The Seventh Season 2011-2012
Saturday, 11/19/11
Written in the Stars...Existentialist Poetry, Zen Buddhism & the American Song
7:15pm Pre-Concert Talk / 8:00pm Concert
Old Mission San Jose
43300 Mission Blvd. in Fremont
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Student/Senior
Sherri Phelps, Mezzo Soprano & Rachel Taylor, Pianist
This engaging and colorful, multi-media performance will explore the music and life of famous Kentucky composer and balladeer, John Jacob Niles with a mixture of live performance, photographs and video highlighting each era of the composer's life from his early popular songs through the rarely performed Niles/Merton Songs.
In the summer of 1967, the renowned American balladeer, composer and collector of folk music John Jacob Niles met the great thinker and Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Niles had spent his career collecting, cataloging and arranging American folk music, especially that of his native Kentucky and his work became a huge influence on folk revival artists of the 50Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡s and 60Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡s such as Joan Baez and Peter Paul & Mary. Merton was a well-traveled poet, social activist and scholar in comparative religion whose great admiration for eastern religion had helped open dialog between East and West. The two struck up an instant friendship founded in their shared interest in Zen Buddhism and existentialism. Soon after, Niles began to set Thomas Merton's poetry to songs but was devastated by the untimely death of Merton the following year. He spent the next four years setting his poetry to music and the result was the haunting and beautiful collection of the Niles/Merton Songs, op 171 and 172. Come join Kentucky soprano Sherri Phelps and pianist, Rachel Taylor in exploring the result of the meeting of these two great minds.
Sunday, 2/12/12
Salon Series Performance "Poignant & Provocative!"
3:00pm-5:00pm
Tickets: $75
SUONO: Ertan Torgul, Violin & Aileen Chanco, Piano
Suono is "Polished and superb!" -The San Antonio Express. Come away for an afternoon and treat yourself to a performance of violin/piano works from the poignant to the provocative, complete with champagne, appetizers and chocolates. The program will include works by Saint-Saens, Brahms and Piazzolla.
Salon Series Performances take place in beautiful homes within the Tri-City Area. Advanced reservations requested.
Saturday, 3/24/12
An Invitation to a Voyage
7:15pm Pre-Concert Talk / 8:00pm Concert
Old Mission San Jose
43300 Mission Blvd. in Fremont
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Student/Senior
Karen Shinozaki Sor, Violin - Ertan Torgul, Violin
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Rhonda Bradetich, Flute
Ray Furuta, Flute - Aileen Chanco, Piano - Chad Kaltinger
Viola Michael Graham, Cello - Bill Everett, Double Bass
PROGRAM
- John Corigliano Voyage
- Johannes Brahms Violin and Piano Sonata no. 1 in G, op. 78
- Jennifer Higdon Piano Trio
- Schubert Quintet in A, D. 667, "The Trout"
In remembrance...Sendai 2011
Friday, 4/27/12
The 3rd Annual Mission Masquerade Ball: A Venetian Ball at the Hilton Newark/Fremont
6:00 pm
The Hilton Hotel
39900 Balentine Dr. in Newark
Tickets: $75
Saturday, 5/19/12
Crossroads: Intersections of 20th Century Music and Film
7:15pm Pre-Concert Talk / 8:00pm Concert
Old Mission San Jose
43300 Mission Blvd. in Fremont
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Student/Senior
Robin Mayforth Violin - Karen Shinozaki Sor, Violin - Mike Corner, Clarinet
Emily Onderdonk, Viola Michael Graham, Cello - Bill Everett, Double Bass
Aileen Chanco, Piano - Loren Mach, Percussion
PROGRAM
- Nino Rota Clarinet Trio op.28
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold Quintet op. 15
- Bernard Hermann Souvenirs de Voyage
- Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet no. 8
- With Film Excerpts from: Battleship Potemkin (1926), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Psycho (1960), The Godfather (1972)
A multi-media performance and film screening. If there's any art form born of the twentieth century, it is cinema. Along with this new genre came the film score. Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡CrossroadsÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ explores the music of four composers who wrote for both the classical stage and the silver screen: Dmitri Shostakovich, Erich Korngold, Bernard Herrmann and Nino Rota. This program will present both classical chamber works and viewings of film excerpts accompanied live by our chamber players, and will explore the huge effect these classical composers had on the art of movie making.
Crossroads: Intersections of 20th Century Music and Film is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and supported by the Heller Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation and San Francisco Grant for the Arts
Sunday, 6/3/12
Salon Series Performance: "Jazz meets Classical"
3:00-5:00pm
Tickets: $75
Steve Pietkiewicz, Piano and Aileen Chanco, Piano
To conclude the season, join us in an exciting piano display of classical and jazz music, wine and appetizers. Enjoy an afternoon basking in Music at the MissionÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡s matchless setting of The Salon Series Performances. Proceeds will help support Music at the Mission and bring you a delightful afternoon of music..unstuffy and unpredictable! Works by Bach, Beethoven, Brubeck and more!
Salon Series Performances take place in beautiful homes within the Tri-City Area. Advanced reservations requested.
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