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Chamber Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano
Ronald Gorevic, violin, and Larry Wallach, piano with guest cellist Richard Mickey.
When: Sat Jan 30 • 8:00 pm
Where: McConnell Auditorium, Daniel Arts Center
The Simon's Rock Music Program presents
Chamber Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano
performed by Simon's Rock faculty members Ronald Gorevic, violin, and Larry Wallach, piano
with guest cellist Richard Mickey.
Included are works by Charles Ives (Violin Sonata no. 3), Elliott Carter (Cello Sonata), Charles Wuorinen (work for solo cello), and Felix Mendelssohn (Trio no. 2).
Saturday, January 30, at 8 pm in McConnell Auditorium
Admission: Free
This concert traces the lineage of modern American music from the great founding figure of Charles Ives (1874-1954) to Elliott Carter (b. 1908) and Charles Wuorinen (b. 1938). The teenaged Carter met Ives in the 1920's and this had a long-lasting impact on the centenarian composer who is still productive at the age of 101. The cello sonata was a relatively earliy work (1948) that shows the influences of Ives, jazz, and Carter's training in Paris in the 1930's. Wuorinen is a leading representative of the New York "uptown" school that combines the dramatically wide-ranging approach of Carter with a rigorous approach to musical structure. The Mendelssohn Trio is one of that composer's greatest works, and has a symphonic scope. It offers a view of the world that powerfully contrasts with the moderns, but its idealism connects back to Ives who straddled the centuries.