Beethoven, Brahms & Moyse
BMC Faculty Concert to benefit Student Scholarship Fund
Sunday, March 13, 4 pm, Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro
PROGRAM:
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet, op. 18, no. 2
Kathy Andrew, Michelle Liechti, Peggy Spencer, David Tasgal
Louis Moyse, Suite in C for Two Flutes and Viola
Alex Ogle, Robin Matathias, Peggy Spencer
Johannes Brahms, Trio for Horn, Violin & Piano in E-flat op. 40
Jean Jeffries, Moby Pearson, Bruce Griffin
TICKETS: $15 / BMC Students Under 18 Free
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BMC Faculty Chamber Music Concert to Support Student Scholarship Fund
On Sunday, March 13, at 4 pm, members of the Brattleboro Music Center Music School faculty will present a program of Beethoven, Moyse and Brahms at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Each year, faculty members gather to perform chamber works together as a gift to support the BMC’s Student Scholarship Fund. The scholarship fund enables children and adults, who would not otherwise have the opportunity, to study music and participate in classes and camps throughout the year.
For the faculty members, who typically travel to several towns teaching students at different institutions and who are also professional musicians travelling to perform, coordinating schedules to prepare chamber works for concerts such as this is a real challenge. And yet, without fail, the participating faculty members continually comment on the joy that these projects bring. Working with respected colleagues on pieces of music that are loved invariably deepens and enriches their musical lives. And on Sunday afternoon, our community benefits from these musical conversations.
Participating in Sunday’s concert are Alex Ogle and Robin Matathias, flutes; Jean Jeffries, French horn; Kathy Andrew, Michelle Liechti and Moby Pearson, violin; Peggy Spencer, viola; David Tasgal, cello; and Bruce Griffin, piano.
The concert will open with a much-loved quartet, Ludwig van Beethoven’s opus 18, no. 2 in G major. This piece is an early quartet, written in the last couple of years of the 18th century for a commission, thought to be his third quartet composition. Its opening phrase may be a reason for it to be nicknamed the “quartet of bows and curtseys,” according to Robert Winter. The quartets in opus 18 are thought to have taken the form established and developed by Mozart and Haydn, to ultimate exploration while still preserving the original ambiance of the “chamber” music gathering.
Louis Moyse is most recognized in this area as one of the co-founders of the Marlboro Music Festival along with his former wife, Blanche. Louis Moyse composed the Suite for trio of two flutes and viola, for the Moyse Trio, whose members were his father Marcel, his wife Blanche, and himself in 1957. The Moyse Trio, winners of the equivalent of a European Grammy in the 1930s, were a group of flexible instrumentation, as at the highest level Blanche played both violin and viola and Louis flute and piano. The Suite, characteristically for Louis Moyse's music, is strongly influenced by the music of Bohuslav Martinu, and is literate, inventive, charming, beautiful.
The final piece in the concert, Johannes Brahms’ Trio for Horn, Violin & Piano in E-flat, was written in 1865, reportedly in honor of his mother. This may explain his choice of beginning the work with a slow movement, and some have said, the exploration of grief, both somber feelings and light memories, characterizes this piece throughout. The Adagio movement is one of Brahms’ most beautiful, lush, and emotive movements.
Join the Brattleboro Music Center Faculty for Beethoven, Moyse & Brahms on Sunday, March 13, 4pm, at Center Congregational Church, 193 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT. Tickets are $15 with proceeds benefitting the Student Scholarship Fund. For more information call the BMC at 802-257-4523.
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