Q & A, program notes, and meet-the-composer experiences....
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A B C Qty Circle Choice TOTAL A B C Qty Circle Choice TOTAL Total for tickets $ Thank you for your tax-deductible donation $ Total Enclosed $ 10/23/16 Vienna Piano Trio $ 11/13/16 Farallon Clarinet Quintet $ 1/15/17 Trio Settecento $ 3/12/17 Prazak Quartet $ 4/2/17 Gould Piano Trio / Plane $ 4/22/17 Dover String Quartet $ Mail orders along with your payment to: SJCMS P.O. Box 108 San Jose, CA 95103-0108 Visit www.sjchambermusic.org to place your order, or: 6 Concert Series: General $235 $206 $178 $ Senior 65+ $221 $192 $163 $ Student tickets – see our website after May 1 for special prices. SUBSCRIPTIONS: ~20% discount Indicate concert choices and number ordered: General $49 $43 $37 Senior 65+ $46 $40 $34 SINGLE Ticket Prices OUR MISSION: To present chamber music concerts in an ideal setting performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To educate our audience through pre-concert talks, post-concert Q & A, program notes, and meet-the-composer experiences. To educate students in chamber music by arranging outreach by some of our ensembles at San Jose public schools, and by arranging performer residency activities for San Jose State University music students. To support chamber music in our region by publicizing other South Bay chamber music concerts, cooperating in marketing with fellow presenters, serving as fiscal sponsor of special projects, and sponsoring joint programs with The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University. OUR 31-YEAR HISTORY – a Story to Celebrate! In 1986 Lawrence Bryan and friends founded SJCMS so that South Bay audiences could enjoy a quality professional chamber music concert series here in San Jose. All concerts were presented in the rotunda of the nearby First Unitarian Church until 1993, when our audience outgrew the church’s capacity, and the Trianon with its ideal size and acoustics became available. Since 1994, all of our concerts have been in the delightful 320-seat Trianon Theatre, which audiences, critics, and performers acclaim an acoustical gem and the Bay Area’s ideal hall for chamber music. Enjoy the full series – 6 Concerts at ~ 20% off the full price DONATIONS & GRANTS Income from ticket sales covers less than 50% of our concert expenses. Your tax-deductible contribution to the San Jose Chamber Music Society is greatly appreciated. Some employers will match your contribution to a nonprofit organization. Please check with your company and enclose its form. Thank you for your patronage and support. SJCMS is supported in part by grants from: Silicon Valley Creates, the Farrington Historical Foundation, and the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, and by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San José. We welcome grant and business donations and referrals. VOLUNTEERS Our volunteers make each concert happen by helping in many ways—including ushering, marketing, refreshments, writing grants and program notes, and artist hospitality. Would you like to join this team? To tell us your interests, just phone our voicemail at 408-286-5111. GIFT CERTIFICATES/GROUP PRICES are available. Contact us to arrange. For Tickets & Information 408-286-5111 SJCMS P.O. Box 108 San Jose, CA 95103-0108 [email protected] www.sjchambermusic.org All programs are subject to change. To retain your current seats, please renew your subscription by July 1, 2016. Single ticket orders will be processed after September 1, 2016. Website subscription sales begin May 1, 2016. Our 31st Season brings the world’s best in chamber music—including these treats: two concerts of clarinet with strings, two concerts of Vienna’s best composers, two Brahms piano trios, two Dvorák Quartets, two Zemlinsky works, two Beethoven works—and more…live for you at the Trianon! October 23: The VIENNA PIANO TRIO—long at the forefront of Vienna’s tradition of musical warmth and excellence—returns to perform Vienna favorites, MOZART, SCHUBERT, and BRAHMS. November 13: Bay Area’s FARALLON QUINTET plays clarinet quintets by WEBER and Chad CANNON, and, with guest pianist, sextets by COPLAND and PROKOFIEV. January 15: TRIO SETTECENTO (Chicago) plays French and Scottish baroque music for violin, gamba and harpsichord to lift your spirit with dances from the court of Versailles and the Scottish Highlands. March 12: The PRAZAK QUARTET (Prague) returns, playing both DVO ˇ RÁK’s “Slavonic” and “American” String Quartets, and ZEMLINSKY’s romantic first quartet. Don’t miss their possibly final U.S. tour. April 2: The GOULD PIANO TRIO (UK) with clarinetist Robert PLANE (UK), back by audience request, bring us “Vienna Passion”— music of BEETHOVEN, ZEMLINSKY, KORNGOLD, and BRAHMS. April 22: The in-demand DOVER STRING QUARTET (U.S.A.)—a 2015 hit at Music@Menlo—makes its San Jose debut, performing HAYDN, BEETHOVEN and SHOSTAKOVICH. 6-concert series at the Trianon Theatre, 72 North Fifth Street, San Jose, California 95112 Join us for Our 31st Year of Live Chamber Music Classical music for small ensembles – at its best in the intimate, resonant Trianon concert hall.
