CHAMBER MUSIC:
THE LARK ASCENDING
Sunday, October 9 at 2:00 PM
New World Center
With a “breathtaking conflation of grace and grit” (Cleveland Classical), violinist Jennifer Frautschi makes her anticipated NWS debut.
Program
Day: Ignition
Eisler: Divertimento for Wind
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2
Perkinson: String Quartet No. 1, “Calvary”
Many listeners believe Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending is among the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Inspired by a poem by George Meredith that describes a bird in flight, the work forms what the composer called a “pastoral romance for orchestra.” As a prolific composer who wrote for Harry Belafonte and Marvin Gaye, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson finds a rich source of inspiration in the spiritual “Calvary” for his First String Quartet. Low brass claim the spotlight in Kevin Day’s sizzling Ignition.
Tickets are just $15; get yours today!