Dear Music Lovers,

Our 10th season was a big success thanks to you, our wonderful audience. We return with six concerts for Season 11, starting with ETHEL in “Grace,” a program of hymns of Appalachia, the plainchant of Hildegard von Bingen, the ecstasy of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the tribal initiation songs of the Bayaka. You’ll have a blast listening to this “post-classical... virtuosic alternative string quartet" (The New Yorker).
Next is a program of trios for flute, viola, and harp, featuring the music of Debussy, Takemitsu, and Thea Musgrave, whose 90th birthday is being celebrated with concerts around the world this year. Returning alumni of Itzhak Perlman’s Perlman Music Program reunite for a program of piano quartet masterworks, a genre that has been enthusiastically received here in recent years.
Spring sees the return of Quintessential Quintets with a program of Beethoven and Dvořák, followed by a piano recital by WRTI radio host Debra Lew Harder exploring “The Human Need for Melody." The season concludes with “Blues and Brahms,” a returning quintet playing the classic blues of WC Handy and Brahms’ transcendent Clarinet Quintet.
I hope you are as excited for Season 11 as I am!
William Frampton, Artistic Director
Next is a program of trios for flute, viola, and harp, featuring the music of Debussy, Takemitsu, and Thea Musgrave, whose 90th birthday is being celebrated with concerts around the world this year. Returning alumni of Itzhak Perlman’s Perlman Music Program reunite for a program of piano quartet masterworks, a genre that has been enthusiastically received here in recent years.
Spring sees the return of Quintessential Quintets with a program of Beethoven and Dvořák, followed by a piano recital by WRTI radio host Debra Lew Harder exploring “The Human Need for Melody." The season concludes with “Blues and Brahms,” a returning quintet playing the classic blues of WC Handy and Brahms’ transcendent Clarinet Quintet.
I hope you are as excited for Season 11 as I am!
William Frampton, Artistic Director