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Kevin Lee Sun, whose program features songs from around the world about youth, hope, and solidarity, interprets music from a wide span of centuries and cultures “with probing seriousness” (Performing Arts Monterey Bay) and “a stunningly beautiful palette of colors” (Peninsula Reviews).
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A concert about various kinds of transformation—physical, biological, emotional, environmental, and musical—with Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), arranged for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann, and works by Darian Donovan Thomas, Lisa Bielawa, inti figgis-vizueta, and Franz Schreker.
A tour of the lute in renaissance Europe, from the by the free-flowing improvisatory style of 16th century Spanish composer Luís Milán to the fiery and stunning toccatas of early 17th century Italian composers such as Alessandro Piccinini and Giovanni Kapsberger, including hidden gems rarely performed and well-known favorites by John Dowland and Josquin des Pres.
Fauré’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor and Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, the Op. 115 of each composer, and both late-in-life pieces when both composers were at the height of their powers.
Mike Greensill and his Trio return to Old First Concerts for their annual Labor Day weekend performance, this time introducing “surprise guest vocalist” Gale Terminello, in a celebration of the glorious melodies of the American Songbook.
