5th season of great chamber music
Ushering in the New Season
Saturday, November 19, 2005
The Ritz Chamber Players' 2005/2006 concert season begins with an evening of celestial
greatness in this outstanding musical selection. Enjoy the Schumann Piano Quintet,
one of the composer's biggest and most important chamber works. You will then
be treated to Hindemith's Mélancholie, which presents an interesting
combination of soprano and string quartet!
Bartók Contrasts, Sz. 111, BB 116
Haydn String Quartet Op. 55 No. 2, F minor, "The Razor"
Hindemith opus 13, Mélancholie for soprano and string quartet
Schumann Piano Quintet Opus 44
8:00PM
Terry Theater/Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts
Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts • 300 West Water Street • Jacksonville, Florida 3220
In Remembrance of the Dream
January 15, 2006
Beautiful poetry, beautiful music, beautiful singing!
This year's 4th Annual "In Remembrance of the Dream" Concert in salute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will include a composition with an MLK favorite traditional spiritual, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's String Quartet No. 1, "Based on Calvary!" which sets great poetry to music. In another work that combines poetry and music, we will present Orlando-based Asian American composer, Stella Sung's three songs set to the poetry of Robert Frost. This wonderful musical experience will not disappoint!
Shostakovich Seven Verses for soprano, violin, cello, and piano
Sung Three Songs for soprano, clarinet and piano/text by Robert Frost
Perkinson String Quartet No. 1 ("Based on Calvary!" )
Amadeus Mozart Esultate, jubilate
8:00PM
Terry Theater/Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts
Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts • 300 West Water Street • Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Pipe Dreams with Strings
Jacoby Symphony Hall Sunday, February 19, 2006: 3:00PM
The Ritz Chamber Players join our extraordinary friends at the Riverside Fine Arts Series in the musical celebration of the king of instruments, the majestic pipe organ, with a great program of works for organ and chamber ensemble. This innovative concert features organist Marvin Mills playing the 1929 pipe organ at the historic Good Shepherd Episcopal Church with the wonderful soprano, Alison Buchanan.
Dvořák Baguettes
Händel German Arias
Bandfield Beach-Block Fantasy for organ and 2 readers
Mozart Church Sonatas for violins, organ and cello
Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts • 300 West Water Street • Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Combo Historique!
March 11, 2006:
Let's Dance!
What a treat for your senses! The Ritz Chamber Players' musical mastery entwined with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the first and most celebrated modern dance company in the world. The Martha Graham Dance Company comes to Jacksonville for an incredible historic evening combining dance and chamber music that will be electrifying! These awe-inspiring, original works for chamber ensemble and dancers will take your breath away! We keep you steeped in the dance tradition with the two-piano version of Igor Stravinsky 's great ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)!
Mozart Trio in E-flat major, K 498, "Kegelstatt"
Walker "Fancies" for clarinet and piano, 4 hands
Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of
Spring),
ballet in two parts for two pianos
8:00PM
Terry Theater/Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts
Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts • 300 West Water Street • Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Sounds of Spring!
April 8, 2006
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, written for his friend Stadler, is one of the greatest musical gifts of all time. It combines exquisite writing for the instrument with great nobility of expression. This program shows Mozart as the fully developed young man, a master of his art, and nearly ready to move on to wider horizons until, like all composers of great clarinet works, he died. We will stretch the barriers of the string quartet. Then we will perform the delightful Bass Quintet by Dvořák , whose music Johannes Brahms described as "endlessly beautiful."
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Rossini Duetto in D Major for cello and double bass
Walker Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano
Dvořák Bass Quintet in G major, op. 77
8:00PM
Terry Theater/Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts
Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts • 300 West Water Street • Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Summer Finale
June 16, 2006
The Ritz Chamber Players bring a dramatic close to our 2005-2006 concert season with the incomparable Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 performed with acclaimed Flutist Demarre McGill!
Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Telemann Fantasia No. 2 in A minor for flute, TWV 40:3
8:00PM
Terry Theater/Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts
Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts • 300 West Water Street • Jacksonville, Florida 32202
