Dear Friend
Today I’m starting a new tradition of sending a weekly email update each Monday to our growing family of listeners and supporters.
Inspired by my friend Gary Wozniak (who does the same thing at our office partner RecoveryPark), it is intended to share information not otherwise available to folks who don’t live at our office every day. If there’s an upcoming concert, I’ll share something interesting about it. If not, I’ll share something unique about one of our artists, staff or board members, or partner organizations; or perhaps lift the veil a bit on some of our future plans.
I promise something totally new each week!
For this week, I know how much our audience loves the music of Brahms and Debussy. But there’s another reason to come to next Saturday’s concert by the newly launched trio comprised of pianist Anna Polonsky, clarinetist David Shifrin and cellist Peter Wiley in their first national tour together.
Nino Rota – Oscar-winning composer of the Godfather film scores – has written a completely wonderful trio for this combination of piano, clarinet and cello. Dated 1973, it falls chronologically between the first two of the Godfather films, and is filled with the same kind of deep melancholy and playful irony that dressed those screen stories with such vivid emotion.
This Saturday, you’ll hear this treasure played by three of the most important chamber musicians of our time. David Shifrin needs little introduction; he was here two years ago as featured clarinetist in the Brahms quintet with the Dover Quartet. Cellist Peter Wiley has been heard at the CMSD as well, first with the Beaux Arts Trio, and then three times with the Guarneri Quartet. Making her CMSD debut at this concert will be Russian-born pianist Anna Polonsky (an Interlochen alumna), whose regular collaborators include the top names in the chamber music field today. We'll also be welcoming a new sponsor at this concert:
The Shayne Solomon Group at Morgan Stanley
- please join me in thanking them!
Speaking of the program, the concert includes two works of Debussy (the sonata for cello and piano, and the rhapsody for clarinet and piano), and the greatest work of all for this combination, the clarinet trio of Johannes Brahms.
This promises to be one of the greatest concerts of the Chamber Music Society’s 76th season, so if you don’t yet have tickets, I encourage you to visit
http://CMSDetroit.org
or call us anytime at 313-335-3300.
I hope I’ll see you there at the concert – and in this same place next week!
Best,
