This summer’s Music on the Strait summer festival of chamber music (19-27 August) opens on Saturday, 19 August, at the newly opened Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles, WA. The opening night concert in the 500-seat Donna Morris Auditorium begins at 7pm and features Garrick Ohlsson and the Takács Quartet in a program of Brahms and Amy Beach, as well as the world premiere of a new work for violin and viola by 2023 composer-in-residence Lembit Beecher, which was written for Artistic Directors James Garlick and Richard O’Neill. It was inspired in part by the transformation of the Elwha River. This will be one of the first performances at the Field Arts and Events Hall .
The 19 August opening concert will be livestreamed here and on Music on the Strait’s homepage; you can also watch the concerts on 25 August and 27 August (check MotS’ homepage).
On 26 August at 7pm, also at Field Hall, Jeremy Denk performs Bach’s Complete Partitas; the students of the Olympic Strings Workshop will present a showcase at 6.15pm. For the festival finale on 27 August at 2pm, Jeremy Denk & Friends will play music by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
Other events will take place at Maier Hall at Peninsula College in Port Angeles:
On Sunday 20 August at 2pm, Takács plays Haydn, Beethoven, and Bartók, and on Friday 25 August at 7pm, Noah Geller, Seattle Symphony’s concertmaster, makes his Music on the Strait debut together with James Garlick, Richard O’Neill, and Ani Aznavoorian in Grieg’s String Quartet in G minor and shares the stage with percussionist Mari Yoshinaga in Anton Prischepa’s Based on Actual Events for Violin and Marimba. The quartet will also perform Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s Pisashi for string quartet.
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 