LIVE PERFORMANCES Tickets or reservations are required for all live performances. The Four Arts app ■ www.fourarts.org ■ customerservice@fourarts.org ■ (561) 655-7226 All live peformances take place in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium, unless noted. Doors open one hour prior to performance. Program selections are subject to change. LIVE PERFORMANCES
WU HAN INTRODUCES THE 2021-22 SEASON Dear friends, It is with great honor and excitement, in this my first year as artistic advisor to The Society for the Four Arts, to share an extraordinary season designed especially for you. We open our season with collaborations with two major institutions: Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s signature performance of Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the very best of both worlds. Sprinkled throughout the season are four string quartet programs performed by a diverse selection of today’s leading ensembles: the Escher, Pacifica, Danish and Brooklyn Rider Quartets, each group offering their own imaginative program, including not only master works from the quartet repertoire but also featuring significant guest artists, including clarinetist Anthony McGill, Met Opera star Susanna Phillips, and mandolinist Avi Avital. A rare performance of all of Paganini’s Caprices for solo violin, with the unusual piano accompaniments by Schumann, features violinist Sean Lee. And for piano lovers, we’ll have a complete Chopin recital by the young superstar Jan Lisiecki. Gabriela Montero and Joshua Rifkin will each bring you diverse programs featuring improvisations and lectures. Those who love baroque music can hear Les Violons Du Roy with guest pianist Jeremy Denk performing Bach’s keyboard concertos, and Copenhagen’s Trio con Brio joins this season’s visitors from Denmark. During two special mini-festivals, I will be joined by musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to explore and celebrate two extraordinary areas of the chamber music literature: the music of great Czech composer Antonin Dvořák, and the rich and diverse repertoires of Vienna, Paris, and America, concluding with Gershwin’s iconic American in Paris for piano, four hands. In addition, for Palm Beach’s younger community, we will bring one
18 21-22 Season Programs
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, trumpet, “Big Band Holidays”
A holiday performance with special guest vocalist Ashley Pezzotti Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 3 p.m. $30 ■ No charge for Four Arts members Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of American culture. In April 1997, he was the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music. Enjoy an unique afternoon with Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, “Brandenburg Concertos” Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. $40 ■ No charge for Four Arts members Arguably the greatest of all baroque concertos, Bach’s six masterpieces unfailingly provide spiritual fulfillment for music lovers of all faiths and beliefs, inspiring strength at year’s end and a vision of the brightest future. of CMS’s wildly popular family programs entitled “Leaping Leopold.” I simply cannot wait to jump on stage to share all of it with you. I look forward to seeing you at the live performances. — Wu Han
