“’Something Borrowed’ brings our attention to the ways in which artists are influenced by and borrow from their world, in music, and on a broader scale, in all artistic mediums. From this very broad idea, this concert seeks to highlight a few ways in which artists can borrow from each other literally through quotation of each other’s work, or more loosely, through the influence or featuring of another’s cultural traditions, dance, and language.
Beginning with the Spanisches Liederspiel, we clearly hear the influence of Spanish dance on a German composer, Schumann. The result is a vocal quartet sound with a playful mix of German musical tradition paired with lively Spanish dance. In the Debussy arrangments, music is borrowed from one composer’s different works and arranged by musicians to fit together in a new piece. The Ives trio, we hear a variety of musical quotations from American hymns and folk tunes, interwoven with original composition to a beautifully nostalgic, if sometimes comedic result. In Mozart’s clarinet quintet, he borrows from himself, from passages in his earlier works. It is also a piece from which he borrows musical themes to inspire later works.”
~Jessica Abel, curator for Something Borrowed
Friday, March 11th, 2011
7:00pm
Venue TBD
Baltimore, MD
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
7:00pm
Venue TBD
Washington D.C.
PROGRAM
Spanisches Liederspiel, Op.74 for Voices & Piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Erste Begegnung
Intermezzo
In der Nacht
Es ist verraten
Ich bin geliebt
Trio for Violin, Cello, & Piano
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Phantasy Op. 2 for Oboe, Violin, Viola, & Cello
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Quintet K. 581 for Clarinet & Strings
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
I. Allegro
II. Larghetto
III. Menuetto
IV. Allegretto con variazioni
ARTISTS
Jessica Abel, soprano Martha Bruce, violin Elliot Czaplewski, oboe
Ismar Gomes, cello Megan Ihnen, mezzo-soprano Berginald Rash, clarinet
Jorge L. Toro, tenor Julia Wilcox, piano TBD, baritone
TBD, violin TBD, viola