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2001 - 2002 Season Calendar
Cities of Intrigue
Destination Copenhagen
Saturday September 29, 2001 - Colorado Performing Arts Festival/Auditorium Theater Lobby
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
FREE 45 minute CHILDREN’S CONCERT
The Emperor & the Nightingale
With David Mullikin, composer and Alex Komodore, guitarist
A magical musical fable based on the fairy tale of Danish composer Hans Christian Anderson, for ages 3-10, for violin, viola, cello, flute and narrator. Children may try small percussion instruments as participants in The Emperor and the Nightingale. A wonderful short concert for children on a Saturday morning!
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PROGRAM
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Flute quartet K.285 (D major)
String Trio and Flute |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Entr’acte for Flute and Guitar |
Jacques Ibért |
The Emperor and the Nightingale,
String Trio, Flute, and Narrator |
David Mullikin
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Destination Calabria
October 3, 5, & 7, 2001 - Teikyo Loretto Heights Theater
The Colorado Opera Troupe, accompanied by
The Colorado Chamber Players, presents Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Sung in Italian
Elizabeth Schulze, Conductor
The day started the same as every day. Canio and Nedda’s troupe of strolling players arrived on a warm summer day, in yet another southern city in Calabria, Italy. Perhaps today would be calm. Perhaps Canio would not drink and Nedda suffer the consequences. If only Nedda could be free of her imprisonment with her husband Canio. His brutal ways were well-known by Nedda. Every jealous nuance, every slight glance could betray her desires. Was it possible she could find the courage to leave Canio and find the comfort and love she so desired with Silvio? Much is at stake and Nedda’s fears surround her. The play-within-a-play becomes real-life drama as the relationship between make-believe and reality is crossed when Canio unleashes his anger and hate. "Even though our hearts break in silence, in life we must be merry. So, think, dear people, when you see us dressed in our poor attire, that we too are made of flesh and blood. We laugh at the sorrow that will poison our hearts. Listen how the drama unfolds. Let’s go! Begin!"
Destination Vienna
Friday November 16, 2001 - New Creation Church
Monday November 19, 2001 - King Events Center Recital Hall
Late and Great Mozart
Jesse Levine, Guest Violist
Distinguished violist Jesse Levine, a favorite artist of the Chamber Players, returns this season to perform three exquisite late works of Mozart, written during Mozart’s last venture in Vienna. The Kegelstatt Trio for Viola, Clarinet and Piano, was inspired by Mozart’s friendship with clarinetist Anton Stadler, a fellow member of the Masonic order. Two of Mozart’s most profound works, the passionate D major two-viola quintet and the sunny C major two-viola quintet, round out the program. Mr. Levine also performs a Viola and Piano recital at the King Center on Sunday November 18, 7:30 p.m., with Tamara Goldstein. Come join the Chamber Players’ celebration of the rich sonorities of the viola!
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PROGRAM for both concerts
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All-Mozart program, with Jesse Levine, Professor, Yale School of Music
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| Quintet in C Major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K.515 |
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Kegelstatt Trio for Viola, Clarinet, and Piano
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| INTERMISSION |
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| Quintet in D Major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K.593 |
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Destination Paris
Sunday February 10, 2002 - Shwayder Theatre
Mizel Center for Arts and Culture at the JCC
Friday, February 15, 2002 - Colorado School of Mines
Marc Chagall’s Paris Circle
With members of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Glittering Paris in the early 20th century was a hotbed of artistic activity. Artists from all over the world flocked to live among the cultural elite: Marc Chagall, Sergei Diaghilev, Ida Rubenstein, Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lifschitz; and in music, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Copland, de Falla, to name a few. The Parisian music of Russian émigrés Prokofiev and Stravinsky comes alive as we journey into the visual world of Chagall and Picasso with a pre-concert slide show.
