CCCMF 2019 Benefit Concert
Felicity Church
1220 Felicity St.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Doors: 6:30 PM
No RSVP required
FREE Admission
Come enjoy some wine, cocktails, and refreshments in the restored beauty of the historic Felicity Church, and get an intimate look at the mission and outreach work CCCMF has been doing since its inception in 2015. Through musical performances of works not heard in the public concerts and special visual presentations, prepare to be inspired and to learn how you can support CCCMF as we continue to expand our important work in New Orleans!
Free Public Concert No. 3 Temple Sinai
6227 St. Charles Ave.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Doors: 4:30 PM
Concert: 5 PM
Brahms and Dvořák: Part II
Ensemble-in-Residence the Lysander Trio will present the second of two concerts featuring some of these important composers’ most exciting later works. The world-renowned ensemble is joined by members of the Manhattan Chamber Players for a World Premiere of a new work by Mary Bianco and for Antonín Dvořák’s epic Piano Quintet.
Program:
Mary Bianco (b. 1938) World Premiere TBA
Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904) Silent Woods, B. 173 (1883)
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87 (1882)
Intermission
Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 (1887)
Free Public Concert No. 2
Sanctuary, St. Charles Presbyterian Church
1545 State St.
Friday, October 4, 2019
Doors: 6:30 PM
Pre-Concert Talk: 7 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Brahms and Dvořák: Part I
Ensemble-in-Residence the Lysander Trio will present the first of two concerts highlighting the interesting, improbable friendship of these two important composers. This world-renowned ensemble is joined for Brahms’s C minor Piano Quartet by CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming, who will also give a pre-concert talk.
Program:
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Sonatensatz in C minor (1853)
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 (1875)
Intermission
Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65 (1883)
Framed by Dvorak’s “American” Quartet, this concert examines the complex subjects of identity, experience, and truth. Inspired by African-American spirituals and songs, Dvorak’s quartet is an outsider’s portrait of America’s energy and potential approaching the turn of the century. Juxtaposed with this, spirituals, arranged by New Orleans’ own Moses Hogan, and the musical voice of Florence Price, reveal a complex counterpoint to Dvorak’s optimism. Works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Caroline Shaw, and Johann Christoph Bach (J.S. Bach’s uncle), will also be featured, while the cherished concept of justice itself is examined in Garth Knox’s Nothing but the Truth, a musical courtroom drama without a predetermined outcome…will the musicians be found guilty or innocent?
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Andante
Johann Christoph Bach: “Ach dass ich Wassers gnug hätte”