Mon 5/17 @ 7:30PM
The Rocky River Chamber Music Society winds down its 62nd season, a season that — like those of most music presenting series — was unlike any other. No audiences streamed into its regular venue at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River. Instead, they listened to a pared-down series of concerts on Facebook or YouTube.
For its final concert of the season (and hopefully the last where they won’t be able to welcome audience members in person, although they’ve said they plan to continue to offer the online option), it’s presenting an evening of chamber music for woodwinds and piano with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, plus one. Flute/piccolo player Mary Kay Fink, oboist Franklin Rosenwein, clarinetist Robert Woolfrey, bassoon player Barrick Stees and horn player Richard King are the Cleveland Orchestra musicians. The “plus one” is pianist Christina Dahl, who is on the piano faculty at Stony Brook University in New York and has also taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where Stees and King teach.
The pieces they’ll perform include obscure 18th-19th century Czech/German/French composer Anton Reicha’s Wind Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 88 (he composed 25 wind quintets!), Reicha’s friend Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1796 Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds, and “Tzigane” by 50-year-old African-American composer/flutist and founder of the Imani Winds woodwind quintet Valerie Coleman.
As with RRCMS’s live performances, the virtual concerts are free. Go here to find the links.
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