ROCHESTER, NY, 29 September 2019 - Society for Chamber Music in Rochester’s (SCMR) opens its 43rd season with Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, which features classical music and a wine tasting. In addition, audience members will enjoy an inside look at the repertoire with a pre-concert talk by Artistic Directors and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) Musicians Juliana Athayde and Erik Behr.
Athayde and Behr explain, “We begin our 43rd season featuring one of the greatest chamber works ever written alongside a rarely heard gem for the same instrumentation that has been ignored for far too long.” Brahms’s iconic Clarinet Quintet is the opening work and SCMR is pleased to introduce Eastman School of Music’s new Professor of Clarinet, Michael Wayne, to SCMR’s audience. Wayne joins the Rochester community after many years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is featured as an integral part of both SCMR’s opening and closing concerts during his first year in Rochester.
Athayde and Behr also explain, “Hans Gal is a somewhat unfamiliar composer, but his works are finally receiving the performances they deserve.” He was forced out of his posts in Germany at the start of WWII, due to his Jewish ancestry. Because musical tastes shifted to favoring more avant-garde compositions after the war, his Austro-German sense of tonality was considered old-fashioned. Gal studied composition for two years with a close friend of Brahms and the audience will hear his love of Brahms, Schubert and Bach in this “neglected and beautiful work” that was completed in 1977. In between these two quintets SCMR will perform Hugo Wolf’s “charming showpiece” for string quartet, his Italian Serenade. SCMR is pleased to also introduce one of the newest members of RPO’s first violin section, Willa Finck, to the audience.
SCMR is pleased to continue complimentary wine tastings at intermission generously sponsored by Pinnacle Wine and Liquor. The pre-concert talk is at 3:30pm and the performance begins at 4:00pm.
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