Bard Music Festival
Program Eight • Tradition and Innovation
August 16
Bard Music Festival
August 16
This program celebrates Martinů’s gift for synthesizing the old and the new. Named for Renaissance part-songs and inspired by Mozart, the First Duo from his “Three Madrigals” is nonetheless contemporary in its idioms; his lyrical Third Cello Sonata features both traditional and progressive harmonies; and his Second Nonet, composed in his final months, finds fresh colors and textures within its neoclassical form. These will be heard alongside mid-century chamber works by two of Martinů’s younger contemporaries. David Diamond, a friend and colleague whom he had known in Paris, is represented by the energetic and tonally centered Quintet for flute, piano, and strings. By contrast, the Évocations de Slovaquie by Pulitzer Prize laureate Karel Husa—another Czech who settled in France before emigrating to the States—is already atonal and forward-looking, despite dating from the composer’s Paris years between the wars.
Photo Courtesy of Bohuslav Martinů Center in Polička, Czechia.
1 pm • Preconcert talk: Derek Katz
1:30 pm • Performance
Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
Duo No. 1, “Three Madrigals,” H313 (1947)
Poco allegro
Poco andante
Allegro
Shannon Lee, violin
Luosha Fang ’11, viola
Cello Sonata No. 3, H340 (1952)
Poco andante. Moderato
Andante
Allegro (ma non presto)
Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Karel Husa (1921–2016)
Évocations de Slovaquie for clarinet, viola, and cello (1951)
The Mountain
The Night
The Dance
Alec Manasse, clarinet
Luosha Fang ’11, viola
Tommy Mesa, cello
INTERMISSION
David Diamond (1915–2005)
Quintet (1937)
Allegro deciso e molto ritmico
Lento, molto cantabile
Allegro veloce
Alex Sopp, flute
Austin Wulliman, violin
William Frampton, viola
Tommy Mesa, cello
Piers Lane, piano
Bohuslav Martinů
Nonet No. 2, H374 (1959)
Poco allegro
Andante
Allegretto
Alex Sopp, flute
Hsuan-Fong Chen, oboe
Alec Manasse, clarinet
Thomas English, bassoon
Zohar Schondorf, horn
Austin Wulliman, violin
William Frampton, viola
Tommy Mesa, cello
Jordan Frazier, double bass
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
Clarinet
Horn
Piano
Piano
Violin
Violin
Viola
Viola
Cello
Cello
Double Bass
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