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DUMBARTON CONCERTSPresents Starry NightThe Left Bank Concert Society performs Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht “ . . . intense, driven, technically precise, yet loaded with feeling . . . as close to a definitive performance as one will ever hear.”
Who: Left Bank Concert Society What: Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, the string sextet from Richard Strauss’ opera Where: Dumbarton Concerts in Georgetown’s Historic Dumbarton Church When: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8pm How: Tickets are $32; Seniors and Students $28 WASHINGTON: On Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8pm, the Left Bank Concert Society will give a performance of music for strings as part of the Dumbarton Concert Series. Heralded for presenting “stellar performances year after year,” Dumbarton Concerts seeks out ensembles from throughout the world to create a concert season of the highest quality. Dumbarton Concerts is delighted to collaborate with the Left Bank Concert Society which is known for their outstanding artistry. The Left Bank String Quartet – violinists David Salness and Sally McLain, violist Katherine Murdock and cellist Evelyn Elsing - will be joined by violist Maria Lambros and cellist Ken Slowik for the evening’s program which includes the first of Beethoven’s last great outpourings, Schoenberg’s tentative but vivid early steps into an unknown world of atonality, and Strauss’ last opera. These works are signposts in the lives of three evocative giants. The most frequently performed work by Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht is programmatically based on a five-part poem by his contemporary, Richard Dehmel. Amid confession and acceptance, the poem transfigures a moonlit walk in “bare, cold woods” into a “high, clear night.” Schoenberg captures the essence of the poem in his work which ‘transfigures’ D minor into D major over the span of more than three hundred measures. # # # |