Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble Announces Spring Virtual Series: Romantic Generation

The Metropolis Sentinel, Workers Report

OKLAHOMA CITY — Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble introduced a three-concert sequence 7:30 pm streaming at no cost every Sunday from April 18 via Could 2 by way of Fb and YouTube.

Brightmusic leaders stated the sequence “reconnects music and listeners past the pandemic zeitgeist.”

In celebration of Girls’s Historical past Month, Romantic Era options under-represented composers Clara Schumann and Princess Marie Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen alongside greats like Beethoven and Brahms. These Romantic-era composers mirrored on the upheavals of Nineteenth Century Europe via artistic self-expression.

The sequence begins with a live performance that includes romances, tender lyrical items, by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, and Princess Marie Elisabeth, along with a bigger quartet by Finnish composer Bernhard Crusell.

The second all-Brahms live performance consists of his Cello Sonata in E minor and Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano.

The sequence concludes with virtuosic works by Gabriel Fauré and Carl Maria von Weber.

Brightmusic’s digital live shows had been recorded at First Baptist Church of Oklahoma Metropolis and First Christian Church Norman, with smaller ensembles and shorter packages to keep up social distancing. Live performance organizers stated, in a March press launch, “Please be a part of Brightmusic as we have a good time the perfect in Romantic period chamber music.”

Live performance I – Romance – Sunday, April 18 7:30 p.m.

The Jeannette Sias Memorial Live performance

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Romance No. 1 in G Main, Op. 40 for Violin and Piano
• Clara Schumann, Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22
• Princess Marie Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen, Romanze for Clarinet and Piano
• Bernhard Crusell, Quartet in E-flat main for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 2, no. 1

Live performance II – Brahms the Romantic – Sunday, April 25 7:30 pm

• Johannes Brahms, Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, Op. 38
• Johannes Brahms, Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in A minor, Op. 114

Live performance III – Romantic Virtuosi – Sunday, Could 2 7:30 pm

• Gabriel Fauré, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A Main, Op. 13
• Carl Maria von Weber, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B flat Main, Op. 34

Musicians showing are Chad Burrow (clarinet), Gregory Lee and Katrin Stamatis (violins), Mark Neumann (viola), Jonathan Ruck (cello), and Amy I-Lin Cheng (piano).

Hyperlinks to the live shows, program notes, and extra data shall be out there on the web site:

www.brightmusic.org .

Disclosure: Pat McGuigan, writer of The Metropolis Sentinel newspaper, is a member of the Board of Administrators for the Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma.