Music in Beautiful Spaces - November 15 - Coral Gables

Name: Music in Beautiful Spaces - November 15 - Coral Gables
Start: 2024-11-15T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-15T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 1121 Andalusia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134-5509, United States

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1121 Andalusia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134-5509, United States | Coral Gables, FL

Come and experience beautiful live music performed by South Beach Chamber Ensemble on November 15 and November 16th!
November 15 at 7:30pm, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church
at 1121 Andalusia Avenue, Coral Gables, FL, USA
https://www.artsticketing.com/sbce/haydn-shostakovich-and-chaminade/28680
November 16 at 2:00pm, All Soul’s Episcopal Church
at 4025 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL, USA
https://www.artsticketing.com/sbce/haydn-shostakovich-and-chaminade/28681
Featured performances:
Haydn Piano Trio No. 24 in D Major (1795) 15 minutes
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8 (1924) 13 minutes
Cécile Chaminade Piano Trio No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 11 (1881) 23 minutes
About the composers:
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet”. Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their Eszterháza Castle. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe. He was a friend and mentor of Mozart and a tutor of Beethoven.
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century and one of its most popular composers. His music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; he was also heavily influenced by the neoclassical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky, and by the late Romanticism of Gustav Mahler.
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (1857-1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman.” Chaminade affiliated herself with nationalist composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns and Charles Gounod. Her musical style was rooted in both Romantic and French tradition throughout her career and her music has been described as tuneful, highly accessible and mildly chromatic. In describing her own style, Chaminade wrote, "I am essentially of the Romantic school, as all my work shows.”