Transcript of Q & A, program notes, and meet-the-composer experiences....
A B CQty Circle Choice TOTAL
A B CQty Circle Choice TOTAL
Total for tickets $
Thank you for your tax-deductible donation $
Total Enclosed $
10/23/16 Vienna Piano Trio $
11/13/16 Farallon Clarinet Quintet $
1/15/17 Trio Settecento $
3/12/17 Prazak Quartet $
4/2/17 Gould Piano Trio / Plane $
4/22/17 Dover String Quartet $
Mail orders along with your payment to:
SJCMS P.O. Box 108San Jose, CA 95103-0108
Visit www.sjchambermusic.org to place your order, or:
6 Concert Series: General $235 $206 $178 $
Senior 65+ $221 $192 $163 $
Student tickets – see our website after May 1 for special prices.
SUBSCRIPTIONS: ~20% discount
Indicate concert choices and number ordered:
General $49 $43 $37
Senior 65+ $46 $40 $34
SINGLE Ticket Prices
OUR MISSION:To present chamber music concerts in an ideal setting performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world.
To educate our audience through pre-concert talks, post-concert Q & A, program notes, and meet-the-composer experiences.
To educate students in chamber music by arranging outreach by some of our ensembles at San Jose public schools, and by arranging performer residency activities for San Jose State University music students.
To support chamber music in our region by publicizing other South Bay chamber music concerts, cooperating in marketing with fellow presenters, serving as fiscal sponsor of special projects, and sponsoring joint programs with The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University.
OUR 31-YEAR HISTORY – a Story to Celebrate!In 1986 Lawrence Bryan and friends founded SJCMS so that South Bay audiences could enjoy a quality professional chamber music concert series here in San Jose. All concerts were presented in the rotunda of the nearby First Unitarian Church until 1993, when our audience outgrew the church’s capacity, and the Trianon with its ideal size and acoustics became available. Since 1994, all of our concerts have been in the delightful 320-seat Trianon Theatre, which audiences, critics, and performers acclaim an acoustical gem and the Bay Area’s ideal hall for chamber music.
Enjoy the full series –
6 Concerts at ~ 20% off the full price
DONATIONS & GRANTSIncome from ticket sales covers less than 50% of our concert expenses. Your tax-deductible contribution to the San Jose Chamber Music Society is greatly appreciated. Some employers will match your contribution to a nonprofit organization. Please check with your company and enclose its form. Thank you for your patronage and support.
SJCMS is supported in part by grants from: Silicon Valley Creates, the Farrington Historical Foundation, and the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, and by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San José. We welcome grant and business donations and referrals.
VOLUNTEERSOur volunteers make each concert happen by helping in many ways—including ushering, marketing, refreshments, writing grants and program notes, and artist hospitality. Would you like to join this team? To tell us your interests, just phone our voicemail at 408-286-5111.
GIFT CERTIFICATES/GROUP PRICES are available. Contact us to arrange.
For Tickets & Information408-286-5111
SJCMSP.O. Box 108San Jose, CA 95103-0108
www.sjchambermusic.org
All programs are subjectto change.
To retain your current seats, please renew your subscription by July 1, 2016.Single ticket orders will be processed after September 1, 2016.
Website subscription sales begin May 1, 2016.
Our 31st Season brings the world’s best in chamber music—including these treats: two concerts of clarinet with strings, two concerts of Vienna’s best composers, two Brahms piano trios, two Dvorák Quartets, two Zemlinsky works, two Beethoven works—and more…live for you at the Trianon!
October 23: The VIENNA PIANO TRIO—long at the forefront of Vienna’s tradition of musical warmth and excellence—returns to perform Vienna favorites, MOZART, SCHUBERT, and BRAHMS.
November 13: Bay Area’s FARALLON QUINTET plays clarinet quintets by WEBER and Chad CANNON, and, with guest pianist, sextets by COPLAND and PROKOFIEV.
January 15: TRIO SETTECENTO (Chicago) plays French and Scottish baroque music for violin, gamba and harpsichord to lift your spirit with dances from the court of Versailles and the Scottish Highlands.
March 12: The PRAZAK QUARTET (Prague) returns, playing both DVORÁK’s “Slavonic” and “American” String Quartets, and ZEMLINSKY’s romantic first quartet. Don’t miss their possibly final U.S. tour.
April 2: The GOULD PIANO TRIO (UK) with clarinetist Robert PLANE (UK), back by audience request, bring us “Vienna Passion”—music of BEETHOVEN, ZEMLINSKY, KORNGOLD, and BRAHMS.
