Cactus Pear Music Festival Program # 2 “OUT OF THE BLUE”

Name: Cactus Pear Music Festival Program # 2 “OUT OF THE BLUE”
Start: 2024-07-14T15:00:00-05:00
Location: University of the Incarnate Word, Diane Bennack Concert Hall, 4301 Broadway St, San Antonio, TX 78209

Schedule

Sun Jul 14 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

University of the Incarnate Word, Diane Bennack Concert Hall, 4301 Broadway St, San Antonio, TX 78209 | San Antonio, TX

“OUT OF THE BLUE” University of the Incarnate Word, Diane Bennack Concert Hall, 4301 Broadway St, San Antonio, TX 78209 Sunday, July 14 • 3pm
“Out of the Blue” features chamber music inspired by jazz and the blues. It begins with Black composer David Baker’s New Orleans-inflected piano trio Roots II, a high-spirited romp. Paul Wiancko, the recently-appointed cellist for the storied Kronos Quartet, wrote his American Haiku for viola and cello in 2014 inspired by Appalachian fiddling and blues percussion. Aaron Copland’s great Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet is a joyous celebration of the syncopated rhythms of jazz. Francis Poulenc’s Rapsodie nègre was written in the early twentieth century when jazz and the blues first came to Europe. And George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue—an iconic work celebrating its 100th birthday—will be given a one-of-a-kind performance in its piano four-hand version by pianists Scott Cuellar and Jeffrey Sykes. What a great way to end our first week! But buckle your seat belts for this one—there will be lots of surprises in store for you!
“OUT OF THE BLUE”
David Baker (1931-2016): Roots II for piano trio (1992) —SoJin Kim, Lachezar Kostov, Scott Cuellar
Paul Wianko (b. 1983): American Haiku for viola and cello (2015) — Colin Sorgi, Lachezar Kostov
Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet (1937)— Ilya Shterenberg, Jeffrey Sykes, Wyatt Underhill, SoJin Kim, Colin Sorgi, Lachezar Kostov
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Rapsodie nègre for flute, clarinet, string quartet, piano, and baritone (1917)
— Stephanie Jutt, Ilya Shterenberg, Wyatt Underhill, SoJin Kim, Colin Sorgi, Lachezar Kostov, Jeffrey Sykes, Timothy Jones
George Gershwin (1898-1937): Rhapsody in Blue for piano four-hands (1924) — Jeffrey Sykes, Scott Cuellar
Although it is a free concert, due to limited seating we do need you to register for your free ticket.