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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

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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.

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Stephanie Chase

Stephanie Chase

 

Sara Davis Buechner

Sara Davis Buechner

 

 

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

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

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Sara Davis Buechner Play Beethoven 

Single concert tickets are available.   
Admission also at door, $30 and $20 (students & seniors).
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Jon Manasse

Jon Manasse 

Jon Nakamatsu

Jon Nakamatsu

Dov Scheindlin 

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

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.

Trio for piano, clarinet and cello, Opus 11

Ludwig van Beethoven

Sonata for clarinet and piano, FP184

Francis Poulenc

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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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.
 
 

Bion Tsang

Bion Tsang


Maria Larionoff

Maria Larionoff






Barry Lieberman

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

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.

 

Duo for two violins, Op 70, No 2

Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda

Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H313

Bohuslav Martinu

String Trio (1944)

Gideon Klein

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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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.

 

 

 

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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