The opening concert of our 4th season featured Felix Mendelssohn’s quartet #2 and your feedback was enthusiastic. Thank you, we love to hear when you agree that we fulfilled our mission! Although they never met each other, Mendelssohn and Schubert were contemporaries, and Franz Schubert wrote the cello quintet in C major in 1828, just…
Our “Sonata Series” concerts, starting this Saturday, will open with Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonata BWV 1029, originally written for the viola da gamba. It will be played on the viola by Nicholaus Yee, with Junko Nojima playing a harpsichord in Long Beach and San Pedro, and a piano in Yorba Linda. The other two composers…
Our concerts next weekend will feature three (3) shorter pieces for viola and piano by Rebecca Clarke. Clarke is an extraordinary composer that UP CLOSE AND CLASSICAL is proud to again present, after our musicians played her “Lullaby and grotesque” in our April 2024 concerts. Rebecca Clarke achieved what she called “my one little whiff…
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