June 2010 — <strong>Rapid</strong> <strong>River</strong> ArtS & CULTURE <strong>Magazine</strong> — Vol. 13, No. 10
R A P I D R I V E R A R T S performance Keowee Chamber Music Festival Celebrating a Decade of Beautiful Music Keowee Chamber Music Festival returns for its 10th year, June 8-21, in a tradition of the finest music and performances. Featured professional musicians for the two-week festival include: Kate Steinbeck artistic director/flute; Alicia Chapman English horn; John Bryant trumpet; Fabio Parrini piano; Eric Wall organ; Simon Értz viola; Philip von Maltzahn cello; Amy Brucksch guitar; and special guest Rick Chess poet. Kate Steinbeck, Fabio Parrini, Alicia Chapman. Presenting some of the finest music over two weeks, the first week’s program entitled “Love in the City” highlights music and poetry sure to stir up the love and life of the city. Week two, entitled “Celebrating the Global Village,” is like nothing you have heard before. The program includes two brand new works written especially for KCM. Pre-festival performances, “Generation Next”, will feature students in two concerts June 4, 7:30 p.m. in Greenville, and June 6, 3 p.m. in Asheville. he Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, one of the longest running chamber music festivals in the United States, proudly presents it’s 41st season to the listeners of Western North Carolina. The five week festival will perform concerts in Swannanoa in Kittredge Theater on the Warren Wilson College campus on June 22 and 29, July 6, 13, and 20. In Waynesville at the Waynesville Performing Arts Center on June 20 and 27, July 4, 11, and 18. All concerts begin at 7:30 except for the July 4th concert in Waynesville, which will begin at 3 p.m. Keowee for Kids! Fun and interactive mini-concerts. Free admission, donations encouraged. Friday, June 18, 11 a.m. West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Rd., Asheville. Friday, June 18, 4 p.m. TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine. Saturday June 19, 12 p.m. The Hop Ice cream parlor, Asheville. Week 1 Concerts Thursday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. Eastlan Baptist Church, 625 S. Pleasantburg, Greenville SC. Friday, June 11, 7:30 p.m. St. James Episcopal Church, 766 North Main St., Hendersonville NC. Sunday, June 13, 3 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church Street, Asheville NC. Monday, June 14, 12:00 p.m. Live radio concert, WCQS, 88.1 Week 2 Concerts Thursday, June 17, 7:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, Asheville NC. Friday, June 18, 7:30 p.m. Toe <strong>River</strong> Arts Council Gallery, 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine, NC. Sunday, June 20, 4 p.m. Pretty Place Chapel, YMCA Camp Greenville, Cedar Mountain, NC. Free admission, donations encouraged. Monday, June 21, 12:00 p.m. Live radio concert, WCQS, 88.1 If You Go The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival T Tickets: $15 each / 2 for $25. Students free. Visit www. keoweechambermusic.org or call (828) 254-7123 for ticket venues and more information. Trio Terzetto returns for the first concert which should appeal to all fans Peter deVries of chamber music. The season starts with perhaps the central composer of western music, Ludwig van Beethoven. It’s somehow appropriate that we should start with his first opus. After a wonderful quartet for violin, cello, horn, and piano by Jack Gallagher, Trio Terzetto presents the B Major Trio by Brahms. The Parker Quartet, who amazed last season’s audiences with their combination of beauty and virtuosity, returns as string quartet in residence for our second concert. They will begin the concert with a lovely short piece by Samuel Barber and end the concert with the lush, romantic Quartet in F Major by Robert Schumann. Inessa Zaretsky will be presenting her new composition for Piano, Flute, Oboe and Horn with George Pope and Cynthia Watson returning to join the ensemble. There will be also music of Dring and Villa-Lobos. For the third concert, we welcome back David Bell on clarinet and new bassoonist Lynn Heilman. George Pope joins members of the Parker Quartet for the Quartet in D Major by Mozart. Next we offer a lovely wind quintet from the Danish composer, Carl Nielsen. Inessa joins with the Parker Quartet to present the titanic Shostakovich Quintet for Piano and Strings. Program four is this year’s Frank Ell Concert and we’re delighted to welcome a special guest, internationally renowned violinist Peter deVries. We will open the concert with a Trio Sonata by the Baroque composer, Telemann. The wind quintet will next perform rarely heard music from the Renaissance in a wonderful arrangement by Noel Stevens entitled Ars Nova Suite. Peter will then be joined by pianist Paul Nitsch and hornist William Hoyt in one of the most popular chamber music pieces of all time, the Brahms Horn Trio. We’ve decided to end the season pretty much the way we started it, with the music of Beethoven. This first piece will be an early work, a Trio for clarinet, bassoon, and piano. The Parker Quartet has decided to perform one of the greatest string quartets ever written, the opus 131 in C# minor. The season will then come to a rousing conclusion with Beethoven’s famous Septet. The Parker Quartet If You Go Ticket are $20 each for individual tickets and $75 for a series ticket. For more information, visit www.warren-wilson.edu/ ~chamber. If you would like to contact us in Swannanoa, call (828) 771-3050 or e-mail chamber@warren-wilson.edu. In Waynesville call (828) 452-0593. Vol. 13, No. 10 — <strong>Rapid</strong> <strong>River</strong> ArtS & CULTURE <strong>Magazine</strong> — June 2010