Concerts will be held this weekend in Doylestown and Upper Black Eddy
The Times
For winter-weary audiences, spring begins March 8 and 10 as the Lenape Chamber Ensemble opens its 2019 season in Upper Black Eddy and Doylestown. The Friday evening performance is at Upper Black Eddy’s Upper Tinicum Lutheran Church at 8:15 p.m., and the program is repeated Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown.
Returning to the stage are celebrated pianist Marcantonio Barone, Emily Daggett Smith, prominent soloist and founding first violinist of the Tessera Quartet, and Alberto Parrini, principal cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. They perform Mozart’s Piano Trio in G Major, K.496, completed in 1786, 10 years after his first piano trio, which was mainly a divertimento, written as light music. The G Major Trio was the first to be considered seriously as chamber music.
Tanya Witek, former principal flutist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and member of the Mostly Mozart and New York City Ballet Orchestras, joins Barone in the Suite for Flute and Piano Opus 34, a lyrical and emotional piece written in 1877 by the French organist and composer Charles-Marie Widor, organist of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Paris.
Cyrus Beroukhim, Daggett-Smith and Parrini gather on stage, joined by violist Catherine Beeson, a performer with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the New York City Opera National Company, to perform Prokofiev’s String Quartet №1 in B minor, one of the composer’s two string quartets. It was written in 1930 while the composer was in Paris, in response to a commission by the United States Library of Congress. It is described as an emotional, intense work, especially for the final movement, which Prokofiev liked so much that he wrote a version of it for string orchestra.
Receptions included with the concerts offer refreshments and time to chat with the musicians.
Tickets cost $18 for adults, $15 for seniors and students, and $5 for children, all available at the door or by calling 610–294–9361. The Friday evening series is held at the Upper Tinicum Lutheran Church, 118 Upper Tinicum Church Road. The Sunday afternoon concerts are at Delaware Valley University’s Life Sciences Auditorium, 700 East Butler Ave., Doylestown.
A special Children’s Concert in the Round will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 9 at DelVal. Children’s tickets are $2, adults are free. All concerts are supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts.
