Series: Close Encounters with Music

Alongside Beethoven’s Quartet No. 1 Op. 18 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet, this program is infused with striking Latin repertoire: Sonia Morales-Matos’ Divertimento Caribeño No. 3 (dance suites of Caribbean merengue sandwiched around a Cuban bolero) and Astor Pizzolla’s Tango Ballet, a work that paints pictures through rhythms and melodies.

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Sewing machine heiress Winnaretta Singer was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leion Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux to Prokofiev, Madame Jean Lanvin, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Rubenstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edith Wharton in her Paris salon. More importantly, she was responsible for developing a new genre: “Great music for a small space by up-and-coming composers.”

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Two leading Bach interpreters, Colin Carr and Yehuda Hanani, embark on a journey while traversing his Six Suites, the apogee of the cello repertoire.

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Composed by Tchaikovsky to counter a bout of insomnia and melancholy, Serenade for Strings immediately cheered him up, and he reported “feeling well, invigorated and content” – as gratified listeners have over the years. The Vivace Chamber Orchestra is comprised of fourteen top-tier soloists who gather for periodic tours.

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Close Encounters With Music Presents “Rite of Spring” -Rachmaninoff/Stravinsky and masterpieces of chamber music and vocal folklore from Tchaikovsky and Moussorgsky.

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Close Encounters with Music

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Close Encounters with Music

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Studio Shows & Interviews