Close Encounters with Music Archives

Close Encounters With Music – Great Piano Quintets Gala Concert

Dvorák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 are both majestic, symphonic in scope, and invite the listener into a lost world of powerful beauty, profundity, and nobility of sentiments, peppered with folk tunes and polkas. An all-star ensemble that shares the stage with artistic director Yehuda Hanani includes Max Levinson and violist Jordan Bak.

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Category: Studio Shows & Interviews

Close Encounters With Music – Celtic Baroque Band Makaris

Folk & classical ensemble Makaris presents “A Bach Family Concert with an Irish Twist,” exploring Celtic musical heritage.

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Close Encounters With Music – Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“Something Borrowed, Something Blue — Cross-Cultural Synergy” offered a dynamic afternoon of jazz, tango, liturgy, waltz, Habanera and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on it's 100th anniversary.

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Close Encounters with Music – Cafe Vienna, Nervous Splendor

Vienna, the imperial “City of Song,” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry and intellectual thought, from the 16th to 20th centuries. This program takes a cross-section of Viennese musical modes—from operetta to waltz, Beethoven’s Piano Trio which spins on a popular song by Weigl, to Schubert’s sublime testament to his beloved métier, “An die Musik.”

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Close Encounters with Music – Trout and Schumann Piano Quintet

Two great melodists and two young geniuses in one brilliant evening! Bubbly, like fine Champagne, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet is one of the most joyous pieces ever written. The program also features Schumann’s miraculous Piano Quintet in E-flat Major.

Producer: Close Encounters with Music
Series: Close Encounters with Music
Category: Studio Shows & Interviews