April 22: The in-demand DOVER STRING QUARTET (U.S.A.) —a 2015 hit at Music@Menlo—makes its San Jose debut, performing HAYDN, BEETHOVEN and SHOSTAKOVICH.
6-concert series at theTrianon Theatre, 72 North Fifth Street, San Jose, California 95112
Join us for Our 31st Year of Live Chamber MusicClassical music for small ensembles – at its best in the intimate, resonant Trianon concert hall.
7 :00 PM – SUN. NOVEMBER 13, 2016
7 :00 PM – SUN. APRIL 2 , 2017
7 :00 PM – SUN. JANUARY 15, 2017
8 :00 PM – SAT. APRIL 22 , 2017
O U R V E N U E 7 :00 PM – SUN. OCTOBER 23, 2016
7 :00 PM – SUN. MARCH 12, 2017
Program: MOZART Piano Trio in G Major, K.564 (1788); BRAHMS Piano Trio in C Minor, Op.101 (1886); SCHUBERT Trio in B-Flat Major, Op.99, D.898 (1827). Pre-concert talk - Roger Emanuels.
Music: Mozart’s last, and shortest, piano trio is flawlessly crafted, balanced and nuanced, with home-music charm. • Brahms’ final piano trio richly, but concisely, explores its passionate theme with concentrated intensity. • Robert Schumann said of Schubert’s radiant, cheerful and expansive B-Flat Trio (it makes) “all the troubles of our human existence disappear and all the world fresh and bright again.”
Artists: Celebrated for combining finesse, infectious exuberance, tonal allure, and irresistable panache, the Vienna Piano Trio has long been hailed as one of the “world’s leading ensembles” – Washington Post . Founded in 1988, the Trio performs in major festivals and concert halls worldwide (among them Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and regularly at Wigmore Hall). The Trio’s recordings have won prestigious prizes, including the Echo Klassik award, and will release Brahms CDs in 2016.
Program: DVORÁK Quartet No.10 in E-Flat Major, Op.51, “Slavonic” (1879); Alexander ZEMLINSKY Quartet #1 in A-Major, Op.4 (1896); DVORÁK Quartet #12 in F-Major, Op.96, “American” (1893). Pre-concert talk - Roger Emanuels.
Music: Dvorák’s Op.51, commissioned to be “in the Slav spirit”, charms with its Dumka movement and dance rhythms, fusing classical style with Bohemian folk spirit. • Under-appreciated Zemlinsky’s late-romantic first quartet shows the young Viennese composer’s sweeping lyricism and self-confidence. • Dvorák’s “American” Quartet, with its pentatonic-scale themes and Scarlet Tanager song Scherzo, reflects the peace and tranquility he found summering in the prairie town of Spillville, Iowa.
Artists: The Prazak returns, with its new first violinist, for probably its last tour of the U.S. Since its 1972 founding at Prague Conservatory, the Prazak has brought to world attention the unique Czech quartet tradition. The “thoroughly engaging” and “superb foursome”– Chicago Tribune, has toured worldwide for over 30 years, and released over 50 award-winning Praga CDs. “Poetic…powerful performance.” – Los Angeles Times.
Program: HAYDN (unfinished) Quartet in D Minor (two movements), Op.103 (1803); SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet #2 in A Major, Op.68 (1944); BEETHOVEN Quartet #15 in A Minor, Op.132 (1824-25). Pre-concert talk - Roger Emanuels.
Music: Haydn’s Op.103, two movements of an unfinished quartet, constitutes his farewell to the form he brought to greatness. • The Dover find pairing Shostakovich and Beethoven quartets to be quite effective programming. • The symphonic breadth of Shostakovich’s wartime quartet reflects the epic Great Patriotic War and Russia’s heroic aspirations. • Beethoven’s quartet includes a hauntingly beautiful Song of Thanksgiving (Heiliger Dankgesang), penned upon his recovering from a great illness.
Artists: The Dover Quartet leapt to stardom with a stunning sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition, becoming one of the world’s most in-demand ensembles. Further confirming their artistic excellence, they received the 2015 Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s 2016 Hunt Family Award. The Washington Post raved that “(their) Kennedy Center debut shows why they should be on the must-hear list…a triumph.”
Program: Carl Maria VON WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Major, Op.34 (1815); Chad CANNON Citizen 13660 – (8) Vignettes (2014) (clarinet quintet); Aaron COPLAND Sextet for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet (1937 arrangement of his 1932 Short Symphony); Sergei PROKOFIEV Sextet in G Minor, Op.34, Overture on Hebrew Themes (1919). Pre-concert talk - Roger Emanuels.
