[Publius]

It’s time for the Seattle Chamber Music Festival! Next week we begin our first concert on Saturday, June 29. Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, you can hear the concerts live at the website of KING-FM. I’ll be providing programs and links to the concerts through the summer festival. As we approach each concert, I’ll introduce one piece per evening at the Canteen with commentary about the piece. On concert nights, I’ll introduce the musicians.

George Enescu (1881-1955) was the greatest composer to come from Romania. His first instrument was violin, and he was to become a concert violinist. His early training came from those who had worked with Brahms, but his conservatory training came in Paris from Massenet and Faure. During his conducting years, he worked in the US (New York) and Paris and settled in Paris after the war.

His best known piece is a teenage work, a pops concert item for orchestra that is classified as “classical music for people who hate classical music.”

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody #1 in A, Op. 11

What we will hear next Saturday is a work for trumpet and piano, perhaps the greatest piece in that tiny category. It has a lot of French in it, which should not be a surprise.

Enescu: “Legend” for Trumpet and Piano

[luvie]

Good evening! ;)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Publius, for the heads up...should be quite the “show”.