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PROGRAM
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| Cinq Melodies for Violin and Piano, op.35b |
Sergei Prokofiev |
Overture on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet,
String Quartet and Piano, op.34 |
Sergei Prokofiev |
| Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914) |
Igor Stravinsky |
| INTERMISSION |
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| Tango, dedicated to Picasso, for Solo Piano (1940) |
Igor Stravinsky |
| Piano Ragtime, (1919) for Solo Piano |
Igor Stravinsky |
Quintet, op.39, for Violin, Viola, Bass, Oboe
and Clarinet |
Sergei Prokofiev
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Destination Leningrad
Sunday April 7, 2002 - Shwayder Theatre
Mizel Center for Arts and Culture at the JCC
Defiant music of Weiner and Shostakovich
With Nadezda Shabanina, Soprano and Marcia Ragonetti, Mezzo-Soprano
Shostakovich wrote in his memoir Testimony: “Jewish folk music has made a most powerful impression on me. It can appear to be quite happy while it is tragic. It’s almost always laughter through tears. This quality of Jewish folk music is close to my ideas of what music should be. There should always be two layers in music….Jews express despair in dance music.”
Shostakovich wrote the compelling Song Cycle on Jewish Folk Poetry after sheltering in his own home Moishe Beregovsky, a Jewish music historian oppressed by Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaign. Writing the Song Cycle was considered an act of defiance by the Soviet establishment, and as a result Stalin limited performances of Shostakovich’s work. A long period of disillusionment followed for the composer, who pushed his musical creativity and expression to the limits in the Eighth String Quartet.
Shostakovich was not the only Russian composer to protest through his music. From the USA, Russian émigré Lazar Weiner kept Yiddish Art Music alive through his vocal and instrumental compositions.
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PROGRAM
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| Yiddish Art Songs |
Lazar Weiner |
| Merciful God, for Soprano, Cello and Piano |
Lazar Weiner |
| String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, Op.110 |
Dmitri Shostakovich |
| INTERMISSION |
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Song Cycle on Jewish Folk Poetry, op.79,
for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Piano |
Dmitri Shostakovich
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Destination Havana
Sunday April 28, 2002 - King Events Center Recital Hall
With Ricardo Iznaola, Guitar
Let the CCP transport you to the sizzling shores of Cuba, with works by the 20th century’s most important Cuban composers: León, Nin, Brouwer and D’Rivéra. This fascinating program delves into the cross-rhythms and Caribbean flavor of a city only 90 miles from the USA. Brilliant Cuban Guitar virtuoso Ricardo Iznaola joins the Chamber Players in his debut performance, with works by Uruguayan Guido Santorsola and Cuban Leo Brouwer.
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PROGRAM
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| Chants d’Espagne, for Violin and Piano |
Joaquín Nin-Culmell |
| Quartet for Viola, Cello, Flute and Guitar |
Guido Santorsola |
Parajota Delaté, for Violin, Cello, Flute,
Clarinet, Piano |
Tania León |
| INTERMISSION |
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| Danzón, for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano |
Paquito d’Rivéra |
| Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet |
Leo Brouwer
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Destination Budapest & Prague
Saturday December 1, 2001 Program #1
Saturday May 4, 2002 Program #2
Children’s Museum Theatre/Denver Children’s Museum
Monday December 3, 2001 Program #1
Monday May 13, 2002 Program #2
King Events Center Recital Hall
Young Chamber Players
With members of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra (DYAO)
Join the talented young musicians of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, as they perform two programs, side by side with artists from the Colorado Chamber Players. Masterpieces of Hungarian and Czech composers will be performed, as well as works by Brahms and Mendelssohn that were influenced by Hungarian and Slavic music. Now in the second year of their Chamber Music America Longterm Residency, the Chamber Players are proud to present the rising stars of tomorrow!
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PROGRAM #1
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| Old Hungarian Dances for Woodwind Quintet |
Ferenc Farkas |
| Two-Viola Quintet in Eb, op.97 |
Antonín Dvorák |
| Intermezzo for String Trio |
Zoltán Kodály |
| Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano |
Johannes Brahms |
PROGRAM #2
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| String Quartet #1, op.7 |
Béla Bartók |
| Piano Quintet for Piano and String Quartet, op.81 |
Antonín Dvorák |
| Octet for Double String Quartet |
Felix Mendelssohn
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