Musical Masters of the Stage and Screen: Strings of the Stage

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“Rule Number One in orchestral playing is: it’s all chamber music.” – Leonard Bernstein

The Sunday Chamber Music series invites new listeners and aficionados alike to experience the rich world and intimate musical conversations of classical chamber music performed at the highest levels. 

This season’s series highlights composers who moved fluidly between the concert hall film scoring and works for the stage. Featuring works by Leonard Bernstein Erich Korngold Bernard Herrmann Nino Rota and Oscar Levant among other greats the series explores how film and the stage shaped composers in Hollywood and beyond.

Cellist Eric Wilson this season’s Series Curator and Host enjoys a rich career as a soloist and chamber musician in addition to being a UBC cello and chamber music professor. A founding member of the acclaimed Emerson String Quartet and solo cellist of the Ensemble of New York in residence at Lincoln Center New York he has delighted audiences throughout decades of performances across the world.

ABOUT THE SHOW

A concert of diverse music that opens with Stravinsky's distinctive approach to the traditional dance form. Ernest Bloch’s romantic Piano Quintet No. 1 blends modernist and romantic elements. William Walton's delicate and evocative piece "Touch her soft lips and part" was part of his film score for Henry V. The concert concludes with Edward Elgar's lush and rarely heard Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet Op. 84.'

Host or Publisher The ACT Arts Centre