Special Opening Night Event!
Context is Everything

DR. ROBERT GREENBERG, speaker
... the “Elvis” of music history ...

An evening of music and conversation with composer and musicologist Robert Greenberg. Dr. Greenberg, with Festival musicians, introduces three works on the Summer Solstice program — Ravel's La valse, Pärt's Fratres and Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009
7:15 PM Pre-concert talk
8 PM Performance

Invitation to the Dance

From sarabandes to tangos — enjoy the variety of dances found in Bach, Bartók, Sarasate, Piazzolla, Chopin, Schulhoff and Ravel.

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009
7:15 PM Pre-concert talk
8 PM Performance

The Resisting Spirit

Works of passion, joy and sorrow. Discover the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, along with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Avro Pärt.

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009
1:15 PM Pre-concert talk
2 PM Performance

Summer Passion

Three favorites from the chamber music canon — works by Mozart, Schumann and Franck.

Special Opening Night Event!

CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING
Thursday, June 18, 2009

8 PM

DR. ROBERT GREENBERG  Speaker ... the “Elvis” of music history ...

Dr. Greenberg has lectured for some of the most prestigious music and arts organizations in the United States, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Van Cliburn Foundation, and the Chicago Symphony. For The Teaching Company, he has now recorded more than 500 lectures on a range of composers and classical music genres. Dr. Greenberg, writes the Los Angeles Times, “adds a touch of manic intensity to his presentations — demolishing any pomposity with his acid wit, nonstop barrage of anecdotes and passionate point of view.”

Dr. Greenberg’s talk, Context is Everything, will discuss Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, Ravel’s La Valse and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8. Contrary to popular belief, timing and location are not necessarily everything. When it comes to music, context is everything. The three works on the program were shaped profoundly by the political and social environments in which their composers lived and worked and by the composers’ own spiritual and emotional reactions to their environments. Each of these three works has an extraordinary story to tell that goes far beyond their purely musical materials, a story that resonates with its time and place.

Join us for what promises to be a genuinely revelatory evening of music and conversation, assisted by musicians of the 2009 Summer Solstice Festival.

View Dr. Greenberg lecturing at the Chautauqua Institution on
"Music: Heart, Soul and Dollar."

8 PM

INVITATION TO THE DANCE
Friday, June 19, 2009

7:15 PM	Pre-concert talk Brenda Dalen Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology Dept. of Music, University of Alberta PROGRAM NOTES
8 PM	Performance
J.S. Bach (1865-1750)	Suite No. 1 in G Major for solo cello (excerpts) Yeesun Kim Cello
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)	Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano Alexander Fiterstein Clarinet Ara Gregorian Violin Jacques Després Piano
Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908)	Playera, Op. 23, No. 1  Habanera, Op. 21, No. 2 for violin and piano Jasmine Lin  Violin Patricia Tao  Piano
Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992)	Milonga en Re Muerte del Angel arr. for piano trio Jasmine Lin  Violin Marina Hoover  Cello Patricia Tao  Piano
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)	Grande valse brillante, Op. 18 Valse in e minor, Op. posth.    for piano solo Richard Raymond  Piano
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)	Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C Major, Op. 3 for cello and piano Marina Hoover  Cello Jacques Després Piano
Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942)	Five Pieces for String Quartet Nicholas Kitchen  Violin Ara Gregorian  Violin Marcus Thompson  Viola Yeesun Kim  Cello
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)	La valse for two pianos Richard Raymond  Piano Jacques Després  Piano

THE RESISTING SPIRIT
Saturday, June 20, 2009

7:15 PM	Pre-concert talk Dr. Maryam Moshaver Assistant Professor of Music Theory Dept. of Music, University of Alberta PROGRAM NOTES
8 PM	Performance
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)	Fratres for violin and piano Jasmine Lin  Violin Patricia Tao  Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)	Sonata in C Major, Op. 119 for cello and piano Yeesun Kim  Cello Richard Raymond  Piano
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996)	Sonata Op. 28 for clarinet and piano Alexander Fiterstein  Clarinet Patricia Tao  Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich (1924–1925)	String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 Nicholas Kitchen  Violin Ara Gregorian  Violin Marcus Thompson  Viola Marina Hoover  Cello

Post-concert Reception*
Rutherford House
University of Alberta Campus
*Limited tickets; available only through ECMS

SUMMER PASSION
Sunday, June 21, 2009

1:15 PM	Pre-concert talk Dr. David Cook Host of Edmonton Opera's "Opera Talks" PROGRAM NOTES
2 PM	Performance
Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)	Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 498 “Kegelstatt” for clarinet, viola and piano Alexander Fiterstein Clarinet Marcus Thompson  Viola Richard Raymond  Piano
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)	Piano Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 47 for piano, violin, viola and cello Jasmine Lin  Violin Ara Gregorian  Violin Yeesun Kim  Cello Patricia Tao  Piano
César Franck (1822–1890)	Piano Quintet in f minor Nicholas Kitchen  Violin Jasmine Lin  Violin Marcus Thompson  Viola Marina Hoover  Cello Richard Raymond  Piano