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Music This season, Orpheus offers its usual bouquet of treasures, showcasing their three Carnegie Hall soloists: Yefim Bronfman, Nikolaij Znaider, and Dame Felicity Lott. Chamber music shines with the celebrated Emerson String Quartet, American Brass Quintet, and Trio Solisti, the latter two in special collaborations with pianist Billy Childs and clarinetist Alan Kay. Early music sparkles with violinist Elizabeth Field and—in a festive Lafayette 250th anniversary program—Philomel. |
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| American Brass Quintet with Billy Childs Thursday, October 4, $18.00 Dr. Aaron M. Litwak Concert  With its sparkling arrangements of renaissance dance suites and an exciting spectrum of newly commissioned works, and with prestigious artist-in-residence appointments at the Aspen Music Festival and the Jui lliard School, ABQ is the absolute gold standard among brass chamber ensembles. Their Lafayette concert balances music of the renaissance with contemporary works, and features the remarkable new Sextet for Brass and Piano by their tour collaborator, pianist/composer Billy Childs, fresh from its July 25 world premiere at Aspen.WDIY 88.1 FM, Lehigh Valley Community Public Radio, is our partner for this concert.  |
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Orpheus with Yefim Bronfman Friday, October 19, $  27.00J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Concert Orpheus launches their 20th Lafayette season with this performance feat  uring renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman. A fixture in major cultural centers throughout the world, Avery Fisher Prize winner Bronfman has collaborated with orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and fellow recitalists in many celebrated roles. Orpheus honors this partnership with the heroic music of Brahms, featuring the D minor Piano Concerto, Op. 14. A set of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances and Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 complete the program. |
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Violinist Elizabeth Field with pianist Steven Silverman Saturday, November 10, $15.00 Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Concert Violinist Elizabeth Field, concertmaster of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem’s orchestra and an active recitalist in early music circles, showcases both the baroque period and the glories of nineteenth-century chamber music. She will play J.S. Bach’s Sonata in G Major and Franz von Biber’s Sonata No. VIII on baroque fiddle, accompanied by Steven Silverman on harpsichord. Field’s concert also includes Beethoven’s Sonata No. 9 in A Major, “Kruezer,” and Brahms’ Sonata No. 1, in G Major, Op. 78 played on modern violin with Silverman’s grand piano accompaniment. |
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with Nikolaj Znaider  Sunday, February 3, 3:00 p.m. $27.00 Croasdale Co  ncertFor this concert of music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Orpheus introduces the heralded young Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider, widely acclaimed in European music circles. Strad Magazine hails him as “extraordinarily intelligent, soulful and impassioned,” and the Chicago Tribune said, “Perhaps not since the young Gidon Kremer burst upon the violin world in 1970 has a violinist caused quite the stir of Nikolaj Znaider.” In addition to Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, featuring Znaider, the concert includes Mozart’s Wind Serenade in C minor, showcasing Orpheus’s splendid cohort of winds, and Tchaikovsky’s Waltz Scherzo and Serenade for Strings. |
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 Trio Solisti with Alan Kay  Wednesday, March 12, $18.00 Trio Solisti (Maria Bachman, violin, Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello, and Jon Klibonoff, piano), called “consistently brilliant…compelling” by The New York Times, excels at the masterworks for piano trio. Their Lafayette program includes music by Schubert, Shostakovich, and the wonderful 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning quartet, Tempest Fantasy, written for them by American composer Paul Moravec. Orpheus clarinetist Alan Kay is guest artist in this tuneful and whimsical excursion into the Shakespearean world of Ariel, Miranda, and Prospero. |
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 Emerson String Quartet Wednesday, April 9, $22.00 Through its Grammy-winning recordings, its celebrated Beethoven, Bartok, and Shostakovich cycles, and its uncommonly stylish performances of mixed repertory, the Emerson String Quartet is without equal. The four works chosen for their Lafayette program span a century of music and four diverse cultural worlds, clustered by geography and history. Janacek’s “Intimate Letters” Quartet and Bartok’s Quartet No. 3 strike at the core of the Czech and Hungarian musical landscapes of the early twentieth century, while Shostakovich’s 1960 exquisite String Quartet No. 7 is paired with its more recent Baltic neighbor, Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria, evocative of Finnish folk themes. |
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Non-Subscription Event Lafayette 250th Celebration with Philomel and Julianne Baird Friday, September 7 FREE (tickets required) As part of the College’s yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s birth, Philomel and soprano Julianne Baird perform music prized in French salons in Lafayette’s youth, along with Colonial tunes he would have encountered throughout his time in Pennsylvania during the Revolution. |
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