Dear Musicians and Music Lovers:
Tonight pianist Peter Basquin joins us again for an evening of Dvořák with a little leavening courtesy of Fauré. The Trinity Chamber players will be playing the first movement of the Fauré Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 15 for services on Sunday, May 1 at Trinity Wall Street, so we’re reading it tonight prior to a rehearsal later in the week when we’ll prepare the movement for prime time. If you were with us on March 7, you heard the entire composition in all its gorgeous glory, and we will have revisit the work sometime during the upcoming music season.
Next, we will read the Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Opus 81, by Antonin Dvořák. Dvořák was one of those composers who couldn’t help but write great melodies; when he was composing his Symphony No. 8 in G Major he wrote that the melodies were coming to him so quickly and in such profusion that he couldn’t write them all down.
This Quintet follows an earlier effort by Dvořák, also in A Major, Opus 5, with which he was quite dissatisfied. In fact, he destroyed the manuscript of the earlier effort following its premiere in 1872. He reconsidered his impetuosity a decade and a half later, however, and secured a copy of the score from a friend so he could make revisions. Apparently Dvořák had an oh-what-the-heck moment shortly after he began revising the earlier work, and he instead composed an entirely new quintet in the same key in 1887.
We invite our Community Musicians to join us in reading another great Dvořák composition, his Serenade for Strings in E Major, Opus 22. This is another wonderfully tuneful and inventive work, and a pleasure to play and hear.
So grab your instrument, grab your ears, and join us tonight at 6:30 PM for an evening of great music!
Let’s play!
Jim (the violist)
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