Music from Salem - Spring Concert

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Sunday, April 9, 4:00 PM: Music from Salem Concert at Hubbard Hall
Works by Glazunov, Glass, Yun, and Hindemith

Lila Brown, viola; Judith Gordon, piano

Performances are Pay What You Can at the Door (Suggested Donation $25)

This beautiful and fascinating afternoon of music for viola and piano and solo piano will feature the romantic Fantasy Sonata by Paul Hindemith, very much influenced by Brahms. The performers are Music from Salem directors, Lila Brown and Judith Gordon. Two unusual pieces on this program are Phillip Glass's mesmerizing 15 minute work, Mad Rush, for solo piano, and Isang Yun's Duo for viola and piano. Though Yun, who tried to make cultural contact with North Korea, was sentenced to death by the South Korean Secret Service, and was given asylum in Germany, his virtuosic music is not discordant, but gentle and delicate, using infinitely varied  permutations reflecting the natural world. The program opens with the melting melodies of Glazunov's Elegy for viola and piano. 
 
Besides a busy performance schedule, Gordon is a professor of piano at Smith College, and Brown teaches at the Boston Conservatory and the North Carolina School of the Arts. 
 
This inspiring first concert of the 2017 season is awaiting you. You won't want to miss it!
 
 
 
About:
Founded and led by violist Lila Brown, Music from Salem brings together established musicians of international reputation as well as emerging talent. Since beginning in 1986, MfS has become widely known for its quality musicianship, which has been called “world class” and “masterful” in press reviews. Each year MfS provides a classical music concert series and also serves the community with educational programs for children, teens and adults. MfS is celebrating its thirtieth year contributing to arts in community. In 2016, MfS programs will take place in Cambridge, Greenwich, and Salem. MfS programs draw audiences from New York’s Capital District and from nearby Vermont and Massachusetts.  For more information on all our offerings, please visit www.musicfromsalem.org 
 
The Performers:

 

Lila Brown, (viola) is a co-founder and the artistic director of Music from Salem, founded in 1986, and director of the MfS Viola Seminar since 2011. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Brown was a member of the Boston Symphony from 1982-84. Moving to Austria, she studied with Sandor Vegh, and was principal violist of his Camerata Academica Salzburg. As a member of the Ensemble Modern, the renowned German ensemble for new music, Brown premiered works by Ligeti, Kurtag, Adams, Reich, Rhim, Zappa, and Lachenmann among others, and she has played chamber music tours of England with the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, England. Brown has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and is a frequent guest artist at the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, the Boston Artists Ensemble and Horten Kammermusikkfest in Norway. She has been an assistant professor at the Vienna Hochschule, professor at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Duesseldorf, and returning to the US in 2009, joined the faculty of The Boston Conservatory where she received a “Distinguished Music Faculty of the Year” award in 2012.

 

 
Judith Gordon (piano) gave her New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Introductions series in 1990, and was the Boston Globe 1997 Musician of the Year. As soloist with ensembles including the Boston Pops, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Collage New Music, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, she has explored repertory from Beethoven, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff to Berg, Cage, and Boulez. She has collaborated with an exceptionally wide variety of instrumentalists and singers. Composers with whom she has worked closely in recent years are John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Peter Lieberson, James Matheson and James Primosch. Recent seasons have featured performances at Bard Summerscape and Bennington Chamber Music Conference, concerts at Lincoln Center, Celebrity Series Boston, Sunday Chatter Albuquerque, and Dilijan Concerts in Los Angeles. Gordon is a graduate of New England Conservatory, where she was awarded an Outstanding Alumni award in 2009, and currently teaches piano and chamber music at Smith College. She is a consulting director at Music from Salem.

 

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