2007-2008 Season
Three
Centuries of
Early Music
Don't miss our Pre-Concert Events, starting forty-five
minutes before each concert.
NEW! Autumn Piano
Festival: The Governor's Chickering
All Concerts at Queen Anne
Christian Church (top of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle)
Three Concerts featuring the
magnificent Romantic Chickering concert grand piano (Boston, 1867) once owned by
the last governor of the Washington Territory, the Hon. Miles C. Moore.
Still a "straight-strung" instrument (like earlier harpsichord and
pianos), this colorful piano, with its glorious, clear tone hovering over a
Romantic haze of resonance, represents a pinnacle of 19th-century piano making
in the United States and was a piano much loved by such renowned composers as
Edvard Grieg and Franz Liszt. At the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867
the twin to this piano prompted Emperor Napoleon III to award its builder the
"Imperial Cross of the Legion of Honor."
Masterpieces
in Miniature
Queen
Anne Christian Church (Queen Anne Hill)
Sunday,
November 4, 2007, 3 p.m.
Tamara
Friedman, mistress of the miniature, shares with you her favorite gems by
the Romantic masters of the intimate character piece--Chopin, Schumann, Grieg,
Dvorak, and Brahms.
Pre-Concert
"Conversation": George Bozarth, "The Governor's Chickering."
Romantic
Virtuosi
Queen Anne
Christian Church (1316 Third Avenue West)
Sunday,
November 11, 2007, 3 p.m.
Catch two rising international stars, Francoise Papillon of
Montreal, Canada, and Rie Ando of Yokosuka, Japan, as they reveal the
awe-inspiring virtuosity of the "Chickering Artists" Franz Liszt, Amy
Beach, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk and plumb the Romantic depths of Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata and the Impressionists.
Pre-Concert Conversation: George Bozarth,
"The Chickering Artists."
Bach
Redux
Queen
Anne Christian Church (1316 Third Avenue West)
Saturday,
Novermber 17, 2007, 8 p.m. and Sunday,
Novermber 18, 2007, 3 p.m.
The
exciting young Boston pianist Shuann Chai joins violinist Cecilia
Archuleta, violist Laurel Wells, and cellist Page Smith in
exploring how the Classical and Romantic composers Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann
and Brahms were inspired by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The
program will include Robert Schumann's famous Piano Quartet in E-flat
major.
Pre-Concert
Event: Page Smith plays Bach's Suite No. 5 in C minor for the
Unaccompanied Cello.
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A
Baroque Christmas
Saturday,
December 8, 2007, 8 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (4805 NE 45th
Street, in Laurelhurst, Seattle)
Sunday, December 9, 2007,
3 p.m., Queen Anne
Christian Church (1316 3rd Avenue West, on top of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle)
Linda
Tsatsanis, soprano, Courtney Westcott, flute, Kim
Zabelle, violin, Nathan Whittaker, violoncello, and Jillon
Stoppels Dupree, harpsichords
Step
back in time for a Baroque Holiday Celebration with lovely secular and sacred
vocal and instrumental works from the 17th and 18th centuries. Let the
likes of Telemann, Praetorius, and Bach lift your spirits for this special time
of the year.
Pre-Concert
Conversation: Jillon Stoppels Dupree, "All about Basso Continuo!"
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Duo
Amadeus
Music
of J.S. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven
Saturday,
January 12, 2008, 8 p.m., St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (4805 NE 45th Street,
in Laurelhurst, Seattle)
Sunday,
January 13, 2008, 3 p.m., Queen Anne Christian Church (1316 3rd Avenue West, on
top of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle)
Guest artist Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin, and Tamara Friedman,
Viennese fortepiano (after Nannette Streicher, Vienna, 1805)
The concertmaster of the acclaimed Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San
Francisco) and Seattle's own favorite fortepianist play a lively mix of solo and
duo compositions by the Big Three--Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Duo
Amadeus has been performing in the Northwest and Bay Area for nearly a decade,
and we are delighted to welcome them again to Gallery Concerts.
Pre-Concert Conversation: George Bozarth, "Who was Nannette
Streicher and Why Did She Wash Beethoven's Socks?"
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Best of the Baroque: Music of Vivaldi, Handel, and Leclair
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 8 p.m., St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
(4805 NE 45th Street, in Laurelhurst, Seattle)
Sunday, March 2, 2008, 3 p.m., Queen Anne Christian Church (1316 3rd
Avenue West, on top of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle)
Guest Ensemble "Music's Re-creation": Louise Carslake, baroque flute, Carla Moore, baroque
violin, John Dornenburg, viola da gamba, and Jillon
Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary Reunion of Music's Re-creation, one of
America's finest Baroque ensembles, which was co-founded by our own Jillon
Stoppels Dupree. These friends "go way back," and the virtuosity
of their ensemble playing shows it! Featured will be a pan-European
mixture of chamber works by Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, and Rameau.
Pre-Concert Conversation: Music's Re-creation, "All about Baroque
Instruments".
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Viennese Classics with Stanley Ritchie
Saturday, April 26, 2008, 8 p.m., Brechemin Auditorium (Music Building, UW Campus)
Sunday, April 27, 2008, 3 p.m., Queen Anne Christian Church (1316 3rd
Avenue West, on top of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle)
Guest artist Stanley Ritchie, violin, with Laurel Wells,
viola, Meg Brennand, violoncello, and Tamara Friedman,
Viennese fortepiano (after Anton Walter, Vienna, 1795)
The Grand Master of the early violin plays the Grand Masters of Classical
Vienna ~ Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven ~ with three of Seattle early-music
stars. This concert, part of the National Convention of the Modern
Austrian Language and Culture Association, will include Mozart's beloved E-flat
major Piano Quartet.
Pre-Concert Conversation: George Bozarth, "The Pianos of Anton
Walter, or 'It Takes a Tough Man to Make a Tender Piano.'"
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All Programs Subject to Change