January 16, 2022 - 3:00 pm -5:00 pm
The Florida Chamber Music Project will present a “Music Among Friends” concert on Sunday, January 16 at 3:00 p.m.
About this event
Claude Debussy: Estampes
Consider great French Impressionist paintings- Pieces set in three musical canvases: Pagodes (Pagodas), La soirée dans Grenade (The Evening in Granada), and Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the Rain).Pagodes evokes the metallic Eastern sounds of the Javanese gamelan which Debussy heard at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. La soirée dans Grenade instantly transports us to sultry Spain with the drowsy sounds of a distant strumming guitar and an underlying habañera dance rhythm. Jardins sous la pluie evokes the sound and image of flying raindrops in a Normandy summer thunderstorm. This final movement ends amid innocent, playful splashes which seem to leap from the piano’s keys.
Gabriel Faure: Piano Quartet No. 1, in c minor
The opening movement of the First Piano Quartet qualifies as forcefully dramatic, with the three string instruments announcing the surging theme against the piano’s syncopated underpinnings. A sense of nervous edginess pervades much of this sonata-form movement, offed sequentially by viola, violin, cello, and piano and injects a more graceful ethos that one might hear as Debussyian. The Scherzo is lighter than air, and subtle musical conflicts, including rhythmic competition between the meters of 2/4 and 6/8, keep listeners from feeling grounded for much of it. The Adagio stands not far from sections of Faure’s famous Requiem, which first began to occupy him just as he was composing this piano quartet. It is an emotion supported by nobility and, ultimately, achieving serenity.
Our Featured Artist Hyunsoon Whang
Korean-American pianist Hyunsoon Whang is an active performer and a dedicated teacher. Since the age of twelve, she has performed hundreds of concerts in the USA, Canada, Europe, Iceland, Japan, and Korea. She studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the St. Louis Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and earned a doctorate from Indiana University under the tutelage of legendary György Sebők. A recipient of Oklahoma Governor’s Arts and Education Award, Hyunsoon holds the McMahon Endowed Chair in Music at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. Besides piano, she enjoys practicing yoga, watching baseball and being a mom to her daughter Courtney and a rescue dog Callie. Her first solo album of “Chopin Nocturnes” was released last spring on Sona BLAST! label.
Come hear the rich acoustics of chamber music and visit the historic Beaches Museum Chapel. All concerts in the series will be on Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Receptions will follow each concert.
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