CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC
presents
A Cultural Voyage to the East
THUS SPAKE
GERMAN ROMANTICISM
Saturday, March 12 at 6 PM
JENNIFER RIVERA, mezzo-soprano
WALTER PONCE, piano; YEHUDA HANANI, cello
After Glow Reception following the performance on stage by Allium
NOW OFFERING $5 DISCOUNT TO GUESTS OF BROOK FARM INN IN THE BERKSHIRES!
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The MAHAIWE
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC
presents
A Cultural Voyage to the East
THUS SPAKE
GERMAN ROMANTICISM
Saturday, March 12 at 6 PM
JENNIFER RIVERA, mezzo-soprano
WALTER PONCE, piano; YEHUDA HANANI, cello
After Glow Reception following the performance on stage by Allium
NOW OFFERING $5 DISCOUNT TO OLLI AND THE GUESTS OF INNS AND HOTELS IN THE BERKSHIRES!
Please pass this special offer along to your guests. The password is “Strauss.”
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The MAHAIWE
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA
PIANIST WALTER PONCE AND
MEZZO SOPRANO JENNIFER RIVERA
JOIN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR YEHUDA HANANI
SATURDAY, MARCH 12 AT 6 PM
Songs about lotus flowers and pagodas, chamber music by German Romanticist par excellence Richard Strauss, and the Berkshire debut of opera star Jennifer Rivera highlight Thus Spake German Romanticism. “Radiant…ravishing mezzo soprano bloom from top to bottom” is how Opera News recently described Rivera’s opulent voice.
Also scheduled is the world premiere of Composer-in Residence Jorge Martin’s Four Noble Truths, a brilliant addition to the chamber music repertoire inspired by Buddhist wisdom and following in the footsteps of late nineteenth century German Romantics. According to artistic director Yehuda Hanani “Mr. Martin comes out of this tradition, and his musical language, sonorities and spiritual affinities are a continuation of this grand saffron-scented Silk Road that so influenced the 19th century arts. That’s why this 2008 work is programmed alongside Strauss, Hugo Wolf, Mendelssohn.”
Award-winning composer Jorge Martin, continuing in the German Romantic tradition, leads his listeners through four stages, from suffering and strife, to enlightenment and nirvana, in the new Four Noble Truths, which receives its
world premiere on March 12.
For Tickets call The Mahaiwe box office at 413.528.0100.
Close Encounters With Music at 800.843.0778
or visit www.cewm.org.
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Tags: chamber music, close encounters with music, German Romanticism
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