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Welcome
to the Music of the Spheres Society
Celebrating our 12th
Season in
2012/2013
Chamber
Music and Lecture Series in New York City
Superb Chamber Music
Concerts by Outstanding Artists
Inspiring
Talks, Included in Concert Admission
Subscribe to your choice of any three concerts - or
all five in the series - and save 20%!
A Note from Artistic
Director Stephanie Chase:
I am delighted to
announce our 12th concert season, featuring five
concerts with illustrious artists that include
pianists Sara Davis Buechner and Jon Nakamatsu,
violinist Maria Larionoff, cellist Bion Tsang,
clarinetist Jon Manasse, and double bassist
Barry Lieberman, in great music by Beethoven,
Dvorak, Poulenc, Kalliwoda, and Gideon Klein.
For brief descriptions about each concert,
please take the "2012/2013 series" link at the
top of this page.
We are also offering a
terrific subscription opportunity - subscribe to
any three or all five concerts and save 20% over
tickets purchased at the door or online. Take
this link for details of our subscription offer
- and I hope to see you soon!
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Stephanie Chase
Sara
Davis Buechner
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CONCERTS
I, II, III
Monday, November 26, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
6:30 p.m. each evening
SPECIAL EVENT!
Venue:
Yamaha Piano Salon
689 Fifth Avenue, Third Floor
New York, NY 10019
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Stephanie Chase and
Sara Davis Buechner
Play Beethoven
All Ten of Beethoven's Sonatas for
Violin and Piano in Three Concerts
Artists:
Stephanie Chase, violin
Sara
Davis Buechner, piano
Sara Davis Buechner and Stephanie Chase are a
critically-acclaimed duo whose 2011 recital in New York
was "One of the Top Twenty Concerts to Hear this Fall"
(WQXR) and a "Critics' Choice" (Musical America). Their
recording of music by Rudolf Friml (Koch, 2005) has
received rave reviews, and their complete Beethoven
cycle is scheduled for recording in 2013.
This special
event is co-presented by the Music of the Spheres
Society and Yamaha Artist Services.
CONCERT I on November 26:
Sonatas Nos. 5, 10
and 7
CONCERT II on November 27:
Sonatas Nos. 2, 3,
6 and 8
CONCERT III on November 28:
Sonatas Nos. 1, 4
and 9
Buy tickets online for Stephanie Chase and
Sara Davis Buechner Play Beethoven
Single concert tickets are available.
Admission also at door, $30 and $20 (students
& seniors).
Cash or check only at door. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
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Jon Manasse
Jon Nakamatsu
Dov Scheindlin |
CONCERT IV
Friday,
February 15, 2013
at 8:15 p.m.
Pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m.
Venue:
Christ & St.
Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th
Street, Manhattan
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Our Daily Lives
Artists:
Stephanie Chase, violin
Bion Tsang, cello
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Jon Manasse, clarinet
Van Cliburn Competition gold medalist Jon Nakamatsu and
Tchaikovsky Competition medalist Bion Tsang join MOTSS
favorite Jon Manasse and artistic director Stephanie
Chase!
This program features music by Beethoven, Poulenc and
Dvorak that reflects on life and its necessities,
friendship, and nationalism.
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Trio for piano, clarinet
and cello, Opus 11
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Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Sonata for clarinet and piano, FP184 |
Francis Poulenc |
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Piano trio No. 4 "Dumky" |
Antonin Dvorak |
Pre-concert talk
by Stephanie Chase: "The Music of the Spheres in Our
Daily Lives"
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Tickets Online
Single concert tickets are available.
Admission also at door, $30 and $20 (students
& seniors).
Cash or check only at door. Doors open at 7:15 p.m.
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Bion Tsang
Maria Larionoff
Barry Lieberman
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CONCERT V
Friday,
April 19, 2013
at 8:15 p.m.
Pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m.
Venue:
Christ & St.
Stephen’s Church
120 West 69th
Street, Manhattan
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The Bohemian Spirit
Artists:
Stephanie Chase, violin
Maria Larionoff, violin
Dov
Scheindlin, viola
Bion
Tsang, cello
Barry Lieberman, double bass
This concert features memorable
music from the 19th and 20th centuries by some of the
most important composers from Bohemia and Moravia.
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Duo for two violins, Op
70, No 2
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Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda |
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Madrigals
for Violin and Viola, H313 |
Bohuslav Martinu |
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String Trio (1944) |
Gideon Klein |
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String Quintet
No. 2 in G Major, Opus 77 |
Antonin Dvorak |
Pre-concert talk
by Nancy Rhodes, co-founder of Encompass New Opera
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Tickets Online
Single concert tickets are available.
Admission also at door, $30 and $20 (students
& seniors).
Cash or check only at door. Doors open at 7:15 p.m.
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Transportation:
The Yamaha Piano Salon is located at
689 Fifth Avenue on the third floor (entrance on 54th
Street, between Fifth and Madison) and is convenient to
the M1, 2, 3, and 4 buses (heading south on Fifth,
north on Madison) as well as the M30, M31 and M57
on 57th Street.
The Christ and St. Stephen’s Church is located at 120 West 69th
Street near Lincoln Center and is convenient to the 2, 3, 1 and 9
subway trains, as well as the M5, M7, M11 and M104 buses.
Tickets:
Admission
at entry: $30, seniors/students: $20,
cash or check only.
Concert tickets
are available online and may be purchased with a credit
card.
Discount subscriptions are available to a
3-concert mini-series or all five concerts - save 20%
over single admission.
Please note that doors open
at 6:15 for the concerts at Yamaha Piano Salon concerts
and 7:15 for the concerts at Christ & St. Stephen's. Seating is by
general admission.
Artists and programs are subject to change.
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