Malmgren Concert: The Merz Trio
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The Malmgren Concert Series of Hendricks Chapel has been made possible by a generous gift from Syracuse University alumna Ester Malmgren to Hendricks Chapel in 1991. The concert series offers the Syracuse community the highest quality of arts at no cost. See below for parking and accessibility information.
Many of our concerts are live-streamed and/or recorded. To view a live or recorded show, visit our YouTube page!
Clara’s Blumentagebuch (Clara’s Flower Diary)
4 P.M.
The Merz Trio performs chamber music by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, and Loren Loiacono.
This program traces the steps of Clara Wieck Schumann, from 1857-1859, by way of flowers. It reflects sentiments from her Blumentagebuch–her diary of pressed flowers–in which Clara left dedications to meaningful people and moments in her life. Each flower or plant carries a set of meanings, both public, according to the practice of floriography in nineteenth-century Germany, and private, with associated memories and emotions. This precious book accompanied her as she toured throughout Europe and served as a record of friendship, mourning and memory. Moving amongst Clara’s floral meditations, we explore floriography in its romantic heyday and delight in the coded and the unspoken. With Clara, we visit Robert, as well as Beethoven and Schubert, and bring in a musical friend of our own, Loren Loiacono (b. 1989).
In a page dedicated to Robert, Clara dried ivy from his gravesite, a symbol of love and faithfulness. Our program begins with a set of their early songs: the first, a love song by Clara, is drawn from a shared song cycle of lieder written together by Robert and Clara. We turn next to Schubert’s lied, which revels in the poignancy of this hidden language of flowers. In Loiacono’s Sonatensatz, a work written for Merz in 2022, she employs her own Blumensprache, drawing inspiration for the work from the passionate wildness of Robert Schumann’s trios. The program concludes with a celebration of friendship: Beethoven embodies these ideals in his at times noble, playful and transcendent work dedicated to his great friend, Archduke Rudolph.
Accessibility:
For accessible parking, please call Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901 or email [email protected].
CART, ASL and Aira will be offered at this event.
Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART)is the instant translation of the spoken word into English text using a stenotype machine, notebook computer and real-time software. This is useful for English speakers who are hard of hearing or deaf.
An American Sign Language (ASL)interpreter translates a service or program for those who know ASL and are deaf or hard of hearing.
Aira is a visual interpreting service that makes visual information accessible for people who are blind or have low vision, or for any person with a disability who may benefit from verbal descriptions of visual information. Syracuse University is a proud Aira Access Partner. SU makes Aira visual interpreting services available to our community of students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and visitors on campus at no cost. Interpreters audibly describe a person’s visual surroundings via a live professionally-trained agent and the Aira Explorer mobile app.
Many of our concerts are live-streamed and/or recorded. To view a live or recorded show, visit our YouTube page!
Clara’s Blumentagebuch (Clara’s Flower Diary)
4 P.M.
The Merz Trio performs chamber music by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, and Loren Loiacono.
This program traces the steps of Clara Wieck Schumann, from 1857-1859, by way of flowers. It reflects sentiments from her Blumentagebuch–her diary of pressed flowers–in which Clara left dedications to meaningful people and moments in her life. Each flower or plant carries a set of meanings, both public, according to the practice of floriography in nineteenth-century Germany, and private, with associated memories and emotions. This precious book accompanied her as she toured throughout Europe and served as a record of friendship, mourning and memory. Moving amongst Clara’s floral meditations, we explore floriography in its romantic heyday and delight in the coded and the unspoken. With Clara, we visit Robert, as well as Beethoven and Schubert, and bring in a musical friend of our own, Loren Loiacono (b. 1989).
In a page dedicated to Robert, Clara dried ivy from his gravesite, a symbol of love and faithfulness. Our program begins with a set of their early songs: the first, a love song by Clara, is drawn from a shared song cycle of lieder written together by Robert and Clara. We turn next to Schubert’s lied, which revels in the poignancy of this hidden language of flowers. In Loiacono’s Sonatensatz, a work written for Merz in 2022, she employs her own Blumensprache, drawing inspiration for the work from the passionate wildness of Robert Schumann’s trios. The program concludes with a celebration of friendship: Beethoven embodies these ideals in his at times noble, playful and transcendent work dedicated to his great friend, Archduke Rudolph.
Accessibility:
For accessible parking, please call Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901 or email [email protected].
CART, ASL and Aira will be offered at this event.
Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART)is the instant translation of the spoken word into English text using a stenotype machine, notebook computer and real-time software. This is useful for English speakers who are hard of hearing or deaf.
An American Sign Language (ASL)interpreter translates a service or program for those who know ASL and are deaf or hard of hearing.
Aira is a visual interpreting service that makes visual information accessible for people who are blind or have low vision, or for any person with a disability who may benefit from verbal descriptions of visual information. Syracuse University is a proud Aira Access Partner. SU makes Aira visual interpreting services available to our community of students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and visitors on campus at no cost. Interpreters audibly describe a person’s visual surroundings via a live professionally-trained agent and the Aira Explorer mobile app.
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