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declassified seriesmusic of the romantic eraCo-produced in Part by Students in the Poetry, Video and Animation Classes at West Sound Academy January 27 Tickets: 2006-2007 Media Sponsor: Bainbridge Island Review BPA’s Declassified chamber music series showcases beautiful and interesting European and American masterpieces of the 19th and 20th centuries while exploring fresh, contemporary ways of responding to music of different periods and styles. January’s program presents works of two brilliant composers whose contexts and agendas could not have been more different. It begins with two of Johannes Brahms’s early Ballades (Opus 10, 1856) and concludes with the Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, (Opus 34, 1866)—works that echo, transform and carry forward the outpouring of Romanticism in German verse, music and thought that had begun in the last decades of the 18th century. The center of the program features Les nuits d’été (1841), the famous but seldom-heard cycle of songs which the controversial Parisian eccentric Hector Berlioz set to the poems of Théophile Gautier. Every member of the audience has his own practiced ways of processing musical sounds and responding to music in performance. This season - to broaden these familiar horizons - we have invited poetry, video and animation students from West Sound Academy to share their own “take” on the piano pieces opening the program. The musicians featured in this event are Sharon Acton, soprano; Thomas Monk and Justine Jeanotte, violin; Peggy Spencer, viola; Zon Eastes, violoncello; and Mary Foster Grant and James Quitslund, piano. The collaboration with West Sound Academy and its Poetry, Video and Animation Classes continues on April 27 with music of the Eastern European masters Dvorák, Kodály and Martinu.
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