Free family concert photos

The free family concert this past Saturday was fabulous! Lots of kids and parents turned out - more than 75! - and enjoyed songs about animals, including Peter and the Wolf. The best part was when the kids played along with us on kazoos and hand percussion. Enjoy the photos!

May podcast

In the 1910s, having achieved great eminence in his home country, Debussy worked on his opera The Fall of the House of Usher, which remained unfinished at his death, the cantata Ode à la France, also unfinished, and other large-scale works. He also projected a series of six “sonatas” for various instrumental combinations, only three of which he completed. The first was the Cello Sonata (1915), followed by the Sonata for flute, viola, and harp, and the Violin Sonata. A fourth was to have been for oboe, horn, and harpsichord, which like the Sonata for flute, viola, and harp suggests that the composer was comparing musically the potential of the traditional versus the non-traditional ensemble. (From the program note by Robert Kirzinger)

DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola, and harp (recorded live 5/2/09)
Sarah Brady, flute
Sergey Tarashchansky, viola
Ina Zdorovetchi, harp
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3

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