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Peabody Woodwind Faculty to Play Poulenc, Oct. 20
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Margaret Bell
410-234-4525
m.bell@jhu.edu
Richard Selden
410-234-4526
rselden1@peabody.jhu.edu
Concert Will Also Feature Music from Anouilh Play Léocadia
October 14, 2009, Baltimore, MD: Three Peabody Conservatory faculty artists, all members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, will pay tribute to 20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc at a concert on Tuesday, Oct. 20. The 8:00 pm concert in Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, titled Poulenc at 110 Years, is part of the Sylvia Adalman Artist Recital Series.
Jane Marvine, the BSO’s English horn player, will be featured in Poulenc’s Sonata for Oboe and Piano of 1962 and Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano of 1926, sharing the spotlight with Phillip Kolker, the BSO’s principal bassoonist. Steven Barta, the BSO’s principal clarinetist, will take the lead in Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano of 1962. Assisting on piano will be Doctor of Musical Arts candidate Sheng-Yuan Kuan.
Also on the program is incidental music that Poulenc composed for Léocadia, a play written in 1939 by Jean Anouilh. Soprano Elizabeth Hart, who was formerly on the Peabody faculty, will sing the cabaret song “Les Chemins de l’Amour.” The instrumental parts will be played by faculty artists Barta, Kolker, violinist Violaine Melançon, bassist Jeffrey Weisner, and pianist Seth Knopp.
“Woodwind players just love this music,” said Kolker, who organized the concert. “The trio is one of my favorite pieces and we’re all very eager to play the music from Léocadia, which will be new to most concertgoers.”
Born in 1899, Poulenc was one of the group of six French and Swiss modernist composers known as Les Six. His style changed in the 1930s when he rediscovered his Roman Catholic faith. The works in the concert, from the early trio to the late sonatas, express his lifelong feeling for the woodwind family of instruments.
The Peabody Institute, the highly regarded music school of The Johns Hopkins University, is located at 17 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore. Tickets for Poulenc at 110 are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students with ID. Eight-concert subscriptions, called Musical 8’s, are also available. To purchase tickets and subscriptions, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-234-4800.
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Located in the heart of Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Cultural District, the Peabody Institute was founded in 1857 as America’s first academy of music by philanthropist George Peabody. Today, Peabody boasts a preeminent faculty, a nurturing, collaborative learning environment, and the academic resources of one of the nation’s leading universities, Johns Hopkins. Through its degree-granting Conservatory and its community-based Preparatory music and dance school, Peabody trains musicians and dancers of every age and at every level, from small children to seasoned professionals, from dedicated amateurs to winners of international competitions. Each year, Peabody stages nearly 100 major concerts and performances, ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz, many of them free — a testament to the vision of George Peabody.
