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Pre-concert talk: “The First Three Hundred Years of the Piano” by Stewart Pollens September 25, 2003: The Inspirations of Johannes Brahms
Pre-concert talk: “What Inspires a Composer?” by Martin Nass, Phd.
December 16, 2003: The Musical World of El Greco Presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
All musical
transcriptions and arrangements are by Stephanie Chase.
February 19, 2004: A Year in Music: 1914
Pre-concert talk: “Beethoven’s Pianos” by Stewart Pollens May 6, 2004: A Folk Heritage: Music from Bohemia
Pre-concert talk: “Leonardo Da Vinci and Music” by Stewart Pollens
October 1, 2004: A (Wild) Night at the Opera!
Pre-concert talk: “La Commedia e Stupenda!” by Nimet Habachy November 5, 2004: A Ménage à Quatre: The Voices of the String Quartet
Pre-concert talk: “Healing Through Music” by Kerry Lee
February 18, 2005: Dancing and Dreaming in a New World
by J. Kenneth Moore
May 6, 2005:
Heroes,
Muses, a Mazurka and the Devil:
Romantic Journeys for Violin
and Piano
Pre-concert talk: “Acoustical and Design Considerations in
Building a Concert Hall”
October 10, 2005: The Music of the Spheres: Cosmic Vibrations
Meet the Composer: Edward Applebaum
February 9, 2006:
Birthday Presence!
Music by Arriaga, Shostakovich and
Mozart in Celebration of their Birth Anniversaries
Led by Martin Nass, Phd.
April 27,
2006:
Musical Passages, Journeys in Sound
October 26,
2006:
Sounds Like America!
February 2,
2007:
Night Music
April 25,
2007:
The Romantic Heart
October 25,
2007:
Mysterious Signs/Poetic
Inspirations
Pre-concert Talk: "How Vertebrate Movement Patterns Shape Musical Structures" by Andrew Warshaw
December 6,
2007:
A Year in Music
Pre-concert Talk: "The Music of the Spheres and Its Origins" by Stewart Pollens
February
21,
2008:
On the Road to Hollywood
April 17,
2008:
Noble Visions: The Sound World of
Robert Schumann
December 1,
2008:
Festive Music for a Winter's Eve
(Dallas Chamber Music Society)
October
16,
2009:
Flying Fingers! Virtuoso Music for
String Quintet
All music arranged for string quintet by Stephanie Chase. Pre-concert talk and demonstration:"An Ancient Stringed Instrument Reborn: The Angular Harp" by Bo Lawergren and Tomoko Sugawara:
February
26, 2010:
Sound Travels Through Vienna
Pre-concert talk:
April 16,
2010:
Immortal Beloveds
Pre-concert talk: "Race for the Sky: Poetry and Music in Response to 9/11"
November 5,
2010:
Trilogies
by Stewart Pollens
March 11,
2011:
The Sound World of Cesar Franck
Pre-concert talk:
"Francois-Xavier Tourte and the
Invention of the Modern Violin Bow"
April 29, 2011:
Cafe Music!
Pre-concert talk: The Music of the Spheres Society presents innovative programs of chamber music concerts, lectures, and educational workshops that illuminate music’s historical, philosophical and scientific foundations. It is non-profit, 501 (c)3 organization.
"These players are outstanding... a new
chamber group called Music of the Spheres gave a concert that ended with
a formidable performance of Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time":
music of soaring lyrical beauty, violence, strength and strangeness that
these musicians brought vividly to life in every particular. They should
be playing it everywhere. They should go on the road with it tomorrow."
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Review by the New York Times
List
of principal performers for these concerts:
Stephanie Chase,
violin & Baroque violin, conductor
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola –
artist member
Jon Manasse, clarinet –
artist member
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Erin Keefe,
violin
Min-Yun Kim, violin
Brian Krinke, violin
Conway Kuo, violin
Gil Morgenstern, violin
Harumi Rhodes,
violin
Michi Wiancko, violin
Scott Lee, viola
Nardo Poy, viola
Dov
Scheindlin, viola
Darrett Adkins, cello
Christine Gummere,
Baroque cello
Wolfram Koessel, cello
Ariane Lallemand, cello
Sophie Shao, cello
Alan Stepansky, cello
Bion Tsang, cello
James Wilson, 'cello
John T. Kulowitsch,
double bass
Leigh Mesh, double bass
Kurt Muroki, double
bass
James VanDemark, double
bass
Elizabeth Mann,
flute
Michael Parloff,
flute
Robert Walters, oboe
Matt Dine, oboe
Marina Sturm, clarinet
Whitney Crockett,
bassoon
Ann Ellsworth, horn
Chris Komer, horn
Keri Mikkelson,
harpischord & organ
Grant Herreid, lute,
vihuela & voice
Max Barros, piano
Sara Davis Buechner,
piano
Todd Crow, piano
Frank Daykin, piano
Warren Jones,
piano
Frank Levy, piano
Jon Nakamatsu,
piano
John Novacek,
piano
William Wolfram, piano
Gregory Zuber, percussion
Drew Minter,
countertenor
Hope Hudson,
soprano
The Chamber Orchestra of the Spheres
Primary Affiliations of Guest Speakers Stewart Pollens – Former Conservator of Musical Instruments, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; author of “The Violin Forms of Antonio Stradivari” (Biddulph), “The Early Pianoforte” (Cambridge University Press), “The Violin Masterpieces of Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu” (Biddulph), “François-Xavier Tourte: Bow Maker” (Machold). Stuart Isacoff – Editor of Piano Today; author of “Temperament: The Idea that Solved Music’s Greatest Riddle” (Knopf). Paul Scarbrough – Acoustician and architect specializing in concert halls, founder of Akustiks company (Norwalk, CT). Martin Nass – Freudian analyst (New York Freudian Society; on faculty of New York University) and author of journal works about musical inspiration, also an amateur violinist. Kerry Lee – Board-certified music therapist who works with individuals with developmental or physical disabilities, brain injuries, chronic illnesses, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Nimet Habachy – WQXR radio host and guest lecturer for the Metropolitan Museum J. Kenneth Moore – Ethnomusicologist and Frederick P. Rose Curator-in-Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eric Barnhill - Pianist, music therapist and founder of Cognitive Eurhythmics; teaches at the Special Music School and Mannes School. Andrew Warshaw - Associate Professor of Music and Dance at Marymount Manhattan College. A composer, writer and former dancer whose music and lyrics for theater and dance have premiered at the Zellerbach Theater, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop in New York, and many other venues. Richard Pearson Thomas - Pianist and composer whose works are performed internationally; on faculty at Teacher's College at Columbia Universty.
Stephanie Chase, Artistic Director and Violinist
Our Mission Statement Founded in 2001, the Music of the Spheres Society, Inc. promotes and develops new audiences for classical music through innovative programs of chamber music concerts, lectures, and educational workshops that illuminate music’s historical, philosophical, and scientific foundations. These programs, which feature renowned musicians and scholars, are presented in the greater New York City area and on tours throughout the United States. The Music of the Spheres Society, Inc. is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization.
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