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Spoleto Chamber Music 2010, Program 2: Bunch, Mendelssohn and Schubert

From: WDAV Classical Public Radio
Series: Spoleto Chamber Music Series 2010
Length: 59:00

Host Lisa Simeone welcomes you back to this week's broadcast of the 2010 chamber music concerts from the Spoleto Festival USA. To commemorate his final year as Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Series,Charles Wadsworth has chosen a series of audience favorites he's programmed over the years, which you'll hear him introduce from the stage of newly-renovated Memminger [MEHM-mihn-jehr] Auditorium in the heart of historic Charleston, South Carolina. On this chamber music concert from Spoleto Festival USA, a catchy work by the appealing young American composer Kenji [KEN-jee] Bunch -“The Last Night in the Flamenco House,” and a piece in honor of composer Felix Mendelssohn's Bicentennial, we’ll hear one of hisgreat chamber works, his Piano Trio in D minor; along with a beautiful, yet seldomly heard, vocal work by Franz Schubert: The haunting “Shepherd on the Rock” for soprano, clarinet and piano. Read the full description.

Sfusa_logo_240_small Host Lisa Simeone welcomes you to this week's broadcast of the 2010 chamber music concerts from the Spoleto Festival USA To commemorate his final yearas Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Series, Charels Wadsworth has chosen a series of audience favorites he's programmed over the years, which you'll hear him introduce from the stage of newly-renovated Memminger [MEHM-mihn-jehr] Auditorium in the heart of historic Charleston, South Carolina.

On this chamber music concert from Spoleto Festival USA, a catchy work by the appealing young American composer Kenji [KEN-jee] Bunch -“The Last Night in the Flamenco House,” and a piece in honor of composer Felix Mendelssohn's Bicentennial, we’ll hear one of his great chamber works, his Piano Trio in D minor; along with a beautiful, yet seldom heard, vocal work by Franz Schubert: The haunting “Shepherd on the Rock” for soprano, clarinet, and piano.

Program Information:

BUNCH: "La Ultima Noche en la Casa de Flamenco" (“The Last Night in the Flamenco House”)
Performers:
Jose Franch-Ballister, clarinet,
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49
Chee-Yun, violin
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

SCHUBERT: "Das Hirt auf dem Felsen" ("The Shepherd on the Rock")
Courtenay Budd, soprano,
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet,
Charles Wadsworth, piano.

Program information, artist biographies, concert commentary by Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth and newly-named Associate Artistic Director Geoff Nuttal are available for download and/or on-demand listening at www.spoletochambermusic.org.

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Host Lisa Simeone welcomes you to this week's broadcast of the 2010 chamber music concerts from the Spoleto Festival USA To commemorate his final yearas Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Series, Charels Wadsworth has chosen a series of audience favorites he's programmed over the years, which you'll hear him introduce from the stage of newly-renovated Memminger [MEHM-mihn-jehr] Auditorium in the heart of historic Charleston, South Carolina.

On this chamber music concert from Spoleto Festival USA, a catchy work by the appealing young American composer Kenji [KEN-jee] Bunch -“The Last Night in the Flamenco House,” and a piece in honor of composer Felix Mendelssohn's Bicentennial, we’ll hear one of his great chamber works, his Piano Trio in D minor; along with a beautiful, yet seldom heard, vocal work by Franz Schubert: The haunting “Shepherd on the Rock” for soprano, clarinet, and piano.

Program Information:

BUNCH: "La Ultima Noche en la Casa de Flamenco" (“The Last Night in the Flamenco House”)
Performers:
Jose Franch-Ballister, clarinet,
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49
Chee-Yun, violin
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

SCHUBERT: "Das Hirt auf dem Felsen" ("The Shepherd on the Rock")
Courtenay Budd, soprano,
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet,
Charles Wadsworth, piano.

Program information, artist biographies, concert commentary by Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth and newly-named Associate Artistic Director Geoff Nuttal are available for download and/or on-demand listening at www.spoletochambermusic.org.

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IN: [funding credit] "Broadcasts of the Bank of America Chamber Music from the Spoleto Festival USA..."
OUT: ..."Thanks for joining us for this broadcast from the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston South Carolina."

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