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© Courtney Perry

Vaughan Williams and Price

in the Target Atrium

Sun Jan 8, 2023

Orchestra Hall

We welcome you back to our Chamber Music Series with invigorating, warm-hearted music for strings by Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Felix Mendelssohn and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The concert continues with a fiercely contemporary quartet composed in 2015 by Du Yun, and concludes with a quintet by Florence Price that interweaves vibrant spirituals, hymns and dance tunes.

A Few Things to Know

  1. Though this work by Felix Mendelsson is labeled as Quartet No. 1, it is actually his second work of this genre; the first one, written in his teen years, was catalogued as Opus 13, No. 2.
  2. Du Yun was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition in 2019 and was selected as one of The Washington Post's top 35 female composers
  3. Florence Price’s Quintet for Piano and Strings was one of many manuscripts lost for decades and rediscovered in 2009 in her abandoned Illinois summer home.

Date & Time

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Program

  • SAINT-GEORGES

    Sonata No. 1 for Two Violins

    1 min note

    One Minute Note

    Musicians
    • Emily Switzer, violin
    • Catherine Schubilske, violin
  • MENDELSSOHN

    String Quartet No. 1

    1 min note

    One Minute Note

    Musicians
    • Helen Chang Haertzen, violin
    • Joanne Opgenorth, violin
    • Sifei Cheng, viola
    • Erik Wheeler, cello
  • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

    Phantasy Quintet

    1 min note

    One Minute Note

    Musicians
    • Sophia Mockler, violin
    • Milana Elise Reiche, violin
    • Marlea Simpson, viola
    • Kenneth Freed, viola
    • Pitnarry Shin, cello
  • DU YUN

    Tattooed in Snow

    1 min note

    One Minute Note

    Musicians
    • Hanna Landrum, violin
    • Emily Switzer, violin
    • Sam Bergman, viola
    • Silver Ainomäe, cello
  • PRICE

    Quintet for Piano and Strings

    1 min note

    One Minute Note

    Musicians
    • Rebecca Corruccini, violin
    • Cecilia Belcher, violin
    • Megan Tam, viola
    • Sonia Mantell, cello
    • Mary Jo Gothmann, piano

Sam Bergman

Viola

Sifei Cheng

Viola

Kenneth Freed

Viola

Megan Tam

Viola

Rebecca Corruccini

Violin

Helen Chang Haertzen

Violin

Emily Switzer

Violin

Joanne Opgenorth

Violin

Milana Elise Reiche

Violin

Cecilia Belcher

Violin

Hanna Landrum

Second Violin

Sophia Mockler

Violin

Catherine Schubilske

Violin

Silver Ainomäe

Cello

Beth Rapier

Cello

Pitnarry Shin

Cello

Erik Wheeler

Acting Co-Associate Principal Cello

Mary Jo Gothmann

piano

Marlea Simpson

Associate Principal Viola, Douglas and Louise Leatherdale Chair

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The Chamber Music Series is sponsored by Dr. Jennine and John Speier.

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