The Smithsonian Chamber Music Society celebrates its 37th season with an appropriately eclectic repast, balancing familiar masterworks with undeservedly neglected oeuvres perdues.
The season opens with the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra presenting two works for winds—Dvorak’s Serenade, Op 44, and Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (in the version the composer premiered in New York’s Town Hall in 1947)—plus Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, in a particularly intimate and immediate guise.
One hour prior to each program, Kenneth Slowik, SCMS artistic director and recipient of the 2011 Smithsonian Secretary’s Distinguished Research Lecture Award, provides a pre-concert talk, shedding light on the glorious music and the life and times of the featured composers.
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CONCERT PROGRAM
Dvorak: Serenade for Winds, Op. 44
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
The Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra: Kenneth Slowik, conductor; Elisabeth Adkins, concertmaster
Program, location, and artists subject to change.
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