Tomás Ramos (clarinet) and Brian Kavolius-Matherne (horn) combine forces with pianist Maika’i Nash to present an exciting concert of music for winds and piano written by a diverse collection of composers, some well-known and others under-appreciated. The combination of horn and clarinet will showcase their range, timbre, and lyricism in a First Mondays concert you won’t want to miss.
Featured Composers are Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), David Maslanka (1943–2017), Béla Kovács (b. 1937), and Brad Edwards (b. 1963).
The concert will be livestreamed on the our streaming page and the LCH Facebook page February 1 at 7:00 pm and then archived on the LCH Facebook page.
The concert is free; donations to support the concert series are gladly accepted (details below).
Concert Program (PDF in a new window)
The First Mondays 2020–2021 Concert Series
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The Stark Duo return for Diversely Unified—I, Too, Am America, a concert celebrating uniquely diverse compositions written for voice (Georgine Stark, soprano) and violin (Darel Stark, violin). The evening will include works by Paganini, R. Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Alan Hovhaness, and Hans Werner Henze. The duo will also feature the world premiere of a new work for voice and violin by Darel Stark, setting Langston Hughes’ powerful poem: I, Too.
The art of hymn introductions was perfected in Germany, where the “chorale prelude” was developed by Johann Sebastian Bach and other north German composers. The chorale prelude is a relatively short setting for organ that is intended to introduce the hymn tune to the congregation. This concert will feature a wide variety of Advent chorale preludes by international composers from Germany, France, Norway, and the United States: Bach, Johann Pachelbel, Hugo Distler, Marcel Dupré, Egil Hovland, Gerald Near and Paul Manz. A quartet will sing the hymns immediately following each chorale prelude.
The concert originally scheduled to open the series in September has been rescheduled for November 23. In honor of our newly-acquired Estonia grand piano, Taevamuusika (Estonian for music of the heavens) will feature pianists Maika‘i Nash and Mark Wong as they share a concert of works for two pianos. They will be joined by special guest soprano Martina Bingham. Tune in for this livestream concert, exploring themes of the cosmos, featuring selections from Holst’s suite The Planets, as well as a virtuosic 4-hands Star Wars fantasy.
For the next in our First Mondays concert series, we experience musical life at German courts during the eighteenth century.
For the next in our First Mondays concert series, we welcome good friend of LCH music, the Stark Duo.
For the next in our First Mondays concert series, join us as we seek to explore the human condition—as well as the physical world—for the opposites of each other. What does it mean to be opposite one another? To be diametrically opposed to another way of thinking? Or to be physicall so different from one another? One is starving; the other is abundant. One is overjoyed, the other overwhelmed. One is Native Hawaiian, the other Western European. Are we really that far apart from each other?
