music

chamber music ~

PORTRAITS & SELF-PORTRAITS

Works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and others

January 18, 2009
Sunday @ 3:00 p.m.

Tickets
$15 for adults, and $10 for seniors, students, youth, military, and teachers

Each work portrays the Romantic and Late Romantic composers’ interest in the creative individual’s engagement with the more mundane aspects of life. Just as Beethoven had had been drawn to portray the life and death of “the hero,” the next generation explored the landscape of what they believed to be Beethoven’s own genius. Most of all, they were fascinated with themselves, and with different aspects of their own creative struggles and transcendence.

BPA’s January 18 and March 22 Chamber Music programs both feature performances by young Island musicians including Donna Adele Horning and Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall, who have participated in the Bainbridge Performing Arts music program since they were in grade school and now are preparing to leave for college. Adult musicians include mezzo-soprano Barbara Hume performing Rorem’s settings of poems by Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and others.