This is Robert Weirich’s first full season as a performer. He appears all four weeks and in the first week plays in Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, Op. 81 with Andrzej Grabiec and Kathleen Tesar, violins; Michelle LaCourse, viola; and Lindsay Groves, cello; and solos in Schumann’s Kinderscenen, Op. 15. Joseph Genualdi and Paul Hersh perform Grieg’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in C Minor. Violinist Ida Levin appears in Dvořák’s String Sextet in A Major and Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major and solos in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, Yakov Kreizberg conducting. Tenor Marcus Haddock and Robert Weirich, piano, perform Turina’s Poema en forma de canciones. Richard Sherman, flute, and Barbara Lister-Sink, piano, give the world premiere of Andrew Waggoner’s Claene. Jonathan McPhee conducts the orchestra in his Music for a Summer’s Day. This is the first year of support for artists’ fees from the National Endowment for the Arts.
