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Program Two • Anxieties of Influence: Models and Teachers

August 10

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Program Two helps contextualize Berlioz among his predecessors, mentors, and peers. One of his little-known chamber works will be heard alongside examples by Luigi Cherubini, under whose headship he chafed at the Paris Conservatoire, and Elias Parish Alvars, whom he considered “the Liszt of the harp.”

Also featured are Carl Maria von Weber’s Invitation to the Dance–the piano piece Berlioz orchestrated for his French adaptation of Der Freischütz–and operatic excerpts by his early composition teacher Jean-François Le Sueur, fellow Prix de Rome winner Ambroise Thomas, and Italian opera composer Gaspare Spontini, whom he dubbed “the genius of the century.”

The program’s centerpiece is the substantial yet underrated C-minor String Quartet of Berlioz’s Czech-born teacher, Anton Reicha.

Program

1 pm • Preconcert Talk with Jonathan Kregor
1:30 pm • Performance

Elias Parish Alvars (1808–49)

Introduction and Variations on Bellini’s Opera
Norma, Op. 36 (1838)

Noël Wan, harp

Hector Berlioz (1803–69)

Le montagnard exilé (1822–23) (Du Boys)

Nocturne (1828) (anon.)

Jana McIntyre, soprano
Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano
Noël Wan, harp
Daniel Lippel, guitar

Jean-François Le Sueur (1760–1837)

From La caverne, ou Le repentir (1793) (Palat-Dercy)
Dans ce peril certain

Tyler Duncan, baritone
Erika Switzer, piano

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)

From Oberon (1826) (Planché)
Ocean! thou mighty monster!

Jana McIntyre, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano

Ambroise Thomas (1811–96)

From Mignon (1866) (Barbier and Carré)
Connais-tu le pays

Jana McIntyre, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano

INTERMISSION

Carl Maria von Weber

Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 (1819)

Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)

Horn Sonata No. 2 (1804)
Largo—Allegro moderato

Zohar Schondorf, horn
Balourdet Quartet

Anton Reicha (1770–1836)

String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 49, No. 1 (1803)
Allegro
Adagio
Menuetto: Allegro
Finale: Allegro

Balourdet Quartet

Artists & Scholars

Jana McIntyre

Jana McIntyre

Soprano

Rebecca Ringle Kamarei

Rebecca Ringle Kamarei

Mezzo-soprano

Tyler Duncan

Tyler Duncan

Baritone

Noël Wan

Noël Wan

Harp

Michael Stephen Brown

Michael Stephen Brown

Piano

Erika Switzer

Erika Switzer

Piano

Balourdet Quartet

Balourdet Quartet

Daniel-Lippel

Daniel Lippel

Guitar

Zohar Schondorf

Zohar Schondorf

Horn

Jonathan Kregor

Jonathan Kregor

Musicologist, Preconcert Talk

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