quintet members are flutist Mary Karen Clardy, clarinetist John Scott, bassoonist Kathleen Reynolds, horn player William Scharnberg and the newly appointed UNT Professor of Oboe, James Ryon.
2010-2011 Season
October 23, 2010 Made in the USA: the American Spirit in Music
Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman by Alan Louis Smith is a recent commission from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The text is based on the diary of Margaret Frink, who traveled from Indiana to California by covered wagon in 1850. Featured performers include mezzo soprano Virginia Dupuy who will perform with musicians from the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra including Concertmaster Michael Shih, Associate Concertmaster Swang Lin, Principal Cellist Karen Basrak and pianist Shields-Collins Bray.
November 20, 2010 Clavier Trio in Concert
Fresh from their New York Carnegie Hall recital, The Clavier Trio features Dallas Symphony Orchestra violinist Arkady Fomin, cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi and pianist David Korevaar performing Auerbach’s Postscriptum and Rachmaninoff’s Trio Elégiaque in D minor, op. 9 composed as a tribute to Tchaikovsky when the great master died in 1893.
January 22, 2011 Masterworks for Cello
Dallas Symphony Orchestra cellist Jolyon Pegis and seven string players will be featured in an afternoon of baroque and early classical cello favorites including Couperin’s Pièces en Concert, Telemann’s Suite in D Major and concertos by Vivaldi and Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, the second son of J.S. Bach.
February 19, 2011 Artistic Inspiration
The Aeolus Quartet, a string quartet in residence at the University of Texas at Austin, will perform Dan Welcher’s String Quartet No. 3 “Cassatt” based on three paintings by American artist Mary Cassatt. Composer Dan Welcher will open the program with commentary on the composition.
March 19, 2011 Duos of Distinction
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) Associate Concertmaster Swang Lin, FWSO violinist Sergey Tsoy and pianist Elena Tsvetkova perform in a program of violin virtuoso masterworks. The concert will feature Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Two Violins in A minor, Moszkowski’s Suite for Two Violins and Piano, Op. 71 and Navarra "Spanish Dance" for Two Violins and piano, Op. 33 by Pablo de Sarasate. These pieces are considered to be among the most advanced works ever written for the violin.
April 16, 2011 Chamber Music Charm
Mount Vernon Music with guest artist Geoffrey Winter of the American Horn Quartet, presents Mozart’s Quintet for horn and strings, and Mahler’s youthful Quartet for Piano and Strings. The program includes Brahms Trio in E flat major, Op. 40, for horn, violin and piano. Mount Vernon Music performers include violinist Mark Miller, violist Ute Miller, cellist Carol Harlos and pianist Steven Harlos. They will be joined by guest artist Geoffrey Winter of the American Horn Quartet and April Kondrat, violist on this concert.
May 21, 2011 5th Annual Charles Barr Memorial Concert
Mr. Russell Houston, cello and Ms. Christina Long, piano will perform Bach’s Suite No. 5 in c minor, Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major and music by Schumann and Sarasate at the Bancroft Family Concert Season Finale, May 21, 2011. Sixteen-year-old Russell Houston has received numerous honors at competitions including grand prizes at the 2011 Juanita Miller Concerto Competition and the 2011 Dallas Symphonic Festival. Ms. Long has performed in recitals and orchestra's in Canada, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Turkey, 26 states in US and Poland. This performance will honor the memory of Dallas-native Charles Barr, a bassist with the Cleveland Orchestra, who died at the age of 31 in a tragic bicycle accident.
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