Enescu and Schumann Chamber Music Concert
Sun, Sept 26, 7:30pm
Apse, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor 48109

Tickets: $10 at the door cash or check, or

To close the Fourth Annual American Romanian Festival UMMA will host a wonderful evening of chamber music featuring Ann Arbor and Detroit based artists performing works by composers George Enescu and Robert Schumann. Soprano Jennifer Goltz and pianist Larisa Simington will open the concert with two exquisite and unique sets of songs Enescu set to French poets Fernand Gregh (1873-1960) and Clement Marot (1496-1544). These songs, as well as Enescu’s second cello sonata The Weed, evoke Romanian folk music traditions. The concert will conclude with the beautiful Piano Quartet of Robert Schumann, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth and performed by University of Michigan piano professor Christopher Harding, and DSO Musicians Marian Tanau, violin, Jim Van Valkenburg, viola, and Marcy Chanteaux, cello.

Program:

Trois melodies sur poemes de Fernand Gregh, op. 19                        George Enescu
     Pluie                                                                                                              (1881-1955)
     Le silence musician
     De la flute au cor                                                                                                                                                     
                             Jennifer Goltz, soprano, Larisa Simington, piano

Sonata op. 26, nr. 2 in C major “The Weed”
for Violoncello and Piano                                                                            George Enescu
     Allegro moderato ed amabile
     Allegro agitato, non troppo mosso
     Andantino, cantabile, senza lentezza
     Final à la Roumaine: Allegro sciolto

                              Marcy Chanteaux, cello, Larisa Simington, piano

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Sept chansons de Clement Marot, op. 15                                                George Enescu
     Estrene a Anne
     Languir me fais
     Aux damoyselles paresseuses d'escrire a leurs amys
     Estrene de la rose
     Present de couleur blanche
     Changeons propos-- c'est trop chante
     Du confict en douleur

                         Jennifer Goltz, soprano, Larisa Simington, piano

Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47                                                     Robert Schumann
     Sostenuto assai. Allegro ma non troppo                                                 (1810-1854)
     Scherzo: Molto Vivace
     Andante cantabile
     Finale: Vivace

                        Marian Tanau, violin, Jim VanValkenburg, viola,
                        Marcy Chanteaux, cello, Christopher Harding, piano


This event is sponsored by Michigan Arts Council and Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, and the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.