Picosa: Locus of Movement Concert
Picosa's LOCUS OF MOVEMENT concert is all about capturing movement - musically, symbolically, and historically.
Tuesday, February 20th, 7:30pm PianoForte Chicago
Sunday, March 11th, 3:00pm, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook
Chicago & Oak Brook, IL - Picosa brings a moving program to the stage on Tuesday, February 20th at 7:30pm at PianoForte Chicago, 1335 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago and Sunday, March 11th at 3:00pm, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W. 31st Street, Oak Brook. Music lovers will enjoy experiencing Picosa's signature symphonic sound and welcoming community at every program of virtuosic chamber music. General Admission tickets for the concert and dessert reception are $25 with discounts available for seniors and students. Picosa is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. To purchase tickets, visit: www.PicosaMusic.com
The program opens with the dance-inspired Divertimento opus 100, no. 1, by Franz Joseph Haydn. Three miniature works by Augusta Read Thomas D(i)agon(als) for solo clarinet, Euterpe's Caprice for solo flute, and Capricci for flute and clarinet capture movement and motion in their mercurial and spinning musical lines.
Sprinkled throughout the program are three contrasting works representing the motion through life itself, from childhood to the twilight years. Marc Mellits' Mara's Lullaby for flute, cello, and piano captures a melody the composer sang to his infant daughter at bedtime, and Asha Srinivasan's Dviraag for flute and cello references the Carnatic singing of the composer's youth. Claude Debussy's Violin Sonata was written late in the composers' life, and seems particularly appropriate as we observe Debussy's Centenary Celebration, honoring the 100th anniversary of his passing in 2018.
Picosa is thrilled to present Arnold Schoenberg's romantic yet revolutionary Kammersymphonie No. 1, transcribed by Anton Webern. The music of "the Second Viennese School", which included composers Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Anton Webern and Alban Berg, created a seismic shift in the western tradition of classical music, moving away from diatonicism and towards heterodox terrain in tonality and form. Works including Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie ultimately paved the way between the romantic music of composers like Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler and the new modernist language and expression of contemporary music.
Finally, we are particularly excited to welcome visual artist Lewis Achenbach who will be live painting the entire event at Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook. His works of art will be available for sale after the concert. Following this concert, audience members are invited to stay for the Meet the Musicians Gourmet Dessert Reception to chat with all the performers and enjoy some treats.
Tickets are $25. High school students and younger are free, and accompanying parents receive a discounted ticket of $10. College student $10. Senior discounts available. Please vis-it www.PicosaMusic.com to purchase tickets and for information about locations and parking.
Picosa is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations to the ensemble support Picosa operations including its commitment to bring music to underserved communities through their collaboration with Hesed House and nurturing rising amateur and young musicians through their Interludes Chamber Ensembles program. Please visit www.PicosaMusic.com/donate.
PROGRAM
Franz Joseph Haydn | Divertimento op. 100, No. 1 (flute/violin/cello)
I. Adagio cantabile
II. Allegro
III. Allegro moderato
Marc Mellits | Mara's Lullaby (flute/cello/piano)
Augusta Read Thomas | D(i)agon(als) (clarinet)
Augusta Read Thomas | Euterpe's Caprice (flute)
Augusta Read Thomas | Capricci (flute/clarinet)
Claude Debussy | Violin Sonata in g minor (violin/piano)
I. Allegro vivo
II. Intermede. Fantasque et leger
III. Finale. Tres anime
Asha Srinivasan | Dviraag (flute/cello)
Arnold Schoenberg arr. Webern | Kammersymphonie, op. 9 (flute/clarinet/violin/cello/piano)
PICOSA ARTISTS
Jennie Oh Brown | flute
Andrea R. DiOrio | clarinet
Elizabeth Brausa Brathwaite | violin
Kuang-Hao Huang | piano
Jonathon Kirk | Composer-in-Residence
GUEST ARTIST
Kurt Fowler | cello