Upcoming Concerts

"Poetics of Music" Two "melodramas" for reciter and piano Richard Strauss "The Castle By the Sea", Franz Liszt "Lenore"   Charles Ives from Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860"   *Before each movement David Rockefeller will read from Ives's remarkable essays about the Concord writers* Movement 3: "The Alcotts" Mvt. 4 "Thoreau" with David Rockefeller, reciter; Kathryn Knight, voice; Joel Sachs, piano

Four Hands Piano Recital Selections from music of Brahms, Dvořak, Schubert, and more with Jonathan Feldman and Rita Sloan, piano   Rita Sloan is acknowledged internationally as a leading teacher of piano, collaborative piano and chamber music. Ms. Sloan retired this past July from being a piano faculty member and director of the collaborative piano program at the University of Maryland, positions she has held  since 1999. As an Artist Faculty Member at the Aspen Music Festival, Rita Sloan founded their Collaborative Artist…

RESILIENCE Lost and Reclaimed Voices from the Holocaust Desirée Ruhstrat, violin Melissa Reardon, viola Wendy Sutter, cello Resilience is an intimate and deeply moving concert project in which three acclaimed artists of international stature come together to restore music silenced by the Holocaust to the living repertoire. Violinist Desirée Ruhstrat, violist Melissa Reardon, and cellist Wendy Sutter—each a leader in the classical music world—unite in a program devoted to extraordinary chamber works by composers whose lives and careers were shaped,…