Join DSO Musicians for Black Angels, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University, October 4, 2015, at the Shaver Music Recital Hall, to enjoy performances of works by Crumb and Brahms.
Join DSO Musicians for Musical Chatter, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University, November 1, 2015, at the Shaver Music Recital Hall, to enjoy performances of works by Schoenfield and Grigoriu.
Join DSO Musicians for Black Angels, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University at the Shaver Music Recital Hall.
Join us for Passion and Youth, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University at the Shaver Music Recital Hall.
Join us for The French Connection, a Chamber Concert at UrbanBeat Events Center in Lansing, Michigan.
Join us for The French Connection, a Chamber Concert at Schaver Recital Hall, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
The 2017 American Romanian Festival begins October 13, 2017 at Wayne State University. Join us for the chamber music concert "Opposites," featuring selections by Enescu and Reich.
Join us for the chamber music concert "Opposites" at Kerrytown Concert House.
Join us on April 7, 2023, at Schaver Recital Hall for the chamber music concert “Schumann & Enescu Piano Quartets” featuring selections by George Enescu and Robert Schumann.
Join us on April 8, 2023, at Steinway Piano Gallery for the chamber music concert “Schumann & Enescu Piano Quartets” featuring compositions by George Enescu and Robert Schumann.
Join us for a concert and workshop on Friday, March 22, 2024, at the Shaver Music Recital Hall. Romanian cimbalom virtuoso Alexandru Şura performs.
Join us on Saturday, March 23, 2024, at the Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit. Romanian cimbalom virtuoso Alexandru Şura performs.
Join us for the chamber music concert "Mozart, Schumann, Enescu, & Tăutu Chamber Music" on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at the Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit. This is a collaboration between Saturdays with Classics and the American Romanian Festival.
The American Romanian Festival celebrates its 20th-anniversary season with an evening of works centered around the subject of travel and different geographic locations. First on the program is the recently commissioned piece by Ionica Pop, Impressions from Romania, reflects through music the joy of celebration and the need for human communion and peace. In The Seven Dreams of Frida Kahlo for Clarinet and String Quartet, composer Ovidiu Marinescu takes us on an imaginary journey of dreams, from Mayan ritual dances, to mariachi music, to be-bop jazz—which Frida Kahlo heard in New York in her travels with partner Diego Rivera, to an Arabic dream, as well as a pagan dance of Russian character. Steven Reich’s Different Trains for String Quartet and pre-recorded performance tape, expresses the basic idea that carefully chosen speech recordings generate the musical materials for musical instruments. The piece is inspired by the composer’s childhood when he travelled back and forth by train frequently between New York and Los Angeles from 1939 to 1942. While the trips were exciting and romantic at the time Steven Reich is looking back as an adult realizing that if he had been in Europe during this period, as a Jew he would have had to ride very different trains.
Mozart’s String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, is nicknamed “Dissonance” due to the unusual, dissonant counterpoint found in its slow introduction. It is perhaps the most famous of his quartets. The 22-bar Adagio opens with quiet eighth-note Cs in the cello. The viola then joins on A-flat and the second violin on E-flat. The first dissonance is created once the first violin enters on an A, thus creating tension between the A-flat and A that will be a recurring feature in the entire quartet. This introduction presents the major ideas that will recur throughout the piece. Almost two hundred years later, Romanian composer Pascal Bentoiu’s String Quartet No. 2, “Consonance,” is an example of very tonal music in an age when dissonance is taken to exaggerated levels and reigns in much music of the time. Bentoiu believed that perhaps the consonant chords in his work will provoke the same unpleasantness as Mozart’s dissonant chords did in his String Quartet No. 19.
The American Romanian Festival celebrates its 20th-anniversary season with an evening of works centered around travel that’s sure to cure the wanderlust in us all. First on the program is a recently commissioned piece by Ionica Pop, Impresii din România, that reflects the joy of celebration and the need for human communion and peace through music. In The Seven Dreams of Frida Kahlo for Clarinet and String Quartet, composer Ovidiu Marinescu takes us on an imaginary journey of dreams, from Mayan ritual dances to mariachi music to bebop jazz—which Frida Kahlo heard in New York in her travels with partner Diego Rivera—to an Arabic dream and pagan dance with Russian flair. Lastly, Steve Reich’s Different Trains for String Quartet and Pre-Recorded Performance Tape expresses the basic idea that carefully chosen speech recordings can generate musical materials for musical instruments. The piece is inspired by the composer’s childhood: When he was only 1 year old, Reich’s parents separated. His mother moved to Los Angeles while his father remained in New York. He traveled back and forth by train frequently between New York and Los Angeles from 1939 to 1942, accompanied by the governess. Different Trains is a reflection of Reich’s realization that as a Jew, had he been in Europe during those years, he easily could have been riding a very different kind of train.