Escher Program

ADAM BARNETT -H AR T, VIOLIN AARO N BOYD , VIO L IN P IERRE L AP O INTE, VIOLA BRO O K S P ELTZ , C ELLO

D E N V E R

ESCHER STRING QUARTET

FRANZ SC HUBER T

Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703

(1797-1828)

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Allegro Assai

ARN OLD Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 SC HOENBERG

(1874-1951)

INT E RM ISSION

MAURICE RAVEL

(1875-1937)

Quartet in F major

Allegro moderato – Très doux Assez vif – Très rythmé Très lent Vif et agité

Th e b o a rd o f F rie n ds of C h am be r Music dedi cat es t oni ght 's concer t t o t he me mo r y of l on g -tim e board tre asu rer, A llan Rosenba u m.

ALLAN ROSENBAUM IN MEMORIAM Friends of Chamber Music is sad to announce the passing of a long-time friend and board member, Allan Rosenbaum. Serving as board treasurer, Allan provided FCM with strong financial leadership for the last 15 years.

Never without a joke, Allan’s wit was as sharp as his pencil.

Allan was a Certified Public Accountant and independent consultant, also serving on the accounting faculty at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Previously he served as Chief Accountant for the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress.

While his instrument of choice was the 10 key adding machine, Allan truly loved music. He and his wife, Judith, were long-time FCM subscribers as well as patrons of numerous cultural organizations in the Denver area. He will be deeply missed.

BOARD OF DIREC TORS

Alix Corboy, President Mary Park, Vice President Walter Torres, Secretary

BOARD MEMB ERS

Patsy Aronstein Lisa Bain Sue Damour Lydia Garmaier John Lebsack Kathy Newman

Richard Replin Myra Rich Chet Stern Sam Wagonfeld Eli Wald

EM ERI TUS M EM BERS

Rosemarie Murane Suzanne Ryan PROJECT ADM I NI S TRATOR

Desiree Parrott-Alcorn

ESCHER STRING QUARTET

ADAM BARNETT-HART

The Escher String Quartet returns to FCM after its debut on our series in April 2011. The quartet has received acclaim for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. A former BBC New Generation Artist, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. In its hometown of New York, the ensemble serves as Artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, last season presenting the complete Zemlinsky quartets in a concert streamed live from the Rose Studio. In 2013, the quartet became one of the very few chamber ensembles to be awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.

AARON BOYD

Violin Violin

PIERRE LAPOINTE

Viola

BROOK SPELTZ

Cello

Within months of its inception in 2005, the ensemble came to the attention of key musical figures worldwide.

Championed by the Emerson Quartet, the Escher Quartet was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be Quartet in Residence at each artist’s summer festival. The quartet has since collaborated with artists including David Finckel, Leon Fleischer, Wu Han, Lynn Harrell, Cho-Liang Lin, Joshua Bell, Vilde Frang, David Shifrin, Benjamin Grosvenor, and guitarist Jason Vieaux, and this year appears with pianist Jeffrey Kahane.

The Escher Quartet has made a distinctive impression throughout Europe, with recent debuts including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, and Les Grands Interprètes series in Geneva.

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Alongside its growing European profile, the Escher Quartet continues to flourish in its home country, performing at Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and the Ravinia and Caramoor festivals. In 2014, the quartet gave a highly praised debut at Chamber Music San Francisco and in 2015 returned to Music@Menlo in California, focusing on the quartets of Schubert.

In 2015, the quartet released volume one of the complete Mendelssohn quartets on the BIS label and has since released volume two. The quartet has also recorded the complete Zemlinsky string quartets in two volumes, on the Naxos label. Critical acclaim included 5 stars in the Guardian with “Classical CD of the Year,” a recommendation in The Strad, “Recording of the Month” on MusicWeb International, and a nomination for a BBC Music Magazine Award.

First violinist Adam Barnett-Hart is from Superior, Colorado and attended Fairview High School in Boulder. His teacher was Denver’s James Maurer. He loves skiing, which he rarely gets to do now. On September 4, Adam married a "beautiful actress and singer" in Dordogne, France.

