Roman Rabinovich piano Dmitri Berlinsky violin Cynthia Phleps viola
COPLAND Sextet • 1937 • when his Short Symphony for orchestra proved too difficult to perform, the Brooklynite made this version for clarinet, piano and string quartet and “toyed with the idea of naming the entire piece The Bouncing Line because of the nature of the first section”
Randall THOMPSON Suite • 1940 • purebred American music by the New Yorker, most known for his choral works ~ for oboe, clarinet and viola
Samuel BARBER Summer Music • 1955 • lovely lyrical melodies for woodwind quintet in one blissful movement evocative of languid summer days ~ born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, not too far from his alma mater, the Curtis Institute
Mrs HHA BEACH Piano Quintet in F# Minor Op. 67 • 1907 • named Amy Marcy Cheney at birth, the New Hampshire native scores high marks for this eloquent, exuberant Romantic quintet, which the Boston Transcript review of its premiere described as “rhapsodic ... substantial ... variously imagined and restlessly expressive”
02/06/2011 14:00, Good Shepherd Church
Monday, Feb. 7, 2pm and 7:30pm American Hot Dogs
Roman Rabinovich piano
Dmitri Berlinsky violin
Cynthia Phleps viola
COPLAND Sextet • 1937
• when his Short Symphony for orchestra proved too difficult to perform, the Brooklynite made this version for clarinet, piano and string quartet and “toyed with the idea of naming the entire piece The Bouncing Line because of the nature of the first section”
Randall THOMPSON Suite • 1940
• purebred American music by the New Yorker, most known for his choral works ~ for oboe, clarinet and viola
Samuel BARBER Summer Music • 1955
• lovely lyrical melodies for woodwind quintet in one blissful movement evocative of languid summer days ~ born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, not too far from his alma mater, the Curtis Institute
Mrs HHA BEACH Piano Quintet in F# Minor Op. 67 • 1907
• named Amy Marcy Cheney at birth, the New Hampshire native scores high marks for this eloquent, exuberant Romantic quintet, which the Boston Transcript review of its premiere described as “rhapsodic ... substantial ... variously imagined and restlessly expressive”