Join Music@Menlo for a special afternoon of music making celebrating the grand opening of the
Center for the Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 4:00 pm
Center for the Performing Arts
Menlo-Atherton High School
555 Middlefield Road, Atherton, CA 94027
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Join Music@Menlo’s Artistic Directors, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, and special guest Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinetist of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, to celebrate the grand opening of the magnificent new Center for the Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, the Peninsula’s first state-of-the-art concert hall, acoustically ideal for chamber music. The afternoon’s program features Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in g minor, an early masterpiece by one of Western music’s greatest visionaries, and two seminal works of the clarinet literature—Beethoven’s Trio in B-flat Major, op. 11, and Johannes Brahms’s stunning Opus 114 Trio in a minor.
Tickets (reserved seating): Adults $60/$50 | Students $30/$25
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Preconcert reception for ticket holders from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in B-flat Major, op. 11 (1797)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata in g minor, op. 5, no. 2 (1796)
Johannes Brahms
Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in a minor, op. 114 (1891)
Tickets can also be reserved by calling 650-331-0202, Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