Second violinist Aaron Boyd joined the quartet in 2012.

He was previously concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony.

He is married and has a daughter 7, and a son, 7 months.

His instrument was made by the great Italian luthier, Matteo Gofriller, inVenice in 1700.

Violist Pierre Lapointe, a protégé of Emerson violist Larry Dutton, is French-Canadian. He is married to former Escher second violinist, Wu Jie. Together they have a son, Arthur, who is 19 months old. Pierre holds a doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music where his thesis was on Zemlinsky’s second quartet.

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Cellist Brook Speltz joined the quartet in May 2015.

Brook appeared on FCM’s 2015-16 season with Musicians from Marlboro. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall/Stern Auditorium as an invited guest of pianist Richard Goode.

Brook’s girlfriend of three years is Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt, violist of the Dover Quartet, past FCM artists.

The quartet fervently supports the education of young musicians and frequently gives master classes, including regular coaching at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

The Escher Quartet takes its name from Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by Escher’s method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole.

The Escher Quartet is represented by Arts Management Group.

NOTES

Program Notes © Elizabeth Bergman In 1814, Schubert’s career as a composer, especially of songs, exploded. At age 18, he wrote some 150 Lieder. His productivity was astonishing. Musicologist Robert Winter estimates that at the time, Schubert was turning out some 65 measures of music each day—not only songs, but also works for piano, orchestra, and chorus. A similar frenzy of composition came in 1822, which yielded the “Unfinished” Symphony and the “Wanderer” Fantasy for piano.

SCHUBERT: QUARTETTSATZ IN C MINOR, D. 703

The single-movement Quartettsatz (Quartet Movement), D. 703, falls right in between these two bursts and marks a significant turning point in Schubert’s mature career.

Composed in 1820, it is part of an unfinished string quartet. (Indeed there’s a fragmentary Andante, a slow movement that was sketched to accompany this opening Allegro assai.) Here Schubert is working through the formal challenges that he will master in subsequent works, including his later string quartets and piano sonatas.

The movement is in sonata form, meaning there is an exposition, development, and a recapitulation. The exposition is remarkable, however, for its melodic and harmonic abundance. It falls in five sections, marked by different themes, keys, and moods. The opening—in the minor mode, agitato—is like a dark and stormy night.

But the next section sweeps the storm clouds away with friendsofchambermusic.com

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Last performed on our series January 27, 2010 (Brentano Quartet)

SCHOENBERG: QUARTET NO. 1 IN D MINOR, OP. 7

a sweetly singing, flowing melody in the major mode.

The lyrical mood continues into the third section of the exposition, featuring a lovely, quiet melody again in the major mode.

Music theorists wax rhapsodic about the complex key relationships and the intricate tonal design of the movement, while lay listeners simply revel in the exceptional fluidity of the music. Players are asked here to grapple with heightened technical demands.

Whereas Schubert’s previous quartets were written for performance at home, the Quarttesatz (along with the subsequent three late string quartets) is obviously intended for proficient, professional musicians.

Composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), revered and reviled as the originator of atonal music, began by writing tonal music in the late Romantic style: highly chromatic and expressive, yet still traditional in form and harmonic function. The Op. 7 Quartet, composed in 1905, belongs to this group of early works that draw on immediate past musical precedents (especially late chamber works of Beethoven, expansive tone poems of Franz Liszt, and symphonies of Gustav Mahler) while forging ever further ahead along a path that would eventually lead to the development of atonality.

Schoenberg considered his Op. 7 Quartet a major milestone: It was the First String Quartet, Op. 7, in which I combined all of the achievements of my time (including my own) such as: the construction of extremely large forms; greatly expanded melodies based on a richly moving harmony and new chord progressions; and a contrapuntal technique that solved problems.

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The problem that the composer wanted to solve was how “to include all the four characters of the sonata” (meaning the movements in a typical string quartet or piano sonata) “in one single, uninterrupted movement.”

He also wanted to tie together melody and harmony, to have one generate the other, seamlessly. The result, as critic Theodore Adorno noted, is “an entirely new level of thematically coherent chamber-music composition.”

