Concert Program III:

Midsummer Night Dreams

The fantastical air of Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s enchanting reverie, has placed it among the composer’s most beloved works. “Midsummer Night Dreams” resets this music as a prism to reveal the broad swath of musical styles found in Ligeti’s puckish Six Bagatelles (composed more than a century after Mendelssohn’s death), Schumann’s chimerical First Piano Trio, and the kaleidoscopic Nonet for Winds and Strings by Mendelssohn’s close friend Louis Spohr.

Program

György Ligeti (1923–2006)
Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953)

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Trio in d minor, op. 63 (1847)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Selections from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1843), arr. for piano, four hands

Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
Nonet in F Major, op. 31 (1813)

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MONDAY, JULY 27, 2009

Concert Program III
8:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall
Free Admission

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009

Concert Program III (repeated)
8:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall
Free Admission

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009

Concert Program III (repeated)
8:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Tickets: $50/$35 adult; $25/$10 student

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Free Admission

Artists

Carol Wincenc flute
William Bennett oboe
Anthony McGill clarinet
Dennis Godburn bassoon
William VerMeulen French horn
Arnaud Sussmann violin
Joseph Swensen violin
Masumi Per Rostad viola
Paul Watkins cello
Scott Pingel bass
Jeffrey Kahane piano
Wu Han piano

*Learn more about Prelude Performances. »

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