festival

ENCOUNTER IV

Music in Autumn: The Late Works of Brahms
led by Ara Guzelimian

Thursday, August 11, 7:30 p.m.
Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $42 adult; $20 student

A pensive melancholy pervades much of the music from Brahms’s later years, full of wistfulness at the passage of time. At the same time, there is a rich wisdom and an emotional depth in the light and shadow of these works. The season’s final Encounter, led by Ara Guzelimian, will explore a number of Brahms’s late piano and chamber works and examine the question of Brahms’s complex legacy: was his music the last blossoming at the twilight of the nineteenth-century Viennese musical tradition or did it subtly, quietly foreshadow innovative paths soon to be followed by Schoenberg and others?

Prelude Performance*
5:30 p.m., Stent Family Hall
Free Admission

*Prelude Performances feature young artists from the Chamber Music Institute. Learn more.»

Image: Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840). Periods of Life (Die Lebensstufen), 1834. Oil on canvas. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany. Photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY