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October 27th, 2024 at 2pm

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Join us as we kick off the season in the spirit of spontaneity. Unmeasured Baroque preludes by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and Louis Couperin meet the free melodic improvisation of Hindustani alap that inspired Reena Esmail’s Zinfandel for solo flute. Johannes Brahms’ and Jessie Montgomery’s ecstatic rhapsodies face the playful onomatopoeia of Cathy Berberian’s Stripsody. André Previn’s and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s breathtaking vocalises transform the voice into an unbound melisma. The impromptu jazz of Art Tatum’s Willow Weep for Me joins the harmonic unpredictability of Franz Schubert’s Impromptu in C minor. An intoned chant gradually emerges from a low trembling drone in Shulamit Ran’s reflective piano trio Soliloquy. We open by collectively listening to the moment via Pauline Oliveros’ Tuning Meditation and close with Robert Schumann’s thrilling, mercurial fantasy pieces for piano and clarinet.

Program

Pauline Oliveros: Tuning Meditation

Louis Couperin: Unmeasured Prelude in D major

Reena Esmail: Zinfandel

Jessie Montgomery: Rhapsody No. 1 for solo violin

André Previn: Honey and Rue - IV. “Do You Know Him?”

Ann Ronell, arr. Art Tatum: Willow, Weep for Me

Nicolas Lebègue: Prélude en g from Pièces de clavessin, Livre 1

Johannes Brahms: Rhapsody in G minor Op. 79

Intermission

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise

Cathy Berberian: Stripsody

Franz Schubert: Impromptu No. 1 Op. 90

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Prélude from Suite No. 3 in A minor

Shulamit Ran: Soliloquy

Robert Schumann: Drei Fantasiestücke Op. 73

Artists

Alexandre Tchaykov, piano

Timothy Peterson, piano

Emma McCartney, flute

Graycen Gardner, soprano

Yekaterina Lynch, soprano

Maya Irizarry Lambright, violin

Olivia Cho, cello

Anders Peterson, clarinet

Location

2225 N Beverly Glen Pl

Los Angeles, CA 90077