Schoenberg’s interests were not simply musical or technical. The Op. 7 Quartet has a “secret program,” meaning that there is a kind of story behind the scenes.

The first section (there are no separate movements) attempts to capture a sense of “revolt, defiance” as well as “longing.” Love leads to a contest of wills and an argument. The second section then inspires a “feeling [of ] new life.” There are moments of “tenderness, devotion, rapture” and “understanding.” Yet this passionate interlude cannot last, and the relationship leads in the third section to “disappointment,” even a “hangover” after the “sensual intoxication.” There is now, in the wake of the affair, only an “increasing longing for peace and rest.”

In his marvelous biographical novel about Ravel, French writer Jean Echenoz endeavored, in just over 100 pages, to capture the elegant manners and fastidious habits of the composer. Echenoz devotes discrete chapters to Ravel’s bathing ritual, his struggles with insomnia, and the elaborate wardrobe he took with him on tour to the United States in 1927.

That same year, Ravel oversaw a recording of a beloved early work, his String Quartet in F major, a composition no less mannered than the composer himself. Puffing cigarettes in the London studio of the Aeolian recording company, Ravel made sure that the quartet was performed and recorded by his chosen ensemble, the International Quartet, in a manner that made it more classical sounding than the notes on the page would suggest. He wanted it to be restrained, held back, and he stressed precision in the tempos, melodic phrasing, and harmonic language. No single pitch could be more important than those surrounding it. Once this level of exactitude had been reached by the performers, Ravel gave the recording his seal of approval.

Tonight marks the first performance of this work on our series

RAVEL: QUARTET IN F MAJOR

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He had composed the quartet in 1902-03, while still a student of Gabriel FaurĂŠ at the Paris Conservatoire, and he hoped that it would yield a prestigious Rome Prize in composition. It neither won the prize, nor earned praise from his teacher. And its critical reception was mediocre. Ravel left the Conservatoire in a huff.

He admitted that the quartet had technical problems, but he convinced himself that these could be solved by more accomplished performers.

Ravel treasured the quartet for its classicism, its way of looking back at and drawing on the past. Of course that past could not be recovered, and in all of his works, there is a sense of loss. At times the feeling is wistful, at other times melancholic, even devastating. His Quartet in F major offers all of these sentiments within the constraints of a four-movement structure that emphasizes cyclic return.

The first movement is an exquisite reimagining of sonata form, the three-part structure that governed instrumental music of the late 18th century. Listen carefully and you will notice that all of the elements of sonata form are there, but disarticulated. The harmonies eschew logical patterning; dissonant pitches are left hanging in the air; and chords of four and five notes substitute for standard triads. Musical themes are presented, then taken on an adventure, and finally brought back home again, sadder but wiser.

Last performed on our series May 3, 2000 (Hagen Quartet)

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The second movement breaks from the mold of typical fast-movement forms by referring to fandango guitar playing. The third movement is a hybrid of instrumental and vocal gestures, its three main sections interrupted by passages redolent of FaurÊ’s arias. The fourth movement, a rondo, recalls the themes of the previous movements to provide structural cohesion for the quartet as a whole, while complicating its own internal logic.

"MUSIC IN THE GALLERIES" RETURNS! For a second year, the Clyfford Still Museum is partnering with Friends of Chamber Music and Swallow Hill Music to offer a new way to encounter the work of Clyfford Still.

Music was a part of his life from an early age. He played piano and memorized works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Schubert. "Music in the Galleries" is performed not in concert, but as a new way to experience Still’s work through sight and sound. Chairs will be scattered throughout the museum for guests to sit, look, listen, and enjoy.

Music is free with admission to the galleries. As a part of this partnership, the museum has offered FCM patrons half price tickets (if purchased in advance) to enter the museum on performance days. Visit our website under “Special Events” for a link to purchase these discounted tickets.

All concerts will be held on Sundays at the Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock Street, Denver.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Ivy Street Ensemble with Colorado Symphony Orchestra musicians Erik Peterson (violin), Cathy Peterson (flute), and Phillip Stevens (viola) playing works by Beethoven, Szervánszky, and Bunch.

