Vienna in Transition: From the Enlightenment to the Dawn of Modernism
Organization:
Valley of the Moon Music Festival
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
7/15/2018
End Date:
7/29/2018
Start Time:
4:00 PM
End Time:
6:00 PM
Event
Info:
July 15-28: Saturdays and Sundays at 4pm Sun, July 29 at 11am and 4pm
Valley of the Moon Music Festival is the first and only organization in the U.S. devoted to presenting the chamber music of the Classical and Romantic eras, performed on instruments built when the music was written. This summer the Festival returns to the Hanna Center in Sonoma for a musical journey to Vienna. From July 15 to the 29th, audiences will be treated to works by Vanhal, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and more.
This summer's program also expands the Festival's historical focus to the dawn of Modernism with the addition of Arnold Schoenberg, born in 1874, a composer best known as the leader of the so-called Second Viennese School, and a devotee of experiments in tonality.
"Schoenberg inherited the language of late-Romantics like Brahms and Wagner," said fortepianist and Festival Co-Director Eric Zivian. "We're presenting him in this context, and crucially, we're performing his works on the period instruments which would have been familiar to the composer and his contemporaries."
"This season we are very excited to extend our historically informed performances to the dawn of Modernism in pieces by Schoenberg," added cellist and Festival Co-Director Tanya Tomkins. "The use of gut strings will enhance our expression, putting a new spin on these beloved pieces by one of the 20th century's great masters."
In addition to Tomkins and Zivian, returning Festival artists this season include Liana Berube, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Nikki Einfeld, Sadie Glass, Eric Hoeprich, Monica Huggett, Jeffrey LaDeur, Kati Kyme, Carla Moore, Marc Schachman, Kyle Stegall and Kate van Orden. Making their Festival debut are violinists Owen Dalby, Phyllis Kamrin and Anna Presler double bassist Anthony Manzo and cellist William Skeen.
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