Here, not only do we bid farewell to our Festival for another year, but we also to the Goldner String Quartet for their final time at AFCM. We begin the concert with a very special arrangement of Bach Concerto BWV 1053r for vibraphone and strings. This is followed, rather fittingly at this troubling time, by Ruth Schonthal's A Bird Flew Over Jerusalem in which she imagines a humanized bird flying over the city, listening aghast to the sound of the incomprehensible suffering humans inflict on each other down below. To liven things up, this will be followed by a joyous Mendelssohn String Sinfonia, some beautiful Ibert for winds and to fittingly celebrate the Goldners, they will finish the festival with Tchaikovsky's truly breath-taking String Quartet No.1.
Concert Details
WILLIAM BARTON
Memories of Green upon the Blue Fields of the Ocean
William Barton, Adam Barnett-Hart, Benjamin Roskams, Katie Yap, Umberto Clerici, Anna Rabinowicz
RUTH SCHONTHAL
A Bird over Jerusalem, for flute, piano and electronics
Anna Rabinowicz, Itamar Golan
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
String Symphony No. 1 in C major
Kevin Hsu, Umberto Clerici, David Berlin, Alexandra Raikhlina, Benjamin Roskams, Christian-Pierre La Marca, Kees Boersma, Adam Barnett-Hart, Brett Dean, Jack Liebeck, Katie Yap, Michael Gibson
INTERMISSION
INTERMISSION
JACQUES IBERT
Trois pièces brèves for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn
Julian Bliss, Shefali Pryor, Ben Jacks, Jackie Newcomb, Anna Rabinowicz
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Dimity Hall, Julian Smiles, Dene Olding AM, Irina Morozova
COLE PORTER
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Lloyd van't Hoff, Alexandra Raikhlina, Julian Smiles, Jack Liebeck, Dimity Hall, Julian Bliss, Roderick Williams, Katie Yap, Christian-Pierre La Marca, Kees Boersma, Ben Jacks, Jackie Newcomb, Dene Olding AM, Timothy Constable, Mark Smith, Adam Barnett-Hart, Benjamin Roskams, Brett Dean, Shefali Pryor, Irina Morozova, Umberto Clerici, Kevin Hsu, David Berlin, Nathanael Duffy, Anna Rabinowicz, Michael Gibson, Amandine Savary, Itamar Golan
Featured Artists
Jack Liebeck (Violin)
Adam Barnett-Hart (Violin)
Alexandra Raikhlina (Violin)
Benjamin Roskams (Violin)
Kevin Hsu (Violin)
Benjamin Roskams (Viola)
Brett Dean (Viola)
Katie Yap (Viola)
Christian-Pierre La Marca (Cello)
Umberto Clerici (Cello)
David Berlin (Cello)
Michael Gibson (Cello)
Anna Rabinowicz (Flute)
Shefali Pryor (Oboe)
Julian Bliss (Clarinet)
Lloyd van't Hoff (Clarinet)
Nathanael Duffy (Clarinet)
Ben Jacks (French Horn)
Jackie Newcomb (Bassoon)
Timothy Constable (Percussion)
Itamar Golan (Piano)
Kees Boersma (Double bass)
Mark Smith (Trumpet)
Amandine Savary (Piano)
Mai-Lien Olsson (Piano)
Roderick Williams (Baritone)
William Barton (Didgeridoo)