NOVEMBER 20, 11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON

Trio Thessalia with Colorado Symphony Orchestra musicians Karen Kinzie (violin), Leah Kovach (viola), and Susan Cahill (bass) playing works by Mark O’Connor, Susan Cahill, and Beethoven.

DECEMBER 11, 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Altius Quartet, the Fellowship String Quartet-InResidence at University of Colorado Boulder, with Andrew Giordano (violin), Joshua Ulrich (violin), Andrew Krimm (viola), and Zachary Reeves (cello). Program will include works by Beethoven, Ligeti, and an original arrangement by the Altius Quartet. friendsofchambermusic.com

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SPINPHONY AT THE DENVER ART MUSEUM On Friday, July 29, Friends of Chamber Music cosponsored the presentation of the exciting classical-pop group, Spinphony, at the Untitled Final Fridays program at the Denver Art Museum. Untitled Final Fridays is a collaboration of the museum with local artists and features workshops, performances, and tours of the museum with a twist. Spinphony is a local string quartet that performs exciting arrangements of classical music, along with pop and other genres. The first concert that evening attracted almost 200 audience members and the second show was almost as crowded, with some 150 attendees.

FCM is proud to present exciting new chamber groups to the community and to collaborate with some of our most established artistic institutions.

"SCFD SHOWCASE" PERFORMANCE WITH THE GOSSAMER WINDS

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On August 4, Friends of Chamber Music participated in the third annual "SCFD Showcase," presenting Denver woodwind ensemble Gossamer Winds at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Â The gentle notes of Gossamer Winds floated through the garden leading listeners to Oak Grove, where the quintet performed two 30-minute concerts on a warm summer evening. Â The program included works from Bach, Copland, Gershwin, and Mussorgsky. friendsofchambermusic.com

Friends of Chamber Music joined some 25 SCFD-funded cultural organizations to entertain and educate the public in exhibits and performances at the Botanic Gardens on select dates in July and August. Displaying the breadth of cultural offerings in the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, the Showcase gave visitors a unique chance to see and closely interact with many area performers and organizations.

GOOD VIBRATIONS FREE FAMILY CONCERT WITH THE ALTIUS QUARTET OCTOBER 9, 2:00 PM

Join us on October 9 for Friends of Chamber Music’s third annual Family Concert. The Altius Quartet, Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will present an interactive “shuffle” program for all ages.

Audience participation is a must in this unique concert! From a wide-ranging “menu” of pieces— from Mozart and Beethoven to Taylor Swift and Led Zeppelin — audience members will choose what they want the quartet to play.

Release your inner DJ and learn about a variety of composers and musical styles.

Come and create a set list with your friends and family!

We’ll have refreshments and a chance to meet the musicians in the lobby following this interactive program — fun for all ages!

Free to the public

Sunday, October 9, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Denver School of the Arts 7111 Montview Blvd, Denver 80220 For more information visit friendsofchambermusic.com

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PIANO SALONS WITH HSING-AY HSU This fall FCM will once again host two Piano Salons with Steinway Artist Hsing-ay Hsu, focused on the music of Brahms and Dohnányi.

Send a check to: FCM, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016, 7:30 - 9:00 PM 191 University Blvd #974, Denver, CO 80206. Include TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016, 7:30 - 9:00 PM name of each participant, Savor the melancholy and idealism of German date(s) of each class Romanticism. Discuss your reactions with fellow music you plan to attend, and lovers in the intimacy of a private residence, and then enjoy email address for class the performance of the Dohnányi Piano Quintet No. 2 confirmation.

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on November 9 (with the Ariel Quartet and pianist Orion Weiss) and the Brahms Violin Sonata Nos. 1 & 3 on December 7 (with violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Anna Polonsky).

Space is limited to a maximum of 16 participants with registrations accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

YES ON SCFD Since 1989, the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), a voterapproved tax levy of one penny on every ten dollar purchase, has distributed funds to almost 300 non-profit organizations in Denver and the seven-county metropolitan area, including Friends of Chamber Music.

