Wednesday, February 11, 2009

LACMA to present free chamber music concerts in March

LACMA Presents Sundays Live
FREE Chamber Music Concerts
Sundays at 6pm at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90036

Visit www.sundayslive.org for updated information

Concerts streamed live on www.lacma.org , and heard by delayed broadcast EACH WEDNESDAY at noon EXCLUSIVELY on KCSN, 88.5 FM.

MARCH
1
The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra Chamber Players perform Haydn: String Quartet in F major, Opus 3, No. 5, and Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Opus 44, No. 1

8
Colburn Conservatory chamber ensembles perform selections to be announced.

15
The UCLA Orchestra, with Neil Stulberg (conductor) and Walter Ponce (piano) perform Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor and works to be announced.

This concert is sponsored by a generous grant from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. These concerts honor Mr. Rifkind's sons Max Rifkind-Barron and Joshua Beckett, and his daughter-in-law Moira Walley Beckett.

22
HAYDN CELEBRATION Concert 3 Qing Jiang (piano) performs Haydn: Variations in F minor, H.XVII:6. Schumann: Fantasy in C major, Opus 17 and Haydn: Sonata in A-flat major H. XVI:46.

This concert marks the third of our Haydn tribute during this celebratory year. These concerts feature selected prize-winning New England Conservatory students, and are presented concurrently with NEC’s own Haydn retrospective, curated by piano chair Bruce Brubaker. The 10-part series celebrates the Haydn bicentennial (1809-2009), including Brubaker’s Los Angeles performance on May 31, the anniversary of Haydn’s passing.

These concerts are funded by a generous grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

29
Martin Jones (piano) performs Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue No. 1, Chopin: Polonaise Fantasie, Albeniz: Three Pieces from Iberia, and Rosehthal: Soirée de Vienne.

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