Join a string quartet of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians in this trip through the eerie and magical classical music of Transylvania in the 20th century, featuring Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5 and Ede Terényi’s String Quartet No. 1.
Join a string quartet of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians for the chamber music concert "Crossroads" at Steinway Piano Gallery for the music of Bartók, Barber, and Glass all took a different tack in their works with a very distinct personal voice. Their styles are at crossroads.
Join a string quartet of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians for the chamber music concert "Crossroads" at Sala Perian, Colegiul National de Art “Ion Vidu” in Timisoara, Romania performing the music of Bartók, Barber, and Terényi. All composers took a different tack in their works with a very distinct personal voice. Their styles are at crossroads.
Join a string octet of musicians for the chamber music concert "Opposites" performed at Sala Capitol, Filarmonica Banatul in Timisoara, Romania. This concert is given as part of the Romanian concerts as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.
The Romanian Cultural Institute's popular online music series will feature one of the most important Romanian-American collaborative projects, the American Romanian Festival String Quartet (ARF Quartet), featuring: Sujin Lim - violin, Marian Tănău - violin, Michael Chen - viola, and Jeremy Crosmer - cello. The program features a rarely played piece, “On the River Argeș” by Theodor Grigoriu (1926–2014), an important composer and a musicologist in Romanian of the second half of the 20th century. Watch on Romanian Cultural Institute's FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM and WEBSITE from Thursday, March 11, 2 p.m. EST or anytime later!
Join us on March 5, 2023, at The War Memorial in Grosse Pointe Farms for the chamber music concert “Passionate Enescu: & Martin String Octets” featuring compositions by George Enescu as well as a commissioned work by American composer Colin Martin.
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 on Saturday, October 28, 2023, at Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit for the chamber music concert “featuring compositions by Dvořák, Crosmer, and Dumitrescu.
Join us for the chamber music concert “In Memoriam: Cornel Țăranu” on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at the Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit. Cornel Țăranu (June 20, 1934–June 18, 2023) was a Romanian classical composer, musicologist, conductor and cultural manager. The Romanian Academy remembers him as “a complex personality of contemporary Romanian cultural life, an illustrious creator and teacher.” This concert is the world premiere of Remembering Ţăranu, composed by Ionica Pop, which was commissioned by the American Romanian Festival.
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.
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.