A national model of public funding for the arts, the SCFD has been an essential element in providing access to arts, science, and cultural offerings for some 15 million visitors a year. This November voters will determine whether to reauthorize SCFD for another 12-year period. The ballot question asks voters to 10

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renew support for SCFD by voting YES on issue 4B, which will be found at the end of a very long ballot and will ask if there “…shall be an extension until June 2030…of the sales and use tax currently levied…to assist scientific and cultural facilities?”

Friends of Chamber Music has enjoyed significant support over the years from SCFD. In turn, we offer our support for the reauthorization of SCFD. We encourage you to vote YES and help ensure the ongoing cultural, educational, and scientific vitality of our community.

For more information, please consult www.YesOnSCFD.com.

2016-2017

PIANO SERIES JONATHAN BISS

WED, SEPT 28, 2016 | 7:30 PM “Biss radiates a confidence solidly based on prodigious technique, energy never needing recharging, and a stylistic perception both intuitive and intelligent.” – T H E WA S H I N G T O N P O S T PROGRAM:

Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Op. 7 Beethoven: Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, no. 2 Beethoven: Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111, No. 32

JOYCE YANG

WED, MAR 15, 2017 | 7:30 PM Gramophone praised her “imaginative programming” and “beautifully atmospheric playing.”

PROGRAM:

Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 94 Vine: The Anne Landa Preludes Granados: Goyescas, Nos. 1 and 4 Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

MURRAY PERAHIA

WED, MAY 3, 2017 | 7:30 PM “Perahia’s extraordinary pianism is a sacrament of purification and a kind of return to an age of pianistic innocence.”

– LOS ANGELES TIMES

PROGRAM: T BA

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James Mann & Phyllis Loscalzo Estelle Meskin, for Darlene Harmon, piano teacher extraordinaire Rhea Miller Joanna Moldow Betty Murphy Mary Murphy Mari Newman Larry O’Donnell Martha Ohrt Sarah Przekwas Robert Rasmussen Michael Reddy Margaret Roberts Suzanne Ryan Cheryl Saborsky Michael & Carol Sarche Jo Shannon Artis Sliverman Lois Sollenberger Paul Stein Steve Susman Barbara Walton * Gift made to FCM Endowment The following individuals made gifts in memory of Allan Rosenbaum, FCM’s long-time board member and treasurer, who passed away in August.

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UPCOMING CONCERTS PIAN O SERIES

C HAMBER SERIES

Jonathan Biss

Wu Han, piano Philip Setzer, violin David Finckel, cello

Wednesday, September 28, 7:30 PM

Wednesday, October 5, 7:30 PM

Ariel Quartet Orion Weiss, piano

Joyce Yang

Wednesday, March 15, 7:30 PM

Murray Perahia

Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 PM

Stefan Jackiw, violin Anna Polonsky, piano

Wednesday, December 7, 7:30 PM

Danish String Quartet

Monday, February 13, 7:30 PM

Venice Baroque Orchestra Nicola Benedetti, violin

Wednesday, February 22, 7:30 PM

Steven Isserlis, cello Connie Shih, piano

Tuesday, April 25, 7:30 PM

Wednesday, May 3, 7:30 PM SPECIAL EVENT S

Free Family Concert with the Altius Quartet October 9, 2:00 PM Denver School of the Arts

Harlem Quartet

January 12, 7:30 PM Hamilton Hall ADVANCE SINGLE TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR ALL CONCERTS. Visit our website: www.friendsofchambermusic.com or contact the Newman Center Box Office, 303-871-7720; www.newmantix.com

SPECIAL THANKS SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL FACILITIES DISTRICT (TIER III)

for supporting FCM’s outreach efforts through school residencies and master classes

BONFILS-STANTON FOUNDATION

for sponsorship of FCM’s Piano Series and audience development programs in memory of Lewis Story

ESTATE OF JOSEPH DEHEER COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO (KVOD ESTATE OF SUE JOSHEL 88.1 FM) for providing lead gifts to the FCM

for broadcasting FCM concerts on its “Colorado Spotlight” programs

Endowment Fund

Gates Concert Hall • Newman Center for the Performing Arts • University of Denver

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