Brightmusic returns to Live Concerts with ‘Beethoven and Friends’ – Summer Festival concert series mixes old and new

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The Metropolis Sentinel, Workers Report 

Visitor pianists Heather Conner and Jill Jantzen be part of Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble in 4 concert events August 3, 5, 7, and 10 at First Baptist Church in midtown Oklahoma Metropolis. Brightmusic responded to the pandemic with free digital concert events streaming on YouTube and Fb for the earlier season. 

Live performance organizers mentioned, “We sit up for stay concert events at this new venue, which has loads of house for socially distant seating.”

The pageant continues final 12 months’s international celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday alongside a various array of different works by up to date composers, girls, and African-People just like the king of ragtime, Scott Joplin.

Live performance No. 1 – Tuesday, August 3 7:30 pm

 Ludwig van Beethoven, Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Main, Op. 16

– Gabriel Fauré, Pavane for Flute, Clarinet and Piano, arr. by Michael Webster

– Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Memento de la Havane for Flute Clarinet and Piano, arr. by Michael Webster

– Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Grande Tarantelle for Flute, Clarinet and Piano, arr. by Michael Webster

– Francis Poulenc, Sextet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Piano

Live performance No. 2 – Thursday, August 5 7:30 pm

– Jennifer Higdon, Piano Trio

– Edward Knight, Inbox for Flute, Viola and Piano

– Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in B-flat main, Op. 97, “Archduke”

Live performance No. 3 – Saturday, August 7 4:00 pm (reception to observe)

The Mae Ruth Swanson Memorial Live performance 

– Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Violin in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2

– Harry Burleigh, Picks from Southland Sketches for Violin and Piano

– William Bolcom, Picks from Afternoon Cakewalk for Clarinet, Violin and Piano: Scott Joplin’s Straightforward Winners and Bolcom’s Sleek Ghost Rag

– Roshanne Etezady, Shiny Angel for Clarinet and Piano 

Live performance No. 4 – Tuesday, August 10 7:30 pm

– Claude Debussy, Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in G main

– Libby Larsen, Slang for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 in D main, Op. 36, for piano trio, transcribed by Beethoven

Musicians showing within the pageant are:

Gregory Lee & Katrin Stamatis, violins 
Shaohong Betty Yuan, viola
Jonathan Ruck, cello 
Parthena Owens, flute 
Lisa Harvey-Reed, oboe 
Chad Burrow, clarinet 
Kate Pritchett, horn 
Rodney Ackmann, bassoon 
Amy I-Lin Cheng, Heather Conner & Jill Jantzen, piano

Admission for every live performance is $20 on the door and free for kids, active-duty navy, and college students with ID. 

Or, save $30 with a pageant move out there by mail or on-line at brightmusic.org/passes. Because of the cancellation of a number of stay concert events final 12 months, all season 2019-20 passholders might attend the 2023 pageant at no cost.

Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble, Oklahoma Metropolis’s personal chamber ensemble, will carry out its 2023 pageant and 2023-22 season of positive classical chamber music at First Baptist Church, 1201 N Robinson in midtown Oklahoma Metropolis. 

Free parking is accessible north and southwest of the constructing.

For extra details about the ensemble and upcoming concert events, go to www.brightmusic.org . 

Chad Burrow, Meredith Blecha-Wells, and Amy I-Lin Cheng at First Baptist Church of Oklahoma Metropolis. Picture credit score: Malcolm Zachariah 
Parthena Owens and Lisa Harvey-Reed at First Baptist Church of Oklahoma Metropolis. Picture Credit score: Amy I-Lin Cheng