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Music@Menlo Summer Festival: Gilbert Kalish at 90: A Celebration
Carte Blanche Concert III
“As a young man I participated in an ensemble called the Gramercy Chamber Ensemble. It was a rather unwieldy group that had a full complement of strings, winds, brass, percussion, singers, and a pianist. We chose repertoire by consensus. When one of the members mentioned a work called Pierrot lunaire there were puzzled faces all around. When he described an orchestration consisting of flute-piccolo, violin-viola, clarinet-bass clarinet (each pair of these instruments played by one person), cello, piano, and a singer who did not really sing but performed a hybrid of singing and speaking on pitch, we were really perplexed.
After 50 rehearsals we were transfixed and mesmerized. It turns out that Pierrot lunaire—a work consisting of 21 short, grotesque, dreamlike poems set to witty and fiendishly difficult music—became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century. Plunge yourself into this world of fantasy and marvel at how original and enchanting it remains to this day.” —Gilbert Kalish
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) | Partita no. 6 in E minor for Keyboard, BWV 830 (1731)
Anton Webern (1883–1945) | Two Early Pieces for Cello and Piano (1899)
Anton Webern (1883–1945) | Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 7 (1910)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) | Pierrot lunaire, op. 21 (1912)
CELLO
Nicholas Canellakis
PIANO
Gilbert Kalish
FLUTE
Tara Helen O’Connor
SOPRANO
Tony Arnold
CLARINET
Jose Franch-Ballester
VIOLIN
Erin Keefe
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3108228-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3108228-2