Music: In Weber’s concerto-like Quintet, strings support the clarinet’s lovely operatic melodies and virtuosic effects. • A Farallon commission, Chad Cannon’s Citizen 13660 depicts the internment camp life faced by Japanese-Americans during WWII. • Copland’s Short Symphony as sextet delights with constantly shifting meters and accents. • Prokofiev’s Overture captures the essence of Eastern-European Yiddish and klezmer music.
Artists: The Farallon Quintet—with leading Bay Area musicians Natalie Parker, Dan Flanagan, Matthew Oshida, Elizabeth Prior, and Jonah Kim—was founded in 2012 to uniquely specialize in works, classic and new, for clarinet quintet—string quartet plus clarinet. Their 20+ concerts in 14/15 included works they commissioned and a residency at Old First Concerts.
Program: BEETHOVEN Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in B-Flat Major, Op.11 (1796); Alexander ZEMLINSKY Clarinet Trio in D Minor, Op.3 (1896); Erich KORNGOLD Suite for violin and piano from Much Ado About Nothing, Op.11 (1918-19); BRAHMS Piano Trio #2 in C Major, Op.87 (1882). Talk - R. Emanuels.
Music: Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio is fresh, spontaneous and charming. • Brahms, greatly impressed with Zemlinsky’s lyrical Trio, immediately commended it to his publisher Simrock. • Vienna’s Burgtheater com-missioned Korngold’s romantic incidental music for Shakespeare’s play, and the music’s great success led to this duet version. • Brahms’ Trio #2 explores a wide emotional range, expansively transforming its wealth of melody.
Artists: The Gould Trio has stayed at the forefront of the world chamber music scene for over 20 years, with regular U.S. and Asian tours, and an impressive discography. “Pure Gould…trio playing at its best.” – The Strad. • Robert Plane, Principal Clarinet of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, won Classic CD Magazine’s “Best Recording Award”. “Plane’s clarinet has an eloquent and expressive voice.” – The Times of London.
Program: French music from the Court at Versailles, including works by LULLY, MARAIS, F. COUPERIN, and RAMEAU. Plus a selection of traditional Scottish tunes in seventeenth and eighteenth century arrangements. Pre-concert talk - Roger Emanuels.
Music: French Music from the Age of Enlightenment. Enjoy repertoire composed for theater and salon from the courts of Louis XIV and XV, including dance music, character pieces, and Italianate sonatas. The the evening closes with airs and dances from Scotland.
Artists: Since 1996, Trio Settecento—Chicago-based virtuosi Rachel Barton Pine, violin; John Mark Rozendaal, cello/gamba; and David Schrader, harpsichord—has performed period-instrument music across the U.S. and on CDs. Their passionate and authoritative interpretations of Age of Enlightenment music renew the pleasures of old favorites, and reveal delights of new discoveries. “Fascinating music, played with real authority and flair.” – BBC Magazine. “Wonderfully vital and buoyant performances.” – Fanfare.
There is no better venue for chamber music in the Bay Area than the delightful 320-seat Trianon Theatre. It was designed in 1923 by William Binder, for the Christian Assembly Church, inspired by the miniature chateau King Louis XV had built in 1763-68 on the Versailles palace grounds for his favorite – Madame de Pompadour. “The Hall at the Trianon Theatre is acoustically excellent for chamber music... it is a gem of a concert hall.” Paul Hertelendy, former Music Writer, San Jose Mercury News.
TIME, LOCATION & PARKINGAll concerts are in the Trianon Theatre, our home since 1994 – at 72 N. Fifth Street in downtown San Jose, 1/2 block north of East Santa Clara Street – visit www.TrianonTheatre.com to learn more. There is plenty of convenient free parking in the City garage opposite the Trianon and curbside. The concerts are held Sundays at 7 p.m. or Saturdays at 8 p.m., with doors opening an hour before each concert. To enhance your appreciation of the evening’s musical program we offer a half-hour pre-concert talk starting 45 minutes before each concert. When the artists can do so, we also offer a post-concert question-and-answer discussion.
All programs are subjectto change.
Vienna Piano Trio (Austria) – Vienna’s Best returnsSince 2006, resident ensemble at Vienna’s Konzerthaus
Prazak Quartet (from Prague)Returns for probably its last tour of the U.S.
Dover String Quartet (USA) makes its San Jose debut!Powerful communicators! A 2015 hit at Music@Menlo
Bay Area’s Farallon Clarinet Quintet – with guest pianistWeber & Cannon Quintets; Copland & Prokofiev Sextets
Gould Piano Trio (UK) & Robert Plane, clarinet, returnBy audience request, bringing their “Vienna Passion” program
Chicago’s Trio Settecento violin, gamba, harpsichordPlays French & Scottish Baroque music
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